criteria for work experience in IIMs

CAT -12 is round the corner and IIMs have declared their admission criteria. The registration for the CAT exam has already begun and will last till end of this month. Many institutes have different criteria for giving admission to students but one thing is common is that maximum weightage will be given to CAT 2011-12 test score. The admission in IIMs depends upon various factors such as CAT score, GD, PI round, Writing Ability Test. However, all institutes have given maximum weightage to CAT score. But a good CAT 2011 score alone it will not be sufficient for your entry to an IIM. You will have to score good in all areas as scoring well in one section is not sufficient as merit list will be based on total score of 100.

Till now, six IIMs have published their admission criteria. These IIMs mentioned the weightage that will be assigned to your scores in CAT 2011, GD, PI rounds, Writing Ability Test (WAT), Past Academic Performance (PAP) and Work Experience (WE) for final selection. Let’s check out the weightage given to Work Experience and Past Academic Performance.

Institute Name	Weightage to Work Experience & Past Academic Profile
IIM Calcutta	10% (8% Work Experience)
IIM Raipur	20%
IM Rohtak	15%
IIM Kozikode	15%
IIM Indore	No weightage to candidate profile
IIM Lucknow	5% (PAP) + 2% WE + 3% Academic diversity factor

The new IIMs, IIM Rohtak and IIM Raipur will be giving a high weightage of almost 20% to the profile criteria. In older IIMs, IIM Calcutta will give 8% weightage to the work experience criteria, whereas IIM Indore will be giving no weightage for profile.