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Personal Interview - Category-wise Short-listing Criteria and Number of Candidates
| Sr No |
Category |
Candidates |
1 |
General Category |
557 candidates whose percentile in each section was 95.6 and above, and who had an overall percentile of 99.3 and above, have been called for the Personal Interview (PI). |
2 |
OBC Category |
54 candidates whose percentile in each section was 92 and above and who had an overall percentile of 98.5 and above have been called for the PI. |
3 |
SC Category |
All 106 candidates who met the minimum cut-off requirement were short-listed for PI. |
4 |
ST Category |
All 20 candidates who met the minimum cut-off requirement were short-listed for PI. |
Group Discussion (GD) / Personal Interview (PI) schedule is as follows:
City Interview Center |
Dates |
Ahmedabad |
February 16-18, 2008 |
Bangalore |
February 24-29, 2008 |
Delhi |
March 08-13, 2008 |
Kolkata |
March 17-18, 2008 |
Note: IIMB uses multiple parameters, namely academic performance in school, high school and graduation programs as well as candidates’ scores in CAT to judge the suitability of candidates for the PGP program. Relevant work experience, if any, is also given weight in the selection.
Cut- Off’s for GD/PI
The minimum sectional and overall percentile cut-offs in CAT-2007 used to arrive at the consideration set are given in the table below:
Final Shortlist
- Candidates satisfying the above-mentioned criteria were ranked in decreasing order of a weighted overall score that was based on a combination of their performance in CAT-2007 and their prior work experience.
- Performance in CAT was given a weight age of 90% and work experience was given a weight age of 10% to Calculate the overall score. Required numbers of candidates were called for GD/PI from top of this list, prepared separately for each category.
- The candidates in the final shortlist had an overall percentile score of at least the figures given in the brackets against each category of candidates – General (98.09), OBC (96.76), SC (84.40), ST (76.30) and PWD (78.90).
Criteria for short listing for admissions 2008
Category(percentile) |
Section-1 |
Section-2 |
Section-3 |
Total |
General |
92 |
92 |
92 |
98 |
OBC |
75 |
75 |
75 |
90 |
SC |
60 |
60 |
60 |
80 |
ST |
50 |
50 |
50 |
70 |
PWD1 |
50 |
50 |
50 |
70 |
PWD2 |
10 |
10 |
10 |
15 |
PWD3 |
60 |
60 |
60 |
80 |
The short-listing of candidates for GD & PI will be in three stages based on CAT performance:
Stage-1:
In order to be considered for short-listing, the minimum percentage of marks to be scored by a candidate in each section in CAT are:
IIML uses multiple parameters, namely academic performance in school, high school and graduation programs as well as relevant work experience
The pre-GD/PI score for the work experience profile is given as indicated in Table –3
Stage-2:
This stage involves the assessment of the candidature by an interview panel of two faculty members of IIML. The weight-age given to various components are –
The minimum requirement for getting a pass in the Personal Interview is 5 out of 20 marks. Sum of the scores in all the ten components (as given in table-2 and table-4) will be taken as the final score of a candidate for arriving at the merit list(s) for final selection to the PGP as well as the PGP-ABM of IIML.
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