By: Anshika on August 30, 2016
Changes when compared to last year
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The minimum CAT 2015 overall .percentile requirement has been reduced for differently abled (DA) candidate from 70 percentile to 65 percentile.
Admission Process:
The admission process for the PGP program comprises of following stages.
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Shortlisting candidates for WAT/GD//PI round.
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Final Selection of candidates post WAT/GD/PI round
During the first stage, initially a pool of candidates who satisfy the following minimum CAT 2015 percentiles are considered.
|
Category of Candidate |
Sectional Percentile |
Overall Percentile |
|
General |
80 |
90 |
|
NC-OBC |
72 |
81 |
|
SC |
60 |
75 |
|
ST |
50 |
65 |
|
DAP |
55 |
65 |
Among the pool of candidates who meet the above mentioned percentiles, a list of candidates would be called for attending Written ability test (WAT) and Personal Interview depending on their performance in CAT.
One point to be noted here is that for shortlisting candidates for WAT/PI rounds IIM Raipur is considering only the CAT performance of a candidate. This goes on to show that performing well in CAT 2015 would go a long way in securing a WATGD//PI call from this premier B-school.
The following are the weightages that would be considered during the final selection of candidates
|
Component |
Maximum Weight |
|
CAT score |
32.00% |
|
WAT |
10.00% |
|
Personal Interview |
20.00% |
|
SSC |
7.00% |
|
HSC/12 |
6.00% |
|
Graduation |
7.00% |
|
Work Experience |
6.00% |
|
Gender Diversity |
6.00% |
|
Academic Diversity |
6.00% |
To conclude, one important observation about this year's selection process is that the total weightage for parameters which are controllable ( CAT,WAT and PI ) in the final selection stage has been kept at 62%. This ensures that the applicants, who do not have a good academic profile or work experience can still aspire to join IIM Raipur by preparing well for CAT 2015, WAT and PI rounds.
Note- The Personal Interview and Written Analysis Test would be conducted at New Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai and Kolkata. The exact date for PI & WAT will be communicated to the shortlisted candidates by IIM Kashipur. who is co-ordinating for 2016-18 batch on behalf of IIM-Raipur, IIM-Ranchi, IIM-Rohtak, IIM-Tiruchirappalli and IIM- Udaipur & IIM-Kashipur, (also referred to herein as the "new IIMs").
In cases where candidates have been shortlisted by the six new IIMs as well as older IIMs, IIMKashipur would obtain the PI & WAT scores of such candidates directly from the older IIMs. Such candidates will be informed in advance by IIM-Kashipur, and they need not appear for the PI & WAT conducted by the new IIMs.
