Admission Process and Selection Criteria of IIM Indore for 2020

With CAT results out on 4th January, students have eagerly been waiting for the shortlists, to know whether or not they’ve been qualified to the further rounds of WAT/ GD and PI. Amongst the other top IIMs, IIM Indore released its selection criteria too, stating the essential requirements that students need to meet for admissions. The admission process at IIM Indore is divided into the following three stages:

Eligibility Criteria

Shortlist for WAT, Written Ability Test and Personal Interview

Final Selection

The Eligibility Criteria

Before a student is shortlisted for the further rounds of WAT and PI, they must fulfil the basic eligibility criteria of CAT 2019. They should have scores that are in line with the minimum sectional percentiles along with the overall percentile. Only the candidates that match the given criteria will be selected for the next stage of the selection process.

Category	VARC	DILR	QA	Overall Percentile
General	80	80	80	90
EWS	80	80	80	90
OBC (NC)	70	70	70	80
SC	55	55	55	60
ST	45	45	45	50
PwD	45	45	45	50

Stage 2: The Written Ability Test and Personal Interview

The ones who clear the first round of selection will then get shortlisted for the second round of WAT and personal interview, according to the criteria mentioned below. Adequate number of candidates from the categories of General/ SC/ ST/ NC-OBC and PwD will be selected for WAT and PI. The merit list will be generated on the basis of the following composite score:

Calculation of Composite Score:

Components	Score
SSC or 10th Standard Scores	34 * [Z candidate – Z min/ Z max – Z min]
HSC or 12th Standard Scores	40 * [Z candidate – Z min/ Z max – Z min]
Overall CAT 2019 Score	20 * [Candidate’s CAT Overall Score / Highest CAT Overall Score]
Gender diversity factor	6 (For female candidates only)
Composite Score	Sum of all the above scores (100)

The composite score is the formula to calculate the maximum score. It is a check that decides whether or not you will be selected by IIM Indore. The above-mentioned Zmin, Zmax and Zcandidate for 12th and 10th will be computed using the normalisation process.

The following points should be kept in mind regarding the shortlist of candidates:

Post the declaration of results, IIM Indore will not send any letter of information to the candidates who have not been selected for WAT and PI.

Students having excellent credentials to their plate will be awarded more points during shortlisting.

The ones who have scored 85% and more will be awarded a top rating, with 34 out of the total 100 points.

Similarly, students who have scored 85% and more in class 12 will be awarded 40 points out of the total 100.

There is no weightage for the marks scored by a candidate during his bachelor’s.

The Final Selection

All shortlisted candidates will participate in the final selection process of IIM Indore. The weightage given to each section in this round is as follows: 40% to Personal Interview, 20% to the Written Ability Test, 20% to the marks scored in class 10 and 12 and the remaining 20% to the overall CAT 2019 score. Unlike other IIMs, the shortlisting criteria of IIM Indore does not reserve marks for work experience.

Calculation of the final composite score

Components	Score
SSC or 10th Standard Scores	10* [Z candidate – Z min/Z max – Z min]
HSC or 12th Standard Scores Overall CAT 2019 Score	10 * [Z candidate – Z min/Z max – Z min] 20* [Candidate’s CAT Overall Score / Highest CAT Overall Score]
WAT Score	20* [Candidate’s CAT Overall Score / Highest CAT Overall Score]
PI Score	40* [Candidate’s CAT Overall Score / Highest CAT Overall Score]
Composite Score	Sum of all the above scores (100)

Important points to be noted

Along with the above-mentioned criteria for the various stages of the selection process at IIM Indore, the following points must be kept in mind too:

Candidates must have appeared for CAT 2019 and should fulfil the required sectional cut-offs and overall percentile.

The ones who fulfil the given criteria and have a valid CAT 2019 score will be called for the Written Ability Test and Personal Interview. The PI and WAT round will be conducted in the cities of Chennai, Delhi, Bangalore, Indore, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Mumbai.

IIM Indore requires students to sit for both the rounds of WAT and PI failing which they will not be considered for the admission process.

The college, IIM Indore, expects a consistent and minimum performance from students in the different parameters of PI for the final selection process. This will be decided by the Admissions Committee. The ones who do not fulfil the minimum criteria of each parameter will not be considered for the final selection process.

After the WAT and PI rounds, the offers of admission will be rolled out to successful students. The final selection is made on the basis of a number of attributes which include the CAT performance, performance in WAT and PI, academics (class 10 and 12), amongst others. A merit list will be generated category-wise, which will be based on the final composite score.

The admission offers will be made by IIM Indore in the last week of April 2020. This will be based on the final score that will be computed with relevant weightage to the scores of all components.

Reservations

Keeping the requirements of the Government of India in mind, IIM Indore reserves seats for students from backward classes according to the below-mentioned criteria:

27% for the Other Backward Classes, belonging to the Non-Creamy layer (NC-OBC)

15% for Scheduled Caste (SC)

7.5% for Scheduled Tribe (ST)

Up to 10% for candidates belonging to the Economically Weaker Sections (EWS)

5% for Person with Benchmark Disabilities.

To know more about the admission process of IIM Indore, click here.