IIM Indore Admission Criteria 2021

IIM Indore Admission Criteria 2021

Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Indore has announced the names of shortlisted candidates for the second round on its official website. Students can go through the status of the provisional IIM shortlist for personal interview by entering their CAT 2020 registration number and email id/ date of birth. Prior to this the institute had released the criteria for getting admission in PGP and PGP-HRM for the academic batch of 2021-23 in virtual mode on its official website. To participate in the admission process of IIM Indore, students have to fulfill the required eligibility criteria and fill the IIM Indore application form. The admission process consists of three stages for the academic year of 2021-23. They are IIM Eligibility criteria, Shortlist candidates for Written Ability Test (WAT) and Personal Interview (PI) and Final selection. The CAT 2020 score is also considered by IIM Indore.

Overview

Eligibility criteria

Students should have a bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 50% marks on its equivalent CGPA (45% marks in total aggregate in case the student belongs to Scheduled Tribe (ST) Scheduled Caste (SC) and Persons with Disabilities (PwD) category)\

Application Process

Students wanting to enter the two year Post Graduate Programme (PGP) at IIM Indore must appear for the Common Admission Test (CAT). This national level entrance test was held on November 29. Candidates who wish to apply for IIM Indore PGP or PGP-HRM programme have to apply for the same while registering for CAT 2020. No changes can be made after the closure of the CAT 2020 registration window.

Selection Process

The admission process for IIM Indore 2021 comprises three stages. (I) Eligibility Criteria (II) Shortlist of candidates for Written Ability Test (WAT) and Personal Interview (PI) (III) Final Selection.

Stage 1 – Eligibility Criteria

Candidates who register for the two year PGP programme at IIM Indore have to fulfill the eligibility criteria given by IIM Indore. Besides that one also requires a minimum sectional percentile and overall percentile in CAT 2020. Only the candidates who are eligible will be called for Stage 2 of IIM Indore selection process.

CAT 2020 Sectional and Overall Percentile Cutoff

* Economically Weaker Section (EWS), Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST), Persons with Disability (PwD) and Non-creamy other Backward Class (NC-OBC).

Stage 2 – Short listing for Written Ability Test (WAT) and Personal Interview (PI)

IIM, Indore has announced the names of shortlisted candidates for the second round on its official website. Students can go through the status of the provisional IIM shortlist for personal interview by entering their CAT 2020 registration number and email id/ DOB.

Students satisfying the above-mentioned criteria are qualified for stage 2. It consists of Written Ability Test (WAT) and Personal Interview (PI). The authorities’ shortlist the eligible candidates from different categories such as (General, NC-OBC, EWS, SC, ST and PwD) based on the Composite Score.

IIM Admission Criteria 2021 – Computation of Composite Score (CS)

*Z candidates, Z min and Z max tends for 10th/ SSC score and 12th/ HSC score are computed using normalization process

Students shortlisted for the WAT and PI round will be informed after the completion of stage 1. IIM Indore conducts their admission interviews in Chennai, Bangalore, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Indore and Mumbai. IIM Indore reserves full rights to switch the interview location at any time.

Candidates shortlisted for the Written Ability Test (WAT) and Personal Interview (PI) must attend both the rounds. They will not be considered for stage 3 if they fail to attend any one. Students are expected to have a consistent and minimum performance in the different parameters of Personal Interview (PI), that are determined by the admission committee. Those who fail to get the minimum performance in any PI parameter are not eligible for the next stage of the selection process.

Stage 3 – Final Selection

Only the students who succeed in the Stage 2 are considered for the final selection round of IIM Indore. Category wise IIM Indore merit list is generated based on the Final Composite score. Next to that provisional admission offers are made accordingly by the authorities following the reservation norms.

IIM Indore Admission 2021 – Computation of Final Composite Score (FCS)

*WAT Score- In case of Personal Interviews (PI) being conducted online (Due to COVID-19 or any other reason) the Written Ability Test (WAT) round will be removed and final selection will be based on other/remaining components of the final composite score computation.

Reservation of seats

A total of 27% of seats are reserved for Other Backward Class (OBC) those who belongs to the “Non-Creamy” layer (NC-OBC), and a total of 15% are reserved for Scheduled Caste (SC), and 7.5% for Scheduled Tribe (ST) candidates, up to 10% for those who belongs to Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) and 5% persons for Persons with Disabilities as per the Government of India (GOI) requirements.

With respect to the Disabilities Act, 2016 (RPwD Act 2016), “person with benchmark disability” which means a person with not less than 40% of a specified disability where the specified disability has not been derived in a measurable terms and it also includes the disabilities which has been defined in measurable terms, as certified by the authorities. “Specified Disability” tends for the disabilities as specified in the schedule of RPwD Act 2016.

The categories of disability are:

1. Blindness and low division
2. Locomotor disability includes leprosy cured, cerebral palsy, acid attack victim, dwarfism and muscular dystrophy
3. Deaf and hard of hearing
4. Intellectual disability, Autism, mental illness and specific learning disability
5. Multiple disabilities from amongst person under clauses (1) to (4)
6. Other “Specified disabilities” mentioned in “The Schedule” of RPwD Act 2016

Merit List

After completing the final selection rounds, Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Indore will announce the final merit list which consists of the names of the shortlisted candidates. The candidate who finds their name in the merit list is required to accept the offer by paying a certain amount as acceptance fee.

Fee structure

Students in the merit list should pay an amount of acceptance fee after accepting the admission offer. This will be adjusted in the first installment. The fee payment can be made either in one go or in the three termwise installments that have to be paid 7 days before the term registration. Students have to pay some fine in case of late payment of fees.The total fee includes access to lectures, library, computing facilities etc. It also includes the lodging facilities. Yet it doesn’t include the cost of textbooks. The estimated cost of textbooks is Rs 15,000/- per annum, that has to be spent from the students own pocket.

Fees – Detailed Structure

As seen above, PI weightage is 40% in final score and WAT is 20%. To get personal coaching, call @9643362320

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