IIM Ahmedabad (IIMA) All Questions

Hello Aspirant,

Assuming that you belongs to General/UR category so with the academic record that you have mentioned in the question you should have at least 99+ percentile in CAT for such top B-Schools

Now let us discuss about admission criteria of all the IIMs that you have mentioned :-

IIM Ahmedabad

Admission process for IIM A is a two step process. First step is for preliminary screening on the basis of Sectional cut-offs and overall cut-offs along with different rating points for IIM A which are described in the tables below and you need to clear sectional cut-off as well as Overall cut-off :-

Category	VRC percentile	DILR percentile	QA Percentile	Overall Percentile
General, EWS	70	70	70	80
NC-OBC cum Transgender	65	65	65	75
SC	60	60	60	70
ST	50	50	50	60
PwD (EWS, General, SC, NC-OBC)	60	60	60	70
PwD (ST)	50	50	50	60

Ratings on the basis of class 10th score :-

Per cent Score in Xth Std. Exam	Rating Score A
<=55	1
>55 and <=60	2
>60 and <=70	3
>70 and <=80	5
>80 and <=90	8
>90	10

Rating on the basis of class 12th score :-

Per cent Score in XIIth Std. Exam	Rating Score B
<=55	1
>55 and <=60	2
>60 and <=70	3
>70 and <=80	5
>80 and <=90	8
>90	10

Rating scores on the basis of field of graduation and percentage :-

Per cent score in Professional courses	Rating Score C
<= 50	1
> 50 and <= 55	2
> 55 and <= 60	3
> 60 and <= 65	5
> 65 and <= 75	8
> 75	10

Rating scores on the basis of work experience (if any) :-

Work Experience in Month (July 31, 2020)	Rating Score D
< 12 months	0
>= 12 and <= 36 months	MF * (number of months of work experience – 11)
> 36 months	5
Work-experience Multiplication Factor (MF) = 0.20

After considering all the ratings on the basis of above discussed factors candidates are shortlisted for Step 2 which is Analytical Writing Test and Personal Interview round.

You can check out complete admission process for IIM A from the link given below :-

https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/iim-ahmedabad-admission-criteria

IIM Bangalore

In IIM B also there is a two stage selection process and the cut-offs are given below :-

Category	Quantitative Aptitude Percentile	Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning Percentile	Verbal and Reading Comprehension Percentile	Overall Percentile
General	75	75	80	85
EWS	65	65	70	75
NC-OBC	65	65	70	75
SC	60	60	65	70
ST	55	55	55	65
PWD	50	50	50	60

For shortlisting of candidates for PI and AWT following weightage is considered by IIM B :-

S.No.	Components	Weightage
1	Gender Diversity	2
2	CAT 2020	40
3	10 Standard	20
4	12 Standard	10
5	Bachelors	20
6	Weighted Work Experience	8
Total		100

Note that weightage mentioned is in points and the 40 points of CAT weightage can be bifurcated as follows  :-

• Verbal & Reading Comprehension (VARC) - 14 points
• Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning (DILR) - 16 points
• Quantitative Aptitude (QA) - 10 points

You can check out complete admission process for IIM B from the link given below :-

https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/iim-bangalore-admission-criteria

IIM Calcutta

In IIM C also there is a two stage selection process and the cut-offs are given below :-

Category	VA	DILR	QA	Overall Percentile
General	≥ 75	≥ 80	≥ 80	≥ 85
NC-OBC	≥ 65	≥ 65	≥ 70	≥ 75
EWS	≥ 65	≥ 65	≥ 70	≥ 75
SC	≥ 60	≥ 60	≥ 65	≥ 70
ST	≥ 55	≥ 55	≥ 55	≥ 65
PwD	≥ 45	≥ 45	≥ 45	≥ 55

Class X Marks (in per cent)	Points	Class XII Marks (in per cent)	Points
≥80	10	≥80	15
≥75 and < 80	8	≥ 75 and < 80	12
≥70 and < 75	6	≥70 and < 75	9
≥65 and < 70	4	≥65 and < 70	6
≥60 and < 65	2	≥60 and < 65	3
< 60	0	< 60	0

Bachelor’s Degree Marks (in per cent)	Points
≥ 60	15
≥ 55 and < 60	10
≥ 50 and < 55	5
< 50	2.5

For IIM C also you need to clear the above cut-offs and your points as mentioned in the above table should be decent enough to get shortlisted for Stage 2 which is of AWT and PI.

Final selection will be made on the basis of following weightage :-

Components	Weights
CAT 2020 Score	30
Personal Interview (PI)	48
Point granted for Academic Diversity at Bachelor’s level for Non-Engineering degree	4
Work Experience	8
Total	90

You can check out the link given below for complete admission Process of IIM C :-

https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/iim-calcutta-admission-criteria

Similarly for other IIMs and B-Schools you can check out the link given below :-

IIM Admission Criteria 2021-2023 (Released) - Know IIM Selection Procedure Here!

You can also use CAT Pathfinder to predict your chances to get call from different IIMs :-

https://bschool.careers360.com/pathfinder/cat

I hope this information helps you.

Good Luck!!

Hello Aspirant ,

Non-Engineers have equal chance as an Engineers , sometime Non-engineers have higher chances than an engineers  as these IIMs prefer academic diversity among students , but you need very high rank and percentile(99.5+) to get into IIM A,B,C in CAT exam .If you do get very high percentile , no one can stop you from admission so prepare for it without any fear , non engineers will be treated just like an engineer.

The selection is also based on many other factors like your past academic record , work experience etc.

Hope this helps.

Hey Aspirant,

Hope you are doing great,

The Resume and its format would be determined by the institute. Because a large number of candidates must be interviewed using a standard format saves time while emphasizing the most important aspects of the individual.

It is not a resume in the traditional sense but rather an application form. You must be extremely confident and knowledgeable about any topic you wish to discuss in it. The interview panelists can be experts in any field, and superficial responses can be disastrous.

If you want to know more about the IIM A interview experience:

https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/iim-personal-interview-interesting-experiences

I hope this will help you,

Best of Luck :)

Hey,

Abundant of alumina from IIM Ahmedabad and IIM Lucknow are doing great for the nation's development. Various Post Graduate Programme in Agribusiness Management (PGP-ABM)  graduates are executives of several companies. And In my opinion the graduates from such Institution where there is 100% placement stats are obviously doing something great for the nation as well as for themselves.

Hello,

Anurag Kashyap is one of the Alumina of IIM Ahmedabad, he has done his Post Graduate Programme In Food and Agri-business Management (PGP-FABM) graduation in 2018. He is currently working as Senior Procurement Manager with FRAAZO. He is very much Agribusiness Passionate, Philanthropist, Blogger and Poet.

Hi,

Frisbee has been played at IIMA since time immemorial.  However, it started getting to be a really popular thing from the 2006 - 08 batch onwards.

It had a modest start with just with a few guys from batch (2005 - 07) who were throwing a frisbee around on LKP - these were people who were playing just for fun, and didn't really know about (or care about) ultimate. A few people from batch (2006 - 08) joined in, and this became a sort of semi regular thing. Frisbee under the lights of LKP at night, followed by Nimbu Paani at CT.

Hope it helps.

Hi,

While the batch majority is dominated by IITs & NITs, IIMA has students from many different colleges that you might not have been exposed to.

Here are some REAL examples from the IIMA batch of 2021:

• Mulund College of commerce
• SASTRA Deemed University
• Government college of commerce & business administration
• Faculty of Commerce, Banaras
• IIS Jaipur
• Francis College

This clearly shows that IIMA does not care about your past institution and all you need is the ability to work hard and have a clear vision about your goals.

Hope it helps.

Dear Aspirant ,

PGPX( Post Gragduate Programme in Mangement for Executives) is a very career defining course . It is our country's and infact globally one of the finest and most prestigious course .

It is a full time 1 year course. The batch is carefully choosen to ensure diversification and well balanced class. The eligibilty criteria is as follows

1. An Undergraduate degree or equivalent

2. Good GMAT/GRE scores which are not more than 5 years old from the date of application. If you wish to apply for the 2022 -2023 batch then the earliest acceptable GMAT/GRE scores would be -Round 1: august 2016 , round 2: october 2016, round 3: december 2016

3. You should be 25 years of as  on 31 March , 2022

4. Minimum 4 years of work experience after completion of graduation .

So you see, since a Work Ex . profile of minimum 4 years is required , you've got a plus point of having more than that . With good GMAT/GRE scores and work ex of 10 years it will be worth it and would be a great boost to your career profile.

Hope this helps

Best of Luck!

Hello,

To answer your question first you need to understand that there are several reasons for that. I am trying to give the brief idea of main reasons behind this.

PGPX program placement is for mid and senior level roles of the company. Previous job experience play a very important role in placement of PGPX so the participants which have not valid background they struggle to find right placements.

Many of the students rejects their early offer while expecting a higher package from another company and end up not finding anything. This is also the one reason behind this. Many of the student applied for many companies which are coming to the campus even if they don't have relevant experience for that job and because of that they loose their concentration on those few companies which are related to their background.

One thing you need to understand is that many company will visit IIM-A for placements and it's the participant responsibility to crack those opportunities.

Hope it helps!

Hello,

The life at IIM Ahmedabad is awesome in terms of everything. You will develop many of the skills there and you learn various aspects of business and much more. And yes in the end definitely you will get a good salary package. Now let's deep dive into this. At IIM-A you will have peers from different domains and everyone has their own skill and knowledge of their domain. You will learn a lot from each other. Apart from that you will have excellent faculties and a beautiful campus. You will be in touch with alumni network and trust me there alumni network is huge and very good. Course curriculum is perfectly defined and suitable for your learning.

There will be several college competitions and by participating in that you will explore yourself.

In short if I have to summarise this then the life at IIM-A is full of fun, learning and developing yourself.

Hope it helps!