IIM Ahmedabad announces the shortlisting criteria for PGP batch 2016-18

IIM Ahmedabad has announced the shortlisting criteria for fulltime two-year Post-graduate Programme in Management (PGP) batch 2016-18.

The selection of candidates for admission to the 2016-18 batch of the PGP at IIM Ahmedabad will be based on a two-step process: Step 1 and Step 2

 

STEP 1: Preliminary Screening

Candidates will be short-listed for Academic Writing Test (AWT) and Personal Interview (PI) from a pool of candidates who have a valid CAT 2015 score (and who have applied to the programme) and satisfy the eligibility criteria.

 Candidates need to fulfil the following minimum cut offs and the sectional percentile ranks and overall percentile rank. Only those candidates who obtain a positive (greater than zero) raw score in all sections of the CAT-2015 will only be considered for all subsequent stages:

Table 1: Minimum Cut-offs of CAT-2015 Percentile Ranks

Category	Verbal and Reading Comprehension percentile rank (PVRC)	Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning percentile rank (PDILR)	Quantitative Aptitude percentile rank (PQA)	Overall percentile rank (PT)
General	80	80	80	90
NC-OBC-cum transgender	75	75	75	85
SC	70	70	70	80
ST	60	60	60	70
DA	70	70	70	80

The above cut-offs have been derived from CAT 2014 data. 

According to the official website, “At different stages of the selection process ‘Application Rating’ (AR) score of an applicant will be used. An applicant’s AR score is the sum of the rating scores ‘A’, ‘B’ and ‘C’ (Tables 2-4) based on her/his percentage of marks obtained in 10th standard, 12th standard (depending upon the stream, viz., ‘Science’, ‘Commerce’ ‘Arts & Humanities’) and bachelor’s degree examinations (depending upon the discipline) respectively. For different streams/disciplines the equivalent ARs are arrived at by using a sort of percentile equivalence of the score distributions using last year’s CAT data.

 

The formula used for Application Rating Score is:

 

Application Rating Score (AR) = (A+B+C)

Normalized AR score of an applicant is equal to his/her AR scores divided by average of the top 50 AR scores from the applicants’ pool.

 

 

Table 2: Rating Scores for 10th Std. Exam (Rating Score A)

Percent score in 10th Std. Exam	Rating Score (A)
<= 55	1
> 55 and <= 60	2
> 60 and <= 70	3
> 70 and <= 80	5
> 80 and <= 90	8
> 90	10

STEP 2: Short Listing for Academic Writing Test (AWT) & Personal Interview (PI)

In step 2, the shortlisting will be further carried in two stages:

 

Stage 1: (From the Applicants’ pool: Selection of exceptional performers across different disciplines)

Top 100 candidates or top 1% of the number of applicants to IIM Ahmedabad whichever is less -- will be shortlisted for AWT & PI on the basis of the Composite Score (CS), subject to fulfilling of criteria C1-C3.

 

Criteria: C1-C3

C1: PT ≥ 90, PQA ≥ 80, PDILR ≥ 80 and PVRC ≥ 80

C2: P ≥ 80 (Science), 77 (Commerce), 75 (Arts/Humanities)

Where P is the average of the percentages of marks scored in 10th and 12th std. exams.

C3: (Percentage of marks in the bachelor’s examination) ≥ Minimum cut-off percentage (discipline-wise as shown in the Table 5

 

CS (Composite Score) = 0.3 (Normalized AR score) + 0.7 (Normalized overall score in CAT-2015)

 

 

Stage 2: (Category-wise selection)

According to the official website, “After removing the applicants selected in stage 1 from each category (General, NC-OBC, SC, ST, DA) the additional number of applicants to be shortlisted for AWT & PI will be selected following the same procedure as in Stage 1 except that the criteria C1-C2 are used and these are now category specific.”

 

Criteria: C1-C2

C1: PT, PQA, PDILR and PVRC ≥ Respective minimum cut-off (specific to the category as shown in Table 1 above)

C2: P ≥ Minimum cut-offs (specific to the category and the stream as shown in Table 6).

 

 

 

 

 

Final Selection

The final selection or shortlist of candidates for PGP batch 2016-18 will be based on ‘Final Composite Scores’ (FCS). Here’s the FCS formula:

FCS = 0.40 (Normalized PI Score) + 0.10 (Normalized AWT Score) + 0.5 (CS).

“The normalized PI and AWT scores of a candidate are equal to his/her PI and AWT scores divided by the average of the top 1% scores in PI and AWT respectively,” says the official statement from IIM A.

 

Details of candidates short-listed will be published on the official IIMA website by second week of January 2016 (tentatively) after the CAT results are published.

 

For complete details, please visit the Admission Details section on the official website.

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