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Hi dear,

First you should complete your graduation with good academics and participate in your college events. After completing graduation you have to appear in CAT and score a very good percentile more than 99. IIMs takes admission on the basis of CAT percentile. In FMS Delhi the admission is based on 70 percent CAT score and 30 percent GD.

Hope it helps.

Hello Aspirant

IIMC offers courses only in post graduate diploma course in development journalism and short term courses

They do not provide any course in Mass communication. and journalism.

In IIMC you can apply for TV journalism ,Advertisement and PR courses

For more detail you can refer

http://www.iimc.nic.in/index.aspx#

Regards!

Hello

IIMC Entrance Exam  is a university-level exam conducted by Indian Institute of Mass Communication for admission to PG Diploma courses in Journalism, PR and Advertising and Radio and TV Journalism offered at the university.

This year the exam is expected to be held in the last week of May 2020 in offline mode. The application forms for the same will be available from the third week of April 2020. The application process will be conducted in both online and offline mode. Candidates with a bachelor’s degree will be eligible to apply for the entrance test.

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HEllo Santosh

Along with CAT percentile,academics score and job experience,sectional cut off also matter.As this year many candidates who have low percentile got call from IIM C and some other old IIMs due to their sectional cut off.Talking about the IIM C,the cutoff for this is as follows-

Category

Quantitative Aptitude

Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning

Verbal Ability

Total Percentile

General

≥75

≥80

≥80

≥85

NC-OBC

≥65

≥65

≥70

≥75

EWS

≥65

≥65

≥70

≥75

SC

≥60

≥60

≥65

≥70

ST

≥55

≥55

≥55

≥65

PWD

≥55

≥55

≥55

≥65

I Hope This Helps

Best Of Luck!!!

Hello sumit,

The eligibility criteria of IIMC entrance exam 2020 comprises of different parameters which candidates have to fulfill before they start filling the application form.

The age limit- (for 2020)

  • For SC/ST/PH category candidates born on August 1, 1989, or later.

  • For General category candidates born on August 1, 1994, or later.

  • For OBC category candidates born on August 1, 1991, or later .

Educational qualification

  • candidates must be graduates in any discipline from a recognised university or an institute.
  • final year is eligible

for more information --> https://media.careers360.com/articles/iimc-entrance-exam

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Good luck!


Hi Bhushan,

You ahve secured a good percentile in CAT exam. But, you have to maintain a good record, Also to get into top IIMs, you have to secured more than 99.5+ percentile, then you will be definitely get a call for the top 3 IIMS, that is IIM Calcutta, IIM Bangalore and IIM Ahmedabad. As you have secured 97.1 percentile, you would get a call in 2nd round. But there are fair chance that you got call from new IIMs.

After the declaration of the result the merit list will be made  to call the candidate for the interview round.The merit list comprises of your CAT percentile, your graduation marks, your work experience, your 10th and 12th marks. Also, if you have secured more than 95+ percentile, then you get call from the others IIM for interview and Written Aptitude test. As you have If you have score above 97+ percentile i.e IIMS ,you will have a good probability of getting calls from old IIMs like IIM Lucknow, IIM Kozhikode, IIM Indore, IIM Shillong.

Once you get call from IIM, you have to go through the WAT exam and interview process. On clearing both an another merit list will be prepared, which will select you to get enter IIM.

Hello,

The cutoff percentile for IIMs and old management institutions like FMS Delhi ranges over 99 percentile.  New IIMs like IIM Sambalpur, IIM Ranchi require 90 percentile as their eligibility criteria. The cutoff is decided on the basis of following points :

1. Exam difficulty
2. Number of test giving candidates
3. Number of candidates who qualify the exam
4. Total count of seats
5. Ranking of the institutes

Hello Moksha!!

Exam for Odia/Urdu/Marathi/Malayalam Journalism will be on May 25,2020 and For Pg diploma courses will be on May 26,2020.Th applications for this entrance examination starts from April 17,2020  till May 01,2020.I hope this information may helps you a little bit.Good luck!!

Hii,

Indian institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) Delhi offers one year post graduate diploma in 5 Disciplines. For this the Basis eligibility criteria is the candidate must hold a bachelor's degree. The College also offers Diploma course in Development of Journalism for non aligned and other developing countries.The eligibility criteria for this course also ,the candidate must hold Bachelor's degree. So there is no course based on Intermediate eligibilty.

Hello aspirant,

The three colleges you have mentioned above are really good. Now it totally depends on the stream you choose as some colleges are prominent with the courses they offer. So you can go with the course and which college is prominent for that.

Thank you!
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