IIM Indore to award 76 percent weightage to class 12 and 10 scores; brightens chances of 90 percentilers in CAT 2015

A good number of 450 candidates going to be offered admission by IIM Indore in PGP 2016-18 batch  do not need to worry  even if you are not expecting a very high percentile in CAT 2015 exam as IIM Indore can shortlist you for PI round if you have 90+ percentile in CAT 2015. However, you need to have a very good percentage of marks in class 10 the 12 as IIM Indore will award 76% weightage to your academic profile as against only 21% weightage to CAT 2015 scores.

IIM Indore is the 6th IIM in the family of IIMs. Usually it declares the shortlist of candidates for next phase of admission round immediately after declaration of CAT result. It is expected that the list of candidates shortlisted on the basis of composite scores for PI round 2016 will be declared by IIM Indore in the 3rd week of January 2016.

4500 to be shortlisted
For PGP batch 2016-18 in the admission year 2016, IIM Indore will shortlist the candidates around 10 times of its approved intake. As such around 4500 candidates for its Indore and Mumbai campuses are expected to be shortlisted for final admission round by IIM Indore.

CAT 2015 scores: Not to play major role
It is expected that CAT 2015 scores would not play the major role in the revised admission policy for PGP 2016-18. The cut off CAT 2015 percentile in the shortlisting of candidates, even if it goes high at IIM Indore can be caught up with excellent academic scores.

Shortlisting the candidates is not based only on CAT 2015 scores.  Apart from CAT 2015 scores a candidate is required have excellent academic profile to get shortlisted for final admission round at IIM Indore.

Excellent academics: Get an edge
With a view to increase academic excellence in its class rooms, IIM Indore has announced award of higher weightage to excellent academic profile than to CAT 2015 scores. There will be a diversified weightage to class 10 and class 12 marks in the Admission Policy for PGP 2016-18 batch. While the maximum weightage of 36 points will be awarded to the Class 10 marks the weightage to class 12 marks will be 40 percent on a scale of 100. Interestingly no weightage will be awarded to the excellent academic profile in graduation.

IIM Indore is the only Indian Institute of Management that has announced highest weightage for academic excellence in calculating the composite scores to shortlist the candidates for 2nd  stage of admission round

No Weightage to Academic diversity
Unlike IIM Ahmedabad who has announced different weightage for diversified academics, IIM Indore has not discriminated on academic diversity while awarding weightage to academic profile. There is no extra or bonus weightage for candidates coming from non-engineering back ground. Nor it awards any additional weightage to high scores in graduation.

IIM Indore: Minimum Required CAT 2015 score
IIM Indore will shortlist the candidates for next round of admission process comprising Written Ability Test (WAT) and personal Interview (PI) on the basis of scores obtained in CAT 2015. Although the minimum CAT 2015 percentile prescribed as cut off by IIM Indore is 90, the actual cut off could go beyond 92 depending upon your academic profile.

Those who have not scored a high balanced percentile in both the sections in CAT 2015 may not expect to be shortlisted by IIM Indore unless they have excellent academic profile. IIM Indore is the dream B school for MBA aspirants.

The prescribed minimum CAT 2015 cut off percentile overall as well as sectional shared below indicates only the threshold limit below which IIM Indore will not consider the candidates for admission to its flagship PGP Programme 2016-18. Apart from this the candidate with slightly low percentile but excellent academic record will be preferred to be shortlisted to the candidate with high percentile but average academic profile. 

Academic Profile: Higher weightage than on CAT 2015 scores
Candidates will be shortlisted for WAT & PI stage on the basis of composite scores which will be arrived at by accounting for the academic profile also. The Composite Score therefore is calculated on the basis of CAT 2015 score, academic scores, and gender diversity.

There will not be any weightage to the academic scores beyond class 12. In fact candidates scoring percentage of marks above 85 can get a good weightage in the computation of composite scores.

CAT 2015 score weightage
Weightage to your CAT 2015 scores will be computed as follows-
21* [candidate’s CAT overall score / highest CAT overall score] 

3 points Weightage to girl candidates 
IIM Indore will award a weightage of 3 points to female candidates only to ensure gender diversity while shortlisting the candidates for PI stage. No weightage to male or transgender candidates will be awarded.

 The computation is as follows: Gender Diversity Factor (GDF)

= 3 for Female Applicants
= 0 for Other Applicants

Formula to calculate your maximum score
Composite Score = Sum of the above scores (Max 100) is the formula to arrive at the maximum score.  Please note that  Zcandidate, Zmin, Zmax for 10th and 12th Standard are computed using the normalisation process.

Please also note that after declaration of shortlist, IIM Indore will not send any individual regret letter to applicants who are not shortlisted for WAT and PI.

Facts about IIM Indore
IIM Indore (IIMI) is headed by its well learned Director Prof Rishikesha T. Krishnan. Since its inception in 1996, IIM Indore has been acting as a leader in the field of management education, interfacing with the industry, government sector and PSUs.  IIM Indore has a campus at Mumbai also with good infrastructure with all facilities available worthy of an IIM.

IIM Indore conducts admission interviews in Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Indore, Kolkata, Mumbai, and New Delhi only.

Apart from flagship 2 years full time Post Graduate Programme in Management(PGP) at its Indore and Mumbai campus IIM Indore offers following management programmes - Fellow Programme in Management (FPM); FPM Industry; Executive PGP(EPGP);  EPGP-E-Governance; 5 year integrated programme in Management. A few other MDP and certificate programmes are also conducted by IIM Indore.

The Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGP) a flagship programme of IIM Indore, is a  2 year full-time residential programme. The PGP issued by the Indian Institute of Management Indore is recognized by Association of Indian Universities (AIU) as equivalent to M.B.A. Degree of an Indian University.

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