IIM-Trichy to handle admissions for new schools
IIM-Trichy will be conducting the Common Admission Process (CAP) for the six new IIMs at Kashipur, Raipur, Ranchi, Rohtak, Udaipur and for itself between February 18 and March 12 this year. The Institute has recently issued the shortlist percentile cut-offs for the written ability test (WAT) and personal interview (PI) for the process.
The
minimum percentile to receive an interview call from newer IIMs is
96.82. The candidate should have a minimum quant and data interpretation
percentile of 70.77 and should have scored at least 71.09 percentile in
verbal to sit in the process.
IIM-Trichy is expected to call around 10,000 candidates for the combined strength of around 800 seats in the six new IIMs.
“The
CAP is beneficial for students too, as they don’t have to travel to
different locations for multiple interviews,” says Hari Sreekumar, a
marketing professor and admissions Chairperson of IIM-Trichy.
“When
the newer IIMs started the number of faculty was limited and the
process helped us save on manpower, time, and effort by sharing the
resources.”
List on Jan 26
“The WAT and PI
will take place between February 18 and March 12 across five locations —
Mumbai, Delhi, Calcutta, Chennai and Bangalore,” he added. A list of
candidates selected for the process is likely to be declared on January
26. “The process will remain same for the six IIMs but they will bring
out their own separate merit list, as these B-schools have slightly
different admission processes,” informed Sreekumar.
Multiple selection
Each
new IIM will take the normalised PI and WAT score of the candidates and
combine it with scores for other criteria – CAT score, profile score
and any other score to make its own merit list for the final offer.
In
cases where candidates have been shortlisted by the six new IIMs as
well as older IIMs, IIM-Trichy may collect the PI and WAT scores
directly from the older IIMs. Such candidates will be informed in
advance, and they need not appear for IIM Trichy’s PI and WAT.
Sai
Kumar, Director of TIME, a preparatory institute, is of the view that a
CAP gives just one chance to make it to the IIMs but it gives a chance
to more candidates as most of them are shortlisted multiple times.
IIMs have relied on CAPs for three years now, but the process may not continue in the future.
“We
may have to change this process in future as different IIMs have
different ways of operating and each IIM will eventually have its own
way of selecting the students,” Sreekumar added.
The first CAP was conducted by IIM-Rohtak in 2011, the second and third were executed by IIM-Ranchi and IIM-Raipur respectively.
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