IIM CAP 2025: Interviews for 20,000 Candidates to be conducted at 8 IIMs, Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi NCR, Kolkata; Date-Slot Booking Last Date Today Feb 3

Selection of preferred city for Offline PI/WAT and date-slot booking can be done only by candidates who successfully completed IIM CAP registration process before the last date – January 23. 

• IIM CAP 2025 City, Date-Slot Booking opening date is January 30 (Monday).
• IIM CAP 2025 City, Date-Slot Booking last date is 3rd Feb 2025 (5.00 PM).

IIM CAP 2025 City, Date-Slot Booking Process Open
IIM CAP 2025 City Date-Slot booking process opened on January 30 at 2:00 PM. Some candidates have successfully completed their booking, while a few have reported that IIM server has crashed due to heavy traffic. Check details below.
Sharing his excitement, a candidate posted this image of successful booking on social media.

Another candidate shared is disappointment when not able to login to IIM CAP official website.

IIM CAP 2025 Interviews will be conducted at 8 IIMs, Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi NCR, Hyderabad. Here is a list of IIM CAP Interview Locations 2025. 

• Mumbai
• Delhi NCR
• Bangalore 
• Kolkata
• IIM Udaipur
• IIM Trichy 
• IIM Kashipur, 
• IIM Nagpur, 
• IIM Ranchi, 
• IIM Sirmaur,
• IIM Bodhgaya 
• IIM Jammu

Email Confirmation Received from IIM CAP Office by a Candidate 

Check how to book IIM CAP 2025 City, Date-Slot.

IIM CAP 2025 City and Date-Slot Booking Process is explained next. 

Many changes have been announced in the IIM CAP 2025 process by IIM Bodh Gaya. Read below. The biggest change is that the process will be conducted in-person in offline mode. 

In order to participate in IIM CAP process, all registered candidates must opt for four different cities (in order of preference) to appear in the offline PI/WAT process. IIM CAP Date-Slot Booking 2025 is available on a First Come, First Serve basis. If any candidate does not book a date slot before last date, the IIM CAP 2025 system will allot the date slot automatically (random allocation of date slot). Hence candidates are advised to book their city and date-time slot immediately. 

Check how to complete IIM CAP City and Date-Slot Booking 2025 application below.

Here is a step-by-step guide to complete your IIM CAP Date-Slot Booking. 

Step 1: Logon to IIM CAP 2025 official website - https://cap2025.iimbg.ac.in and login to your candidate account

Step 2: Select your First Preferred City. If there are vacant seats for the first preferred city, you will get the option of selecting a date slot for that only. 

Step 3: If there is no vacant seat for the first preferred city, you will get such options for the second preferred city, and so on. If there are no vacant seats for the third and the fourth preferred city, then all such cities would be available on the portal where there are vacant seats. You can select any one of these cities. Further, the selection window for date slots would be available.

Step 4: After competition of city and date-slot selection you will get a confirmation. Save and take a print out. 

Remember, IIM CAP Date-Slot Booking 2025 is available on a First Come, First Serve basis. If you do not book a date slot during the stipulated time, the system may allow the date slot automatically (random allocation of date slot).

CAP 2025 Centers are expected to be in New Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai and Kolkata. However, since CAP 2025 may be conducted online, candidates can attend the PI round from their home on the designated date which will be communicated by the CAP coordinating IIM to the short-listed candidates. 

The IIM CAP 2025 application form filling process for eligible candidates was live from January 14 till January 23, 2025. IIM CAP Date Slot Selection window for PI/WAT is scheduled from January 30 to February 3, 2025.. The PI/WAT process will take place from February 17 to March 15, 2025. Check important IIM CAP dates below. 

Table 1: IIM CAP 2025 Dates 

Following is the sectional and overall percentile cut-off for appearing in PI and WAT of Common Admission Process 2025 of 8 participating IIMs (IIM Bodh Gaya, IIM Jammu, IIM Kashipur, IIM Nagpur, IIM Ranchi, IIM Sirmaur, IIM Tiruchirappalli and IIM Udaipur). 

Table 2: IIM CAP 2025 Cut Off 

Candidates with percentile equal to or more than the above-mentioned IIM CAP Cutoff 2025 can appear in PI and WAT by applying on the https://cap2025.iimbg.ac.in 

The IIM Common Admission Process (CAP) is a common selection process conducted for candidates shortlisted by participating IIMs based on their CAT scores. Instead of appearing for separate rounds of interviews for each IIM, selected candidates undergo a centralized Personal Interview (PI) round. Final admission offer to the candidates is released by individual participating IIM based on the performance in CAP round, CAT score, Academic Profile, diversity, work experience and their other selection parameters. Here’s a step-by-step guide to IIM CAP 2025 Admission Selection Process.  

Step 1. Shortlisting for CAP 2025: After the announcement of the CAT 2024 results, participating IIMs released their shortlisting criteria (95%) and calls for candidates for the CAP round.  

Step 2. Registration for CAP 2025: Once shortlisted, you will be required to register for CAP on the official CAP portal. Last date was January 23.

Step 3: IIM CAP 2025 City, Date-Slot Booking Dates: Selection of preferred city for Offline PI/WAT and date-slot booking can be done only by candidates who successfully completed IIM CAP registration. Details are described above. 

Step 4: Personal Interview and WAT: Candidates must appear in Personal Interview (PI) and Written Ability Test (WAT) round.

Step 5. Post-CAP Evaluation: After the CAP round, the organizing IIM sends the interview scores to all participating IIMs. Each IIM then evaluates candidates independently based on its own admission policy. Key factors considered include CAT 2024 score, CAP PI score, Academic profile, Diversity factors (gender, academic background, etc.)  and Work experience.  

Step 6: Final Selection by Individual CAP IIMs: Each participating IIM uses its own formula to compute the final score and release its merit list.  

Total number of IIMs participating in IIM CAP 2025 round is Eight (8) only. IIM Raipur and IIM Sambalpur have dropped out of the CAP 2025 process. Check complete list below. 

Table 3: List of IIMs participating in IIM CAP 2025 

Each participating IIM is free to give their own weightage to CAP process. Based on past trends, the expected weightage by participating IIM in their Final Admission is expected to be as follows:

Table 5: Weightage in Participating IIM Final Selection

In a bold move, IIM Sambalpur has exited from Common Admission Process (CAP) from MBA Admissions 2025. IIM Sambalpur will conduct its own admission process for MBA and newly launched course MBA in Business Analytics programs. Sharing the context behind this shift in IIM Sambalpur admission 2025 process, Prof Mahadeo Jaiswal, Director, IIM Sambalpur, said, “Since 2018, IIM Sambalpur has been a part of CAP, where it has collaborated with other IIMs... The primary objective of this collaboration was to optimally use the limited resources during the initial years of the institute…” Dr Jaiswal further added, “However, with the introduction of this new and independent admission process, IIM Sambalpur has opted to conduct its MBA admissions process independently similar to the earlier generation IIMs, allowing prospective candidates to be directly interviewed by the institute.”

Prof. Prabhat Ranjan IIM CAP 2025 Coordinator said there will be no impact on CAP process and said, “The dynamics of CAP will not be impacted by the exit of IIM Raipur and IIM Sambalpur. The 8 CAP-IIMs respect the value in the joint effort of overall coordination. A single appearance in the process enables candidates to be part of the admission processes of 8 IIMs.”

Similarly, Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Raipur has also announced it will no longer participate in the Common Admission Process (CAP) for its MBA admissions from 2025 onwards, opting instead for an independent selection process. Exit of IIM Raipur and IIM Sambalpur from IIM Common Admission Process shows the confidence that these IIMs have in pulling quality students. 

In conclusion, the Common Admission Process (CAP) is the final selection round for MBA admission 2025 in eight second and third generation IIMs: IIM Bodhgaya, IIM Jammu, IIM Kashipur, IIM Nagpur, IIM Ranchi, IIM Sirmaur, IIM Trichy and IIM Udaipur. Read above article for complete details on IIM CAP process.