As you have asked about the various criteria for making merit list for admission to Post graduate programme (PGP) of IIM Ahmedabad, I am giving you information about it, check below for the details

Admission to IIM-Ahmedabad is a 2 step process, which is as follow –

Preliminary screening
Screening for Academic Writing Test (AWT) & Personal Interview (PI)

Preliminary Screening

Minimum Cut-offs of CAT-2015 Percentile Ranks

Category Overall percentile rank (PT)

General 90
NC-OBC-cum-transgender 85
SC 80
ST 70
DA 80

Rating Scores for 10th Std. Exam (Rating Score A)
Rating Scores for 12th Std. Exam (Rating Score B)
Rating Scores for bachelor’s degree Exam (Rating Score C)

Application Rating Score: AR= (A+B+C)

Normalized AR score of an applicant is equal to his/her AR scores divided by average of the top 50 AR scores from the applicants’ pool.

Short Listing for Academic Writing Test (AWT) & Personal Interview (PI)

Short listing will be carried out in two stages.

Stage 1: (From the Applicants’ pool: Selection of exceptional performers across different disciplines)

Criteria: C1-C3:

C1. PT ≥ 90, PQA ≥ 80, PDILR ≥ 80 and PVRC ≥ 80

C2. P ≥ 80 (Science), 77 (Commerce), 75 (Arts/Humanities)

Here P is the average of the percentages of marks scored in 10th and 12th std. exams.

C3. (Percentage of marks in the bachelor’s examination) ≥ Minimum cut-off percentage
CS (Composite Score) = 0.3 (Normalized AR score) + 0.7 (Normalized overall score in CAT-2015)

Criteria: C1-C2

C1: PT , PQA, PDILR and PVRC ≥ Respective minimum cut-off
C2: P ≥ Minimum cut-offs

Final Selection

Selection will be on the basis of ‘Final Composite Scores’ (FCS)
FCS = 0.40 (Normalized PI Score) + 0.10 (Normalized AWT Score) + 0.5 (CS )