IIM Calcutta All Questions

Dear Candidate

The IIM Admission Process is a two-step process

• Common Admission Test – CAT , and

• Personal Interview (PI) and Written Ability Test (WAT)

The minimum CAT cut off for all the categories has remained same. The cut off for Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST), Non-creamy Other Backward Castes (NC-OBC), and Persons with disabilities (PWD) is to 70, 70, 85, and 70 respectively.

Category         QA percentile         DI & LR                VRC percent.            overall

percentile                                           percentile

General               80                            80                              80                          90

NC-OBC             75                              75                                 75                          85

SC                        65                             65                                  65                          70

ST                          60                                 60                              60                      70

For more information regarding admission procedure use our link

https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/iim-calcutta-announces-admission-criteria-2017-19-overall-cat-cutoff-90-percentile#:~:text=IIM%20Calcutta%20announces%20admission%20criteria%202017-19%3B%20overall%20CAT,%20%2070%20%201%20more%20rows%20

Hope this helps

Hello,

Eligibility criteria to appear for CAT is that a candidate must have passed bachelor's degree from a recognised board. Candidates belonging to general category/EWS/OBC-NCL must score minimum 50% aggregate or equivalent CGPA. Candidates belonging to SC/ST must score minimum 45% marks or equivalent CGPA. Candidates who are appearing in the final year of the qualifying exam are also eligible. So if you score the required percentage you are eligible.

Final admission in to IIMs is based on marks scored in CAT, past academic performance, experience and performance in the interview. As long as you have passed class 10th from a recognised board you will be eligible for the admission provided you must fulfill all other requirements.

Until and unless you have graduated in any three or four year Bachelors Degree be it full time or distance, you are eligible for appearing in CAT Exam.

Getting into IIM Calcutta depends on your performance in CAT, henceforth if you get a call, your performance in Graduation, Written Aptitude and Ability Test as well as Personal Interview will be considered.

For more information regarding CAT and rules and regulations do follow the link below

https://bschool.careers360.com/exams/cat

Hi Aspirant,

The final selection is based on (weightage):

• CAT 2020 Score: 30
• Personal Interview: 48
• Written Ability Test: 10
• Academic Diversity: 04
• Work Experience: 08
  Total: 100

If you belong to OBC and with no work experience, you should aim for more than 85 points.

Thank you

This is previous year cut off for IIM - Calcutta.

Category	QA	DILR	VARC	Overall Percentile
UR	75	80	80	80
OBC-NC	65	65	70	75
EWS	65	65	70	75
SC	60	60	65	70
ST	55	55	55	65
PWD	55	55	55	65

And the final selection is based on:
CAT 2020 Score: 30
Personal Interview: 48
Written Ability Test: 10
Academic Diversity: 04
Work Experience: 08
Total: 100

If you belong to OBC  and with no work experience, you should aim for more than 85 points. Please read the admission criteria: https://www.iimcal.ac.in/programs/pgp/admission/admission-policy/admission-procedure-for-domestic-candidates

Hello

IIM Calcutta gives 56% weightage to CAT score whereas it gives 40% weightage to Academics and 4% weightage to Gender Diversity. You neet to score a minimum of 85 percentile to be eligible for admission here. If you score above 80% in 10th you will be given a score of 10 and if you have scored above 80% in 12th you will get a score of 15 whereas 15% marks will be reserved for bachelor's degree score. Gender Diversity factor (Women candidates) will get 4% marks.

Hi Aspirant,

According to the official notice by IIM Calcutta, to pursue MBA or MBA ex program the first criteria required to apply is you have to have a bachelors degree with minimum of 10+2+3 formal education and with 50% equivalent marks or CGPA.You need to give CAT exam in order to appear for shortlisting of personnal interview and written ability test .The criteria for section 1 of cat requires greater or equal to 65 for OBC,DILR section requires greater than or equal to 65 and VA section requires greater than or equal to 60.So total percentile for cat required is greater or equivalent to 75 for NC OBC.

If you have a good score in Cat and have bachelors degree then you can surely get into this prestigeous college.

Regards!!

hi,

see iims shortlisted candidates based on academic score, professional experience and the cat score. however it also depends on other factors like number of participants, questions difficulty level, students category, overall the profile of candidates etc. so it is quite difficult to predict whether you would get shortlisted or not. however right now you have to study hard to achieve a excellent score in CAT to make the maximum possibility of shortlisting.

you may follow the below link to know about cat cutoff score of  IIM CALCUTTA.

https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/iim-calcutta-cutoff

Hi,

Congratulations on your CAT score.

Let me break it dwon for you:

The selection criteria at IIM Calcutta :

Overall Score of CAT- 28

Class X marks - 10

Class XII marks - 10

Gender Diversity Factor - 2

Total - 50

As per your 10th results, you will get around 6/10

As per your 12th results, you will get around 2/10

As per your graduation, you will get around 2/10 (you have not mentioned your branch or course of study)

You get 2 in diversity if you are female.

IIM calcutta especially prefers experienced candidates. You to have to score quiet high in WAT-Pi to get selected

You will have to perform exceptionally well at Interviews to get selected. There is no other way to get selected.

Hope this helps!

Greetings John wick!

According to the official website, after successful completion of MBA degree, you will get certificate/degree of masters of business administration. Every/all IIM offers PGP/ masters of administration course.

To know more about courses offered by IIM Calcutta, and to read reviews, click the link below.

https://www.careers360.com/university/indian-institute-of-management-calcutta

Hope you find it helpful.
Thankyou!