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Shortlisting Criteria for PGP 2016-18 batch

Candidates meeting the following minimum cut-offs have been called for Academic Writing Test (AWT) &

Personal Interview (PI).

1. Preliminary Screening:

Number of candidates across different categories eligible to be considered for subsequent stages as per Table

1: (Minimum CAT-2015 Percentile Rank)

Category CAT GMAT

General 20190 19

NC-OBC 2592 -

SC 952 -

ST 292 -

DA 102 -

Total 24128 19

Table 1: Minimum Cut-offs of CAT-2015 Percentile Ranks

Category

Verbal and ReadingComprehension percentile

rank(PVRC)

Data Interpretation &Logical Reasoning

percentile rank(PDILR)

QuantitativeAptitude

percentile rank(PQA)

Overallpercentile rank

(PT)

General 70 70 70 80

NC-OBC-cum-transgender

65 65 65 75

SC 60 60 60 70ST 50 50 50 60

DA 60 60 60 70

Note: Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST), Non-creamy Other Backward Castes (NC-OBC), Differently

Abled (DA).

2. Screening for Academic Writing Test (AWT) & Personal Interview (PI)

Stage 1: Selection of exceptional performers across different disciplines

The following table shows the number of candidates eligible to be considered using

Criteria C1-C3 and the numbers shortlisted for AWT-PI ( using the rule of minimum

of top 100 or 1% of applicants to IIMA) in each discipline by drawing a merit list

using Composite Score (CS)

Academic disciplinecategory

AC-1 AC-2 AC-3 AC-4 AC-5 AC-6 AC-7

Number of eligiblecandidates

10388 2804 42069 108239 2384 133 549

Minimum of top 100 or1% candidates selected

89 21 100 100 24 1 5

Minimum CS 0.546 0.528 0.667 0.714 0.632 0.800 0.740

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Criteria: C1-C3:

C1. PT 90,PQA 80,PDILR 80andPVRC 80

C2. P 80 (Science), 77 (Commerce), 75 (Arts/Humanities)

Where P is the average of the percentages of marks scored in 10thand 12thstd. exams.

C3. Table 2: Cut-off percentage in Bachelors Degree Exam for different disciplines

Discipline AC-1 AC-2 AC-3 AC-4 AC-5 AC-6 AC-7

Cut-offPercentage

80 68 80 90 73 66 59

Stage 2: Category-wise selection (after removing the candidatesselected in stage 1)

The following table shows the number of candidates shortlisted for AWT-PIfulfilling Criteria C1-C2 by drawing a merit list using Composite Score (CS):

Category General NC-OBC SC ST DA

Number ofcandidates

219 306 176 87 35

Minimum CS 0.747 0.603 0.511 0.433 0.478

Criteria: C1-C2

C1. PT,PQA,PDILR andPVRC Respective minimum cut-off (specific to the category as shown in

Table 1)

C2. PMinimum cut-offs (specific to the category and the stream as shown in Table 3).

Table 3: Minimum cut-off for P across different disciplines and different categories

Stream in 12thstd.GeneralCategory

NCOBCCategory

SCCategory

ST CategoryDA

Category

ScienceCommerceArts & Humanities

807775

757270

706764

656259

706764

Calculation of Composite Score:

CS (Composite Score) = 0.3 (Normalized AR score) + 0.7 (Normalized overall score in CAT-2015)

CS = (AR*0.3/30) + (Total CAT score*0.7/300)

For List of Disciplines and definitions of Application Rating Score (AR) and Normalized AR of an

applicant see Admissions Procedure for PGP 2016-18 batch announced on the admissionpage of IIMA website.

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Average AR for top 50 candidates: 30

Shortlisting of Overseas (GMAT) candidates

Following the criteria C1-C2, 19 candidates have been shortlisted

C1. PV = 70; PQ = 70; PTOTAL = 80

C2. P 80 (Science), 77 (Commerce), 75 (Arts/Humanities)

Where P is the average of the percentages of marks scored in 10 thand 12thstd. exams.

3. Total No. of candidates called for AWT-PI

Category Number

General 568

NC-OBC 313

SC 178

ST 87

DA 36

Total 1182

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