- Number of women on campus will reduce further: From the 5% weightage for gender diversity last year, combined with a 2% weightage for academic diversity, IIM Kozhikode has now moved to a new set of criteria where 5% weightage will be allocated to gender/academic diversity. Thus, in this 5% component, a female engineer will be on par with a female 'non-engineer' and a male 'non-engineer'. This will put all contestants on a more even footing, all except male engineers.
- Graduation scores become slightly less important for getting an interview call: Last year's criteria had a 12% weightage for Graduation score. This year, there is a 15% weightage, equally divided between Graduation score and Std XII score. The marking scheme for both Graduation Score and Std XII score is identical - we believe this will be slightly unfair to students graduating from streams like arts and humanities, and also slightly unfair to students from less lenient boards.
Other Salient features of selection criteria
- Basic filters for CAT scores and Std X, XII scores remain unchanged: The basic filters for CAT score (80% sectionals and 90% overall), and Std X and Std XII score (60%) remain unchanged.
- Work experience will be updated with quality of work experience: Just like last year, work-experience will continue to have a 5% weight in the initial shortlist, and then in the final selection criteria, quality of work experience will have a 5% weightage.
The selection criteria explained (for first timers)
The shortlisting and selection criteria for IIM Kozhikode are explained below:
Shortlisting
This is a two-step process - basic filtering, followed by profile scoring and shortlisting.
Basic filter
The basic filter is a set of conditions like minimum CAT percentile (sectional and overall), minimum Std X score and minimum Std XII score. The basic filters are given below
Basic Filter
| Minimum requirements for Stage 1 shortlist at IIM Kozhikode (2014-16 PGP)* | ||||
| CAT Score | Sectional | SSC/X | HSC/XII | |
| Category | Percentile | Percentile | Percentage | Percentage |
| General | 90 | 80 | 60 | 60 |
| OBC (NC) | 80 | 70 | 60 | 60 |
| Scheduled Castes | 65 | 50 | 55 | 55 |
| Scheduled Tribes | 55 | 40 | 55 | 55 |
| Persons with Disability | 55 | 40 | 55 | 55 |
| * The cut-offs of those called for Stage 2 could be much higher. | ||||
Profile scoring and shortlisting
The profile score depends on CAT score, graduation and Std XII scores, work experience (quantity), and academic/gender diversity. The weightages across these fields are given below.
Profile Scoring and Shortlisting Criteria
| Basis for giving out Calls | |
| Parameter | Weight |
| CAT Index Score | 75% |
| Class XII Score | 7.5% |
| Grad Index Score | 7.5% |
| Work Experience | 5% |
| Academic Diversity/Gender diversity | 5% |
The method for calculating the Graduate Index Score out of 7.5 and Class XII score out of 7.5 is identical, and shown below.
The final selection: After you get shortlisted, you undergo another round - GD/WAT, and Personal Interview. The weightages for these stages is given below. The weightage for performance at the personal interview has increased from 35% to 45%, and for the CAT score, it has decreased from 45% to 35%.
Final Selection
| Final Selection | |
| Parameter | Weight |
| Personal Interview | 45% |
| CAT Score | 35% |
| WAT/GD | 15% |
| Quality of Work Experience | 5% |
Comparison with other B School selection criteria
Compared to IIM C, IIM K's selection criteria places a little more weightage on academic record. IIMC's emphasis on previous acads is negligible and it is quite unlikely to be a differentiating factor. IIM K on the other hand gives solid 15% weightage to Graduation and Std XII.
On the other hand, the emphasis on acads (for shortlist) is not as high as IIM A (30% weight). Nor are the selection criteria very evenly balanced and distributed across several parameters like IIM B. In short, a person with a very good CAT score and normal acads can definitely get an interview call from IIM Kozhikode.
We invite our readers to comment with their views on the selection criteria. Do you like it, or do you prefer the status quo?
Visit the Final Admit Page – InsideIIM’s one stop shop for everything related to admissions. Ankit Doshi’s analysis on the changed CAT 2014 can be found here
For last year’s selection criteria at IIM K, read here
For this year’s selection criteria at IIM A, read here
For this year’s selection criteria at IIM B, read here
For this year’s selection criteria at IIM C, read here
For this year's selection criteria at IIM L, read here
Follow IIM K on InsideIIM here
Selection Criteria for CAT 2013
Our analysis of IIM Lucknow’s criteria
Our analysis of IIM Kozhikode’s criteria
Our analysis of IIM Indore’s criteria
Selection Criteria for CAT 2012
Our analysis of shortlisting criteria
Comments
Ashwin krithik
IIM-A doesn't have weightage to acads this year. It mentions that calls will purely based on CAT score and AR will just be filters.
10 Sep 2014, 10.22 AM
Team InsideIIM
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Yes, but the AR will be an input for the first stage (to decide who gets an interview call). It will not be an input for final selection
10 Sep 2014, 04.15 PM
Nikhar Mattu
@TeamIIM Yeah about that, I had a query regarding IIM-A's procedure, will AR be used to calculate the second round list or is it that once you clear the AR and CAT cutoff everything depends on the CAT percentile, i.e let's say 5000 students clear the cutoff and IIM-A wants to call 1200, then will those 1200 be called purely on the basis of percentile scores ?
22 Sep 2014, 07.17 PM