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Criteria Followed by IIM Indore for Short listing of candidates for
Group Discussion and Personal Interview for PGP Batch 2009-11
As mentioned in page 57 of CAT-2008 Bulletin, "Candidates are short-listed for Group
Discussion and Personal Interview on the basis of their performance in CAT/GMAT, academic
record, and relevant work experience."
In tune with the stated admissions policy of the institute, IIM Indore adopted the following
process for short listing of candidates belonging to various categories for GD/PI.
Initial Screening
An initial screening criterion was used to generate the consideration set of candidates. This
criterion was used to determine the initial pool of eligible candidates. This was done to ensure
that the consideration set consis ts of candidates who have demonstrated an equal minimum level
of competence in all the three sections of the test. The minimum sectional percentile cut-offs in
CAT-2008 used to arrive at the consideration set are given in the table below:
Category Section I
Quantitative
Section II
Logic and Data
Interpretation
Section III
Verbal
Open 80.00 80.00 80.00
OBC 75.00 75.00 75.00
SC, ST and PWD 65.00 65.00 65.00
Following are the numbers of candidates in various categories who satisfied the above criteria
and thus made it to the Consideration Set:
Category Number of
Candidates
Open 9697
OBC 704
SC 413
ST 77
PWD 34
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-2008 and
their prior work experience. Performance in CAT was given a weightage of 95% and work
experience was given a weightage of 5% to calculate the overall score. Required numbers of
candidates were called for GD/PI from top of this list, prepared separately for each category.
Going by the past experience, the number of candidates called for GD/PI was kept at seven times
the number of seats available in open category and six times for all other categories. However,
since the number of candidates qualifying the initial screening criterion in ST and PWD
categories was less than the required number of candidates, all the candidates in these categories
who made it to the consideration set were called for GD/PI.
Following is the category-wise break up of the candidates called for GD/PI:
Category Number of Seats Called for GD/PI
General 143 1001
OBC 36 216
SC 36 216
ST 18 77
PWD 7 34
Total 240 1544
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 � Open (98.91), OBC (94.68), SC (83.37), ST
(72.45) and PWD (75.81). |
