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IIM Shillong Admission Criteria 2025-2027 (Released): Shortlist, Process and CAT 2024 Cutoff
IIM Shillong Admission Criteria 2025: The Indian Institute of Management, Shillong has released its PGP admission criteria for the 2025-27 batch. Candidates must check the IIM Shillong selection criteria as laid in the IIM Shillong admission process by visiting the official website of the institute- iimshillong.ac.in. Candidates seeking admission to the PGP course will have to meet the set admission criteria of IIM Shillong. Candidates will be shortlisted for the IIM Shillong admission process 2025-27 based on the Common Admission Test conducted by the IIMs.
This Story also Contains
- IIM Shillong Admission Dates 2025
- CAT Result 2024
- IIM Shillong Eligibility Criteria 2025
- IIM Shillong Admission Process 2025
- IIM Shillong Reservation Policy
As part of IIM Shillong admission process 2025 which includes two phases; shortlisting candidates for PI based on CAT 2024 score and preparing the final merit list to offer admission. Check out the CAT results, important dates, IIM Shillong admission process, cut-off for GD-PI rounds, and reservation policy of IIM Shillong.
IIM Shillong Admission Dates 2025
Candidates interested in getting admission to this management institute must be well aware of the complete schedule related to admission at IIM Shillong. The dates are given below in the table.
IIM Shillong Admission 2025 Dates
Events | Dates |
CAT result 2024 | December 19, 2024 |
| IIM Shillong Shortlist for PGP Admission 2025 | OUT |
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CAT Result 2024
IIM Calcutta conducted the CAT 2024 on November 24 in three slots. The result of CAT exam has been declared on December 19, 2024. Candidates who appeared on the CAT exam can check their CAT 2024 results by visiting the official website and entering their login credentials. The CAT scorecard consist of the sectional and overall percentile. Candidates who have secured the minimum IIM Shillong CAT cutoff will get shortlisted for further selection rounds.
IIM Shillong Eligibility Criteria 2025
Before filling in the application form of IIM Shillong for admission to the MBA programme, the candidates have to fulfil their IIM Shillong eligibility criteria. Check the IIM Shillong eligibility criteria below.
- Candidates must hold a bachelor’s degree and must have scored at least 50% marks or an equivalent CGPA from a recognised university.
- Candidates belonging to Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST) and Differently Abled (DA) (It may also be referred to as Persons with Disability (PWD) category) categories will be given a relaxation of 5 percent.
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IIM Shillong Admission Process 2025
The admission to the PGP 2025 will be done in 2 stages. As part of IIM Shillong admission criteria 2025, in the first phase, the candidates will be shortlisted for the personal interview. In the second phase, the final merit list will be created for admission to the PGP for the IIM Shillong admissions 2025-27.
Phase 1: Shortlisting for PI
A. Candidates who have opted for IIM Shillong PGP 2025-27 batch will be eligible to take part in Phase 1 of the IIM Shillong selection process. The minimum CAT marks given below will be considered for different categories.
Minimum Requirement
| Category | Verbal & Reading Comprehension (VRC) | Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning (DILR) | Quantitative Aptitude (QA) |
DA | 50 | 50 | 50 |
SC | 50 | 50 | 50 |
ST | 60 | 60 | 60 |
EWS | 75 | 75 | 75 |
Others | 75 | 75 | 75 |
Post step 1, composite scores will be calculated for eligible candidates. The score is based on the total CAT percentile and normalized application rating score (NARC), having a weightage of 65% and 35% respectively.
| Class X | Class XII | ||||||
| Science Stream | Commerce Stream | Arts Stream | |||||
| Percentage | Score | Percentage | Score | Percentage | Score | Percentage | Score |
| 95-100 | 10 | 95-100 | 10 | 95-100 | 10 | 95-100 | 10 |
| 90-94.99 | 9 | 90-94.99 | 9 | 90-94.99 | 9 | 90-94.99 | 9 |
| 85-89.99 | 8 | 85-89.99 | 8 | 85-89.99 | 8 | 85-89.99 | 8 |
| 80-84.99 | 5 | 80-84.99 | 5 | 80-84.99 | 5 | 80-84.99 | 5 |
| 75-79.99 | 4 | 75-79.99 | 4 | 75-79.99 | 4 | 75-79.99 | 4 |
| 70-74.99 | 2 | 70-74.99 | 2 | 70-74.99 | 2 | 70-74.99 | 2 |
| 65-69.99 | 1 | 65-69.99 | 1 | 65-69.99 | 1 | 65-69.99 | 1 |
| Below 65 | 0 | Below 65 | 0 | Below 65 | 0 | Below 65 | 0 |
Rating Scores for Work Experience
| Months of experience | Score |
| Less than 2 months | 0 |
| 12 months to less than 18 months | 8 |
| 18 months to less than 24 months | 12 |
| 24 months to less than 30 months | 14 |
| 30 months to less than 36 months | 10 |
| 36 months to less than 42 months | 6 |
| 42 months to less than 48 months | 2 |
| 48 months or more | 0 |
Note: the actual percentage and percentile of a shortlisted candidate for PI may be much higher than the above-mentioned minimum values.
The candidates fulfilling the criteria in Table 1 would be considered for shortlisting for admission to IIM Shillong.
B. The candidates who qualify the IIM Shillong eligibility criteria will then be segregated in accordance with their academic disciplines in graduation.
From each academic discipline a certain percentage (?) of candidates would be shortlisted for PI as follows:
- ?: Number of candidates who appeared for CAT - 2020
- ?: Number of Academic disciplines
- ?i: the number of candidates present in the ??ℎ academic discipline, ∀ ? = 1, 2, 3, . . . , … … ?.
The percentage of candidates eligible for the shortlist for any ??ℎ academic discipline will be as in Table 2.
C. The candidates who stand eligible in their respective categories will be grouped as per the categories, with a number of candidates in any given category j being: ??, ∀ ? = E, ?, ?, ?. Meaning that:
- ?E: Number of candidates in category EWS
- ?T: Number of candidates in category ST
- ?C: Number of candidates in category SC
- ?o: Number of candidates in category OT
According to the academic disciplines, the candidates will be grouped as per Table 3.
Consequently, Mij is the number of candidates in Ith Academic discipline of Jth category ∀ i = 1, 2, 3, …, g, and ∀ j = E, T, C, O. Meaning that:
- ?Ei: Number of candidates in the ??ℎ academic discipline in category EWS,
- ?Ti: Number of candidates in the ??ℎ academic discipline in category ST,
- ?Ci: Number of candidates in the ??ℎ academic discipline in category SC, and
- ???: Number of candidates in the ??ℎ academic discipline in category OT.
D. Lastly, the number of candidates shortlisted for PI will be on the basis of:
i. IIM Shillong will shortlist a total of X candidates for Personal Interview. The value of x will be decided on the basis of the overall performance of the candidates in CAT 2020, the availability of seats, buffer for possible overlap and attendance trends in the past, etc.
With ? = Number of candidates to be called for PI, the number of candidates that will be shortlisted for interview in any category j will be ??, ∀ ? = E, ?, ?, ?, where
- ?E= 10% of X rounded to the higher nearest integer
- ??= 7.5% of X rounded to the higher nearest integer
- ??= 15.0% of X rounded to the higher nearest integer
- ??= 67.5% of X rounded to the higher nearest integer
5% of the shortlisted X j [ j is not equal to E] will comprise of Differently Abled (DA) candidates.
ii. Candidates who will be shortlisted for interviews in the ??ℎ academic discipline from the ??ℎ category will be ??? ∀ ? = E, ?, ?, ?, and
∀i 1, 2, 3,...., p for j E; p denotes the number of disciplines appearing in category E,
∀i 1, 2, 3,...., q for j T; q denotes the number of disciplines appearing in category T,
∀i 1, 2, 3,...., r for j C; r denotes the number of disciplines appearing in category C,
∀i 1, 2, 3,...., s for j O; s denotes the number of disciplines appearing in category O,
E. The candidates in a given category, academic discipline and gender will be ranked based on the decreasing order of their CAT overall percentile.
Phase 2: Merit Listing for Admission Offer
After the personal interview of IIM Shillong admission process, the scores of the same will be used along with the overall CAT 2024 performance of the shortlisted candidates to prepare the final merit list. The admissions offers will be made based on this merit list. The scores used will therefore be:
- Y: Score in PI
- Z: Overall CAT Absolute Score
which then will be normalized as Ny and Nz for preparation of the final merit list. This process is given below.
With a total of ? number of candidates that will be appearing in the PI process, an overall score, ??? for every appearing candidate ?, will be calculated using the following formula, which will be used for preparing the merit list:
??? = ?1(???) + ?1(???) ∀ ? = 1, 2, 3, … , ? where,
??y: Normalized score of Performance of the candidate ? in PI
??z: Normalized score of Performance of the candidate ? in CAT - 2020 Absolute Score (overall)
?1: Weight of performance of the candidate ? in ???(70%)
?2: Weight of performance of the candidate ? in ???(30%)
Performances of Candidates in GD & PI for Merit list for Admission Offer Cut-off
| Categories | Cut-off as Minimum Percentage of Performance out of Maximum Possible Performance in GD | Cut-off as Minimum Percentage of Performance out of Maximum Possible Performance in PI |
| DA | 20.0% | 20.0% |
| ST | 20.0% | 20.0% |
| SC | 25.0% | 25.0% |
| EWS | 30.0% | 30.0% |
| Others (OT) | 30.0% | 30.0% |
All candidates shortlisted and waitlisted for admission to PGP 2025-27 will be communicated via email and they can download their offer letters/WL letters from the admission dashboard.
Educational Loans Provided by IIM Shillong
The Institute helps the candidates utilise educational loans from banks at the time of the IIM Shillong admission process. The necessary details of the process will be made available to the candidates after they are offered admission to the Institute.
The Institute attempts that no candidate should miss the opportunity to pursue the Post Graduate Programme because of inadequate financial resources. IIM Shillong has a provision for a Need-Based Financial Assistance Scheme to help the economically weak candidates. The number of scholarship awardees and quantum of assistance will be decided based on the annual gross family income, candidates’ liquidity, creditworthiness and her/his overall suitability.
In addition to that, there are scholarships made available to the Scheduled Caste (SC)/ Scheduled Tribe (ST)/People with Disabilities (PWD) candidates by the Government of India. The details regarding the quantum, eligibility, process, etc. are available on the official website - https://scholarships.gov.in
IIM Shillong accepts the scores of CAT 2024. Overseas candidates may, however, apply with GMAT scores.
Validity and other conditions are specified below:
- CAT exam - Current year scores
- GMAT score - no earlier than 24 months prior to the last date of application
IIM Shillong Reservation Policy
IIM Shillong Admission Criteria 2025 will be following a reservation policy which is prescribed by the Government of India. If at any point, if necessary, IIM Shillong reserves all right to make changes at the time of shortlisting candidates for final admission.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Q: When will the application form for admission release?
A:
The IIM Shillong PGP application form was closed.
Q: In how many phases will the IIM Shillong admission take place?
A:
IIM Shillong admission take place in two phases.
Q: Is it possible to apply for admission prior to the CAT 2024 result being declared?
A:
No, IIM Shillong released the application form only after the CAT result 2024 is declared.
Q: Who will conduct CAT 2024?
A:
IIM Calcutta conducted CAT 2024 entrance exam on November 24.
Q: Which entrance examination scores are accepted in IIM Shillong?
A:
CAT and GMAT (for foreign candidates) are accepted in IIM Shillong for admission.
Q: How can I apply for admission to IIM Shillong?
A:
Candidates wanting admission to the PGP from IIM Shillong have to visit the official website of IIM Shillong and fill in the application form in online mode.
Q: What is the minimum cutoff criteria for creating the final merit list?
A:
Check the following table:
Categories | Cut-off |
DA | 20% |
ST | 20% |
SC | 25% |
Others (OT) | 30% |
Q: What is the eligibility criteria for IIM Shillong?
A:
The candidates must be holding a bachelor’s degree and must have scored at least 50 per cent marks or equivalent CGPA from a recognised university.
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Hello Arnab,
180 seats are available for MBA admission at IIM Shillong. CAT scores are used by IIM Shillong to screen MBA candidates. For each of the three categories, the CAT sectional percentile was 75.
Eligibility Criteria for admission in IIM Shillong-
- A bachelor's degree with a minimum of 50% in any subject for applicants under the general category.
- For eligibility, applicants from the SC, ST, DA, and PwD groups must receive a minimum bachelor's grade point average of 45%.
- While overseas candidates must submit GMAT scores, Indian applicants must provide CAT scores.
As per your query,
Yes, you will get chance to join IIM Shillong.
Good Luck !!
See, your class Xth percentage is very good, but your XIIth percentage is a bit problematic, and your grad is avergae. See, consulting companies look for 'spikes' in your resume. Now, these spikes may be your academics, your past experience, your extracurricular achievements, and things like that. So, even though you have average profile in academics, but if you have some 'spikes' to show, it won't be a problem.
Hope I have answered your question. All the best!
Hello Aspirant,
Sorry to inform you but you don't seem to have a decent academics to get calls from IIMs. Despite your OBC status, a score of 70% + in your academics along with 97/98 percentile could have helped you get a call from the baby IIMs too.
However don't get disheartened. Aim for 99 percentile. There might be chances of calls from the new IIMs or other equally good management colleges.
All the best for your future. Incase of any concerns, feel free to comment.
Hi Aspirant,
Hope you are doing great as per the question asked by you as you have very average profile as compared so you need to secure more and more percentile so that you get a seat in any I.I.M or in I.I.M shillong. You should try to score more than 98 percentile then only you can secure a rank in CAT exam.
Hope you found this answer useful.Stay motivated stay positive.
All the best!
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