IIM Ahmedabad issues shortlisting criteria for PGP batch 2015-17

IIM Ahmedabad has issued guidelines for admission/selection process of PGP batch 2015-17. No significant changes have been incorporated, except introduction of 'Transgender' in category section. 

IIM Bangalore has also issued their shortlisting criteria.

Candidates will be selected on the basis CAT scores, performance in written test & personal interview, academic, co-curricular and extra-curricular achievements, work experience etc. Owning to recent lawsuits by aspirants, the institute has incorporated a few points on transparency.  
CAT 2014 dates were announced on Saturday. The exam will be held on November 16 and 22, 2014. The last date to register for CAT 2014 is September 30, 2014. Quite a few changes have been introduced this year. Check CAT 2014 New test pattern and syllabus here! Know more about how to apply for CAT 2014 on Shiksha.com. 

Academic Writing Tests and Personal Interviews (AWT & PIs) will be held in Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai and New Delhi/NCR. Short-listed candidates will be informed in the last week of December 2014. Tuition fees for first year is Rs7,90,000 approximately. 

Eligibility  

Admission/Selection Process  

Candidates will be selected in a two-step process.  

"In the first step, candidates are short-listed for Academic Writing Test (AWT) and Personal Interview (PI) from among the candidates who have a valid CAT scores, who have applied for the programme and who satisfy the eligibility criteria for the programme," informed the offical website. 

In the second step, candidates will  be selected on the basis on ranks computed on the basis of their Composite Scores (CS).  Here are the stages of selection:

1. Preliminary Screening 

Candidates fulfilling minimum cut-offs in CAT 2014 percentile ranks and Application Rating (AR) scores and obtaining a positive (greater than zero) raw score in both Verbal and Quant Sections will be shortlisted for stage one.  

"For computation of AR score of an applicant rating scores ‘A’ and ‘B’ and ‘C’ will be computed based on her/his percentage of marks obtained in 10th standard, 12th standard and bachelor’s degree examinations respectively," informed the institute. 

2. Screening for Academic Writing Test (AWT) & Personal Interview (PI)  

"To recognize exceptional performers across diverse academic backgrounds, from each of the five categories of academic disciplines, top 50 candidates or top 1% of the number of applicants to IIM Ahmedabad -- whichever is less -- will be shortlisted for AWT & PI on the basis of their CAT percentiles. For the classification of academic disciplines," informed the official website. 

Next, from the remaining pool of candidates (meeting minimum cut offs and AR scores), a merit list will be drawn on the basis of CAT percentile, and shortlisted for AWT & PI for all categories.  

3. Final Selection  

The final selection will be based on Composite Scores (CS). The CS will be computed using the following method:  

CS = 0.50 (Normalized PI Score) + 0.10 (Normalized AWT Score) + 0.40 (Normalized CAT Total Score).  

 
The institute has incorporated a few points on transparency clause. The website states, "Please note that IIMA short-lists candidates for AWT&PI independent of other IIMs. Hence it is possible to observe variations in the lists of candidates short-listed by different IIMs." 

It further says, "Disclosure of information about the admission process is driven by concerns which at times conflict with each other. The IIMA would like the admission process to be transparent. At the same time, IIMA would wish to protect the privacy of individual candidates and confidentiality of the process to prevent abuse. Based on these considerations, the performance of an individual is not made available to any other person. Similarly, the performance of candidates in AWT&PI, including assessment of attributes mentioned under paragraph 4 above is not disclosed to anyone to prevent exercise of undue pressure on the panelists participating in the admission/selection process. IIMA exercises its own discretion in disclosing weights assigned to diverse sets of attributes mentioned under paragraph 4 above. To ensure that the perceived lack of transparency does not in any way affect the candidates negatively, adequate care is taken in formation of panel, development of objective criteria for assessment, random allocation of candidates to a panel and other such measures." 

For more details, click here.