3 IIMs to announce separate shortlists: Opt for different admission criteria; wait & watch till May 2016

Out of 6 new IIMs that started maiden PGP batch in 2015 only 3 participated in the WAT & PI round of Common Admission Process (CAP) 2016 coordinated by IIM Kashipur for 9 IIMs from February 15 to March 4, 2016. The other 3 IIMs are expected to finalize their admission offers without convening the personal interviews and Written Ability tests and might even further reduce the qualifying overall and sectional CAT 2015 percentile scores for PGP 2016-18 batch as has been done by many other older IIMs.

While IIM Amritsar, IIM BodhGaya and IIM Sambalpur participated in CAP 2016, they may not be making final admission offer till May 2016. Rest 3 IIMs namely IIM Sirmaur, IIM Nagpur and IIM Visakhapatnam did not participate in CAP 2016 and propose to make final admission offer directly.

IIM Nagpur: No GD-PI proposed IIM Nagpur has clarified that it proposes to ask the candidates who opted for IIM Nagpur while registering and applying for CAT 2015 and have scored required percentile in the exam to express and confirm their interest in IIM Nagpur by April 15, 2016.

According to IIM Nagpur The candidates who had applied to IIM Nagpur at the time of CAT-2015 registration and also meet the cut-offs, would be receiving an email from IIM Nagpur by 15th April, 2016. These candidates will be provided a link to a page where theyMUSTexpress and reconfirm their desire to pursue their candidature further for the admission to PGP in management at IIM Nagpur by a stipulated date.

IIM Nagpur proposes to finalize its selection process without GD-PI round but academic performance and work experience will be awarded due weightage by the B-school before generating final admission offer to 60 candidates. Clarifying that only 3 components will be taken into account while finalizing admission merit list, IIM Nagpur has informed The admission process at IIM Nagpur takes into account the candidates Past Academic Performance (PAP), Work Experience (WE), and performance in CAT

50% weightage to CAT 2015 score IIM Nagpur while finalizing the merit list will award 50% weightage to CAT 2015 scores.

PAP:30% weightage 30% weightage will be awarded to the past academic performance (PAP). The applicants who have obtained above 90% marks in class X and XII and above 70% in bachelors degree examination will be awarded full weightage of 10 points for each academic standard.

After arriving at the total PAP scores, IIM Nagpur will adopt the following formula to finalize the rating score for academics PAP= (0.25*A+0.35*B+0.40*C)/10 Where, Rating score: A=class X; B=class 12; C=bachelors degree

Work Experience (WE) 20% weightage will be awarded for the work experience of completed monthsxtill the time of CAT 2015 registration. No weightage will be awarded for the period of work experience after close of CAT 2015 registration process. The candidates will be assigned aWEscore using the following formula:

WE=0 for x < 6; WE=0 for x > 60; WE=x/30 for 6