IIM Trichy Admission Criteria 2026 -2028: Check WAT-PI Process and CAT 2025 cut offs
If your CAT score is 94 percentile, you stand a chance to get admission in IIM Trichy. Know IIM Trichy Admission Criteria for PGPM batch to understand selection criteria, cut off percentile and WAT-PI process.
Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Tiruchirappalli, also known as IIM Trichy admission criteria for 2026-28 PGP batch will be released soon. The PI shortlisting will be done through IIM CAP 2026. Check below previous year's IIM Trichy admission and selection criteria.
According to the IIM Trichy admission criteria 2025, the minimum CAT percentile required for interview call was 94 for General category students. IIM Trichy PGPM shortlisting was conducted under the IIM CAP 2025 by IIM Bodh Gaya.
The PGPM admission process of IIM Trichy included two stages:
- Candidate’s performance in CAT exam
- Performance in Personal Interview (PI) and Written Analysis Test (WAT)
Final selection for admission to IIM Trichy’s PGPM course was based on candidates’ overall performance in CAT exam, PI-WAT and academics. Work experience was also taken into consideration for preparing final merit list.
- IIM Trichy Admission Criteria 2025-2027
- CAT Cut Offs for IIM Trichy PI Shortlisting
- IIM Trichy Admission Criteria 2025: Parameters and Weightage
- Institute-wise IIM Admission Criteria 2025
IIM Trichy Admission Criteria 2025-2027
To shortlist candidates for the PI round, IIM Trichy considered CAT 2024 percentile. It must be noted that only meeting the cut off does not guarantee admission in the institute. The table given below indicate qualifying CAT cut off percentile (category wise and section wise) to be eligible for the PI round of IIM Trichy. The candidates were selected for WAT-PI not only on the basis of CAT score but also their academic record.
CAT Cut Offs for IIM Trichy PI Shortlisting
The table below indicates sectional and overall CAT cut off scores required for being eligible for IIM Trichy’s PI round.
| Category |
VARC |
DILR |
QA |
Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| General |
73 |
73 |
73 |
94 |
| EWS |
50 |
50 |
50 |
77 |
| NC-OBC |
50 |
50 |
50 |
77 |
| SC |
44 |
44 |
44 |
60 |
| ST |
30 |
25 |
25 |
40 |
| DAP |
30 |
25 |
25 |
40 |
IIM Trichy Admission Criteria 2025: Parameters and Weightage
The Composite Score of each PI candidate were calculated on the basis of following parameters:
| Parameter |
Weightage in Percentage |
|---|---|
| CAT score |
47 |
| Personal Interview |
20 |
| Written Analysis Test |
5 |
| Work Experience |
10 |
| Performance at Undergraduate level |
5 |
| Performance in class 12 |
3 |
| Performance in class 10 |
2 |
| Academic Diversity |
2 |
| Gender Diversity |
6 |
IIM Trichy Admission 2025: Points Allocation of Work Experience
Check below the table indicating points allocation for work experience month wise, to be added in the final merit list preparation.
| Months |
Points |
|---|---|
| 0-5 months |
0 |
| 6-11 months |
2 |
| 12-17 months |
4 |
| 18-23 months |
7 |
| 24-29 months |
10 |
| 30-35 months |
7 |
| 36-41 months |
4 |
| 42-47 months |
2 |
| 48 months and more |
0 |
Institute-wise IIM Admission Criteria 2025
Check the table below for institute wise IIM admission criteria and selection process for 2025-2027 batch along with CAT cut offs and important dates:
| IIM Selection Criteria |
|
|---|---|
The CAT cut offs for IIM Bangalore hovers between 97-100 percentile. The qualifying CAT cut off required for being eligible for IIM Bangalore's Written Ability test (What) and Personal Interview PI is 85 percentile for General category students, whereas for SC candidates, it is 70 percentile. For ST candidates, it is 65 percentile and for PwD candidates it is 60 percentile. Given below are the sectional and overall qualifying CAT cut offs for IIM Bangalore.
- General category: 80 VARC 75 DILR 75 Quantitative Aptitude 85 (Overall)
- NC-OBC category: 75 VARC 65 DILR 65 Quantitative Aptitude 75 (Overall)
- EWS category: 70 VARC 65 DILR 65 Quantitative Aptitude 75 (Overall)
- SC category: 65 VARC 60 DILR 60 Quantitative Aptitude 70 (Overall)
- ST category: 55 VARC 55 DILR 55 Quantitative Aptitude 65 (Overall)
- PwD category: 50 VARC 50 DILR 50 Quantitative Aptitude 60 (Overall)
14 candidates have scored 100 percentile in CAT 2024, out of a total of 2.93 Lacs candidates. Out of 14 toppers, 1 is a woman candidate. Check below CAT 2024 result data:
Check the below table for data and statistics of CAT 2024 test takers and toppers.
| CAT Toppers | Gender and Discipline | State |
|---|---|---|
| 100 percentiles 14 - Nos | Female - 1 Male - 13 Engg – 13 Non-Engg – 1 | Andhra Pradesh 1 Delhi 2 Haryana 1 Kerala 1 Maharashtra 5 Odisha 1 Rajasthan 1 Telangana 2 |
| 99.99 percentiles 29 -Nos. | Female - 2 Male - 27 Engg – 25 Non-Engg - 4 | Chandigarh 1 Delhi 4 Gujarat 2 Haryana 1 Karnataka 3 Kerala 1 Madhya Pradesh 1 Maharashtra 5 Odisha 1 Punjab 1 Rajasthan 3 Tamil Nadu 1 Telangana 1 Uttar Pradesh1 Uttarakhand 1 West Bengal 2 |
| 99.98 percentiles 30-Nos | Female - 1 Male - 29 Engg – 20 Non-Engg -10 | Bihar 1 Delhi 2 Gujarat 2 Haryana 4 Karnataka 4 Madhya Pradesh 3 Maharashtra 3 Tamil Nadu 2 Telangana 3 Uttar Pradesh 2 West Bengal 4 |
The IIM Trichy MBA/ PGPM selection criteria is done based on various parameters. Hence, the candidates selection is done just based on CAT score. Mentioned below are the considered parameters along with the weightage:
- CAT percentile: 50%
- PI performance: 25%
- Academic performance: 10%
- Work experience: 5%
- Female candidates: 5%
- Verbal composition: 3%
- Professional qualification: 2%
Qualifying CAT cut off percentiles of Iims for Written Ability Test (What) and Personal Interview PI are listed below. Candidates who MET the qualifying CAT cut off, were eligible for What-PI round. These qualifying CAT cut offs are for General Category. The cut offs for Reserved category students are lower:
- IIM Ahmedabad: 95 percentile
- IIM Bangalore: 85 percentile
- IIM Calcutta: 85 percentile
- IIM Lucknow: 90 percentile
- IIM Kozhikode: 85 percentile
- IIM Indore: 90 percentile
- IIM Udaipur: 93 percentile
- IIM Shillong: 75 percentile
- IIM Trichy: 93 percentile
- IIM Visakhapatnam: 80 percentile
- IIM Rohtak: 95 percentile
- 1IIM Nagpur: 85 percentile
- IIM Jammu: 93 percentile
- IIM Ranchi: 90 percentile
- IIM Sirmaur: 92 percentile
- IIM Bodhgaya: 93 percentile
- IIM Sambalpur: 93 percentile
- IIM Kashipur: 94 percentile
- IIM Raipur: 93 percentile
- IIM Amritsar: 90 percentile
For complete details of IIM selection and admission process read this article: https://www.shiksha.com/mba/articles/iim-shortlist-selection-admission-criteria-blogId-18787.
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On an average, about 10-15 CAT aspirants score 100 percentile. Given below is the data of CAT 100 percentilers of last 3 years:
Exam year
CAT 100 percentilers
State wise numbers
CAT 2024
14
1- Andhra Pradesh
2- Delhi
1- Haryana
1-Kerala
5- Maharashtra
1- Odisha
1- Rajasthan
2- Telangana
CAT 2023
14
1 – Andhra Pradesh
1 - Delhi
1 – Gujarat
1 – Jammu & Kashmir
1 - Karnataka
1 - Kerala
4 – Maharashtra
1 – Tamil Nadu
2 - Telangana
1 - Uttar Pradesh
CAT 2022
11
2 - Delhi
1 - Gujarat
1 - Haryana
1 - Kerala
1 - Madhya Pradesh
2 - Maharashtra
2 - Telangana
1 - Uttar Pradesh