IIM Udaipur Admission Policy for PGP 2017 Announced

Indian institute of Management Udaipur has announced the 2017 admission policy for PGP programme. Maximum weightage is given for CAT 2016 scores for admission to post graduate programmes by the institute. Candidates initially are shortlisted for Personal Appearance (PA) based on their CAT scores. Institute has kept cutoff as 90 percentile for short listing the candidates for PA which is collective of Written Analysis and Personal Interview.

Category wise cutoff percentiles considered for PA process

Category	Verbal and Reading Comprehension Percentile Rank	Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning Percentile Rank	Quantitative Aptitude Percentile Rank	Overall Percentile Rank
(PVRC)	(PDILR)	(PQA)	(PT)
SC	60	60	60	75
ST	50	50	50	65
DAP	50	50	50	65
NC-OBC	72	72	72	81
General	80	80	80	90

 

Coming to PA (written analysis and personal interview), the 9 IIMs (IIM Amritsar, IIM Bodhgaya, IIM Kashipur, IIM Raipur, IIM Ranchi, IIM Rohtak, IIM Sambalpur, IIM Trichy and IIM Udaipur) adopted common process and IIM Rohtak handles the process this year.

For preparing merit list IIM Udaipur has given 55% weightage for CAT 2016 score, 21% for PA and 24 % for personal profile.

In personal appearance written analysis will have 6% and interview will have 15% weightage and candidates who do not attain minimum scores will not be placed in the merit list. Minimum scores in individual section will be discretion of admitting institute.

Personal profile is combination of academic performance, work experience and diversity factor and will have 24% weightage.

Academic profile has 8% weightage and performance in 10^th, 12^th and under graduation will have following basis for scoring. A maximum of 2% for 10^th, 2% for 10+2 and 4% weightage for under graduation is given.

Range Of Marks	For 10th class	For 12th Class	For Under Graduation
<= 60	0.2	0.2	0.4
60.01 to 64	0.4	0.4	0.8
64.01 to 68	0.6	0.6	1.2
68.01 to 72	0.8	0.8	1.6
72.01 to 76	1	1	2
76.01 to 80	1.2	1.2	2.4
80.01 to 84	1.4	1.4	2.8
84.01 to 88	1.6	1.6	3.2
88.01 to 92	1.8	1.8	3.6
92.01 >=	2	2	4

 

Candidate’s work experience will play a pivot roll in computing personal profile having 6% overall weightage and score is scaled upon experience over a period.  Maximum score will be given to candidates who have experience in the range of 25 to 36 months. Here is the score chart for work experience.

Months	6 or Less	07-Dec	13-24	25-36	37-48	49-60	60 or more
Score	0	2	4	6	3	3	0

 

Diversity factor has a total 10% weightage and is introduced by IIMs in calculating merit to accommodate candidates from different educational backgrounds and to justify gender equality. Female candidates will have advantage in diversity factor as they will be awarded with a score of 5 compared to 0 for males. Candidates other than technical backgrounds like arts, humanities, commerce and basic sciences will have advantage of 5 score points over others. 

Here is the chart explains score to different educational backgrounds, candidates falling under following academic disciplines will get 5 or else 0 score points.

Sl. No.	Academic Disciplines
1	Arts/Humanities: Anthropology, Archaeology, Economics, Education, Geography, History, Languages, Liberal arts, Law, Library and Information Science, Mass Communication and Journalism, Music, Philosophy, Performing Arts (Dance/Drama/Theatre), Literature, Physical Education, Political Science, Psychology, Public Administration, Sociology, Social Work, Statistics, etc.
2	Commerce: Accounting, Auditing, Banking, Chartered Accountancy, Costs & Works Accountancy, etc.
3	Science Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Biology, Zoology, etc.
4	Others: Medicine, Pharmacy, and Management, etc.