CAT Exam 2023: IIMs Updates Admission Criteria for 2024 Exam

IIMs will consider School and college results, streams, work experience and gender as Admission Criteria for 2024 admissions.

Mohith Kumar

Updated on - Oct 19, 2023 | 03:46 PM IST

CAT Exam 2023: IIMs Updates Admission Criteria for 2024 Exam

IIMs Updates CAT Admission Criteria for 2024 (Image Credits: pexels.com).

CAT Exam 2023: Having high CAT score but poor academic record or no job experience will not fetch seats in IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore, IIM Calcutta and IIM Lucknow. These IIMs are looking for students with not only a good score at CAT exams, but also having a good school and college results, streams, work experience.

A good CAT exam 2023 score will take candidates to the final level of the personal interview (PI) and writing ability test (WAT), but it will not get any further if candidates fail to perform well in other areas.

The CAT Exam 2023 will be held on Nov 26. Candidates who get shortlisted will be further judged based on their performance in the CAT exam, WAT, PI, academic, co-curricular and extra-curricular achievements, and work experience.

IIMs have already reduced the CAT weightage for shortlisting. IIMs across the country have their own admission criteria. Recently, all the IIMs are giving more weightage for personal interviews (PI).

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IIMs Admission Criteria

The CAT Exam 2023 will be held on Nov 26. Candidates appearing for the exam must know about the IIMs admission criteria.

Admission Criteria		IIM Ahemadabad Weightage (in %)	IIM Bangalore Weightage (in %)	IIM Culcutta Weightage (in %)	IIM Lucknow Weightage (in %)
Shortlisting Criteria	CAT Score	65	55	56	60
	Class 10+12+Graduation Marks	30	10	10	10
	Work Experience	5	10	15	10
	Gender Diversity	-	5	4	5
Final Selection Criteria	CAT Score	25	25	30	30
	Class 10+12+Graduation Marks	15	5	6	5
	Work Experience		10	8	5
	Writing Ability Test	10	10	8	10
	Personal Interview	50	40	48	40