A Comprehensive Guide to the IIM Selection Process 2024

Every year, thousands of students take the Common Admission Test (CAT) to gain admission to the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs). These prestigious schools are considered to be the cream of the crop for management education in India. However, the IIM selection process 2024 is long and complicated, with multiple rounds of tests and interviews. To ensure that you are making an informed decision and to make sure that you stand out from the rest of the applicants, it is important to understand the selection criteria for IIMs in India.

This comprehensive guide will provide a detailed overview of the IIM selection process 2024, from the application process to the final selection criteria. It will also provide helpful tips and strategies to help you prepare for the various stages of the IIM selection process. With this guide, you will be well-equipped to make the best of your IIM application and make a strong impression on the IIM admissions committee.

Overview of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Selection Process 2024

The process of selecting students for admission to the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) is a long and gruelling one. It is important to note that the selection process for IIMs is unique for each IIM. The length of the process also varies from one IIM to the next, with some schools having a selection process that lasts as little as two months, and others having a selection process that lasts up to six months.

Stages of IIM Admission Process

Regardless of the length of the process, the IIM selection process 2024 for each IIM is a three-step procedure: 

• Stage 1 (CAT Exam): Candidates will have to appear for the Common Admission Test (CAT) and cross the required CAT cutoff for each of the IIMs.
• Stage 2 (Profile Evaluation): The next stage involves an analysis of your past academics, extracurriculars and work experience. Considering your CAT exam scores and profile, you’ll be shortlisted for the next stage.
• Stage 3 (WAT-PI Round): Lastly, the candidates will have to undergo a Written Ability Test (WAT) and Personal Interview (PI) round for the IIM selection.

IIM Eligibility Criteria

Before you apply for admission to an IIM, it is important to understand the IIM eligibility criteria for admission to these top B-schools in India.

• The most important eligibility requirement for IIM admission is that the candidates must be undergraduates and must have completed their undergraduate degree by the time of admission.
• The undergraduate degrees accepted by IIMs include Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Commerce, Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Social Sciences, Bachelor of Management Studies, Bachelor of Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering, Bachelor of Law, Bachelor of Architecture, or Bachelor of Home Science. IIMs also accept postgraduate degrees from select universities, including Economics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, and a few select other disciplines.
• The other important eligibility requirement for admission to an IIM is that candidates must possess what is known as a “good academic record.” While this may vary from one IIM to the next, it is safe to assume that a good academic record is a graduation score of 80% or above.

IIM Selection Process 2024: Parameters

1. Class 10th Score: The aggregate percentage scored in Class 10th or equivalent.
2. Class 12th Score: The aggregate percentage scored in Class 12th or equivalent.
3. Graduation Score: The aggregate percentage scored in a 3 or 4-year Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent.
4. WAT-PI: The performance of a candidate in the WAT-PI round will be evaluated.
5. Academic Diversity: Diversity points are given to candidates with different academic backgrounds in the IIM selection process. The academic diversity points vary among different IIMs.
6. Gender Diversity: Diversity points are given to Female and Transgender candidates. The gender diversity points vary among different IIMs.
7. Work Experience: Points are given to candidates having work experience. There’s a defined range of points designated by different IIMs as per the duration of a candidate’s work experience.

1. IIM Ahmedabad Selection Process 2024

IIM Ahmedabad Admission Criteria consist of two stages. The first stage is the preliminary screening with weightage divided between past academic records and CAT exam scores (higher weightage to CAT). The second and final selection Criteria consist of a Personal Interview (PI) and Writing Test Ability (WAT).

The preliminary stage is based on the division of weightage between the CAT score and Academic background. CAT score builds up 70% weight and Academic Profile builds up the rest 30%.

To get shortlisted, a candidate must hold a minimum CAT sectional percentile score of 70 for all three sections (individually): Quantitative Aptitude (QA), Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning (DILR) and Verbal and Reading Comprehension (VARC).
Along with sectional scores, a candidate must also score a minimum CAT overall percentile of 80. While the weightage of the CAT Score and Academic profile is in a ratio of 70:30, Candidates with decorated academic records are awarded higher points during the shortlisting round.

Academic Level	Marks Scored	Allotted Weightage
Class 10th	90% and above	10 Points
Class 12th(science and commerce Stream)	90% and above	10 Points
Class 12th(Humanities Stream)	85% and above	10 Points
Bachelor’s Degree	Varies	10 Points

Final Admission Selection Round Criteria: Shortlisted candidates are automatically eligible for the Final selection round conducted by IIM Ahmedabad.
During the final admission round, the Personal Interview (PI) is given 50% weightage, 10% weightage is given to Academic Writing Test (AWT) and 40% weightage is given to CAT Score and Academic background.

2. IIM Bangalore Selection Process 2024

The admission process at IIM Bangalore for the PGDM (2024-26) will be carried out in 3 stages.

• Preliminary Screening: Candidates who clear the CAT cut-off get screened based on a composite score (CS) which would be composed of an academic rating score (AR) (includes 10th marks, 12th marks, & work experience) & a normalized overall CAT score. Following is the weightage given to different stages for the IIM Bangalore admissions.

Parameters	Weightage (%)
Class 10th	15
Class 12th	15
Undergraduate	0
CAT Score	55
Gender Diversity	5
Work Experience	10
Total	100

• Shortlisting for Analytical Writing Test (AWT) & Personal Interview (PI): The best candidates with exemplary academic records and CAT scores from varied academic backgrounds get shortlisted for the PI round, based on their Composite Score.
• Final Selection: At this stage, candidates separately get shortlisted across each category (General/ SC/ ST/ NC-OBC/ PwD) based on their Final Composite Scores (FCS).

Must Read: IIM Bangalore Selection Process Detailed Analysis

3. IIM Calcutta Selection Process 2024

The admission process at IIM Calcutta for the PGP (2022-24) will be carried out in 3 stages.

Stage I: Minimum CAT percentile cut-offs to be considered for PI

Candidates meeting the minimum requirements on section-wise and overall percentiles in CAT 2022 will be shortlisted for Stage II.

Stage II: Shortlisting for PI And WAT

Parameter	Weightage (%)
CAT 2024 Score	56
Class 10th	10
Class 12th	15
Academic Diversity	4
Total	85

Note: A = Candidate’s CAT 2023 Total Overall Scaled Score & B = Maximum possible CAT 2023 Total Overall Scaled Score

Stage III: Criteria for Final Selection for the MBA Programme

4. IIM Lucknow Selection Process 2024

IIML Admission Criteria is conducted in 2 Stages. Stage 1, further has 3 stages.

Stage 1a: Eligibility Criteria for WAT-PI

Stage 1b: Calculation of the Composite Score for Shortlisting for the WAT-PI stage. Only Candidates Eligible as per stage 1a, stand a chance of getting shortlisting WAT And PI.

Parameters	Weightage (%)
CAT Score	60
Class 12th	10
Under-graduation	10
Work Experience	10
Academic Diversity	5
Gender Diversity	5
Total	100

Stage 1c: Scheduling for WAT-PI. Eligible Candidates shall be required to fill in and submit the WAT-PI form online by the stipulated deadline. The candidates, who fail to submit their WATPI form online by the prescribed time limit, shall not be allowed for the WAT-PI process

Stage 2: Final Shortlisting for MBA, MBA-SM, and MBA-ABM.

Components	MBA & MBA-SM (Weightage)	MBA-ABM (Weightage)
Common Admission Test (CAT)	30	35
Academic Performance (12thMarks + Grad-Marks)	5 + 5	5 + 5
Diversity Factor	5	5
Work Experience	5	NA
Writing Ability Test	10	10
Personal Interview	40	40
Total	100	100

5. IIM Indore Selection Process 2024

IIM Indore Selection Process is conducted in 3 stages.

Stage 1: The Eligibility Criteria
All applicants who apply for the two-year PGP of IIM Indore must satisfy the eligibility criteria
mentioned in the CAT 2024 advertisement and also the minimum sectional percentile and overall
percentile scores in CAT 2024 (as mentioned in Table 1). Only those applicants meeting the
specified criteria will be considered for Stage 2 of the selection process.

Category	Quantitative Aptitude (QA)	Data Interpretation And Logical Reasoning(DILR)	Verbal Ability And Reading Comprehension (VARC)	Overall
General	80	80	80	90
EWS	80	80	80	90
NC-OBC	70	70	70	80
SC	55	55	55	60
ST	40	40	40	45
PWD	40	40	40	45

Stage 2: Shortlist for Personal Interview (PI)

Only those candidates satisfying the requirements mentioned in Stage 1 will be considered for
this stage of shortlisting for Personal Interview (PI).

Components	Weightage
10th Standard	39
12th Standard	20
CAT 2023 Sectional Scores	VARC: 10 LRDI: 10 QA: 15
Diversity Factor	6
Composite Score	= Sum of the Above Scores

Stage 3: Final Selection

Components	Weightage
10th Standard	12.5
CAT 2023 Sectional Scores	VARC: 18.75 LRDI: 9.375 QA: 9.375
PI Scores	50
Composite Score	= Sum of the Above Scores

6. IIM Kozhikode Selection Process 2024

Stage 1: The Minimum Eligibility Criteria

Category	CAT Overall Percentile	CAT Sectional Percentile	SSC/X Class Percentage	HSC/XII Class Percentage
General	85	75	60	60
EWS, OBC-NCL	75	65	60	60
SC	65	55	55	55
ST/PWD	55	45	55	55

Stage 2: Shortlisting for Writing Ability Test (WAT) and Personal Interview (PI)

Parameters	Weightage (%)
CAT 2023 Score	45
Class 10th Percentage	25
Class 12th Percentage	15
Gender/ Academic Diversity	10 / 5
Work Experience	5
Total	100

Stage 3: Final Shortlist

Components	Weightage (%)
CAT 2023 Score	35
PI Score	35
WAT Score	20
Resume Score	10
Total	100

7. IIM Mumbai Selection Process 2024

Stage 1: The minimum Eligibility Criteria

Category	Quantitative Aptitude (QA)	Data Interpretation And Logical Reasoning(DILR)	Verbal Ability And Reading Comprehension (VARC)	Overall
Open	75	80	80	85
EWS	65	65	70	75
NC-OBC	65	65	70	75
SC	60	60	65	70
ST	55	55	55	65
PWD	45	45	45	55

Stage 2: Shortlisting for Personal Interview (PI)
From the candidates satisfying the criteria of Stage 1, shortlisted candidates will be called for Personal
Interview (PI) based on their CAT-2024 score along with sectional cut-offs considering their reservation
category and gender diversity.

Stage 3: Criteria for Final Selection for the MBA Programme

Components	Weightage (%)
CAT 2023 Score	55
PI Score	20
WAT Score	20
Resume Score	5
Total	100

8. IIM Shillong Selection Process 2024

Stage 1: Shortlisting for Personal Interview (PI)

Category	Verbal Ability And Reading Comprehension (VARC)	Data Interpretation And Logical Reasoning(DILR)	Quantitative Aptitude (QA)
Others Categories	75	75	75
EWS	75	75	75
SC	60	60	60
ST	50	50	50
DA	50	50	50

Stage 2: Merit Listing for Offering Admission to PGP

Components	Weightage (%)
Application Rating Score (10th + 12th+ Workex)	10
Gender Diversity	10
PI	40
CAT 2023 Score	40
Total	100

9. IIM Rohtak Selection Process 2024

The Admission Criteria of IIM Rohtak comprises of 5 stages.

Stage 1: Minimum Eligibility Criteria based on CAT Score

Category	Overall
General	96
EWS	92
NC-OBC	82
SC	60
ST	50
DAP(General)	86
DAP(EWS)	82
DAP(NC-OBC)	72
DAP(SC)	50
DAP(ST)	40

Stage 2: Personal Interview (PI)

• All shortlisted candidates at Stage I will appear in Stage II i.e. Personal Interview.
• All the shortlisted candidates will be informed by email to download their call letters to appear
  in the Personal Interview. All the required details, like date, time and other required guidelines,
  will be mentioned in the call letter.

Stage 3: The Final Selection List based on CAT, Personal Interview & Diversity scores.

• A weight of 60% will be assigned to the CAT Total Score (Scaled to 100). A weight of 20% will
  be given to the Personal Interview Score. Further, 20% will be given to Academic
  diversity and Gender diversity.
• The weighted aggregate of the following components, namely (a) CAT, (b) Personal Interview,
  and (c) Diversity, will be used to prepare a merit/rank list, and accordingly, the candidates will
  be invited to appear in the next stage of Admission.

Stage 4: Offer for Provisional Admission for the PGP programme 2024-26 batch

• The offer of admission to the candidate will be made strictly based on merit/ rank list and
  availability of seats in each category (General, EWS, NC-OBC, SC, ST & DAP) as per
  reservation rules of Govt. of India.
• All the shortlisted candidates will receive a provisional offer letter for admission from
  pgpadmission@iimrohtak.ac.in on their registered email ID.
• A candidate receiving an admission offer from IIM Rohtak (IIM-R) and accepting the offer
  within the stipulated date needs to deposit the Offer Acceptance Amount (as mentioned in the
  Offer Letter) through the admission portal only.
• The candidate will receive his/her confirmation letter for provisional admission to PGP Admission on his/her registered email ID.

Stage 5: Reporting for joining the PGP programme.

10. IIM Raipur Selection Process 2024

Stage 1: Initial Shortlisting for Personal Interview

Category	Quantitative Aptitude (QA)	Data Interpretation And Logical Reasoning(DILR)	Verbal Ability And Reading Comprehension (VARC)	Overall
Open	73	73	73	94
EWS	50	50	50	77
NC-OBC	50	50	50	77
SC	44	44	44	60
ST	25	25	30	40
PWD	25	25	30	40

Stage 2: Final Selection

The final composite score is computed based on the following four components.

Components	Weightage (%)
Overall CAT & Sectionals Percentile	42
Personal Interview	23
Profile	33
Personal Profile Mapping	2
Total	100

11. IIM Ranchi Selection Process 2024

Stage 1: Initial Shortlisting for Personal Interview

Category	Quantitative Aptitude (QA)	Data Interpretation And Logical Reasoning(DILR)	Verbal Ability And Reading Comprehension (VARC)	Overall
Open	70	70	70	92
EWS	40	40	40	70
NC-OBC	45	45	45	74
SC	35	35	35	54
ST	32.5	32	25	40
PWD	32.5	32	25	40

Stage 2: PI Process

After the completion of the PI process, admission offers for IIM Ranchi would be made based on a
Consolidated Merit List (CML), which will be prepared based on the following components and their
corresponding weightage:

Components	Weightage (%)
CAT Score	40
Personal Interview Score	30
Profile	30
Total	100

12. IIM Tiruchirappalli Selection Process 2024

Stage 1: Initial Shortlisting for Personal Interview

Category	Quantitative Aptitude (QA)	Data Interpretation And Logical Reasoning(DILR)	Verbal Ability And Reading Comprehension (VARC)	Overall
Open	73	73	73	94
EWS	50	50	50	77
NC-OBC	50	50	50	77
SC	44	44	44	60
ST	25	25	30	40
PWD	25	25	30	40

Stage 2: Criteria for the Final Admissions

The following parameters and the corresponding weights will be used to arrive at the composite scores of the candidates to prepare the final merit list for admissions:

• CAT Percentile: 50% weightage.
• Personal Interview: 25% weightage (Based on the normalized PI scores, the lowest 20% of the candidates in each category will not be considered for admission to the PGPM)
• Work experience: 10% weightage.
• Normalized Score in 10th Standard: 2% weightage.
• Normalized Score in 12th Standard: 3% weightage.
• Performance at Undergraduate level: 5% weightage.

13. IIM Kashipur Selection Process 2024

Stage 1: Initial Shortlisting of Candidates for Personal Interview

Category	Quantitative Aptitude (QA)	Data Interpretation And Logical Reasoning(DILR)	Verbal Ability And Reading Comprehension (VARC)	Overall
Open	70	70	70	92
EWS	40	40	40	70
NC-OBC	45	45	45	74
SC	35	35	35	54
ST	32.5	32	25	40
PWD	32.5	32	25	40

Stage 2: Generation of merit list

Stage 2a: Personal Interview

Personal Interview holds 25 per cent weightage.

Stage 2b: The following weights will be assigned to various components for generating the Merit list

Components	Weightage (%)
CAT Score	33
Class 10th Score	5
Class 12th Score	5
Graduation	5
Professional qualifications (CA/CS/ICWA)	5
Work Experience	12
Academic Diversity	4
Gender Diversity	6
Total	75

Stage 3: Generation of Final Admission offer List Grand Total

The Grand Total will be used to rank students according to their merit. It is calculated as the sum of the PI Score and Shortlisting Score.

14. IIM Udaipur Selection Process 2024

Stage 1: Initial Shortlisting for Personal Interview

Category	Quantitative Aptitude (QA)	Data Interpretation And Logical Reasoning(DILR)	Verbal Ability And Reading Comprehension (VARC)	Overall
Open	73	73	73	94
EWS	50	50	50	77
NC-OBC	50	50	50	77
SC	44	44	44	60
ST	25	25	30	40
PWD	25	25	30	40

Stage 2: Selection Criteria for Preparing the Merit List.

The criteria for preparing the merit list will be as follows:

• CAT Score*: 60%
• Personal Interview (PI): 15%
• Profile: 25%

CAT Score* of the candidate divided by the maximum CAT Score among candidates who have applied to IIMU and attended PI. It is clarified that the CAT Score would be used and not the CAT Percentile.

15. IIM Amritsar Selection Process 2024

Stage 1: Initial Shortlisting for Personal Interview

Category	Quantitative Aptitude (QA)	Data Interpretation And Logical Reasoning(DILR)	Verbal Ability And Reading Comprehension (VARC)	Overall
Open	80	75	75	88
EWS	80	75	75	88
NC-OBC	65	60	60	78
SC	55	50	50	50
ST	35	35	35	40
PWD	35	35	35	40

The Pre-PI Score is calculated for each candidate based on the following weights.

Components	Weightage (%)
CAT Score	60
10th Board	10
12th Board	5
Gender Diversity	10
Work Experience	15
Total	100

Stage 2: Personal Interview (PI)

The post-PI score for each candidate is calculated based on the aggregate scores obtained after applying the following weights.

Components	Weightage (%)
Personal Interview (PI)	70
Work experience	10
Gender diversity	10
Academic diversity	10
Total	100

Stage 3: Calculation of Aggregate Score

The final ranking list of candidates for admission to the MBA program will be based on the Aggregate score(Aggregate Score = 0.6 X Pre-PI Score + 0.4 X Post-PI Score).

16. IIM Bodhgaya Selection Process 2024

Stage 1: Initial Shortlisting for Personal Interview

Category	Quantitative Aptitude (QA)	Data Interpretation And Logical Reasoning(DILR)	Verbal Ability And Reading Comprehension (VARC)	Overall
Open	73	73	73	94
EWS	50	50	50	77
NC-OBC	50	50	50	77
SC	44	44	44	60
ST	25	25	30	40
PWD	25	25	30	40

Stage 2: Criteria for Preparing the Merit List

Components	Weightage (%)
CAT Score	50
Personal Interview (PI)	20
Profile	30

17. IIM Jammu Selection Process 2024

Stage 1: Minimum requirements of CAT percentiles

Stage 2: Criteria for Preparing the Merit List

Components	Weightage (%)
CAT Score	40
Personal Interview (PI)	30
Profile	30

18. IIM Nagpur Selection Process 2024

Stage 1: Minimum requirements of CAT percentiles

Category	Quantitative Aptitude (QA)	Data Interpretation And Logical Reasoning(DILR)	Verbal Ability And Reading Comprehension (VARC)	Overall
Open	73	73	73	94
EWS	50	50	50	77
NC-OBC	50	50	50	77
SC	44	44	44	60
ST	25	25	30	40
PWD	25	25	30	40

Stage 2: Selection of the Candidates for the PI process

Stage 3: Final Selection of the Candidates

Components	Weightage (%)
CAT Score	45
PI Score	25
PAP(Previous Academic Performance) Score	10
Work Experience	10
Gender Diversity	10

19. IIM Sambalpur Selection Process 2024

Stage 1: Initial Shortlisting for Personal Interview

Category	Quantitative Aptitude (QA)	Data Interpretation And Logical Reasoning(DILR)	Verbal Ability And Reading Comprehension (VARC)	Overall
Open	70	70	70	92
EWS	40	40	40	70
NC-OBC	45	45	45	74
SC	35	35	35	54
ST	32.5	32	25	40
PWD	32.5	32	25	40

Stage 2: Criteria for Preparing the Merit List

Components	Weightage (%)
CAT Score	30
Personal Interview (PI)	25
Profile	45

20. IIM Sirmaur Selection Process 2024

Stage 1: Initial Shortlisting for Personal Interview

Category	Quantitative Aptitude (QA)	Data Interpretation And Logical Reasoning(DILR)	Verbal Ability And Reading Comprehension (VARC)	Overall
Open	70	70	70	80
EWS	40	40	40	60
NC-OBC	45	45	45	60
SC	35	35	35	45
ST	25	25	25	35
PWD	25	25	25	35

Stage 2: Components of Merit List

Components	Weightage (%)
CAT Score	35
PI Score	20
Academic Performance	15
Work Experience	25
Trailblazer score	5

21. IIM Vishakhapatnam Selection Process 2024

Stage 1: Initial Shortlisting for Personal Interview

Category	Verbal Ability And Reading Comprehension (VARC)	Data Interpretation And Logical Reasoning(DILR)	Quantitative Aptitude (QA)	Overall
Open	70	70	70	82
EWS	63	63	63	72
NC-OBC	63	63	63	72
SC	40	40	40	50
ST	30	30	30	40
PWD	30	30	30	40

Stage 2: For all Qualified Confirmed Candidates, the weights for the six components are fixed as:

Components	Weightage (%)
CAT Score	50
10th Board	10
12th Board	10
Bachelors	10
Gender Diversity	10
Work Experience	10
Total	100

Stage 3: The final aggregate score

Components	Weightage (%)
PI Score	48
CAT Score	25
10th Board	4
12th Board	4
Bachelors	4
Gender Diversity	5
Work Experience	10
Total	100

About CAT Exam

The CAT is a computer-based test that is held in the last week of November.

The CAT exam is conducted by the Indian Institutes of Management Association (IIMA) and is the defining entrance exam for IIMs along with several other B-schools.

The CAT is a two-hour-long test that is comprised of three sections:

• Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension,
• Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning,
• Quantitative Aptitude

The next stage in the IIM selection process in 2024 is a Personal Interview (PI) or Written Ability Test (WAT).

The PI and WAT are common features of admission processes in India. For many B-schools, it is a preferred alternative to a written test as it allows the admission committee to assess not only an applicant’s logical and verbal reasoning abilities but also their communication skills and personality.

CAT Exam Preparation Tips

If the selection process for IIMs is a long and complicated one, then the CAT exam is a long and complicated exam.

There are many different ways to approach the CAT exam, but the most important thing is to find a strategy that works for you. It is important to note that the best way to prepare for the CAT exam is to create a study plan.

Your study plan should include a study schedule, a list of the materials that you will use to prepare for the exam, and a list of the resources that you will use to track your progress.

Your study plan should also include a “survival strategy” for the days leading up to the exam. It is important to remain as stress-free as possible during the exam preparation period, so it is important to create a “bubble” around yourself during that time.

A few useful tips to consider while preparing for the CAT exam include:

• Create a Study Schedule
• Create a Weekly Study Plan
• Identify Your Weak Areas and Address Them
• Create a Mock Exam Environment
• Manage Your Time and Anxiety
• Recover Well After the Exam
• Practice, Practice, Practice!
• Sleep Well and Eat Well
• Track Your Progress

WAT/PI Preparation Tips

As mentioned above, the Personal Interview (PI) or Written Ability Test (WAT) is a common feature of the IIM selection process 2024.

The PI provides the admission committee with an opportunity to assess not only an applicant’s logical and verbal reasoning abilities but also their communication skills and personality.

The best way to prepare for the PI is to practice interview skills. The easiest way to do this is by attending mock interviews. Mock interviews are an excellent way to prepare for an interview.

It is important to keep in mind that mock interviews can be useful only if they are conducted by trained individuals. It is important to choose a mock interview that is tailored to the admission process of your desired B-school.

It is also important to remember that the best way to prepare for an interview is to be yourself. The most effective way to prepare for the PI is to prepare for the “real thing.” The best way to do this is to conduct “mock” interviews. The most effective way to prepare for the interview is to conduct mock interviews in a “real-world” environment.

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Application Tips for IIMs

The IIM selection process 2024 can be long and complicated. It is important to ensure that you are prepared for the application process for all IIMs that you are applying to.

1. Decide which IIMs you want to apply to. While it is important to apply to as many IIMs as possible, it is also important to be realistic.
2. Select two to four IIMs that you are really excited about and have a genuine interest in. During the IIM application process, you will have to fill out an online application form and submit various documents, including your academic achievements, work experience, and a few personal essays.
3. To ensure that your application is as strong as possible, it is important to understand the criteria that the IIMs look for in their applicants. The IIMs are looking for students who have excelled academically and have the potential to become successful managers.
4. The IIMs are also looking for candidates who have the ability to think logically and have a genuine interest in management studies.

Conclusion

As mentioned before, the IIM selection process 2024 differs considerably. Hence, it becomes crucial that you keep in mind all the factors. The CAT exam is only one of the factors for admission into the top IIMs.

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