Dear Prakash, all this while IIMs had been considering overall CAT score for further rounds of shortlisting. But for the past 2 years, they have been considering sectional weightage for CAT composite score. And that's not it. Because each IIM is independent of other IIMs admission and selection criteria, the weightage being given for each Academic section like weightage given to 10th, 12th and Graduation marks differ. And these are added to the Written Ability Test and Personal Interviews. While FMS gives importance to VARC section, most IIMs give importance to QA section. For example, IIM Indore follows this formula to shortlist candidates:



10th Standard: 36*[Z Candidate-Z min/Z max- Z min]



12th Standard: 40*[Z Candidate-Z min/Z max- Z min]



CAT 2019 score: 20*[Candidate's overall score /Highest CAT score]



Gender Diversity Factor: = 4 for female applicants



=0 for other applicants





Composite score= sum of the above scores



While other IIMs directly give 60-75% weightage to CAT score, the remaining is weighed upon your Academics, Work Experience if applicable, Diversity factor, etc. Just not that, Because CAT exam will be held at different slots, CAT scores will be normalised to ensure equivalence in the difficulty levels of the exams for both slots. IIM Kozikhode will normalise the CAT scores using percentile equivalence. Adjustment of location and scale differences of score distributions across different norms and then scores will be normalised. These scores will be then converted into percentiles for shortlisting and selection purposes. Over all, the required percentages might be:



General Category: 95+



OBC-NCL: 85+



SC: 65+



ST: 55+

Hello Prakash,

Well, you have scored very good in 10th, above average in 12th and a good score in your BE.

But still there is a huge requirement of IIM these days. You should still score 95+ percentile to get into any old IIM. Anyways to get into any new IIM you may get admission by scoring 90-95 percentile. But new IIM are not that good for placements. Rather than old IIMs are very good for plaecements.

So target for 95-100 percentile to get that one.

All the Best!

Thank you.

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