IIM Rohtak to shortlist with 85 percentile in CAT 2015; Check your admission chances

Recently announced admission policy for the PGP Batch 2016-18 of IIM Rohtak emphasizes the need of only minimum 85 percentile in CAT 2015 as against 90 percentile required by other IIMs to qualify to get shortlisted for PI round.

As against other IIMs, IIM Rohtak would award weightage not only to CAT 2015 percentile score but also to other parameters while shortlisting candidates for Common Admission Process (CAP) comprising WAT & PI and to be coordinated by IIM Kashipur for admission 2016-18 batch.

IIM Rohtak is expected to have a batch size of 160 students for its PGP batch 2016-18 and it is expected that around 1500 candidates will be shortlisted by IIM Rohtak for the CAP round. It will be the 7th PGP batch at IIM Rohtak and is proposed to commence in July 2016

The minimum qualifying CAT 2015 percentile score to get shortlisted by IIM Rohtak is 85. There will not be any Group Discussion round for admission to IIM Rohtak for the PGP batch 2016-18.

Admission policy of IIM Rohtak also proposes to increase the academic and gender diversity in its class rooms. The shortlisting criteria at IIM Rohtak will take into consideration the candidates performance in CAT 2015, academic record, gender diversity and relevant work experience.

The criteria that would be used at the first stage of shortlisting at IIM Rohtak to select candidates for Personal Interview and Written Analysis Test (PI & WAT) would be as under.
Shortlisting Criteria: 600 point weightage

IIM Rohtak will use CAT 2015 percentile for short listing candidates for Personal appearance which will have the components of Personal Interview (PI) & Written Aability Test (WAT). There will be a total weightage of 600 points to be awarded to different components in shortlisting the candidates for PI round.

CAT 2015 scores
CAT 2015 overall scores will be awarded a maximum weightage of 165 points while the sectional percentile will be awarded a weightage of 45 points each. Hence the total weightage for CAT 2015 scores would come to 300 out of maximum 600 points implying 50% weightage to CAT 2015 scores will be awarded. The minimum performance expected in CAT 2015 from candidates to be shortlisted for the PI & WAT is as below

CAT 2015: Minimum cutoff percentiles
Category
Verbal Ability and Reading comprehension (Section 1)
Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning (Section 2)
Quantitative Ability (Section 3)
Total (Overall)

General
80
80
80
85

NC-OBC
70
70
70
75

SC
45
45
45
60

ST
40
40
40
60

DAP
50
50
50
60

The actual cut-off percentiles for 2016-18 batch may go higher and vary from those mentioned above. However, the candidates who have scored high percentile of 99 but have not scored minimum qualifying sectional percentile will not be shortlisted.

Minimum academic requirements
Academics are another important shortlisting parameter at IIM Rohtak. From the candidates meeting the cut-off criteria as detailed above, only candidates who have obtained the cut-off percentage of marks for X, XII and Under-Graduate (UG) will be considered for shortlisting.

Maximum weightage to class X marks would be 36, for class 12 and under graduation it would be 42 each. Total weightage comes to 120 points out of 600 awarded for academic excellence.

Qualification
Cut off marks percentage
General NC-OBC SC ST DAP/PWD
X
70 65 60 55 60
XII
65 60 55 50 55
UG
60 55 50 45 50

60 points to Work Experience
IIM Rohtak proposes to award 60 maximum points to the candidates with work experience of 2 to 3 years. There will not be any weightage awarded for work experience of less than one year.

60 points for Academic diversity
There would be a weightage of 60 points on a scale of 600 to be awarded by IIM Rohtak to the candidates with non-engineering back ground for admission 2016-18 batch.

60 points to Girl candidate
If you are female, you will be awarded 60 points on a scale of 600 while shortlisting the candidates for CAP 2016 round.

Common Admission Process (CAP)
The six new IIMs namely Kashipur, Raipur, Ranchi, Rohtak, Trichy and Udaipur have decided to adopt a common process of WA&PI to be coordinated this year by IIM Kashipur. In case any of the older IIMs (Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Calcutta, Indore, Kozhikode, and Lucknow) are willing to share their WA & PI score with the six new 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.

The Personal Interview and Written Analysis Test would be conducted at New Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai and Kolkata. The exact date for PI & WAT will be communicated to the short-listed candidates by IIM Kashipur which is co-ordinating the admission process for 2016-18 batch.

IIM Rohtak is one of the newer IIMs which started operating in 2010. It will be surprising to note that as of now it is the only IIM situated in Delhi NCR and has achieved a high success rate with average placement going as high as Rs.11.74 lakhs in 2015 while recording 100% placement.