Hey Rahul !
Although having a Work Experience isn't necessary to be elligible to procure a seat in IIM, but if you do have any Work Experience then your chances of getting a seat is improved because, for an overall selection in an IIM, there's a slight weightage given to work experience supplemented by CAT Percentile, Graduation records and Class10, Class 12 scores.
Even a survey of IIM Students showed that nearly 2/3rd of the students had a work experience before joining one.

Hope this helps.

Good Luck !

Dear Rahul, there are 20 IIMs in India. And all the 20 IIMs have their own Selection Criteria.Now your 10th, 12th and Graduation marks carry a weightage of 5-7.5% depending on the IIM you are interested in. Few IIMs like IIM Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Calcutta, Indore, Lucknow, etc conduct Written Ability Test, Personal Interview and then the Final Selection Process follows. The basic eligibility criteria remains the same but off late IIMs have been giving Sectional weightage to CAT composite score. For example;


IIM Ahmedabad:
                                    QA            DLR         VARC        Overall
General:                     70              70             70               80
NC-OBC/Trans:        65              65             65               75
SC:                              60              60             60               70
ST:                              50              50             50               60
PwD-UR,OBC,SC:    60              60             60                70
PwD: ST:                   50             50              50               60


IIM Bangalore:
                                  QA              DLR         VARC          Overall
General:                   80                80               85                90
NC-OBC:                  70                70               75                80
SC:                            65                65              70                 75
ST:                            60                60              60                 70
PwD:                        50                50              50                 50


IIM Calcutta:
                                  QA          DLR          VRC         Over All
OPEN:                      75             80             80                85
NC-OBC:                  65             65             70                75
EWS:                        65             65             70                75
SC:                           60             60             65                 70
ST:                           55             55             55                 65
PWD:                      55              55             55                 65


IIM Indore:
                                  QA             DLR        VARC         Overall
General                    80                80            80                90
NC-OBC                   70                70            70                80
SC                             55                55            55                60
ST                             45                45            45                50
PwD                         45                45            45                 50


IIM Lucknow:
                                       QA          DLR        VARC        Overall
General                         85             85            85               90
NC-OBC                        77             77            77                82
SC                                  55             55            55                70
ST                                  50             50            50                 65
PwD                              50             50            50                 65

Method of scoring can be found on the official website of the IIMs you are interested in. Those candidates who are eligible after these 2 roumds are called for Written Ability and Personal Interview Test. The final score is calculated based on this scale for IIM Lucknow:

Common Admission Test: 30

Academic Performance (12th + Graduation): 5+5

Diversity Factor (DF academics +DF gender): 5

Work Experience: 5

Writing Ability Test: 10

Personal Interview: 40

Final Score: 100


Because CAT exam will be held at different slots, CAT scores will be normalised to ensure equivalence in the difficulty levels of the exams for both slots. IIM Kozikhode will normalise the CAT scores using percentile equivalence. Adjustment of location and scale differences of score distributions across different norms and then scores will be normalised. These scores will be then converted into percentiles for shortlisting and selection purposes. So more or less to get a call from an IIM, your CAT percentile should be nothing less than 95%.

Dear Rahul, there are 20 IIMS and every IIM has its own Selection Criteria. Now your 10th, 12th and Graduation marks carry a weightage of 5-7.5% depending on the IIM you are interested in. Few IIMs like IIM Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Calcutta, Indore, Lucknow, etc conduct Written Ability Test, Personal Interview and then the Final Selection Process follows. The basic eligibility criteria remains the same but off late IIMs have been giving Sectional weightage to CAT composite score. For example;
IIM Ahmedabad:
                             QA              DLR         VARC         Overall
General:              70                70              70                80
NC-OBC/Trans: 65                65              65                75
SC:                       60                60              60                70
ST:                       50                50              50                 60
PwD-UR,OBC,SC: 60            60              60                 70
PwD: ST:            50                50              50                 60
IIM Bangalore:
                                QA          DLR         VARC          Overall
General:                  80           80              85                 90
NC-OBC:                 70            70             75                 80
SC:                           65            65             70                 75
ST:                           60           60              60                 70
PwD:                       50           50              50                  50
IIM Calcutta:
                                  QA          DLR          VRC         Over All
OPEN:                       75            80             80               85
NC-OBC:                   65            65             70               75
EWS:                         65            65             70               75
SC:                             60            60            65                70
ST:                             55            55            55                65
PWD:                        55             55            55                65
IIM Indore:
                                     QA        DLR       VARC        Overall
General                        80         80             80              90
NC-OBC                       70         70             70              80
SC                                 55         55             55              60
ST                                 45         45             45              50
PwD                             45         45             45              50
IIM Lucknow:
                                       QA        DLR       VARC        Overall
General                          85          85            85               90
NC-OBC                         77          77            77                82
SC                                   55          55            55                70
ST                                   50          50            50                65
PwD                               50           50            50                65

Method of scoring can be found on the official website of the IIMs you are interested in. Those candidates who are eligible after these 2 roumds are called for Written Ability and Personal Interview Test. The final score is calculated based on this scale for IIM Lucknow:

Common Admission Test: 30

Academic Performance (12th + Graduation): 5+5

Diversity Factor (DF academics +DF gender): 5

Work Experience: 5

Writing Ability Test: 10

Personal Interview: 40

Final Score: 100


Because CAT exam will be held at different slots, CAT scores will be normalised to ensure equivalence in the difficulty levels of the exams for both slots. IIM Kozikhode will normalise the CAT scores using percentile equivalence. Adjustment of location and scale differences of score distributions across different norms and then scores will be normalised. These scores will be then converted into percentiles for shortlisting and selection purposes.  So more or less to get a call from an IIM, your CAT percentile should be nothing less than 95%.

Hey,
Every IIM has different set of eligibility criteria for the selection of the candidates. The major role is played by the score of CAT. Your academic profile is also taken into consideration. Your academic profile includes your marks of 10th,12th and also graduation.
If you score a percentile of 95 or so you are likely to get a call from any top Business school in India.
Hope this helps.
Good luck.

Hey,
Every IIM has different set of eligibility criteria for the selection of the candidates. The major role is played by the score of CAT. Your academic profile is also taken into consideration. Your academic profile includes your marks of 10th,12th and also graduation.
If you score a percentile of 95 or so you are likely to get a call from any top Business school in India.
Hope this helps.
Good luck.

Dear Amit, there are 20 IIMs that accept CAT score. Now each IIM has different selection criteria. IIM Kozhikhode doesnt consider 10th score while IIM Indore considers 10th, 12th and Graduation score as well. You havent mentioned your Criteria as well. But based on.previpus trends,

FMS, Delhi needs 95 percentile.


IIM Shillong: 92 percentile


NITIE Mumbai: 91 percentile


IIM Bangalore, IIM Calcutta, IIM Lucknow, IIM Indore, IIM Kozhikode, IIM Tiruchirapalli, MDI Gurgaon, IIM Udaipur, IIM Rohtak, IIM Ranchi, IIM Kashipur, IIM Raipur, IMT Ghaziabad, IMI New Delhi, XIM Bhubaneshwar and New IIMS need 90 percentile.

This is provided your 10th, 12th and Graduation scores have been good. IIM Khozikhode gives 7.5% weightage to 12th and Graduation scores while IIM Indore gives 10% weightage to 10th, 12th and Graduation scores. Because CAT exam will be held at different slots, CAT scores will be normalised to ensure equivalence in the difficulty levels of the exams for both slots. IIM Kozikhode will normalise the CAT scores using percentile equivalence. Adjustment of location and scale differences of score distributions across different norms and then scores will be normalised. These scores will be then converted into percentiles for shortlisting and selection purposes. Other than IIMs there are almost 100 Institutions that accept CAT score. For admission to IIMs even if you score, their cut offs, you might fall short in the Academics section. Neverthless, if IIM is your goal, then your score should be

General Category: 95+

OBC-NCL: 85+

SC: 65+

ST: 55+