IIM Shillong Admission Criteria | IIM Shillong Selection Criteria

The two phase selection process includes:

Reservation Policy

For PGP programme, IIM Shillong follows a two- stage admission process for finalizing the candidates for PGP 2021-2023 batch. Student should go through the information released by IIM Shillong for the admission criteria to Post Graduate Program in Management.

Phase1- Shortlisting Candidates for Group Discussion and Personal Interview Session

Phase 2- Merit Listing for final Admission Offer to PGP 2021-23 Batch

Let us go through the following article to understand in detail the selection process followed by IIM Shillong for the PGP programme.

Key Details of PHASE – 1: Short listing Process for Group Discussion and Personal Interview

Those candidates who have opted for IIM Shillong in their CAT 2020 application will be eligible for consideration in Phase 1.Read the content of the following table as the minimum requirement of marks for consideration in different categories in various examination is mentioned.

TABLE – 1 Minimum Requirements* of Marks required for shortlisting in various categories

*Note: The actual percentage and percentile mentioned in table -1 of a shortlisted candidate for the GD & PI process may be much higher than the above mentioned minimum values.

Also, VARC stands for Verbal and Reading Comprehension, DILR stands for Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning, QA stands for Quantitative Aptitude.

As per the data mentioned in A , eligible candidates will be segregated as per their academic disciplines in graduation as mentioned in CAT 2020. Annexure 1 gives details of academic disciplines.

A certain percentage (α) of candidates from each academic discipline will be shortlisted for GD and PI. The details are mentioned below:

N = Number of candidates that appeared for CAT 2020 Exam

G = Number of Academic disciplines

Ni = The number of candidates present in the i^thacademic discipline, Ɐ i = 1,2,3,……g.

The percentage of candidates eligible for shortlist for any i^th academic discipline will be as per details mentioned in Table – 2.

Table 2 : Key Details for Academic Disciplines Number and Percentage (α_i) of Candidates

Academic disciplines (i)	Number of Candidates present in the Academic Discipline (Ni)	Percentage of Candidates from each Academic Disciplines (α_i)
1	N₁	α₁=N₁/Nx100
2	N₂	α₂=N₂/Nx100
3	N₃	α₃=N₃/Nx100
......	...	...
g	N_g	α_g=N_g/Nx100
Total	N	100

Where, α_i= N_i/N × 100 ; Ɐ i = 1,2,3,……g and 0 ≤ α_i≤ 1

The eligible candidates in respective categories are grouped as per the categories, with number of candidates in any given category j being : M_j , Ɐ_j = E,T, C, O. Thus,

M_E : Number of candidates in category EWS

M_T : Number of candidates in category ST

M_C : Number of candidates in category SC

M_O: Number of candidates in category OT

As per the academic disciplines, the candidate will thus be grouped as given in Table 3.

Table 3 : Key Details for Discipline and Category wise Segregation of Candidates Considered for Shortlisting

Academic Disciplie (i)	Category (j)
Academic Disciplie (i)	EWS	ST	SC	OT
1	M_E¹	M_T¹	M_C¹	M_O¹
2	M_E²	M_T²	M_C²	M_O²
…	…..	…	…	…
g	M_Eg	M_Tg	M_Cg	M_Og
Total Candidates	M_E	M_T	M_C	M_O

Thus M_ijis the number of candidates in i^th Academic discipline of j^th categoryⱯ I = 1,2,3…gⱯ_j = E,T, C, O. This implies

M_Ei : Number of candidates in the i^th academic discipline in category EWS

M_Ti : Number of candidates in the i^th academic discipline in category ST

M_{Ci :} Number of candidates in the i^th academic discipline in category SC and

M_Oi : Number of candidates in the i^th academic discipline in category OT

Finally the number of candidates shortlisted for GD and PI will be based on the following parameters:

IIM Shillongwill decide the total number of candidates to be shortlisted for the GD and PI process. The value of x will be decided based on the overall performance of the candidates in CAT 2020, the number of seats available, buffer for possible overlap and attendance trends in the past.

With X= Number of candidates to be called for GD and PI the number of candidates to be shortlisted for interview in any category j will be X_j,Ɐ j = E,T, C,O, where

X_E= 10% of X rounded to higher nearest integer

X_T= 7.5% of X rounded to higher nearest integer

X_c= 15.0% of X rounded to higher nearest integer

X_o= 67.5% of X rounded to higher nearest integer

5% of the shortlisted X_j( j≠ E) will comprise of Differently Abled (DA) candidates

The candidates shortlisted for interviews in the i^th academic discipline from the j^th category will be X_jⁱ, " j= E,T, C,O, where

∀ i = 1,2,3….p for j = E; p denotes the number of disciplines appearing in category E

∀ i = 1,2,3….q for j = T; q denotes the number of disciplines appearing in category T.

∀ i = 1,2,3….p for j = C ; r denotes the number of disciplines appearing in category C

∀ i = 1,2,3….p for j = O; s denotes the number of disciplines appearing in category O

Note: The number of candidates shortlisted in various academic disciplines in respective categories will be calculated as:

The total number of 𝑋 candidates consisting of candidates in EWS, candidates in ST, candidates in SC, and candidates in OT categories falling under different Academic disciplines will beshortlisted as shown in Table 4.

Table 4: Candidates Shortlisted for GD and PI

Academic Discipline(𝒊)	Categories (j)				Candidates in Academic Discipline(𝒊)
Academic Discipline(𝒊)	EWS	ST	SC	OT	Candidates in Academic Discipline(𝒊)
1	X_E¹	X_T¹	X_C¹	X_O¹	X1
2	X_E²	X_T²	X_C²	X_O²	X2
...	...	...	...	...	...
𝑝, 𝑞, 𝑟, 𝑠 ≤ 𝑔	X_E^g	X_T^g	X_C^g	X_O^g	p,q,r,s ≤ 𝑔
Total Candidates in each category	XE	XT	XC	XO	X=∑𝒌𝑿𝒌Total Candidates (Gender 𝒌)

Each cell in Table 4 will be further divided into sub-groups on the basis of proportion of gender appearing in CAT-2020, viz., X_E¹=∑𝑘X_E¹, where, 𝒌 represents the genders appearing in CAT-2020, and, 𝑿 = ∑𝒌𝑿𝒌 , number of students to be invited for GD and PI.

The candidates in a given category, academic discipline and gender would be ranked based on decreasing order of their CAT overall percentile.

Key Details of Phase 2: Merit Listing for Admission Offer to PGP 2021-23 Batch

After the completion of the GD and PI rounds, the scores achieved in the GD and PI will be used along with overall CAT performance of the shortlisted candidates for compilation of the final merit list. Offer for admissions will be made based on this merit list. The scores used will thus be

X: Candidate’s Score in Group Discussion

Y: Candidate’s Score in Personal Interview

Z: Overall CAT Absolute Score

which will further be normalized as Nx , Ny and Nz for preparation of the final merit list. This process is illustrated below.

With a total of 𝑚 number of candidates will appearing in the GD and PI process, an overall score, 𝑂𝑆𝑐 for every appearing candidate 𝑐, will be calculated using the following formula, which will be used for preparing the merit list:

= 𝑤1(𝑁𝑐^𝑥) + 𝑤2(𝑁𝑐^𝑦) + 𝑤3(𝑁𝑐^𝑧) 𝑐 = 1, 2, 3, … , 𝑚

𝑁𝑐^x : Normalized score of Performance of the candidate 𝑐 in GD

𝑁c^y : Normalized score of Performance of the candidate 𝑐 in PI

𝑁𝑐^z : Normalized score of Performance of the candidate 𝑐 in CAT-2020 Absolute Score (overall)

w₁ : Weight of performance of the candidate 𝑐 in 𝑁𝑐(20%)

w₂ : Weight of performance of the candidate 𝑐 in 𝑁𝑐(50%)

w₃ : Weight of performance of the candidate 𝑐 in 𝑁𝑐(30%)

However, there will be different cut-off scores for candidate’s performance in GD and PI in various categoriesas shown in Table 5.

Table 5: Cut-off on the Performances of Candidates in GD & PI for Merit list for Admission Offer

Categories	Cut-off as Minimum Percentage of Performance out of Maximum Possible Performance in GD	Cut-off as Minimum Percentage of Performance out of Maximum Possible Performance in PI
DA	20.0%	20.0%
ST	20.0%	20.0%
SC	25.0%	25.0%
OTHERS (OT)	30.0%	30.0%

The candidates will be ranked based on the decreasing order of the 𝑂𝑆𝑐 scores. The admission offers will be made to the candidates in order of their rank based on the 𝑂𝑆𝑐 scores.

Category

SSC (Class 10^th) PERCENTAGE

HSC (Class 12th) PERCENTAGE

Graduation Percentage

CAT 2020 Percentile (VARC)

CAT 2020 Percentile

(DILR)

CAT 2020 Percentile

(QA)

DA (D)

SC (C)

EWS (E)

OTHERS (OT)

The Institute abides by the reservation policy as per the Government of India provisions as applicable on IIM Shillong.

Important Points to Note:

Those candidates who are given final admission to the PGP 2021-2023 will have to submit original documents related to completion of graduation before 31^st December 2021.
IIM Shillong reserves the right to make changes in the Shortlisting and Selection Criteria if required.
After the completion of the GD PI process, candidates can view their final result of the admission status in the second week of May 2021.
For detailed information, students should visit IIM Shillong’s official website https://www.iimshillong.ac.in/