IIM Gaya: Opens gates for 90 percentilers; get ready for PI-WAT

Pegging a high minimum percentile required for admission to PGP 2015-17 batch in CAT last year, resulted in very low number of candidates showing interest in IIM Gaya. The learning from the last year must have prompted IIM Gaya in Bihar to reduce the minimum qualifying overall percentile in CAT 2015 from 96.3 to 90 for PGP batch 2016-18. Not only this, IIM Bodh Gaya has also decided to conduct Written Ability Test and Personal Interview under the aegis of IIM Calcutta, the mentor IIM to IIM Gaya.

The minimum CAT percentile required to be considered for admission to the first PGP batch 2015-17 at IIM Gaya was 96.3 while IIM Calcutta the mentor IIM to IIM Gaya prescribed only 90 for its admission. Even for admission 2016 to its flagship PGP 2016-18 batch IIMC has prescribed only 90 percentile in CAT 2015 and this could be the guideline for IIM Gaya also.

At present IIM Gaya has a strength of 30 students instead of announced intake of 60 while Ministry of Human Resource Development proposed the intake for the first batch at 140 to be upgraded to 560 during the next 7 years. But instead of achieving the bare minimum strength of the batch of 60 students, IIM Gaya is running with 50% students. The full name of IIM in Gaya is IIM Bodh Gaya since the name of the city is known by Bodh Gaya but known more popularly as Gaya.

MBAUniverse.com predicted on Sep 28 Anticipating the relaxation in qualifying CAT 2015 score for PGP 2016-18 batch MBAUniverse.com predicted that the minimum CAT 2015 percentile requirement for admission in 2016 would be relaxed by IIM Gaya after learning lesson from fixing high CAT percentile in the first academic session http://www.mbauniverse.com/article/id/8961/IIM-Gaya

IIM Gaya: Shortlisting criteria 2016 The shortlisting Criteria for eligibility to be considered for admission to Post Graduate Programme in Management, 2016-18 based on CAT 2015 cut off at IIM Gaya has been reduced by 6.3 percentile as against the last academic session. Candidates with following scores may expect to be shortlisted by IIM Gaya for admission in 2016.

Interestingly, IIM Gaya has not shared any information on the proposed intake in the PGP 2016-18 batch. It could be 60 or more but is not expected to be less than 60.

Category

Sectional percentile for PGP 2016-18 In each of the 3 sections
Sectional percentile for PGP 2015-17 In each of the 2 sections
Overall percentile for PGP 2016-18
Overall percentile for PGP 2015-17
Deviation in Min. required overall percentile for PGP 2016-18 over last year

General
80
80
90
96.3
- 6.3

NC-OBC
72
61.43
81
78.98
+ 2.02

SC
60
50.4
75
63
+12.00

ST
50
Sec-1; Sec-2 41.42; 40.80
65
50.71
+14.29

DAP
50
Sec-1; Sec-2 41.42; 42.21
65
50.71
+14.29

CAT 2015 score is proposed to be the only criteria in shortlisting candidates for PI-WAT round for admission to flagship PGP 2016-18 batch at IIM Gaya. All other factors like academic profile and diversity, work experience would play their role in arriving at position in the final merit list before making admission offer to the eligible candidates.

Quick Analysis: Contradictory facts A quick analysis on the shortlisting criteria of IIM Gaya for PGP 2016-18 reveals a contradictory fact that although the minimum qualifying CAT 2015 percentile for general category candidates has been reduced, it has been increased substantially for all other categories. It is very much possible that IIM Gaya got more admission seekers from other than General category as the required percentile for them was fixed at lower level.

Apart from this, IIM Gaya has fixed the minimum required sectional percentile for shortlisting as high as required by top rated IIM Calcutta. It is very much possible that IIM Gaya might have to reduce it further to attract more admission seekers to this new IIM.

Get ready for PI & WAT: No GD at IIM Gaya As against the admission process for PGP 2015-17 batch which had no separate physical GD; PI or WAT, IIM Gaya proposes to conduct Written Ability Test (WAT) followed by Personal Interview (PI) as the final admission process before offering admission letter to the selected candidates. There would not be any Group Discussion (GD) round at the final stage of admission process at IIM Gaya.

Final Selection at IIM Gaya Final selection at IIM Gaya will be based on the ranks of the candidates computed separately for each category (General/SC/ST/NC-OBC/DAP) on the basis of their Final Scores (FS). Minimum qualification would not automatically qualify the candidate for admission into IIM Bodh Gaya The numbers selected in different categories will be in proportions mandated by the law.

A candidates final score for selection is calculated on the basis of the following criteria and their weights to be used for the final selection for PGP for the batch 2016-18.

Criterion
Weights
Method of Calculation

CAT 2015 Score
30
(A/B) x 30

Personal Interview (PI)
30

Writing Ability Test (WAT)
10

Class X marks
10
(C/10)x10

Class XII marks
10
(D/10)x10

Gender Diversity
02
2 points will be awarded to promote gender diversity.

Point awarded for Academic Diversity at Bachelors degree level (Academic Diversity Factor for Bachelors degree (ADFB)): Candidates with any of the following bachelors degree in the list X below are eligible for ADFB: List X: BA, BA(H), B.Sc, B.Sc.(H), BS, B.Com, B.Com(H), BCA, BBA, B.Pharma, LL.B, MBBS, BDS or any other Non-Engineering bachelors degree not mentioned above.
If (Bachelors degree is from the list X) ADFB=2; ELSE ADFB=0

Work Experience
06

Total
100

A= Candidates Total CAT 2015 score; B= Maximum CAT 2015 Score C= Points awarded for Class X marks;D= Points awarded for Class XII marks

The first academic session of IIM Gaya was inaugurated by Smt. Smriti Irani, the Union HRD Minister. The classes of IIM Gaya are conducted in the transit campus of the Magadh Universitys directorate of distance education (DDE) building. 90 hostel rooms at IIM Gaya have been provided for accommodation.

Permanent campus of IIM Gaya as per the decision and agreement arrived at, will also be built up at Magadh University Campus on 119 acres of land lying vacant in the premises. Magadh University has completed all the requisite formalities to transfer the land for construction of IIM Gaya.

The mentor director to IIM Gaya Shaibal Chattopadhyay, Director of IIMC is very optimistic on the holistic development of IIM Gaya and proposes to make it an international B-school in the coming years.

IIM Gaya will continue to be mentored by Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. During the mentorship period and while IIM Gayas own faculty are recruited, faculty members from IIM Calcutta will be delivering courses at IIM Bihar. The overall design, quality and delivery of PGP will be to the standards and with direct involvement of IIM Calcutta