IIM Ahmedabad Admission Criteria 2021-23: Released Minimum Cutoff for Shortlisting

IIM Ahmedabad Admission Criteria 2021-2023: Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad has released the minimum cutoff eligibility criteria on the basis of CAT to shortlist candidates for further selection procedure as per the IIM Ahmedabad admission criteria 2021-23. IIM Ahmedabad will begin the admission process for two-year post-graduate program in management after the declaration of CAT 2020 result. Common Admission Test or CAT 2020 will be held on November 29, 2020 and the result will be declared in the second week of January 2021. Shortlisted candidates will then have to appear for the WAT/GD/PI rounds on the basis of which candidates will be further shortlisted for final admission to PGP program of IIM Ahmedabad. Read this complete article to check out the information related to eligibility criteria, important dates, admission criteria, and so forth.
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IIM Ahmedabad Admission 2021- Important Dates

Students must stay updated with the events pertaining to IIM admissions. Check the table below for latest updates:

Important Dates

CAT Result

IIM Indore, the conducting body will declare the result of CAT 2020 in second week of January 2021. Only candidates who will appear for CAT 2020 will be able to download the CAT 2020 scorecard by entering their login credentials. The scorecard of CAT 2020 will mention the sectional as well as overall score and percentile of the candidates. Post the declaration of the CAT 2020 result, IIMs and other top B-schools will release their respective cutoff on the basis of CAT score. Students qualifying the CAT cutoff will be shortlisted for admission process of the respective institutes.

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IIM Ahmedabad Admission Criteria 2021 - Eligibility Criteria

Candidate’s aspiring to take admission to IIM Ahmadabad PGP must fulfil the below-mentioned eligibility criteria:

• Students must have a bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 50% marks in aggregate or equivalent CGPA. Students belonging to the reserved category will be given 5% relaxation.

• The bachelor degree must entail a minimum of three years of education along with 10+2 or equivalent.

• The conversion of marks or CGPA will be followed as per the norms of the university/institute from which the student has graduated. In case the institute/university does not provide any scheme of conversion then the IIM Ahmedabad will obtain the equivalence by dividing the obtained CGPA by the maximum CGPA and multiplying the result by 100.

• Aspirants appearing for the final year examination of the qualifying exam can also apply provided they submit the required documents in the stipulated time. Such candidate’s admission will be on a provisional basis and will be confirmed when the student submits the mark sheets and certificate of passing the Bachelor’s degree with a required minimum percentage.

IIM Ahmedabad Admission Criteria 2021-2023

The admission criteria of IIM Ahmedabad 2021 will be a two-step process. In the first step, the candidates are shortlisted for Analytical Writing Test (AWT) and Personal Interview (PI) on the basis of valid CAT 2020 score, who have applied for the program and meeting the eligibility criteria for the program.

Shortlisting and Admission Criteria for PGP at IIM Ahmedabad

Process 1 - Preliminary Screening

CAT 2020 will consist of three sections namely, ‘Quantitative Aptitude' (QA), ‘Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning' (DILR) and ‘Verbal and Reading Comprehension' (VRC). Only candidates who will meet the minimum cutoff criteria both sectional and overall will be considered for further rounds of IIM Ahmedabad admission 2021. Check the table below to know the minimum cutoff for CAT 2020. The cutoff for CAT 2020 is similar to that of the previous year.

Minimum CAT 2020 cutoffs

At the different stages of the selection process of IIM Ahmedabad ‘Application Rating,’ (AR) score of the student will be used. AR is the sum of rating scores based on their percentage in 10th and 12th standard, stream, Bachelor degree discipline, and work experience. Check the table below to know the scoring of each component.

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Rating scores for 10th standard examination

Rating scores for 12th standard examination

Rating Scores for the Bachelor’s Degree Exam

Rating Scores for Work Experience

Application Rating Score= rating score (A+B+C+D)

• Normalised AR score of a candidate will be equivalent to their AR score divided by the average of the top 50 AR scores from the applicant’s pool*.

• Applicants pool= the group of candidates who have appeared for CAT 2020 and applied for IIM Ahmedabad.

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Process 2 - Shortlisting for Analytical Writing Test (AWT) and Personal Interview (PI)

The shortlisting of candidates will be carried out in two stages:

Stage 1 - From the applicant’s pool

IIM Ahmedabad will recognize a candidate’s performance in their academics as well as performance in CAT 2020. The certain number of applicants will be shortlisted based on their Composite Score (CS) subject to filling the certain criteria.

CS (Composite Score) = ARF_CS * Normalised AR score + CATF_CS * Normalised overall score in CAT 2020

• Application Rating Multiplication Factor for Composite Score (ARF_CS) = 0.35;

• CAT Multiplication Factor for Composite Score (CATF_CS) = 0.65

The upper limit for the number of applicants to be shortlisted as per RC for AC-1,2,3, and 5

The upper limit for the number of applicants to be shortlisted as per RC for AC-4

Criteria 1 to Criteria 3

Criteria 1 - Percentile of VRC, QA, DILR and overall must not be lower than the percentile mentioned in the table above (Minimum CAT 2020 cutoffs).

Criteria 2 - Average of percentages should be more than minimum cutoff (specific to the category and stream in the table below).

Average of percentages=P= marks obtained in 10th and 12th standard examination.

Minimum cutoff for P across different disciplines and categories

Criteria 3 - the percentage of marks obtained in the Bachelor’s degree must be greater or equal to the minimum cutoff percentage.

Criteria 4 - Total percentile ≥ 80, QA percentile ≥ 70, DILR percentile ≥ 70 and VRC percentile ≥ 70

Criteria 5 - Percentage ≥ 80 (Science), 77 (Commerce), 75 (Arts/Humanities), where P is the average of the percentages of marks scored in the 10th and 12th std. Examinations.

Criteria 6 - Percentage of marks obtained in the bachelor’s degree must be greater or equal to a minimum cutoff percentage.

Stage 2- After the candidates are shortlisted in stage 1 from each category, the additional number of candidates will be shortlisted for AWT and PI on the basis of their Composite Score (CS) as mentioned above subject to fulfilment of criteria 1 and 2.

Final Selection

In this stage selection will be strictly based on shortlisting done for each category and on the basis of final composite score (FCS), FCS will be computed as follows:

FCS = PIF * Normalised PI Score + AWTF * Normalised AWT Score + CATF_FCS * Normalised CAT Score + ARF_FCS * AR

• Personal Interview Multiplication Factor (PIF) = 0.50

• AWT Multiplication Factor (AWTF) = 0.10

• CAT Score Multiplication Factor for Final Composite Score (CATF_FCS) = 0.25

• Application Rating Multiplication Factor for Final Composite Score (ARF_FCS) = 0.15

Note- Due to COVID-19 situation IIM Ahmedabad may modify the final selection criteria depending upon the time during WAT-PI in 2021.

Categories for bachelor's degree/integrated master's degree

Note- Dual Bachelor’s degree will be considered under AC 6. Students will be required to mention it as Bachelor Degree 1 and Bachelor Degree 2.

IIM Ahmedabad PGP-FABM

Post Graduate Programme in Food and Agri-business Management is an MBA level two year full time program. Authorities will release the cutoff for PGP-FABM on the basis of CAT 2020 score. Candidates meeting the cutoff criteria will be eligible for selection rounds conducted by IIM Ahmedabad.

IIM Ahmedabad PGP Fees

The total fee payable for the PGP program academic year 2021-2023 at IIM Ahmedabad will be Rs. 23,00,000 (Approx) inclusive of Rs. 16,99,000 as tuition fee. Extra expenses will include a laptop, computer, personal expenses onboarding, travel, clothing and laundry. The program fee for the academic year 2022-2023 will be based on the previous year batch fee, adjusted for inflation.

IIM Ahmedabad Placement Report - Summer Internship

IIM Ahmedabad conducted the summer placement 2020 for the batch 2019-2021 in three clusters. From a batch strength of 390 students, 386 students sought internship through IIM Ahmedabad. As per the placement report of IIM Ahmedabad highest offers were made in the consulting sector which was followed by BFSI and FMCG sectors.

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