Hello Ninad,

During the interview, the members of panel wants to know about you, and how much passionately you are doing things in your life. They go through your academic profile as well. If you have some extra and interesting things to show it will definitely attract the panel. And they are bound to ask questions related to that course. If you are able to give answers, you will surely get benefitted. But stating a certificate doesn't means marks always. Your marks may get deduce also, so be careful.

Hope this will be helpful.

Good luck

Hi Ninad,

CAT scores are used for admission by 20 IIMs and various other management institutes across the country. Approximately about two lakh students or more appear for this exam every year.

CAT started in 1950 as a paper-based exam and transformed to become an online-entrance test in 2009. The question paper consists of 100 questions (MCQs) and the students are required to solve the same in 180 minutes. The number of questions might differ every year and are pre-informed to the students. Registration for CAT starts in the month of August or September and the exam is held in November or December.

The exam consists of four segments: Verbal, Quantitative, Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning. These segments are accordingly grouped into sections. CAT has three sections:

• Quantitative Aptitude (QA)
• Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning (DILR)
• Verbal and Reading Comprehension (VRC)

The selection process of IIMs involves a public declaration of expected cut-offs and reveal the final cut-offs only to the students involved in the process.

The top IIMs have declared their cut-off criteria as shown below,

• IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore, IIM Calcutta and IIM Lucknow have declared their qualifying CAT 2019 cut offs for admission to their PGP batch of 2020
• IIM Calcutta and IIM Bangalore have fixed 85 percentile in General category as minimum qualifying percentile for CAT
• IIM Lucknow has fixed 90 percentile in General category as minimum percentile for CAT for the upcoming academic year
• The lowest qualifying cut off is of IIM Ahmedabad at 80 percentile

There are various factors that determine the percentile kept for CAT cut-off. They are listed below,

1. Difficulty level of the exam
2. Number of aspirants appeared for the exam
3. Number of aspirants passed in the exam
4. Number of seats in a particular institute
5. Ranking of the institute

Further there are two types of cut-offs in the selection process,

1. Qualifying CAT cut-off (IIM eligibility cut off) ,
2. Final CAT cut-off (IIM call cut off)

Let me give a snapshot of the previous year’s cut-off of some top IIMs,

As we can see, there is not drastic change in the percentile for cut-off, we can take them safely for next year as well as for a student’s target. But the IIMs declared cut-off is the final cut-off required to clear.

After the candidate has cleared the required cut-off to be eligible for further selection, they will be subjected to Group Discussions and Personal Interviews. Candidate must take this round very seriously as this round can be interpreted as selection round unlike the CAT round, which is a pure eliminator round. IIMs like IIM Shillong, IIM Kozhikode also conduct GD round based on the WAT.

After the final selection round, a weightage is awarded to entrance scores, academic profile & diversity, work experience and gender diversity, and a final merit list is generated. Based on this merit list, admission offers are made by the respective B-schools to the deserving candidates. Also, a waiting list is prepared which contains the names of the students whose admission offers will be made automatically if few students in the original list offer to back out.

All the very best!!

Dear Aspirant,

If you are aiming for IIM ABC ( Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Calcutta ) and Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi, then you have to score a minimum of 98 percentile. You can get it even at 95 percentile but since your graduation marks are low, you have to score a minimum of 98 to get a call from anyone of the above mentioned colleges.

hope this helps. Thank you.

Hello,

Since you have completed your graduation, I presume you're seeking information regarding post-graduate diploma courses. These courses are available for Advertising and Public Relations, Radio and TV Journalism, Journalism(Hindi), Journalism(English),Urdu Journalism and Mass Communication

Eligibility Criteria is having passed Bachelor's degree in any discipline.Candidates have to appear for entrance test,accordingly merit list will be prepared based on their performances as well as reservation status in each course and further personal interview/group discussion will be conducted.

To get the detailed information regarding this, consider going through the following link-

https://www.careers360.com/colleges/indian-institute-of-mass-communication-new-delhi

Getting into IIMs has always been competitive however that has been the case for the general PG course which is based on CAT scores and subsequent WAT and PI. However in recent times IIMs have realized that specialization is the need of the hour. This is result of diverse adoption of technology expertise across industries which has led to tech knowledge becoming the primary driver of performance. What this has led the IIMs to do is partner up with academic partners to develop specialized courses specific to industries. For example, the IIM analytics courses  (https://mileseducation.com/analytics/home) by IIM Lucknow are developed together with Wiley innovation council and IIM faculty. Further these courses are customized for business leaders who have the IIM business and data analytics course (https://mileseducation.com/analytics/IIM-Lucknow) while there is another custom Analytics course for finance and accounting professionals (https://mileseducation.com/finance/IIM-Lucknow-Analytics) . Since these courses are exclusively designed for an industry, the enrollments do not see the generic competition based on CAT scores. You can check your eligibility (https://mileseducation.com/analytics/home) and apply for enrollment.

Interestingly these courses give you the IIM Lucknow alumni status as well.

All the best.

At the moment, IIMC does not provide any UG courses. You need to be at least a graduate to take admission in IIMC.

IIMC is probably the best Institute in India. But Xavier's Institute of Communication and Asian School of Journalism are also not far behind and in fact are famous for its facilities, infrastructure and overall training