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IIM Ahmedabad Admission Process / Selection Criteria for 2020-22 Batch

Sunday, August 11th, 2019

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IIM Ahmedabad Admission Process:

Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad is a public business school located in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. Established in 1961, the institute offers Masters Degree programmes in management and agri-business management, a fellowship programme and a number of executive training programmes.

IIM Ahmedabad Admission Process / Selection Criteria – Summary:

Whether you will get an interview call from IIM Ahmedabad or not, it would depend upon the following factors (on a 100 point scale):

CAT Score: 65 points

10th marks: 10 points

12th marks: 10 points

Graduation marks: 10 points

Work Experience: 5 points (3 years or more gets you full 5 points)

 

Whether you will get admission into IIM Ahmedabad or not, it would depend upon the following factors (on a 100 point scale):

Personal Interview: 50 points

CAT Score: 25 points

Work Experience and Academic Background: 15 points (Quality of work-ex will be considered)

Written Ability Test: 10 points

 

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IIM Ahmedabad Admission Process / Selection Criteria – Complete Details:

The admission process for the PGP program comprises two stages.

1. Shortlisting candidates for WAT/PI round.
2. Final Selection of candidates post WAT/PI round

1. Shortlisting and Selection criteria –

Preliminary Screening –

The candidates must clear the minimum percentiles given in the table below to be considered for subsequent stages –

Legend: Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST), Non-creamy Other Backward Castes (NC-OBC), Persons with disabilities (PwD).

Application Rating is the sum of rating scores (A, B, C) based on percentages obtained in 10th standard, 12th standard and bachelors.

Rating Scores for 10th Std.

Rating Scores for 12th Std.

Rating Scores for Bachelor’s

Rating Scores for Work Experience (Rating Score D)

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

Normalized AR score of an applicant is equal to their AR score divided by the average of the top 50 AR scores from the applicants’ pool, (the applicants’ pool, in this case, is defined as the group of candidates who appear for CAT-2019 and apply to IIMA.)

Shortlisting for Academic Writing Test (AWT) & Personal Interview (PI)

Shortlisting will be carried out in two stages.

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

IIMA endeavors to recognize exceptional performers in terms of their previous academic records as well as their performance in CAT across diverse academic backgrounds. Towards that, a certain number of top candidates from each of the academic disciplines will be shortlisted for AWT & PI on the basis of their composite score ‘CS’ (see below) subject to their fulfilling certain criteria.

From each of the academic categories (AC) for which the total number of applicants to IIMA who appear for CAT-2019 from SC/ST/NC-OBC/PwD categories is at least 100, the top 5% in the respective AC limited to the respective categories (General/SC/ST/NC-OBC/PwD) among the applicants to IIMA who appear for CAT-2019, henceforth referred to as ACRC groups, (subject to upper limits on the numbers per ACRC group as specified in Table 6) will be shortlisted for AWT & PI on the basis of the composite score ‘CS’ (see below) subject to their fulfilling criteria C1-C3.

CS (Composite Score) = ARF_CS * Normalised AR score + CATF_CS * Normalised overall score in CAT-2019

Application Rating Multiplication Factor for Composite Score (ARF_CS) = 0.35;

CAT Multiplication Factor for Composite Score (CATF_CS) = 0.65

The upper limits (UL) on the number of candidates to be shortlisted per RC for AC-1, AC-2, AC-3, AC-5

The upper limits (UL) on the number of candidates to be shortlisted per RC for AC-4

Criteria C1-C3:

C1.  PVRC, PDILR, PQA, and PT must not be lower than the minimum cut-offs as specified in Table 1.

C2.  P ≥ Minimum cut-offs (specific to the category and the stream as shown in Table 7), where P is the average of the percentages of marks scored in 10^th and 12^th std. examinations.

Minimum cut-off for P across different disciplines and different categories

C3.  (Percentage of marks in the bachelor’s examination) ≥ Minimum cut-off percentage, to be set at the 80^th percentile of the percentage of marks of the respective ACRC group of the applicants’ pool, (the applicants’ pool in this case being defined as the group of candidates who appear for CAT-2019, apply to IIM Ahmedabad and belong to the respective ACRC.)

Any AC, for which the total number of applicants to IIMA who appear for CAT-2019 from SC/ST/NC-OBC/PwD categories is less than 100, will not be subdivided into ACRCs as above. For such an AC, the top 100 or the top 5% in the respective AC among all the applicants to IIMA who appear for CAT-2019, whichever is less, will be shortlisted for AWT & PI on the basis of the composite score ‘CS’ (see above) subject to their fulfilling criteria C4-C6.

Criteria C4-C6:

C4.  PT ≥ 80, PQA ≥ 70, PDILR ≥ 70 and PVRC ≥ 70.

C5.  P ≥ 80 (Science), 77 (Commerce), 75 (Arts/Humanities), where P is the average of the percentages of marks scored in the 10^th and 12^th std. examinations.

C6.  (Percentage of marks in the bachelor’s examination) ≥ Minimum cut-off percentage, to be set at the 80^th percentile of the percentage of marks of the respective AC group of the applicants’ pool, (the applicants’ pool in this case being defined as the group of candidates who appear for CAT-2019, apply to IIM Ahmedabad and belong to the respective AC.)

Stage 2: After removing the candidates selected in Stage 1 from each category (General, NC-OBC, SC, ST and PWD) the additional number of candidates to be shortlisted for AWT & PI will be selected on the basis of the composite score ‘CS’ (see above) subject to their fulfilling criteria C1-C2.

Final Selection

The selection at this stage will strictly be based on the shortlisting of the candidates done separately for each category (General/SC/ST/NC-OBC/PwD) on the basis of their ‘Final Composite Score’s (FCS). The numbers selected in different reservation categories will be in proportions mandated by law.

The FCS of a candidate who appears in AWT & PI will be computed as follows:

FCS = PIF * Normalised PI Score + AWTF * Normalised AWT Score + CATF_FCS * Normalised CAT Score + ARF_FCS * AR

Personal Interview Multiplication Factor (PIF) = 0.50

AWT Multiplication Factor (AWTF) = 0.10

CAT Score Multiplication Factor for Final Composite Score (CATF_FCS) = 0.25

Application Rating Multiplication Factor for Final Composite Score (ARF_FCS) = 0.15

Categories for bachelor’s degree/integrated master’s degree (as per CAT Application)

IIM Ahmedabad reserves the right to make changes in the Shortlisting and Selection Criteria, if considered necessary at any point.

For an AC for which the number of applicants to IIMA in that particular AC is more than 50% of the total applicants to IIMA, the ‘UL per ACRC’ numbers will be doubled (e.g., UL for General will be 200 instead of 100, UL for SC will be 64 instead of 32, and so on).

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