IIM Ahmedabad Selection Criteria 2023

IIM Ahmedabad Selection Criteria 2023 will be released soon by IIM A. The selection criteria of IIM Ahmedabad tells the CAT cut off, weightages, and other aspects of IIM Ahmedabad admission 2023. Students who wish to get admission in IIM Ahmedabad can check the complete IIM Ahmedabad selection criteria here before participating in IIM Ahmedabad admission 2023-24.

IIM Ahmedabad MBA Admission 2023

The selection criteria of IIM Ahmedabad 2023 will be out soon.

In the meantime you can check last year’s selection criteria.

IIM Ahmedabad selection criteria of last year was as follows.

For the admission session 2022-2024, there are a few major changes in the selection criteria of IIM Ahmedabad.

The one major change is that the ‘Application Rating’ (AR) score has been increased from 30 to 35.
What is an AR score? – An applicant’s AR score is the sum of the rating scores of marks obtained in the 10^th standard, the 12^th standard (depending upon the stream, viz., ‘Science’, ‘Commerce’ and ‘Arts & Humanities’), the bachelor’s degree programme (depending upon the discipline) and work experience (as on July 31, 2021).

As per the changes, the new selection criteria of IIM Ahmedabad Admission from the year 2022 is available on this page.

IIM Ahmaedabad MBA Admission 2022 Eligibility Criteria

Apart from the fact that the students need to qualify the selection process, they need to follow a certain eligibility criteria beforehand. The same is given in the sections below:

Ther are 3 stages of the selection process, and let us see for each stage what is the eligibility:

• To appear in CAT, the candidates must be a graduate from any stream
• Minimum marks in UG is 50%.
• There is no age limit

• The AR score of the CAT qualified candidates are calculated.
• The candidates are called for AWT and PI based on their AR score.

Below is the CAT 2021 cutoff marks for IIM Ahmedabad Admission 2022:

Category	VARC	DILR	QA	Overall Percentile
General	70	70	70	80
NC-OBC-transgender	65	65	65	75
SC	60	60	60	70
ST	50	50	50	60
PwD (General, NC-OBC-transgender, SC)	60	60	60	70
PwD (ST)	50	50	50	60

• The students are called for the final admission based on their combined score of CAT, WAT+PI, Previous education, and work experience. This combined score is called AR.

Method of Calculation of AR for IIM A MBA Admission 2022

The AR of the students is calculated who qualify the CAT cut off marks. Based on the AR score, the students are called for Analytical Writing Test (AWT) & Personal Interview (PI).

AR score = A+B+C+D

 Ratings for Class 10 marks (A):

Percent score in 10th Std. Exam	Rating ScoreA
<= 55	1
> 55 and <= 60	2
> 60 and <= 70	3
> 70 and <= 80	5
> 80 and <= 90	8
> 90	10

Rating for Class 12 Marks (B):

Science Stream
Percent score in 12th Std. Exam	Rating Score B
<= 55	1
> 55 and <= 60	2
> 60 and <= 70	3
> 70 and <= 80	5
> 80 and <= 90	8
> 90	10

Commerce Stream
Percent score in 12th Std. Exam	Rating Score B
<= 50	1
> 50 and <= 55	2
> 55 and <= 65	3
> 65 and <= 75	5
> 75 and <= 90	8
> 90	10

Arts/Humanities Stream
Percent score in 12th Std. Exam	Rating Score B
<= 45	1
> 45 and <= 50	2
> 50  and <= 60	3
> 60 and <= 70	5
> 70 and <= 85	8
> 85	10

Rating Scores for the Bachelor’s Degree Examination (C):

AC-1
Percent score in Bachelor’s Degree	Rating Score C
<= 55	1
> 55 and <= 60	2
> 60  and <= 62	3
> 62 and <= 65	5
> 65 and <= 70	8
> 70	10

AC-2
Percent score in Professional courses	Rating Score C
<= 50	1
> 50 and <= 53	2
> 53 and <= 55	3
> 55 and <= 57	5
> 57 and <= 63	8
> 63	10

AC-3
Percent score in Bachelor’s Degree	Rating Score C
<= 55	1
> 55 and <= 60	2
> 60 and <= 65	3
> 65 and <= 70	5
> 70 and <= 80	8
> 80	10

AC-4 & AC-6
Percent score in Bachelor’s Degree	Rating Score C
<= 60	1
> 60 and <= 65	2
> 65  and <= 70	3
> 70 and <= 75	5
> 75 and <= 85	8
> 85	10

AC-5
Percent score in Professional courses	Rating Score C
<= 50	1
> 50 and <= 55	2
> 55 and <= 60	3
> 60 and <= 65	5
> 65 and <= 75	8
> 75	10

 Rating Scores for Work Experience (D):

Work Experience in Month (as on July 31, 2019)	Rating Score D
< 12 months	0
>= 12 and <= 36 months	MF * (number of months of work experience – 11)
> 36 months	5
Work-experience Multiplication Factor (MF) = 0.20

 Shortlisting for AWT and PI for IIM Ahmedabad MBA Admission 2022

The shortlisting is based on 2 stages:

Stage 1:

IIMA endeavours to recognise exceptional performers in terms of their previous academic records as well as their performance in CAT across diverse academic backgrounds. Towards that, a certain number of top candidates from each of the academic disciplines will be shortlisted for AWT & PI on the basis of their composite score ‘CS’ (see below) subject to their fulfilling certain criteria.

From each of the academic categories (AC) for which the total number of applicants to IIMA who appear for CAT-2021 from SC/ST/NC-OBC/PwD categories is at least 100, the top 5% in the respective AC limited to the respective categories (General/SC/ST/NC-OBC/PwD) among the applicants to IIMA who appear for CAT-2021, henceforth referred to as ACRC groups, (subject to upper limits on the numbers per ACRC group as specified in Table 6) will be shortlisted for AWT & PI on the basis of the composite score ‘CS’ (see below) subject to their fulfilling criteria C1-C3.

CS (Composite Score) = ARF_CS X Normalised AR score + CATF_CS X Normalised overall score in CAT-2019

Application Rating Multiplication Factor for Composite Score (ARF_CS) = 0.35 CAT Multiplication Factor for Composite Score (CATF_CS) = 0.65

The upper limits (UL) on the number of candidates to be shortlisted per RC for AC-1, AC-2, AC-3, AC-5

Category	Upper Limit (UL) Per ACRC
General	100
NC-OBC-transgender	57
SC	32
ST	16
PwD	6

The upper limits (UL) on the number of candidates to be shortlisted per RC for AC-4

Category	Upper Limit (UL) Per ACRC
General	150
NC-OBC-transgender	85
SC	48
ST	24
PwD	9

Criteria C1-C3:

C1.  PVRC, PDILR, PQA and PT must not be lower than the minimum cut-offs as specified in Table 1.

C2.  P ≥ Minimum cut-offs (specific to the category and the stream as shown in Table 7), where P is the average of the percentages of marks scored in 10^th and 12^th std. examinations.

Table 7.  Minimum cut-off for P across different disciplines and different categories

Stream in 12th std.	General Category	NC-OBC-transgender Category	SC    Category	ST     Category	PWD   (General, NC-OBC-transgender, SC)	PWD (ST)
Science	80	75	70	65	70	65
Commerce	77	72	67	62	67	62
Arts & Humanities	75	70	64	59	64	59

C3.  (Percentage of marks in the bachelor’s examination) ≥ Minimum cut-off percentage, to be set at the 80^th percentile of the percentage of marks of the respective ACRC group of the applicants’ pool, (the applicants’ pool in this case being defined as the group of candidates who appear for CAT-2019, apply to IIM Ahmedabad and belong to the respective ACRC.)

Any AC, for which the total number of applicants to IIMA who appear for CAT-2019 from SC/ST/NC-OBC/PwD categories is less than 100, will not be subdivided into ACRCs as above. For such an AC, the top 100 or the top 5% in the respective AC among all the applicants to IIMA who appear for CAT-2019, whichever is less, will be shortlisted for AWT & PI on the basis of the composite score ‘CS’ (see above) subject to their fulfilling criteria C4-C6.

Criteria C4-C6:

C4.  PT ≥ 80, PQA ≥ 70, PDILR ≥ 70 and PVRC ≥ 70.

C5.  P ≥ 80 (Science), 77 (Commerce), 75 (Arts/Humanities), where P is the average of the percentages of marks scored in the 10^th and 12^thstd. examinations.

C6.  (Percentage of marks in the bachelor’s examination) ≥ Minimum cut-off percentage, to be set at the 80^th percentile of the percentage of marks of the respective AC group of the applicants’ pool, (the applicants’ pool in this case being defined as the group of candidates who appear for CAT-2019, apply to IIM Ahmedabad and belong to the respective AC.)

Stage 2:

After removing the candidates selected in Stage 1 from each category (General, NC-OBC, SC, ST and PWD) the additional number of candidates to be shortlisted for AWT & PI will be selected on the basis of the composite score ‘CS’