Satish, IIMs shortlist candidates for the interview stage based on their own criteria, which may be independent of each other. The process may include Written Ability Test, Group Discussion, and Personal Interviews. Performance in the CAT examination is an important component in the admission process. IIMs may additionally use other factors such as the previous academic performance of the candidates, relevant work experience, gender and academic diversity and other similar inputs in shortlisting and ranking of candidates at various stages of the admission process. The processes, academic cut-offs and the weights allocated to the evaluation parameters may vary across IIMs.

CAT SECTIONAL WEIGHTAGE:

IIM AHMEDABAD:

QA DLR        VARC Overall
General: 70           70          70                 80
NC-OBC/Trans: 65           65 65                 75
SC: 60            60           60 70
ST: 50             50          50 60
PwD-UR,OBC,SC: 60             60 60               70
PwD: ST:   50               50          50               60

10th Rating:

Percent score Rating Score

<= 55 1

> 55 and <= 60 2

> 60 and <= 70 3

> 70 and <= 80 5

> 80 and <= 90 8

> 90 10

The same rating score is used for 12th Science /Commerce Streams. For Arts/Humanities:

Percent score Rating Score

<= 45 1
> 45 and <= 50 2
> 50 and <= 60 3
> 60 and <= 70 5
> 70 and <= 85 8
> 85 10

Work Experience in Months as on July 31, 2019 Rating Score

< 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

Minimum cut offs for Average percent of marks scores:


Stream in 12thUR NC- OBC/Trans SC   ST  PWD PWD -ST

Science 80 75 70  65     70            65

Commerce 77 72 67 62 67 62

Arts & Humanities 75 70 64 59 64 59

From each Academic sectors top 5% from each stream and each Category will be short listed. It might look like:


Category Upper Limit

General 100

NC-OBC-cum-transgender 57

SC 32

ST 16

PwD 6

After shortlisting the Candidates, the selected Candidates will have to go through WAT and PI rounds. Selection at this stage will strictly be based on the shortlisting of the candidates done separately for each Category ) on the basis of their Final Composite Score. . The numbers selected in different reservation categories will be in proportions mandated by law.

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


After the AWT & PI round, admission offers are made by IIMA to successful candidates. The final selection is based on a diverse set of attributes which includes performance in CAT, performance in AWT & PI, academic, co-curricular and extra-curricular achievements, work experience, etc.

hi Satish,

FOR IIM Ahmedabad you need a very good CAT percentile then only there is a chances of getting call. Generally engineers have hard time to get a call because they are less preferred, so if you are an engineer then you need 99.5+ percentile(to be in a safe zone), though there are some students who get call with a little lower percentile than 99.5 because of their exceptional profiles  .IIMs also check your 10th, 12th, graduation percentage, work experience, UG Stream. IIM Ahmedabad gives good weightage to CAT percentile. So you can't mess up your CAT score that will reduce your chance of getting call drastically.

Hope this helps!

IIM Ahmedabad (IIMA)

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