New IIMs Admission Shocker: Below 97 percentile stand no chance!

If you have scored less than overall 97 percentile in CAT 2013, you probably have no chance to get into the new IIMs.

As per the shortlist percentile cut-offs declared by the new IIMs for the CAP process which includes all the six new IIMs i.e. IIM Kashipur, IIM Raipur, IIM Ranchi, IIM Rohtak, IIM Trichy & IIM Udaipur, general category students need to have a minimum overall percentile of 96.82 to get a call for the WAT & PI round.

The official website of IIM Trichy says, List of candidates for WAT & PI for IIM Kashipur, IIM Raipur, IIM Ranchi, IIM Rohtak, IIM Trichy & IIM Udaipur will be available in the website on 22nd January 2014 for access. The exact date for PI & WAT will be communicated to the shortlisted candidates.

Shortlist percentile cut-offs for WAT & PI for IIM Kashipur, IIM Raipur, IIM Ranchi, IIM Tiruchirappalli & IIM Udaipur

Category of Candidate
Minimum CAT Percentiles for short listing, section wise

Quantitative Ability & Data Interpretation
Verbal Ability & Logical Reasoning
Overall

General
70.77
71.09
96.82

NCOBC
63.95
63.81
81.35

SC
50.52
50.51
67.53

ST
41.42
40.80
50.71

DAP
41.42
42.21
50.71

This year IIM Trichy is coordinating Common Admission Process of the six new IIMs. For a total of 800 seats, almost 10,000 candidates will be called for the combinedPersonal Interview and WAT commonly known as Common Admission Process (CAP).

The older Indian Institutes of Management are expected to participate in fourth year of Common Admission Process (CAP) of six new IIMs. Confirming the development to MBAUniverse.com, Prof. Hari Sreekumar, Chairperson of Admissions,IIM Tiruchirappalli said that, IIMs at Bangalore, Lucknow, Kozhikode and Calcutta are providing some inputs for the CAP. However, they will not be directly participating in the process.

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Common Admission Process 2014: An Overview

CAP PI & WAT venues:

The Personal Interview and Written Analysis Test would be conducted at New Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai and Kolkata. The exact date for PI & WAT will be communicated to the shortlisted candidates.

Benefits of CAP

Students will be immensely benefitted. Their time will be saved as they do not need to sit for WAT & PI rounds at various institutes. It not only saves time on part of students but also on the part of IIMs as the whole process gets smooth and easy. Talking about the USP of the CAP for New IIMs Prof. Hari Sreekumar said that, A Combined Process reduces the burden on students, who do not need to travel for multiple interviews. It also helps us to utilize our own resources better.

How CAP will work

Among the six new IIMs, except IIM Rohtak and IIM Kashipur, the rest have the same short listing criteria. Rohtak and Kashipur would send their lists to IIM Trichy, and the common list will be drawn up. Each IIM will prepare its own short list of candidates based on their respective criteria. The combined list of candidates to be considered for further processing will be prepared by the coordinating IIM, namely IIM Trichy.

Prof Hari Sreekumar informed that in the Common Admission Process only the WAT and PI will serve as common elements of evaluation across the six new IIMs while individual IIMs can have their own criteria apart from WAT and PI, such as performance in graduation, performance in CAT, work experience etc. These could vary across IIMs.

Final selection criteria

After normalizing the PI & WAT scores across panels, across centers, and across different IIMs, a combined merit list will be prepared for the entire lot of students to be considered for admission to the six new IIMs.

Each individual new IIMs will take the normalized PI & WAT score of the candidates shortlisted by them and combine it with scores for other criteriaCAT score, profile score and any other score to make their own individual merit list to make final offers to candidates.

There is a possibility that the candidates will be shortlisted by only some of the six new IIMs, and not by all.

How to Prepare for CAP

Answering to a query about what should an aspirant do in case of a clash between a WAT/PI at an older IIM/other institute and Common Admission Process of the new IIMs, Prof. Kumar said, In genuine cases where there is a clash between a WAT/PI at an older IIM/other institute, and our process, the candidate concerned should get in touch with our Admissions office, well in advance. We will try our best to accommodate such requests by providing alternative dates. However, candidates need to be aware that rescheduling interviews is extremely difficult, so they should approach us only if there is a genuine problem.

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Common Admission Process: Last years trends The first CAP of the new IIMs was conducted by IIM Rohtak under Dr P Rameshan, its director, as the coordinator for the academic year 2011-13. The process included group discussion and personal interview.

The next year, after CAT 2011 the CAP round was conducted by IIM Ranchi and Dr MJ Xavier, the erstwhile director of IIM Ranchi was the coordinator. The process underwent some changes GD was replaced by essay writing or WAT.

The third, CAP round for CAT 2012 was conducted by IIM Raipur under Prof Pradyumna Dash, admission chairperson of IIM Raipur. The process remained the same as the last year. There was a written ability test (WAT) and personal interview (PI). The process was conducted in five cities Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai and Bangalore.

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