IIM Lucknow: shortlists with 76 percent weightage to CAT 2015 scores

Awarding 76% weightage to CAT 2015 scores, IIM Lucknow has announced the shortlist of candidates for various PGP 2016-18 programmes offered by this highly ranked B-school. It will be of interest to note that many candidates shortlisted by IIMA have not been able to make it to IIML.For a total intake of around 500 students, IIM Lucknow has shortlisted about 20000 candidates from different categories out of 1.80 lakh CAT 2015 test takers.

The shortlisitng criteria for admission 2016 to flagship PGP; PGP-ABM and PGP-SM programmes 2016-18 at IIM Lucknow award 76% weightage to CAT 2015 scores only. While the required minimum percentile for PGP 2016-18 is 90 percentile in CAT 2015, it is lower for PGP-ABM and PGP-SM programmes. The actual cut offs have gone much higher than the minimum required percentile.

Many with 99 percentile not in the list
Interestingly many candidates with 99 and above percentile in CAT 2015 have not been shortlisted by IIM Lucknow despite awarding 76% weightage only to CAT 2015 scores due to the dip in sectional percentile in one or other section. When asked, most of the candidates have attributed this ironical situation to increasing the number of sections from 2 to 3 and clubbing Data Interpretation and logical Reasoning into one section instead of retaining them with their respective Quant and Verbal sections since DI and LR questions could be compensated by Quant and Verbal in earlier CAT exams.

Shortlisted by IIMA but not by IIML
Another contradiction and highlight in the shortlist of candidates at IIM Lucknow is that it contains number of such candidates who have been shortlisted by IIM Ahmedabad but have not figured in the shortlist of IIM Lucknow.
The situation has emerged due to the different shortlisting criteria in both the B-schools. IIM Ahmedabad has also revised its shortlisting criteria with less weightage to CAT 2015 scores. The minimum required percentile to get shortlisted at IIMA is 80 overall and 70 sectional along with more weightage awarded to academic profile and diversity. IIML requires minimum 90 overall and 85 sectional percentile in CAT 2015 and awards very high 76% weightage to shortlist a candidate for final admission round.

The minimum CAT 2015 score requirement has further gone up in actual shortlisitng of the candidates at IIML since the cut off has to be applied in order of merit.
Short listing Criteria followed by IIM Lucknow
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 has awarded weightage of 38 points to CAT 2015 score in shortlisting the candidates for WAT & PI round for Flagship PGP 2016-18 batch. It comes to 76% on a scale of 100.
The following minimum CAT 2015 score cut-offs have been applied to shortlist the candidates 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 with an intake of 440 students. It is a 2 year, full time residential programme. Actual cut-off has gone much higher

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 with intake of 25 students and is 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 and has intake of 20 students. This number may increase in 2016. 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 have been awarded a total maximum weightage of 5 points during shortlisting process at IIM Lucknow for admission 2016.
No weightage is awarded for marks obtained in Class X. The maximum weightage of 2 points has been awarded for class 12 marks scored in a range of 95+ to 100. There is zero weightage if the candidate has scored less than 80 percent.
Graduation marks has been 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 has been 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 has awarded 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 is 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 go 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.