IIM Ahmedabad (IIMA) All Questions

Dear Shrey, you haven't mebtioned your Category. Neverthless, IIMs shortlist candidates for the interview stage based on their own criteria, which may be independent of each other. The process may include Written Ability Test, Group Discussion, and Personal Interviews. Performance in the CAT examination is an important component in the admission process. IIMs may additionally use other factors such as the previous academic performance of the candidates, relevant work experience, gender and academic diversity and other similar inputs in shortlisting and ranking of candidates at various stages of the admission process. The processes, academic cut-offs and the weights allocated to the evaluation parameters may vary across IIMs.

IIM Ahmedabad:

CAT SECTIONAL WEIGHTAGE:

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

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. It might look like:


Category Upper Limit

General 100

NC-OBC-cum-transgender 57

SC    32

ST 16

PwD 6

After shortlisting the Candidates, the selected Candidates will have to go through WAT and PI rounds. Selection at this stage will strictly be based on the shortlisting of the candidates done separately for each Category ) on the basis of their Final Composite Score. . The numbers selected in different reservation categories will be in proportions mandated by law.

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


After the AWT & PI round, admission offers are made by IIMA to successful candidates. The final selection is based on a diverse set of attributes which includes performance in CAT, performance in AWT & PI, academic, co-curricular and extra-curricular achievements, work experience, etc.

Dear Chandan, IIMs have released their cut offs. And the sectional cut offs for each IIM for OBC-NCL looks like this:

QA        VRC       DLR       OVERALL
AHMEDABAD           65         65          65             75
BANGALORE            70         70          75             80
CALCUTTA               65         65          70             75

Now each IIM has their own selection criteria to be shortlisted.
IIM Ahmedabad:

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. It might look like:


Category Upper Limit

General 100

NC-OBC-cum-transgender 57

SC   32

ST 16

PwD 6

After shortlisting the Candidates, the selected Candidates will have to go through WAT and PI rounds. Selection at this stage will strictly be based on the shortlisting of the candidates done separately for each Category ) on the basis of their Final Composite Score. . The numbers selected in different reservation categories will be in proportions mandated by law.

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


After the AWT & PI round, admission offers are made by IIMA to successful candidates. The final selection is based on a diverse set of attributes which includes performance in CAT, performance in AWT & PI, academic, co-curricular and extra-curricular achievements, work experience, etc.

IIM Bangalore:

board results are initially adjusted by dividing each such score by 90th percentile score of that board. And then an adjusted score is calculated for the Bachelor's degree for each of the candidates based on the final scores obtained by the candidate are used for the Bachelor's degree and professional degrees. For example,
CAT = 40
10th board = 20
12th board = 10
Bachelors = 20
Gender Diversity = 2
Work Experience = 8
The 40 points for CAT are derived from the performance in each of the three sections as follows:
Verbal & Reading Comprehension - 14 points
Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning - 16 points Quantitative Aptitude - 10 points.

IIM Calcutta:
And the final selection is based on:
CAT 2019 Score 30
Personal Interview 48
Written Ability Test 10
Academic Diversity 04
Work Experience 08
Total 100

To be shortlisted for these IIMs, you shpuld aim for atleast 85 percentile.

Work experience gives you the weight age along with MBA entrance score to get selection in any reputed college or IIM but if you have not then try to score well in exams. Your performance play an important role in all the selection rounds how you represent yourself.

Hope this helps! 

Dear Candidate,
Well done , you have scored good marks .
But for getting call from iimb and iima you have to score atleast above 97% then only you will get a call from them .

Hello

See, your college name does not hold any key but as you have got 90+ in both 10th and 12th so it can be a boost.

It depends upon the weightage given to 10th and 12th. It may be around 5 to 7%.

See, last year my friend got 99.6 percentile but still he was rejected by IIM A , B and C even Kozikode also because he just destroyed his GD and PI.

So do not think much just give your exam on 24th Nov.

Hello Aspirant,

As you have mentioned that you belong to SC category, you should have a minimum of 60 percent and above to make it into any of the above mentioned colleges. Therefore make sure to get this percent. The course that you have already persued might not add up as your advantage since it is not related to the field you are applying.

Good luck!

Hello,
.
I can just see that you have mentioned IIM Ahmedabad in your tag. If you are talking about it then let me clear you out.
.
IIM AHMEDABAD one of the top ranked IIM listed in the top 5 best IIMs in India.
.
So,here if you are willing to get admission in IIM Ahmedabad you need to score at least 90% as minimum score in CAT entrance exam.
.
No other exams will be accepted by IIMs except CAT.
.
Eligibility for IIMA,
Candidate must hold a bachelor's degree with at least 50%  and SC/ST needs 45%.
.
Hope you possess above mentioned criteria
If you are searching for CAT syllabus for preparation then here is a link which helps you out.
.
https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/cat-syllabus/amp
.
Thank you
And best regards

Dear Aspirant,

The ideal profile for getting a call from holy trinity ABC is 90+ in 10th and 12th and 85+ in graduation and 1.5 years of work experience. After this profile 95 percentile will fetch you a call from one of ABC and 98+ will definitely get you a call from ABC and FMS also.

However, generally students having graduation from BCOM/ECONOMICS fields can get a call at 75% also as the IIMs give preference for candidates having non engineer background.

Hope this helps. Thank You.

Hey there

Your 10th and 12th marks are good but in graduation you have less marks but if you'll do good at your cat exam then you have chances of getting call from iims but less chances of IIM A, B,C as they are oldest and have highest Cutoff but again if you'll have amazing CAT score then you may get a call.

Check about CAT 2019

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/cat/amp&ved=2ahUKEwiO97rdvo_lAhWE73MBHU_GBs8QFjABegQIBBAE&usg=AOvVaw0Of8Y_vXRn6X3y-f2tt-rY&ampcf=1

Good luck