IIM Ahmedabad & Bangalore announce short list for Interview: Number of CAT 2017 toppers with 99 percentile out of the list

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January 9, 2018
IIM Ahmedabad and IIM Bangalore have announced their shortlists of candidates for the PI round after CAT 2017 results were out yesterday on January 8, 2018. Hundreds of 99 and above percentilers have not found place in the shortlist of candidates in either of the top two IIMs
IIM Ahmedabad & Bangalore announce short list
All the 100 percentilers have been shortlisted by both the IIMs namely IIM Ahmedabad and IIM Bangalore while hundreds of 99 percentilers have not been so lucky

IIM Ahmedabad and IIM Bangalore have announced their shortlists of candidates for the PI round after CAT 2017 results were out yesterday on January 8, 2018. Hundreds of 99 and above percentilers have not found place in the shortlist of candidates in either of the top two IIMs

CAT 2017 result declared on Monday January 8, 2018 had 20 candidates with 100 percentile and thousands above 99 percentile. Last year also there were 20 candidates with 100 percentile. Howe ver, the key difference in CAT 2017 result is that the 100 percentilers this year include 2 females and 3 non-engineers while last year all the 20 candidates were of engineering background and were male. CAT 2015 & CAT 2014 had 17 and 16 candidates respectively with 100 percentile.

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All the 100 percentilers have been shortlisted by both the IIMs namely IIM Ahmedabad and IIM Bangalore while hundreds of 99 percentilers have not been so lucky. IIM Calcutta is about to announce its shortlist of candidates for PI round.

Hundreds of the 99 percentilers have not been so lucky as many of them have not been found eligible to be shortlisted by IIM Ahmedabad and IIM Bangalore due to major sectional dips in their scoring pattern.

Sectional Score Dips: Major reason keeping 99 percentilers out of race
Despite scoring 99 percentile and high scores in 2 of the 3 sections in CAT 2017, many candidates with 99 and above percentile have gone below minimum qualifying score in one section which kept them away from getting shortlisted by IIM Ahmedabad or Bangalore.

Some of them found dip in DILR while others in VARC and many others from Arts, humanities and other background in Quant section. Surprisingly, had these 99 percentilers scored equally good like 80 or 85 percentile in their low scoring section, they could have moved to the club 100 percentile or at least 99.99 percentile and would have been shortlisted by the top notch IIM Ahmedabad and IIM Bangalore, the dream B-schools of CAT 2017 toppers. 

No regret message to 99 percentilers by IIM A or B
IIM Ahmedabad does no longer say ‘sorry you have not been shortlisted’. There is a straight message on its site when you try to check whether shortlisted by this top rated B-school

IIM Bangalore has gone one step ahead and shares probable reasons to the unsuccessful candidates with 99 percentile for not being shortlisted while sending the message.

Admission Dream shattered despite scoring 99+
Scores of a few candidates shared below reflect how their dreams have been shattered due to dip in percentile score in one section out of the 3 sections.

Name
Overall percentile
Section-1
VARC
Section-2
DILR
Section-3
Quant
Saurabh
99.2
99.93
68.67
97.1
Abhinav
99.01
63.9
98.46
99.99
Piyush
93.17
92.54
65.46
96.55

IIM Ahmedabad: Shortlisting criteria
The first stage shortlisting process for Admission to IIM Ahmedabad for the flagship PGP 2018-20 needs excellent academic profile and greater diversity than in earlier PGP batches. The top rated IIM Ahmedabad has awarded higher weightage to academic profile and diversity and has reduced the weightage for CAT 2017 scores for admission 2018-20 batch.

Required CAT 2018 scores
According to the admission 2018-20 guidelines issued by IIM Ahmedabad “Performance in CAT is an important input in the admission process. Candidates should note that it is important to perform well in each section of the test.” Individual sectional cut offs based on CAT 2017 scores will be considered for short-listing the candidates for final admission round at IIM Ahmedabad.

The first stage shortlisting based on CAT 2017 scores for admission to PGP 2018-20 batch at IIM Ahmedabad requires minimum 70 percentile in each of the 3 sections and minimum 80 percentile overall. If it is not there, you will not qualify to be shortlisted despite scoring 99 percentile in CAT 2017.

IIM Bangalore: Shortlisting criteria
The minimum required percentile in CAT 2017 to qualify for 1st stage shortlisting at IIM Bangalore for PI round for admission to PGP 2018-20 is 90 overall and 85 in VARC while it is 80 in DILR and Quant sections.  While other IIMs have maintained same qualifying standard across all the 3 sections, IIM Bangalore has prescribed higher percentile for VARC section to qualify for the 1st stage shortlisting criteria.

Moving ahead of other IIMs, the IIM Bangalore has awarded 60% weight to other parameters and only 40% weight to CAT 2017 scores in the first stage shortlisting process for final admission round to PGP 2018-20 batch.

Other parameters like weightage to academic profile, academic diversity, gender diversity, work experience will follow only after you clear the hurdle of scoring minimum sectional percentile in CAT 2017.

However, it is suggested to check with other reputed and highly ranked B-schools who will prefer high overall percentile in CAT 2017 instead of disqualifying a candidate with slightly low sectional score.

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