IIM Raipur: Excellent & diverse academics with 90 percentile in CAT 2015 to get you through; final merit on May 9

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February 2, 2016
IIM Raipur will declare the final merit list with admission offers for flagship PGP 2016-18 batch on May 9, 2016
Those who have a percentile score of 90 in CAT 2015 with excellent academic background with 90% marks and are non-engineers may get the easy opportunity of admission in IIM Raipur

IIM Raipur has announced to declare the final merit list for PGP 2016-18 on May 9, 2016 after completion of CAP round. Those who have a percentile score of 90 in CAT 2015 with excellent academic background with 90% marks and are non-engineers may get the easy opportunity of admission in IIM Raipur since greater weightage of 30% will be awarded by IIM Raipur to diversity and profile while generating the final admission offers in order of merit. The proposed batch size for PGP 2016-18 at IIM Raipur would be of 140 students.

According to IIM Raipur “Results for PGP 2016 admission will be announced on May 9, 2016 (Tentative).” This will be the 7th batch of IIM Raipur to be admitted in 2016 while the 6th batch will be passing out in 2016.  While the 1st stage shortlisting at IIM Raipur is based on CAT 2015 scores similar to other IIMs, higher weightage to candidates with non engineering profile will be awarded by IIM Raipur at the final stage of selection. It will help to increase the non-engineering background candidates in the class rooms.

The final admission merit list at IIM Raipur will be prepared on the basis of Common Admission Process (CAP) 2016 to be co-ordinated by IIM Kashipur for 6 new IIMs that started operation in 2010 -2011. CAP 2016 is proposed to be conducted in 5 cities namely New Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai and Kolkata beginning in the month of March 2016.

IIM Raipur will also be awarding higher weightage in preparation of final merit list for PGP 2016-18 admission to Arts, commerce, humanities back ground candidates, although merit will remain the prime consideration. The objective is to promote academic diversity in its PGP 2016-18 batch.

Stage-1: Shortlisting with CAT 2015 scores
Admission process 2016 at IIM Raipur will comprise CAT 2015 Examination scores based on which the candidates will be shortlisted for Personal Appearance (PA) process and then conducting the PA process. The PA process will be held common for all the 6 new IIMs and is composed of Written Analysis Test (WAT) and Personal Interview (PI).

The minimum required CAT 2015 sectional percentile score is 80 and over all percentile score is 90 in CAT 2015 exam at the first stage of shortlisting at IIM Raipur for WAT & PI round.  It is expected that a candidate with 93 overall percentile and 85 sectional percentile in CAT 2015 could be shortlisted by IIM Raipur for CAP round .

Final admission offer: Maximum weightage on Profile
The final merit list post CAP 2016 will be based on following weightage to various components

CAT 2015 score: 32% weightage
WAT & PI: 30% weightage
Profile: 38% weightage

While the weightage of 32% to CAT 2015 score will be awarded in accordance to the sectional and overall percentile you received in the examination, the 30% weightage on Personal Appearance will be carry 10 for WAT and 20 for PI round.

Profile; high weightage area
38% weightage awarded on your profile will consist of 3 main areas-

Academic Profile - 20;  Work Experience – 6;  Diversity – 12.

The 20 point weightage on academic profile awards you maximum 7 points for class 10 score beyond 90% marks; 6 points for class 12 score above 90% and 7 points for more than 90% marks in graduation.

Academic Diversity: High weightage area
Out of 12 point weightage assigned to diversity, 6 points will go to the non-engineering and 0 point will go to the candidates with engineering background. Following are the academic disciplines that will qualify for 6 point weightage at IIM Raipur, namely Arts/Humanities comprising Anthropology, Archaeology, Economics,  Education, Geography, History, Languages, Liberal arts, Law, Library and Information Science, Mass Communication and Journalism, Music, Philosophy, Performing Arts (Dance/Drama/Theatre),  Literature,  Physical Education,  Political Science, Psychology, Public Administration, Sociology, Social Work, Statistics.

The weightage is also available to Commerce stream with Accountancy, Auditing, Banking, Chartered Accountancy, Costs and Works Accountancy.  The weightage will also be awarded to  Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Biology, Zoology; Medicine, Pharmacy and Management.

Girl candidate: 6 point weightage

Apart from this, the balance 6 point weightage to improve diversity in IIM Raipur class rooms will be awarded to female candidates and no weightage will be awarded to other genders.
Work Experience: 6 points
Work experience of less than 7 months will not be awarded any weightage while the maximum weightage of 6 points will be awarded to the work experience from 25 to 36 months.

Classes to begin on June 27, 2016
Sharing the key dates of session commencement, IIM Raipur has advised that Registration for the new academic session would be held on June 11 and preparatory classes would begin on June 13, 2016. The orientation programme will begin on June 23 and will end on June 26, 2016. Official commencement of classes for PGP 2016-18 batch would take effect on Monday, June 27, 2016.

Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Raipur situated in capital town of Chhattisgarh has grown to be one of the premier B-schools of the country. With more industrial and corporate houses making their foot hold in Raipur, it has become a preferred destination for MBA aspirants. Placement season at IIM Raipur saw an average salary of Rs. 11.4 lakhs while the highest domestic salary was Rs.21.76 lakhs and highest international offer was for Rs.32.55 lakhs.
IIM Raipur like IIM Ahmedabad proposes to increase diversity in its class rooms in 2016. As such it has revamped its admission process and will generate the final admission offer on May 9, 2016.  

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