IIM Indore reduces CAT cut-off for SC, ST candidates in MBA admission policy for 2025

IIM Indore MBA Admission 2025: The final selection will be based on CAT 2024 score, Personal Interview (PI), academic record, and diversity marks.

IIM Indore CAT cut-off for general category has remained same in the past 3 years. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
IIM Indore CAT cut-off for general category has remained same in the past 3 years. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)

Alivia Mukherjee | December 27, 2024 | 11:10 AM IST

NEW DELHI: The Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM Calcutta) declared the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2024 result on December 19. The IIM Indore has announced the MBA admission criteria 2025. The IIM Indore CAT cut-off for general category has remained 90 percentile for the past three years. However, this year, the IIM Indore CAT 2024 cut-off for Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) candidates has been reduced by 5 percentile points.

As per IIM Indore admission policy 2025, CAT 2024 sectional scores have been given 40% weightage. The IIM Indore final selection 2025 will be based on CAT 2024 score, Personal Interview (PI), academic record, and diversity.

IIM Indore Admission Policy 2025: Eligibility criteria

Candidates can have a look at the eligibility criteria for IIM Indore admission 2025 below.

  • Candidates are required to have completed their graduation degree with a minimum of 50% marks in total aggregate or its equivalent CGPA (5% relaxation for candidates belonging to reserved category).
  • Candidates are required to have done their graduation from any university. If no CGPA-to-marks conversion scheme is shared by the college, IIM Indore will calculate equivalence by dividing the CGPA by the maximum CGPA and multiplying by 100.
  • Final-year students provisionally admitted are required to submit their final year mark sheet and degree certificate by June 30, 2025.

Also read CAT 2024: IIM Rohtak announces admission criteria 2025; exam score gets 60% weightage

IIM Indore CAT 2024 cut-off

As per IIM Indore admission criteria 2025, candidates are required to meet the minimum section-wise and overall CAT 2024 cut-off, as detailed below.

Category

Overall

Quantitative Ability (QA)

Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning (DILR)

Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension (VARC)

General

90.00

80.00

80.00

80.00

Economically Weaker Section (EWS)

80.00

80.00

80.00

80.00

Non-Creamy Other Backward Class (NC-OBC)

80.00

70.00

70.00

70.00

Scheduled Caste (SC)

80.00

55.00

55.00

55.00

Scheduled Tribe (ST)

60.00

40.00

40.00

40.00

Persons with Disabilities (PwD)

45.00

40.00

40.00

40.00

IIM Indore MBA Admission 2025: Shortlisting for PI stage

The IIM Indore states that if candidates did not receive marks in Class 10 or 12 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the weightage for those components will be redistributed between the CAT 2024 sectional scores and the remaining standard scores on a pro-rata basis. Candidates who meet the CAT 2024 cut-off will be eligible for shortlisting for the Personal Interview (PI) stage. Candidates will be shortlisted for PI based on the merit list created from the Composite Score (CS), as detailed below.

Component

Weightage

Class 10

39

Class 12

20

Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension (VARC)

10

Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning (DILR)

10

Quantitative Ability (QA)

15

Diversity Factor (DF)

6

Composite score

Sum of the above

Also read CAT Cut-off 2024: Category-wise IIM CAT cut-offs for general, OBC, EWS, SC, ST, PwD

IIM Indore final selection process 2025

The IIM Indore's final selection process 2025 will be based on composite score. The composite score will be calculated based on Class 10 and 12 marks, CAT 2024 sectional scores, PI scores, diversity score. The table below details the weightage assigned to each parameter:

Component

Weightage

Class 10

5

Class 12

5

Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension (VARC)

20

Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning (DILR)

10

Quantitative Ability (QA)

10

Diversity Factor (DF)

5

Composite score

Sum of the above

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