Shiksha RTI reveals minimum CAT cut-offs at FMS Delhi

In an effort to find the minimum cut-off percentiles at various leading business schools and MBA colleges, Shiksha.com filed 182 The Right to Information Act (RTI) queries about three months ago.

The RTIs were filed for all the Indian Institutes of Managements (IIMs) and other leading B-schools such as FMS, XLRI, S P Jain and so on. Slowly and steadily, responses to Shiksha’s RTI queries have started trickling in.

Faculty of Management Studies (FMS) Delhi was the first top B-School to respond back. Most other leading MBA colleges are yet to respond back.

Read other Shiksha's RTI responses from top B-Schools:

IIM Bangalore

IIM Kozhikode & IIM Indore

IIM Ahmedabad

RTI Queries

In the RTI, we had requested for information in three parts:

1. Minimum percentile for CAT for students called for Written Ability Test, Group Discussion and Personal interview for full-time MBA across all categories (General, SC, ST, OBC and other categories too) for last five years.

2. Minimum percentile for CAT for students who are selected for full-time MBA across all categories (General, SC, ST, OBC and other categories too) for last five years.

3. Weightage given to work experience, written test, interview, GD, etc for final selection across all categories (General, SC, ST, OBC and other categories too) for last five years.

 

Though prompt, FMS Delhi only responded back with the minimum cut-offs for the last two years (CAT 2014, CAT 2013). Information related to the third query (weightage) is completely missing.

 

RTI Response

“Based on the CAT 2014 result declared by the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) stipulations outlined in the FMS Information Bulletin and the FMS Admission Committee’s guidelines, duly approved by the University of Delhi, the following percentiles turn out to be the minimum cut-off for various categories. Accordingly, the lists of candidate eligible for the next round of admission process to MBA Programme of this Faculty, comprising of Extempore/Personal Interview, have been declared,” states the RTI response from FMS Delhi.

Here’s what they shared:

 

Shortlisting of candidates for Personal Interview for admission to MBA Programme for the academic year 2015-16.

 

MBA Programme – 2015

(Total seat – 200)

Category	Total No of Seats	No of Candidates called for PI	Last Cut-off CAT 2014 (Overall percentile)
General	101	1023	98.54
SC	30	302	78.71
ST	15	150	60.57
OBC	54	541	90.60
PH1	6	20	67.54
PH2		12	17.50
PH3		20	83.89
CW1	10	17	10.34
CW2		17	23.02
CW3		11	09.00
CW4		40	03.93
CW5		15	78.45
Total	216	2168

 

* Number of seats available in PH, CW and Foreign Students Category are supernumerary. In case of Foreign Students (10 seats), the admissions will be done on the basis of screening which will be done subsequently.

 

MBA Programme – 2014

(Total seat – 200)

Category	Total No of Seats	No of Candidates called for PI	Last Cut-off CAT 2014 (Overall percentile)
General	101	1218	98.20
SC	30	367	77.45
ST	15	182	53.88
OBC	54	655	84.73
PH1	6	24	55.46
PH2		9	27.60
PH3		24	80.28
CW1	10	8	4.35
CW2		19	1.94
CW3		18	17.53
CW4		24	36.74
CW5		24	30.29
Total	216	2572

* Number of seats available in PH, CW and Foreign Students Category are supernumerary. In case of Foreign Students (10 seats), the admissions will be done on the basis of screening which will be done subsequently.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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