IIM Ahmedabad Course Admission 2024 - Fees, Date, Cutoff & Eligibility

IIM Ahmedabad Admission Criteria 2023-2025: The Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad has released the admission criteria for PGP admissions for the academic batch of 2023-25, in online mode - iima.ac.in. IIMA has announced that it will not award any weightage to bachelor’s degree for the students who did their graduation during the COVID-19 pandemic time and were awarded only pass certificates instead of scores and has also announced many relaxations in the admission process.

Candidates whose names will appear in the IIM Ahmedabad shortlist will have to appear for the AWT (Analytical Writing Test)/PI (Personal Interview) rounds on the basis of which they will be granted final admission to IIM Ahmedabad. Read this complete article to check out the information related to IIM Ahmedabad eligibility criteria, important dates, IIMA admission criteria, and so forth.

IIM Ahmedabad Admission Dates 2023

Students must stay updated with the events pertaining to IIMA admissions 2023-25 dates. Check the table below for the latest updates:

IIMA 2024 Admission Dates

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IIM Ahmedabad Admission Criteria 2024 - Eligibility Criteria

Candidates aspiring to take admission to IIM Ahmadabad PGP must fulfill the below-mentioned eligibility criteria:

• Students must have a bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 50% marks in aggregate or equivalent CGPA. Students belonging to the reserved category will be given 5% relaxation.

• The bachelor's degree must entail a minimum of three years of education along with 10+2 or equivalent.

• The conversion of marks or CGPA will be followed as per the norms of the university/institute from which the student has graduated. In case the institute/university does not provide any scheme of conversion then the IIM Ahmedabad will obtain the equivalence by dividing the obtained CGPA by the maximum CGPA and multiplying the result by 100.

• Aspirants appearing for the final year examination of the qualifying exam can also apply provided they submit the required documents in the stipulated time. Such a candidate’s admission will be on a provisional basis and will be confirmed when the student submits the mark sheets and certificate of passing the Bachelor’s degree with a required minimum percentage.

Latest Changes in IIM Ahmedabad Selection Process:

In view of the fact that for the last two years due to COVID-19, many universities could not conduct exams and based on varied criteria gave pass/promotion certificates. Considering this, the CAT Committee of 2023 allowed candidates to take CAT 2023 without requiring any minimum percentage of marks in a bachelor’s degree. On account of this, the Admissions Committee of IIM Ahmedabad decided to do away with the bachelor’s degree component from the shortlisting criteria and to apply it uniformly to all the candidates. The AR now will be computed on a scale of 25 (considering class 10th marks, class 12th marks and the candidate's work experience) and the points will be pro-rated to 35.

The following formula will now be used for computing the Composite Score (CS):

CS = 0.35* (Pro-rated AR Score/35) + 0.65* (Normalized overall CAT Score)

Pro-rated AR Score= [(AR score computed by taking 0 points for Bachelor’s degree)/25] * 35

IIM Ahmedabad Admission Criteria 2024-2026

The admission criteria of IIM Ahmedabad 2024 is a two-step process. In the first step, the candidates are shortlisted for Analytical Writing Test (AWT) and Personal Interview (PI) on the basis of valid CAT 2023 scores, who have applied for the programme and meet the eligibility criteria for the programme.

Shortlisting and Admission Criteria for PGP at IIM Ahmedabad

Process 1 - Preliminary Screening

CAT 2023 consists of three sections namely, Quantitative Aptitude'(QA), Data Interpretation and logical Reasoning (DILR), and Verbal and Reading Comprehension (VARC). Only candidates who meet the minimum cutoff criteria both sectional and overall are considered for further rounds of IIM Ahmedabad admission 2023. Check the table below to know the minimum cutoff for CAT 2023. The cutoff for CAT 2023 is similar to that of the previous year.

IIM Ahmedabad CAT 2023 cutoffs

At the different stages of the selection process of IIM Ahmedabad ‘Application Rating,’ (AR) score of the student will be used. AR is the sum of rating scores based on their percentage in 10th and 12th standard, stream, Bachelor's degree discipline, and work experience. Check the table below to know the scoring of each component.

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Rating scores for 10th standard examination

Rating scores for 12th standard examination

Rating Scores for the Bachelor’s Degree Exam

Rating Scores for Work Experience

Application Rating Score= rating score (A+B+C+D)

• The normalised AR score of a candidate will be equivalent to their AR score divided by the average of the top 50 AR scores from the applicant’s pool*.

• Applicants pool = the group of candidates who have appeared for CAT 2023 and applied for IIM Ahmedabad.

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Process 2 - Shortlisting for Analytical Writing Test (AWT) and Personal Interview (PI)

The shortlisting of candidates will be carried out in two stages:

Stage 1 - From the applicant’s pool

IIM Ahmedabad will recognise a candidate’s performance in their academics as well as performance in CAT 2023. A certain number of applicants will be shortlisted based on their Composite Score (CS) subject to filling certain criteria.

CS (Composite Score) = ARF_CS * Normalised AR score + CATF_CS * Normalised overall score in CAT 2023

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

• CAT Multiplication Factor for Composite Score (CATF_CS) = 0.65

The upper limit for the number of applicants to be shortlisted as per RC for AC-1,2,3, and 5

The upper limit for the number of applicants to be shortlisted as per RC for AC-4

Criteria 1 to Criteria 3

Criteria 1 - Percentile of VRC, QA, DILR, and overall must not be lower than the percentile mentioned in the table above (Minimum CAT 2023 cutoffs).

Criteria 2 - The average of percentages should be more than the minimum cutoff (specific to the category and stream in the table below).

Average of percentages=P= marks obtained in 10th and 12th standard examination.

Minimum cutoff for P across different disciplines and categories

Criteria 3 - The percentage of marks obtained in the Bachelor’s degree must be greater or equal to the minimum cutoff percentage.

Criteria 4 - Total percentile ≥ 80, QA percentile ≥ 70, DILR percentile ≥ 70, and VRC percentile ≥ 70

Criteria 5 - Percentage ≥ 80 (Science), 77 (Commerce), 75 (Arts/Humanities), where P is the average of the percentages of marks scored in the 10th and 12th std. Examinations.

Criteria 6 - The percentage of marks obtained in the bachelor’s degree must be greater or equal to a minimum cutoff percentage.

Stage 2- After the candidates are shortlisted in stage 1 from each category, an additional number of candidates will be shortlisted for AWT and PI on the basis of their Composite Score (CS) as mentioned above subject to fulfillment of criteria 1 and 2.

Final Selection

In this stage selection will be strictly based on shortlisting done for each category and on the basis of the final composite score (FCS), FCS 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

Note- Due to the COVID-19 situation IIM Ahmedabad may modify the final selection criteria depending upon the time during WAT-PI.

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