IIM Bangalore Admission Policy 2024 Revised, 40% Weightage to Personal Interview; Check Updates Here

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Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore has revised its PG program's admission policy with weightage changes to past academic scores. IIMB final phase selection criteria give 40% weightage to Personal Interview. Check updates here!

IIM Bangalore Admission Policy 2024 Revised, 40% Weightage to Personal Interview

New Delhi: Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore has revised its admission policy for its flagship PG program with changes in weightage to past academic scores. According to the new policy, the weightage to personal interviews has increased from 35% to 40%.

IIM Bangalore has a two-phase selection process for admission to its flagship postgraduate program. In the first phase, all eligible candidates who have appeared the Common Admission Test (CAT 2023) will be called for a personal interview (PI).

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Candidates selected in the personal interview round will be additionally required to take a Writing Ability Test (WAT) conducted by IIM Bangalore. The increase in the weightage of personal interviews makes it one of the essential components in the admissions process.

In the shortlisting of candidates, the institute reduced the weightage of marks obtained in Classes 10 and 12 from 15% to 10 % each. In the final round, the weightage assigned to Class 10 and 12 marks has been reduced from 10% to 5%.

For this year, the CAT 2023 examination will be held on November 26, 2023. According to the CAT 2023 convenor IIM Lucknow’s Sanjeet Singh, 3.3 lakh students have registered for the exam this year.

CAT 2023: IIM Bangalore Revised Admission Criteria 2024

Following the criteria, candidates with the top 10 highest scores in IIM CAT 2023, added to the adjusted bachelor’s scores and professional courses like the Chartered Accountancy category, automatically qualify for the WAT-PI round.

IIM Bangalore has also considered graduation marks for selection and final phase of IIM Bangalore Admissions. Students' graduation marks will have 10% weightage in selection and 5% in final admission phase. The graduation component was removed from the 2022 admission policy.

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The official document reads, "The selection criteria and weights given to various parameters are based on data from previous cycles as well as on inputs from the IIMB faculty body and other relevant stakeholders.”

IIMB Bangalore Shortlisting Criteria 2023 Weightage

Shortlisting Criteria	Weightage (%)
CAT 2023 score	55
Class 10 marks	10
Class 12 marks	10
Graduation marks	10
Work Experience	10
Gender Diversity	5

IIM Bangalore Admission 2024 Final Phase Weightage

In the final phase, 25 points for CAT will be derived from the performance in each of three sections of exam. Verbal and Reading Comprehension (VARC) will have 8.75 points, Data Interpretation And Logical Reasoning (DILR) will have 10 points, and Quantitative Aptitude (QA) will have 6.25 points. Overall, CAT cut-off stays at the 85 percentile for IIM Bangalore.