IIM Lucknow announces WAT-PI shortlist for PGP batch 2016-18

Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Lucknow has announced the first shortlist of candidates for PGP programmes, batch 2016-18. Candidates shortlisted will now have to appear for Written Ability Test (WAT) and Personal Interview (PI).

The minimum cut-off for shortlisting candidates in the first round is:

Category	QA	DI/LR	VARC	Overall
General	85	85	85	90
OBC NC	77	77	77	82
SC	55	55	55	75
ST	50	50	50	70
DA	55	55	55	75

Candidates fulling the above criteria were further shortlisted on the basis of following parameters:

Components	Weights (PGP)
CAT score (CS)	38
Class - XII marks	2
Graduation marks	3
Work Experience	2
Academic Diversity	3
Gender Diversity	2
Total	50

 

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While generating the final list of selected candidates, the cumulative performance of candidates in both the stages (out of 100 marks) will be considered. 

WAT-PI scores for PGP will be calculated by the following weights:

Components	Weights
Written Ability Test (WAT)	10
Personal Interview (PI)	40
WAT-PI Total (B)	50

The minimum requirement for getting a pass in Personal Interviews is 12 out of 40 marks.

The final admission offer list to PGP, PGP-ABM and PGP-SM programme will be based on the following:

Grand Total (C) = Shortlist Total (A) + WAT-PI Total (B)

Shiksha RTI 

A few months ago, Shiksha had filed an RTI query requesting for details of minimum percentile for students called for WAT – PI and those for students who are selected for full-time MBA.

To know more about shortlisting criteria, click here.

 

Minimum CAT percentile of selected candidates (final list):

Batch	Gen	NC-OBC	SC	ST	PWD
2014-16	94.64	80.4	75.43	70.14	75.29
2013-15	92.73	81.35	75.58	70.34	77.45
2012-14	94.09	81.48	75.38	70.63	76.49
2011-13	92.72	80.29	76.23	70.54	76.23
2010-12	94.53	85.61	76.33	70.19	75.44

 

To know more about the RTI query, click here.

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