IIM Lucknow short listing criteria for PGP 2016-18; announces 38% weightage to CAT 2015 scores

IIM Lucknow, the highly placed B school in MBAUniverse.com ranking has announced the shortlisitng criteria for admission 2016 to flagship PGP; PGP-ABM and PGP-SM programmes 2016-18. CAT 2015 aspirants shall have to score a minimum of 90 overall and 85 sectional percentile to qualify for shortlisting by IIM Lucknow.

The minimum CAT 2015 score requirement may go up in actual shortlisitng of the candidates, in case greater number of CAT takers score more but the candidates without meeting the minimum requirement may not be shortlisted by IIM :Lucknow after declaration of CAT 2015 result.

38 point weightage to CAT 2015 scores
The most important criterion for generation of merit list for WAT-PI for PGP, PGP-ABM & PGP-SM programme 2016-18 at Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Lucknow is the CAT 2015 scores obtained by the eligible candidate. On a scale of 50, IIM Lucknow will award weightage of 38 points to CAT 2015 score in shortlisting the candidates for WAT & PI round for Flagship PGP 2016-18 batch.
The following minimum CAT 2015 score cut-offs have been announced by IIM Lucknow for selecting the eligible candidates to different programmes.

PGP 2016-18
The Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGPM) is the flagship programme offered by IIM Lucknow. It is a 2 year, full time residential programme.

Category
Section-1 Quant
Section-2 DILR
Section-3 VRC
Overall

General
85
85
85
90

NC-OBC
77
77
77
82

SC
55
55
55
75

ST
50
50
50
70

PWD
55
55
55
75

PGP-ABM 2016-18
The 2 year Post Graduate Programme in Agribusiness management at IIM Lucknow is a full time residential course designed to develop Agribusiness leaders, entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs with vision, competence and appropriate attitude for promoting/growing agribusiness and agro-based enterprises with a strong international orientation.

Category
Section-1 Quant
Section-2 DILR
Section-3 VRC
Overall

General
75
75
75
80

NC-OBC
68
68
68
72

SC
50
50
50
70

ST
45
45
45
65

PWD
50
50
50
70

PGP-SM 2016-18
IIM Lucknows Postgraduate Programme in Sustainable management (PGPSM) endevours to produce experts to fill the gap of sustainability issues in industry. PGPSM is a 2 years full time residential programme being offered at Noida campus of IIM Lucknow. The programme is designed to help managers to develop an ethos of environment and social responsibility and equip them with holistic skills to handle varied sustainability challenges.

Category
Section-1 Quant
Section-2 DILR
Section-3 VRC
Overall

General
80
80
80
85

NC-OBC
72
72
72
77

SC
50
50
50
70

ST
45
45
45
65

PWD
50
50
50
70

5 point Weightage to academics
Academic profile and academic diversity will have a total maximum weightage of 5 points during shortlisting process at IIM Lucknow for admission 2016.
No weightage will be awarded for marks obtained in Class X. The maximum weightage of 2 points will be awarded for class 12 marks scored in a range of 95+ to 100. There will be a zero weightage if the candidate has scored less than 80 percentile.

Graduation marks will be awarded a weightage of maximum 3 points by IIM Lucknow after applying the normalization process to different academic streams like Engineering; Science; Commerce; Arts and others.

2 point Weightage to Work Experience
Work Experience will carry a maximum weightage of 2 points on a scale of 50 in the shortlisting criteria of IIM Lucknow. Only paid and full-time work experience, acquired after completing the Bachelors Degree will be counted as on August 31, 2015. Apprenticeship, Articleship, Internship etc., which form an integral part of a course of study, would not be treated as work experience.

3 Point weightage to Academic diversity
For the flagship PGP 2016-18 programme, IIM Lucknow will award a weightage of 3 points for academic diversity. The courses that qualify for the award of weightage on academic diversity are
Arts/Humanities: Archaeology, Education, Fine Arts (Dance, Music, Painting), Geography, History, Journalism, Languages, Library Science, Literature, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Public Administration, Social Work/Welfare, Sociology.

Commerce/Economics: Accountancy, Auditing, Banking, Business Mathematics, Business Organisation, Economics, Economic Development and Planning, Public Administration, Public Finance, Secretarial Practices, Chartered Accountancy, Cost and Works Accountancy, Company Secretaryship.

Others: Education (including Physical Education and Sports); Law; Medicine/Dentistry; Pharmacology/Pharmacy

2 point Weightage to Gender Diversity
A female candidate will be awarded a weightage of 2 points by IIM Lucknow during the shortlisting criteria for admission 2016.

No GD in PI round
IIM Lucknow will no longer conduct Group Discussion (GD) Round in final stage of admission process in 2016. The 10 points that were earlier awarded to Group Discussion round now stand shifted to Personal Interview. As such now on a scale of 50, Written Ability Test (WAT) will have weightage of 10 points and Personal interview (PI) will have an enhanced weightage of 40 points.