IIM Indore admission process 2020 revised; WAT scrapped and PI to be held online

IIM Indore scrapped Witten Ability Test (WAT) from its admission process due to the COVID-19 lockdown this year.

The Indian Institute of Management, IIM Indore revised its admission process to enroll students virtually. India’s one of the prominent management institute IIM Indore scrapped Witten Ability Test (WAT) from its admission process due to the COVID-19 lockdown this year. According to the latest update, the B-school is also conducting interviews through online mode following the norms of social distancing. The institute planned to give the weightage of WAT to all candidates who are appearing in the admission test to PGP courses this year. IIM Indore also released an official notice regarding the same.

The notice reads, “COVID-19 impacted our admissions process in March 2020 and we decided to shift to the online mode for conducting interviews of the remaining candidates. Since conducting online Written Ability Test (WAT) was not possible for such candidates who appeared for the online interviews, the Admissions Committee after due deliberations and considerations, has decided to drop the WAT component and its weightage for all the candidates for the PGP and PGP-HRM admissions process of IIM Indore for 2020.”

The candidates who already appeared for the in-person interview before lockdown would go through the same online process. The decision for granting everyone the weightage has been taken by the institute’s admission committee. They also stated that “The current situation warrants this decision in order to maintain process transparency, fairness, and consistency.”

IIM Indore general admissions are conducted through the Common Admission Test, CAT. After appearing for CAT, the candidates appear for the written aptitude test, WAT, followed by the interview process. In order to speed up the process of selection and admission, this interview may also be digitally conducted this year. To prevent the academic loss of students, many IIM already started conducting their classes online.

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