IIMs Selection Criteria for year 2009-11

The CAT 2008 brought a new initiative from IIM’s. Till now, the GD/PI calls and eventual admission calls from various IIM’s used to be considered a black box. People used to get 3 calls, 2 calls, all 6 calls or sometimes even with 98 percentile not even a single call.  Even the sharing of percentile scores was introduced recently in this decade only (since CAT 2003 onwards). Can you imagine the kind of confusion your seniors who took CAT before 2002 used to have about their performance? Well keeping the trend of making the admission process more transparent, various IIM’s have publicly displayed their criteria for shortlisiting candidates for Personal Interview/GD rounds.

Till Now, five out of seven IIMs have done so and it shows an interesting pattern. No IIM have same criteria and actually, they differ a lot vis a vis each other. All of them have used one or more criteria form a list of five criterias. Their choice of criteria also signifies the kind of student they are looking at. This also explains why a student do not get all the calls or a few specific calls.

Please look below to see a snapshot of criterias used by various IIMs.

For detail information and analysis of the different selection criteria for various IIMs, check the related articles. But with this summarized information, most of your doubts can be clarified. So , from now on
1.   If you meet a fresher with zero work ex but very high CAT score and still not getting calls from IIML and IIMK, you know the reason.
2.   Many students shall be getting all 6 calls except IIM Shillong because of their stress on performance in Bachelor’s. So 7 years back, when Vivek Gupta ( DI expert with Topcatcoaching) cracked the CAT ( CAT 2001) getting GD/PI calls from all 6  IIM’s , he would missed the IIM Shillong call by a decent margin because of his average performance in bachelor’s.
3.   Few one day wonders might have got IIM Kolkata call.
4.   Looking at the table also should tell a student that why the preparation of CAT starts in school only. So if you are reading this article, do let your/your’s friends younger brothers/sisters know this. Their performance in school exams also matters for most of the IIM;s.

Taken from book Asian’s Crack the CAT
By Vivek Gupta
Batch of 2004-IIM Bangalore
     
http://www.asianbooksindia.com/crack-the-cat-rd-edition.htm

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