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 10th standard, the 12th 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:
Eligibility to appear for CAT 2021
- To appear in CAT, the candidates must be a graduate from any stream
- Minimum marks in UG is 50%.
- There is no age limit
Eligibility for AWT+PI rounds at IIM A
- 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 |
Eligibility for Final Admission at IIM Ahmedabad
- 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 10th and 12th 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 80th 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 10th and 12thstd. examinations.
C6. (Percentage of marks in the bachelor’s examination) ≥ Minimum cut-off percentage, to be set at the 80th 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’
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