IIM-L to complete admission for PGP, PGP ABM in 3 stages

Like other top IIMs, IIM Lucknow has also declared its admission criteria for the academic year 2013-15. In this article of the special series of MBA admissions, we share with you the admission policy of IIM Lucknow.
IIM Lucknow offers PGP and PGP ABM and the admission takes place through CAT scores. The cut-off for the general category candidates for PGP is 85 percentile in the two sections Quantitative Ability & Data Interpretation and Verbal Ability & Logical Reasoning. The overall percentile should be 90. For the PGP ABM course, the sectional cut-off is 80 percentile and the overall percentile is 85.

The merit list will be generated for calling candidates for group discussion and personal interview using the weights mentioned in the following table.

Components
Weights (PGP)
Weights (PGP ABM)
Method of Scoring

CAT Score (CS)
38
38
CS = (Candidates CAT Score/Highest CAT score of 2012) * 38

Class X Marks (XM)
1
1
XM = (Candidates Class X Percentage Score/ 100) * 1

Class XII Marks (12M)
1
1
12M = (Candidates Class XII Percentage Score/100) * 1

Graduation Marks (GM)
3
3

To be normalized as per Academic Discipline, (i) Engineering; (ii)
Science; (iii) Commerce; (iv) Arts; (v) Others, using the formula
below;
GM = (Graduates Grad.% score Mean score /Standard Deviation of each academic discipline) * (50/3) + 50) * 3/100
Marks will be amended to take values between 0 and 3.

Work Experience (WE)
2
0

IF (Prog.= PGP)
WE = (x)*0.1, Where x>6; Maximum (WE) = 2
x = number of months of work experience as on 31 August 2012.
ELSE (Prog. =PGP-ABM)
WE =0;
(Indicate only paid and full-time work experience, acquired after completing the Bachelors Degree.
Apprenticeship, Articleship, Internship, etc which form an integral part of a course of study, should not be
treated as work experience)

Diversity Factor: Academic Discipline (DFa)
3
5

IF (Prog. = PGP and Academic disciplines listed in Table 3, col 1)
DFa =3;
ELSE IF (Prog. = PGP-ABM and Academic disciplines listed in Table 3, col2)
DFa =5;
ELSE
DFa=0;

Diversity Factor: Gender (DFb)
2
2

IF (Prog. = PGP/PGP-ABM and Gender = Female)
DFb=2;
ELSE
DFb=0;

Shortlist Total (A)
50
50

To get the list of the programs for the DFa, click on the following link:
http://www.iiml.ac.in/Admission_policy_201315.pdf?PHPSESSID=8bbb56abfc04d98eaa5c3377a2495308
The next stage is the GD, PI and WAT. The weights given to the various elements of the stage 2 are as follows:

Components
Weights
Written ability Test
10

Group discussion
10
Personal interview
30

Total
50

The final selection would take place on the basis of the following formula:

Grand Total (C) = Shortlist Total (A) + GDPI Total (B).
The Grand Total (C) will be used to rank candidates according to their merit.
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