IIM Indore Shortlisting Criteria 2022-24

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1 min readUpdated on Aug 25, 2021 09:17 IST

IIM Indore will announce the selection criteria for 2022-2024 MBA batch, CAT 2021 cut off and admission process. IIM Indore MBA admission process includes shortlisting of candidates on the basis of CAT score, Analytical Writing Test (AWT) and Personal Interview (PI) round. It is expected that IIM Indore will award 20% weight to CAT 2021 score and 74% weight to Class 10 and 12 marks in shortlisting for PI-WAT round with a view of improving diversity in classrooms. Non-engineers and candidates with work experience stand a good chance to get admission offers. 

Table of content
  • IIM Indore MBA Admission Criteria 2022-24
  • Stage-I: Eligibility Criteria
  • Stage-II: Shortlist for Written Ability Test (WAT) and Personal Interview (PI)

IIM Indore MBA Admission Criteria 2022-24

IIM Indore MBA admission criteria for 2022-24 batch is expected to be announced soon. Till then candidates can check IIM Indore shortlisting criteria 2021-23. IIM Indore adopted a three-stage selection process, comprising fulfilment of eligibility criteria, shortlisting for Written Ability Test (WAT) & Personal Interview (PI) rounds and final selection. Selection criteria for each of the stages are given as under:

Stage-I: Eligibility Criteria

All applicants who apply for the two-year PGP of IIM Indore need to satisfy the eligibility criteria mentioned in CAT 2020 advertisement and also the minimum sectional percentile and overall percentile scores in CAT 2020 (as mentioned in the below table. Only those applicants meeting the specified criteria are considered for stage-2 of the selection process.

CAT 2020 Sectional and Overall Percentile Cut-offs

 Category

Quantitative Ability (QA)

Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning (DILR)

Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension (VARC)

 Overall

General

80.00

80.00

80.00

90.00

EWS

80.00

80.00

80.00

90.00

NC-OBC

70.00

70.00

70.00

80.00

SC

55.00

55.00

55.00

60.00

ST

45.00

45.00

45.00

50.00

PwD

45.00

45.00

45.00

50.00

Legend: Economically Weaker Sections (EWS), Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST), Non-creamy Other Backward Castes (NC-OBC), Persons with disabilities (PwD).

Stage-II: Shortlist for Written Ability Test (WAT) and Personal Interview (PI)

Only those candidates satisfying the requirements mentioned in stage-I are considered for this stage of shortlisting for WAT and PI. A sufficient number of candidates for WAT and PI for each category (General, EWS, NC-OBC, SC, ST and PwD) are shortlisted using the merit list generated based on Composite Score (CS) as mentioned below:

Computation of Composite Score (CS)

Components

Score

Class 10/ SSC Score

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