Attention MBA aspirants! IIM Bangalore has just unveiled its selection criteria for the PGP Batch of 2025-2027, and it’s essential reading for anyone aiming to join this prestigious institution. This detailed announcement provides valuable insights into the admission process, evaluation metrics, and key factors that will influence your application. Whether you’re finalizing your strategy or just starting your preparation, understanding these criteria can give you a significant edge in your journey toward securing a spot at one of India’s top business schools. Don’t miss out on this critical information—make sure to read the article and stay ahead in your MBA admissions game!
The CAT 2024 score will represent a 55% weighting in the Pre-PI score, assuming no significant modifications from the admissions criteria from the previous year. In addition, the shortlisting process for interviews will take into account the results of the 10th and 12th board exams, graduation certificates, work experience, and professional courses. To gain a general idea of the most recent IIM-B admissions process, read on.
IIM B Eligibility Criteria PGP 2025-2027 Highlights
- CAT Score Impact: The CAT score plays a significant role, contributing 55% in the Pre-PI stage and 25% in the Post-PI stage. The minimum required percentiles are 85% overall and 80% in each section for CAT 2024.
- Sectional Weight: In the CAT 2024 exam, the importance of the three sections is ranked as follows: DILR > VARC > QA. Each section has different weightage during the shortlisting process.
- Academics: Academic performance makes up 30% of the marks, evenly distributed among 10th, 12th, and graduation scores. Strong performance in at least two of these areas improves chances of being shortlisted.
- Personal Interview (PI): The PI holds 40% of the marks in the final admission criteria.
- Written Ability Test (WAT): WAT accounts for 10% of the final admission marks.
- Work Experience: Work experience contributes 10% to the marks in both shortlisting stages. However, during the post-PI stage, the quality of work experience is taken into account.
- Gender Diversity Points: Gender diversity points (5%) are considered for interview shortlisting but do not impact final admissions.
Step 1- Shortlisting for Personal Interview Round (PI)
a) A candidate’s percentage scores on the 10th and 12th board exams are first adjusted by dividing each such score by the 90th percentile score received in that board, for all candidates on the first shortlist as indicated in Table (1). The database including all CAT applicants’ 10th and 12th grade results of the previous two years is utilised to determine each 10th and 12th board exam’s 90th percentile score.
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b) Based on the final scores that each candidate received for their bachelor’s degree and/or professional degree, as applicable, an adjusted score is determined for each candidate on the first shortlist, as indicated in Table (1). Only when the candidate’s final score is still pending are incomplete or intermediate graduate scores taken into consideration. Candidates seeking a bachelor’s degree who are in their last year would therefore have their incomplete graduation score applied instead of their final graduation score.
Selection Criteria for Interview
Important: Among the professional degrees are ICWA, CS, and CA. The highest combined score from the professional course and work experience is taken into consideration for candidates who have completed both professional courses and job experience.
Calculation of Marks Pre-PI Stage
Calculation of Work Experience Points
The candidate’s work experience points are determined as follows, where x is the number of months they worked full-time until July 31, 2024:
- 10*(x)/36, if 0 < x < 36
- 10 if x >= 36
Various Weights are used to determine the CAT marks for the Post-PI Stage.
The weights assigned to the various sections of the CAT 2024 vary in the Post-PI mark calculation, much like with the Pre-PI shortlists.
Calculation of Work Experience in Post-PI Stage
The Work-Experience points initially scale down to 5 marks for the final admissions shortlisting criteria. The panellists assess points (0.25, 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2) on the quality of work experience throughout the interview. To determine the final marks assigned to the candidate’s work experience, the Pre-PI Score is multiplied by the average of the panellists’ scores.
