The admission procedure for the most esteemed business schools, the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), will commence with the Common Admission Test (CAT 2020), scheduled to be conducted on November 29. All 20 IIMs will screen students based on the scores attained in CAT 2020. Naturally, a lot is at the stake.

 Be aware, Common Admission Test scores alone do not decide a candidate’s opportunities of securing admission and each year, their significance as a factor is diminishing. An admission policy too heavily reliant on Common Admission Test has led to classes with lopsided gender ratios and dominated by engineers. With deliberate efforts from some Indian Institutes of Management, that is now changing.

 For the 2021-2023 batch of the two-year postgraduate programmes, CAT scores have been assigned weightages between 25 and 65 percent for the final selections at the IIMs – Ahmedabad, Lucknow, Bangalore, Kozhikode and Raipur. Some IIMs have had added a host of selection criteria to the CAT score to promote diversity including prior academic performance, work experience, gender and academic background.

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