IIM Indore announced the admission criteria for PGP 2020-2022 session for applicants from CAT 2019. IIM Indore will follow a three-stage process to release the final list of shortlisted candidates. If you are opting for IIM Indore PGP, then you must follow the admission criteria to get admission to selected courses.
Here is IIM Indore’s Admission Criteria as follows:
Applicants who have applied for two-year PGP from IIM Indore must meet the eligibility criteria to get shortlisted for the further process. Eligibility Criteria is as follows:
Candidate must hold a Bachelor’s degree with 50% marks or equivalent CGPA. 45% marks in case of SC/ST and PwD categories.
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent certification attained by the candidate must entail a minimum of three years of education after 10+2 or equivalent.
Candidates appearing for their final bachelor’s degree/equivalent qualification examination and those who are awaiting results can also apply.
Final Year students who are provisionally admitted must share their mark-sheet and degree certificate of final year Bachelor’s Degree examination held on or before June 30, 2020.
Candidate should meet minimum sectional percentile and overall percentile score as mentioned in the table below.
Category |
Quantitative Ability (QA) |
Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning (DILR) |
Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension (VARC) |
Overall |
General |
80.00 |
80.00 |
80.00 |
90.00 |
EWS |
80.00 |
80.00 |
80.00 |
90.00 |
NC-OBC |
70.00 |
70.00 |
70.00 |
80.00 |
SC |
55.00 |
55.00 |
55.00 |
60.00 |
ST |
45.00 |
45.00 |
45.00 |
50.00 |
PwD |
45.00 |
45.00 |
45.00 |
50.00 |
Note: Economically Weaker Sections (EWS), Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST), Non-creamy Other Backward Castes (NC-OBC), Persons with disabilities (PwD)
Candidates who satisfied the requirements in Stage 1 will considered for Stage 2. Sufficient number of candidates from each category will be shortlisted using the merit list generated based on Composite Score as mentioned in the table below.
Computation of Composite Score
Components |
Score |
10th Standard/SSC Score |
34 * Zcandidate-ZminZmax-Zmin |
12th Standard/HSC Score |
40 * Zcandidate-ZminZmax-Zmin |
CAT 2019 Overall Score |
20 * Candidate's CAT Overall ScoreHighest CAT Overall Score |
Diversity Factor (DF) |
6 |
Composite Score |
= Sum of the above scores (Max 100) |
Note: Z candidate, Z min, Z max for 10th Standard/ SSC Score and 12th Standard/ HSC Score are computed using the normalisation process.
Candidates shortlisted for WAT and PI will be intimated in the month of January 2020. Admission Interviews will be conducted in Delhi, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Kolkata, Indore and Mumbai. However, the institute reserves the right to change centres at anytime if the situation occurs.
Candidates shortlisted will have to attend both WAT & PI, failing which will not be considered for the next stage. Also, the institute expects a consistent and minimum performance of candidates in different parameters of PI, which will be decided by the Admission committee. Candidates failing to meet minimum requirement will not make it to Stage 3 of selection process.
The candidate who met the requirement on stage 2 will only be considered for final selection. For final selection, a category-wise merit list will be generated based on the Final Composite Score (FCS) as explained in the table below.
Computation of Final Composite Score
Components |
Score |
10th Standard Score/SSC Score |
10 * Zcandidate-ZminZmax-Zmin |
12th Standard Score/ HSC Score |
10 * Zcandidate-ZminZmax-Zmin |
CAT 2019 Overall Score |
20 * Candidate's CAT Overall ScoreHighest CAT Overall Score |
WAT Score |
20 * Zcandidate-ZminZmax-Zmin |
PI Score |
40 * Zcandidate-ZminZmax-Zmin |
Final Composite Score |
= Sum of the above scores (Max 100) |
Note: Z candidate, Z min, Z max for each component are computed using the normalisation process
If you have any queries, you can check for the admission notification on IIM Indore’s Website.