Shiksha RTI reveals minimum CAT cut-offs at IIM Lucknow

RTI response from IIM Lucknow

Last week, we received the RTI responses from IIM Lucknow. The response elaborates on the minimum CAT cut-off for the last five years both for shortlisted candidates and the finally selected students. The minimum CAT cut-off for the finally selected student stands at 94.64 percentile.

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A few months ago, Shiksha embarked on a massive RTI exercise. We sent RTI queries to 182 MBA colleges and top B-Schools across the country.

In the RTI series, so far the following institutes have responded:

RTI Queries
 

In the RTI, Shiksha requested for information in three parts:

1. Minimum percentile for CAT exam for students called for Written Ability Test, Group Discussion and Personal interview for full-time MBA across all categories (General, SC, ST, OBC and other categories too) for last five years.

2. Minimum percentile for CAT for students who are selected for full-time MBA across all categories (General, SC, ST, OBC and other categories too) for last five years.

3. Weightage given to work experience, written test, interview, GD, etc for final selection across all categories (General, SC, ST, OBC and other categories too) for last five years.

Now, let us take a look at IIM Lucknow’s response to the above queries:

RTI response of IIM Lucknow

1. Response to first query:

Minimum CAT percentile of shortlisted candidates for WAT, GD and PI

Minimum GMAT score required is 700.

2. Response to second query:

Minimum CAT percentile of selected candidates:

3. Responding to the third query, IIM Lucknow asked us to refer to the admission policy posted on the link below: http://www.iiml.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/IIML-Admission-Policy-2016-18_CAT2015.pdf. The above link takes us to the IIM Lucknow’s shortlisting criteria. Candidates can read the complete details of IIM Lucknow’s criteria here.