IIM Ahmedabad Shortlisting Criteria 2022-24

IIM Ahmedabad has announced the selection criteria for 2022-2024 MBA batch, CAT 2021 cut off and admission process. IIM Ahmedabad MBA admission process includes shortlisting of candidates on the basis of CAT 2020 score, Analytical Writing Test (AWT) and Personal Interview (PI) round. IIM Ahmedabad has made no significant changes to its admission policy as compared to 2021. However, the institute has decided to award less weightage to CAT 2021 exam score in shortlisting and final selection process for MBA admission 2022. The weight for CAT 2021 score is reduced to 65% in shortlisting and to 25% in the final selection round. IIM Ahmedabad is in a position to accommodate less than 0.1% of the PGP applicants who have applied for CAT 2021. But, the non-engineers and the candidates from diverse backgrounds, planning to appear in CAT 2021 stand a good chance to get into IIM Ahmedabad at a CAT 2021 percentile of 80 and above. 

IIM Ahmedabad MBA Admission Criteria 2022-24

As per IIM Ahmedabad selection criteria, the PGP selection process takes place in two stages, which include Preliminary Screening and shortlisting for Analytical Writing Test (AWT) & Personal Interview (PI) rounds. These stages are discussed below in detail:

 1. PRELIMINARY SCREENING 

For preliminary screening, which includes shortlisting of candidates for AWT and PI, IIM Ahmedabad has fixed qualifying CAT cut offs for all the categories. Candidates need to fulfil the below-mentioned qualifying CAT/ GMAT cut off percentile to be eligible for AWT-PI round of IIM Ahmedabad PGP admission 2022-24:

CAT cut off:

The minimum qualifying CAT cutoff is enlisted in the table below. However, candidates must note that the final CAT cutoffs 2022 could be higher.

Category	Verbal and Reading Comprehension (PVRC)	Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning (PDILR)	Quantitative Aptitude (PQA)	Overall Percentile Rank (PT)
General, EWS	70	70	70	80
NC-OBC-Transgender	65	65	65	75
SC	60	60	60	70
ST	50	50	50	60
PwD (General, NC OBC-cum-transgender, SC)	60	60	60	70
PwD (ST)	50	50	50	60

GMAT cutoff:

For candidates applying through GMAT score (foreign national candidates), the minimum cutoff has been fixed at:

Verbal	Quantitative	Total
40	50	720

Application Rating (AR) calculation: For calculating AR, the authorities consider applicants’ academic performances (aggregate obtained) at various stages, including Class 10, Class 12, UG, PG (if applicable) and professional work experience. Check how AR is calculated for each academic progression:

Rating Scores for Class 10 (Rating Score A):

Aggregate in Class 10 (in %)	Rating score: A
Less than or equal to 55	1
55-60	2
60-70	3
70-80	5
80-90	8
More than 90	10

Rating Scores for Class 12 (Rating Score B) across Science, Commerce and Arts/ Humanities streams:

Rating Score: B	Aggregate in Class 12 (in %)
	Science Stream	Commerce Stream	Arts Stream
1	Less than 55	Less than 50	Less than 45
2	55-60	50-55	45-50
3	60-70	55-65	50-60
5	70-80	65-75	60-70
8	80-90	75-90	70-85
10	More than 90	More than 90	More than 85

Rating Scores for UG courses (Rating Score C):

For calculating AR for UG courses, IIM Ahmedabad has divided the types of courses into six categories from AC-1 to AC-6 as follows:

• AC-1: Medicine and Surgery-based subjects

Aggregate in UG (in %)	Rating Score C
Less than 55	1
55-60	2
60-62	3
62-65	5
65-70	8
More than 70	10

• AC-2: Selective Professional degrees (Chartered Accountancy, Cost and Works Accountancy, Company Secretaryship)

Aggregate in Professional degree (in %)	Rating Score C
Less than 50	1
50-53	2
53-55	3
55-57	5
57-63	8
More than 63	10

• AC-3: All Commerce, Economics, Finance and Management-related degrees

Aggregate in UG (in %)	Rating Score C
Less than 55	1
55-60	2
60-65	3
65-70	5
70-80	8
More than 80	10

• AC-4: All Engineering, Technology and Architecture-related areas

Aggregate in UG (in %)	Rating Score C
Less than 60	1
60-65	2
65-70	3
70-75	5
75-85	8
More than 85	10

• AC-5: All Arts/ Humanities-related degrees, Design, Education, Fashion Technology, Law and Rural Studies

Aggregate in UG (in %)	Rating Score C
Less than 50	1
50-55	2
55-60	3
60-65	5
65-75	8
More than 75	10

• AC-6: Any other stream not mentioned in AC-1 to AC-5

Aggregate in UG (in %)	Rating Score C
Less than 60	1
60-65	2
65-70	3
70-75	5
75-85	8
More than 85	10

Rating Scores for work experience (Rating Score D):

Work Experience (in months as filled in the CAT application form)	Rating Score D
Less than 12	0
12 to less than 36	MF (number of months of work experience - 11)
More than 36	5
Work-experience Multiplication Factor (MF) = 0.20

IIM Ahmedabad calculates the AR score and uses it during the various stages of application process (AWT and PI). AR is calculated as follows:

Application Rating (AR) score = Class 10 Score + Class 12 Score + Graduation Score + Work Experience (A+B+C+D)

Once AR is calculated, a 'Normalised AR' score for candidates is calculated using the below-given formula:

Normalised AR score = Total AR score of candidate/ Average of top 50 AR scores from the applicants' pool*

*The applicants' pool, in this case, is the group of candidates who appeared for CAT 2021 and applied for IIM Ahmedabad admissions.

 2. SHORTLISTING FOR AWT AND PI ROUNDS 

Shortlisting for Analytical Writing Test (AWT) & Personal Interview (PI) rounds are carried out in two stages. Read below to check out details regarding these stages:

Stage 1: Selection of exceptional performers across different streams from the applicant's pool

IIM Ahmedabad recognises exceptional performers across diverse academic backgrounds as per their past academic records and CAT score. A certain number of top candidates from each of the academic streams are shortlisted for AWT and PI rounds on the basis of their Composite Score (CS) subject to their fulfilling C1-C6 criteria. The CS is calculated as follows:

CS (Composite Score) = (ARF_CS x Normalised AR score) + (CATF_CS x Normalised overall score in CAT 2020)

Legend:

• AR Multiplication Factor for Composite Score (ARF_CS) = 35
• CAT Multiplication Factor for Composite Score (CATF_CS) = 65

Once the CS is calculated, Upper Limits (UL) on the number of candidates to be shortlisted per RC for AC-1, AC-2, AC-3, AC-5 and Upper Limits (UL) on the number of candidates to be shortlisted per RC for AC-4 is as mentioned in the following tables.

Category	Upper Limit per RC for AC-1, AC-2, AC-3, AC-5	Upper Limit per RC for AC-4
General	100	150
NC-OBC-cum-transgender	57	85
SC	32	48
ST	16	24
PwD	6	9

Stage 2: Shortlisting based on C1-C6 criteria

As mentioned above, from each of the academic categories (AC) for which the total number of IIM Ahmedabad applicants who appeared for CAT 2020 from SC/ ST/ NC-OBC/ PwD categories will be shortlisted for AWT and PI on the basis of the composite score ‘CS' (calculated as per above-given table) subject to their fulfilling criteria C1-C3. The criteria details are as follows:

• C1: PVRC, PDILR, PQA and PT must not be lower than the minimum cut-offs as specified in the minimum qualifying CAT cutoff table
• P ≥ Minimum cut-offs, where P is the average of the aggregate scored in Class 10 and Class 12

Category	Science	Commerce	Arts/ Humanities
General-cum-EWS	80	77	75
NC-OBC-cum-transgender	75	72	70
SC	70	67	64
ST	65	62	59
PwD (General, NC OBC-cum-transgender, SC)	70	67	64
PwD (ST)	65	62	59

• C3: Aggregate in UG degree ≥ Minimum cutoff percentage, to be set at 80 percentile of the percentage of marks of the respective ACRC group of the applicants' pool
• C4: PT ≥ 80, PQA ≥ 70, PDILR ≥ 70 and PVRC ≥
• C5: P ≥ 80 (Science), 77 (Commerce), 75 (Arts/ Humanities), where P is the average of the aggregate obtained in Class 10 and Class 12
• C6: Aggregate in UG degree ≥ Minimum cutoff percentage, to be set at 80 percentile of the percentage of marks of the respective AC group of the applicants' pool

 3. FINAL SELECTION 

Candidates, fulfilling all the above-mentioned shortlisting criteria and fulfilling all minimum cutoff requirements, are selected on the basis of the Final Composite Score (FCS). The FCS of a candidate is computed as follows:

FCS = (PIF x Normalised PI Score) + (AWTF x Normalised AWT Score) + (CATF_FCS x Normalised CAT Score) + (ARF_FCS x AR)

Legend:

• 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

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