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Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Common Admission Test

Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Common Admission Test

New Delhi: By all means, you need to work hard to do well in your Common Admission Test (CAT) to get into an Indian Institute of Management.

But how well you do in CAT - after you have been shortlisted which means you have made it to at least the top 10 percent of all applicants - makes up only a fifth of your final score when it comes to securing an IIM admission.

In fact, it’s your Class X and Class XII results that account for more - 25 percent of the final score; your Bachelor’s degree 15 percent.

The factor with the maximum weightage is your performance in group discussion (GD), GD summary and personal interview - 35 percent. The balance 5 percent depends on work experience and whether you have taken a "professional course". And if you thought a BTech from IIT gives you an extra advantage, sorry.

Only a Chartered Accountancy course qualifies as a "professional course." When it comes to work experience, three years will get you the maximum score depending on the quality and relevance of your job, anything more than three years means a lower score: You get zero points if you have slogged for 12 years.

Such details have been revealed for the first time by the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, which conducted the CAT last year after it was forced by the Central Information Commission to do so last fortnight.

This direction came after 22-year-old visually challenged woman Vaishnavi Kasturi, was first refused information by the IIMB. The institute declined to give details until the CIC intervened.

The detailed methodology for evaluating the standardised scores in each category for IIMB in 2007 - Class X and XII exams, Bachelor’s, Group discussion and interview and work experience - has now been posted on www.iimb.ernet.in.

Other IIMs are expected to follow a similar method. IIM applicants in the general category have long known that they need to be in the top ten percent in CAT scores but it’s now been revealed that to be even considered for the interview call, they must be in the top 15 percent in each section of the test verbal, logic and data, quantitative.

The SC/ST and disabled applicants need to be in the top 50 percent in logic and quantitative, top 45 percent in verbal. In overall score, however, SC applicants need to be in the top 25 percent while STs in the top 35 percent.

Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Common Admission Test

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