New IIMs CAP 2017: Different weights in 9 IIMs to impact your admission chances; dont depend only on high CAT 2016 scores

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February 20, 2017
All the 9 IIMs have announced different weightage to CAP round 2017 and for generating the final merit list
The admission process is therefore dependant more on the each of 9 IIMs individual weightage on WAT and PI Round while your score in CAT 2016 will account for less

Common Admission Process (CAP) 2017 for admission to 9 new IIMs has already begun. All the 9 IIMs have announced different weightage to CAP round 2017 and for generating the final merit list after CAP 2017 is over in 1st week of March to make admission offer.

The admission process is therefore dependant more on the each of 9 IIMs individual weightage on WAT and PI Round while your score in CAT 2016 will account for less. Accordingly, your score in CAP 2017 will increase or decrease your admission chances in the new IIMs.

All the 9 new IIMs participating in CAP 2017 namely IIM Kashipur, IIM Raipur, IIM Rohtak, IIM Ranchi, IIM Trichy, IIM Udaipur, IIM Amritsar, IIM Bodhgaya, IIM Sambalpur will finalise their merit lists and will generate admission offers individually. Your admission to any of the 9 new IIMs will now depend upon your writing and communication skills that you show in the CAP round.

New IIM CAP 2017 has 2 components - Writing Ability Test (WAT) and Personal Interview (PI). The candidates appearing in CAP 2017 have to go through the process only once and the CAP round scores will be shared to all the 9 IIMs by the CAP 2017 conducting IIM Rohtak. But each IIM after receiving the scores of CAP will award separate and varying weightage to these scores. This difference will eventually decide which IIM will be able to give you admission offer.

Each of the 9 IIMs have shortlisted candidates 10-12 times of its intake. However, since most of the candidates have also been shortlisted by other older IIMs and their PI-WAT scores will be taken directly by the new IIMs, such candidates need not to appear in the CAP 2017.

9 IIMs: Weightage to CAT 2016 score, WAT & PI
Admission offer will be made in accordance with the following weightage on a scale of 100 in 9 IIMs

IIM Kashipur
Intake: 210
Wt to CAT 2016 score: 42
Wt to academic profile & diversity: 10
Wt to Work experience: 3
Wt to female candidates: 5
Wt to WAT: 10
Wt to PI: 30

IIM Raipur
Intake: 280
Wt to CAT 2016 score: 32
Wt to academic profile & diversity: 26
Wt to Work experience: 6
Wt to female candidates: 6
Wt to WAT: 10
Wt to PI: 20
 
IIM Ranchi
Intake: 120
Wt to CAT 2016 score: 30
Wt to academic profile & diversity: 20
Wt to Work experience: 5
Wt to female candidates: 5
Wt to WAT: 10
Wt to PI: 30
 
IIM Rohtak
IIM Rohtak has shortlisted 8487 candidates for CAP 2017 for an intake of 160 students.
Wt to CAT 2016 score: 40
Wt to academic profile, diversity, Work experience, female candidates: 30
Wt to WAT: 10
Wt to PI: 20

IIM Tiruchirappalli
The following are the parameters and corresponding weightages used to arrive at the composite score of the candidates, which will be used to prepare the final merit list for admissions
Intake: 180
Wt to CAT 2016 score: 50
Wt to academic profile & diversity: 12
Wt to Work experience: 5
Wt to female candidates: 3
Wt to WAT: 15
Wt to PI: 15

IIM Udaipur
Candidates who do not obtain certain minimum scores in the WA & PI would not be considered for the merit list. The minimum scores would be decided by IIM Udaipur at its discretion.
Intake: 180
Wt to CAT 2016 score: 55
Wt to academic profile & diversity: 13
Wt to Work experience: 6
Wt to female candidates: 5
Wt to WAT: 6
Wt to PI: 15

IIM Amritsar
Intake: 60
Wt to CAT 2016 score: 40
Wt to academic & gender diversity: 5
Wt to Work experience: 5
Wt to female candidates: 5
Wt to WAT: 15
Wt to PI: 35

IIM Bodhgaya
Intake: 60
Wt to CAT 2016 score: 30
Wt to academic & gender diversity: 22
Wt to Work experience: 6
Wt to female candidates: 2
Wt to WAT: 10
Wt to PI: 30

IIM Sambalpur
Post shortlist IIM Sambalpur proposes to award weight to WAT & PI and other parameters but no further weightage to CAT 2016 scores.
Intake: 60
Wt to CAT 2016 score: Not proposed
Wt to academic & gender diversity: 50
Wt to WAT: 15
Wt to PI: 35

New IIMs CAP 2017 would consist of Writing Ability Test (WAT) and Personal Interview (PI). WAT needs you to write an essay on a given topic which could be on current affairs, business, abstract, international or some social issue. The better and short you write, the more you can score in WAT round.

Personal Interview (PI) will have higher weightage than WAT in new IIMs CAP 2017. You need to well revise your academics, work place role, be conversant with current affairs, your native place and about many more things surrounding you and impacting your social life to score high in PI round. The only key advice to win the PI round is to remain what you are instead of trying to copy anyone else.

All the 9 new IIMs have announced their individual 1st stage shortlists for CAP 2017 which is being conducted this year by IIM Rohtak. Common Admission Process (CAP) 2017 will continue till the 1st week of March 2017. CAP 2017 process is the WAT and PI round for the shortlisted candidates of 9 IIMs.

In case any of the older IIMs (Bangalore, Calcutta, Indore, Kozhikode, and Lucknow) are willing to share their WAT & PI score with the 9 IIMs, the common candidates who have applied to new IIMs, need not to appear for WA & PI process separately, else they have to appear. The common candidates will be intimated the names of older IIMs sharing WA & PI scores with new IIMs.

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