CAT 2014: Understand the short-listing criteria of all IIMs

Clearing CAT 2014 is the just the first step towards achieving a management education. It does not guarantee a call from the best B-schools in the country.

For that to happen, MBA aspirants must fulfil the institute specific requirements, such as academic scores, work experience and so on. Candidates even receive points for academic diversity and gender diversity.

For the last two years, we have been presenting the shortlisting criteria of all the IIMs. This year is going to be no different.

Below, we have compiled the shortlisting criteria of all the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) for the academic session 2015-17.

(The B-Schools have been listed in no particular order or preference).

 

 

IIM Ahmedabad

No significant changes have been incorporated, except introduction of 'Transgender' in category section. Candidates will be selected via a two-step process:

1. Preliminary Screening

Candidates fulfilling minimum cut-offs in CAT 2014 percentile ranks (90 percentile and above for general category) and Application Rating (AR) scores and obtaining a positive (more than zero) raw score in both Verbal and Quant Sections will be shortlisted for stage one. 

 

2. Academic Writing Test (AWT) & Personal Interview (PI) 

Top 50 candidates or top 1% of the number of applicants to IIM Ahmedabad, from each of the five categories of academic disciplines, will be shortlisted for AWT & PI on the basis of their CAT percentiles. From the remaining pool of candidates (meeting minimum cut offs and AR scores), a merit list will be drawn on the basis of CAT percentile. 

3. Final selection

Final selection of candidates will be based on Composite Scores (CS). The CS will be computed using the following method: 

• First, CAT, AWT & PI scores will be normalised by dividing it with the corresponding maximum possible score that could be obtained. 
• The CS of a candidate is then obtained as: 

CS = 0.50 (Normalized PI Score) + 0.10 (Normalized AWT Score) + 0.40 (Normalized CAT Total Score). 

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IIM Bangalore

IIM-B will adopt a two-phase selection process based on past academic performance, CAT score, performance in personal interview and prior work experience.

1. First, candidates will be shortlisted on the basis of CAT 2014 scores for WAT and PI. Thereafter, candidates will be further shortlisted on the basis of Class 10 and 12 scores, graduation scores and work-experience or professional course.

Pre-PI score for Work Experience will be calculated as:

= 5x/36 if 0

= 5 if x >= 36

where x is the months of work experience up to September 2014.

Weights for remaining four components are fixed as:  

CAT =20, 10th board=15, 12th board=10, Bachelors= 15.

2. In stage 2, qualified candidates will have to appear for personal interview and essay. During the PI candidates have to write a short note (one page) on a topic provided by the institute.

3. The final shortlist will be arrived on the basis of scores in written test and PI, along with pre-PI selection parameters (academic performance, work experience).

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IIM Calcutta

In the first stage, candidates will be shortlisted on the basis of CAT 2014 score, past academic performance and other factors. The minimum cut off percentile for short-listing candidates (general category) for Personal Interview (PI) round stage is 90 or above.

Weightage:

CAT 2014 Score: 77, Class X marks: 10, Class XII marks: 10, Gender Diversity (female candidates): 3.

Women candidates will receive three points under gender diversity factor.

In final stage, candidates will be selected on the basis of CAT 2014 Score, Personal Interview (PI), Writing Ability Test (WAT), Academic Diversity at Bachelor’s degree level, and Work Experience.

CAT 2014 Score: 35, Personal Interview (PI): 44, Writing Ability Test (WAT): 10, Academic Diversity at graduation level: 2, Academic Diversity at Post Graduation level: 1, work experience: 8.

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IIM Lucknow

The minimum cut off percentile for short-listing candidates (general category) for Personal Interview (PI) round stage is 90 or above.

Candidates will be shortlisted for WAT-PI rounds by the following weightage (Shortlist Total A):

Shortlist Total (A) CAT score (CS): 38, Class 10: 1, Class 12: 1, Graduation: 3, Work Experience: 2, Academic Diversity: 3, Gender Diversity: 2

Weights given to GDPI components is as follows (Total B):

Written Ability Test (WAT): 10, Group Discussion (GD): 10, Personal Interview (PI): 30

Final Shortlist

Grand Total (C) = Shortlist Total (A) + GDPI Total (B)

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IIM Indore

The minimum cut off percentile for short-listing candidates (general category) is 90 or above. Thereafter, candidates will be further shortlisted for WAT and PI with the following:

Composite Score (CS) – Class 10: 35 weightage, Class 12: 35 weightage, CAT 2014 overall score: 27 weightage, Gender Diversity Factor: 3

Final Composite Score (CS) will be calculates based on the following:

Class 10: 17.5 weightage, Class 12: 17.5 weightage, Bachelor’s degree: 15 weightage, WAT score: 15 weightage, PI score: 35 weightage.

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IIM Kozhikode       

The minimum cut off percentile for short-listing candidates (general category) is 90 or above in overall and 80 in sectional.

Aggregate Index Score will be calculated on the basis of CAT Index Score: 75% weightage, Graduation Score: 7.5, HSC/ Class XII Index Score: 7.5, Work Experience Index Score: 5, Academic Diversity Index Score: 5, Gender Diversity Score: 5.

The final score will be calculate on the basis of:

Component	Maximum Weight
Personal Interview	45%
CAT	35%
GD/WAT	15%
Work Experience Quality	5%

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IIM Shillong            

The minimum sectional cut off for short-listing candidates (general category) is 70 percentile in Section A and B. Apart from prior academic record, the institute will use CAT scores, performance in WAT and PI to arrive at the shortlist.

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IIM Udaipur

The minimum cut off percentile for short-listing candidates (general category) is 80 or above. Shortlist will be created as follows:

CAT Score: 50 %, Personal Appearance (PI & WA): 30%, and Profile: 20%.

 The final list will be calculated with the following method:

Written Analysis: 10%, Personal Interview: 20%, Academic Profile: 40 % of Profile weight, Work experience: 30 % of Profile weight, Diversity : 30 % of Profile weight

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IIM Kashipur

The minimum cut-offs percentile for selecting candidates for WAT and PI is 90 (General category). The final merit list will be generated as follows:

 

Components	Weight
Written Ability Test (WAT)	10
Personal Interview (PI)	30
CAT Score	42
Class 10	1
Class 12	1
Graduation	3
Post-Graduation	1
Work-experience	3
Academic diversity	4
Gender Diversity	5

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IIM Tiruchirappalli

Minimum CAT percentile for shortlisting for PI and WAT is 90 (general category).

The final merit list will be generated as follows:

Components	Weight
CAT Score	50
Personal Interview (PI)	17
Written Ability Test (WAT)	15
Graduation (marks according to Academic diversity)	10
Work-experience	5
Post-Graduation	2
Class 10	1
Class 12	1
Gender Diversity	1

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