Dear Goutam, There are 20 IIMs in India.And all the 20 IIMs have their own Selection Criteria based on your CAT score.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 rounds 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 to be honest wih you, if you can manage a 99 percentile score in CAT, you will be able to pull off a feat and manage to get a call from any of the IIMs. Having said that, I also want to bring to your attention, the selection process of the IIMs so that your preparation can be target based:





The newly established IIMs follow a Common Admission Process which is also called CAP. The shortlisted candidates will have to appear for a Common Written Ability Test and Personal Interview Rounds. A separate Institute wise merit list will be prepared and this merit list will be declared based on individual admission and selection criteria.



IIM Sirmaur, IIM Jammu, IIM Nagpur will release their own merit list according to the CAT score or percentile and profile of the Candidate. There are no further rounds for these Institutions.



10th Rating:



Percent score                 Rating Score



<= 55                                         1



> 55 and <= 60                        2



> 60 and <= 70                       3



> 70 and <= 80                       5



> 80 and <= 90                       8



> 90                                         10



The same rating score is used for 12th Science /Commerce Streams. For Arts/Humanities:



Percent score                    Rating Score



<= 45                                            1

> 45 and <= 50                           2

> 50 and <= 60                           3

> 60 and <= 70                           5

> 70 and <= 85                           8

> 85                                             10





From each Academic sectors top 5% from each stream and each Category will be short listed. So you need to work hard to increase your Graduation percnttage as well.

Hello Goutam,



Yes of course you can get a call from top - school if you manage to get 98+ percentile in CAT. 98+ percentile is a very good score and you'll easily get call from top b-schools. Since yiu are in second year of your graduation you have ample time to prepare as well. I'll recommend you to start reading news paper from now onwards. You can refer to hindu or indian express for this purpose. Later you can switch to foreign newspapers like new your times etc. Also start getting adverse with the cat pattern by referring through past year paper. Later you can join some coaching for preparing.



I hope this helps.. All the very best for your future..

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