FOCUS ON CONSISTENT ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE

To get on board IIM-Trichy, watch your X, XII marks too

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Ragu.Raman@timesgroup.com

21.01.2022

Chennai: For the first time, Indian Institute of Management-Trichy (IIM-Trichy) has decided to give weightage to Class X and XII marks for admission to its postgraduate programme in management (PGPM) programme from the 2022-23 academic year.

The institute is also planning to increase its intake by 140 seats this year, and will admit 410 students from this academic year. “Earlier, we used to give 10% weightage in admission for UG scores. This year, the admission committee decided to break down the 10% to give 2% weightage to Class X marks, 3% for Class XII marks and 5% for graduation marks. Students with consistent academic performance will get preference in the new weightage system,” said professor Prashant Gupta, chairperson, admissions, IIM-Trichy.

As per the admission policy for PGPM 2022-24 batch, 50%  weightage will be given for CAT scores, 25% weightage for personal interview, 3% weightage for verbal comprehension, 5% weightage for work experience, 10% weightage for academic performance, 2% weightage for professional qualification and 5% weightage for female candidates.

Last year, IIM-Trichy had an intake of 240 seats in its PGPM course and 30 seats in PGPMHR programme. “We are planning to increase the intake in PGPM to 360 and to 50 in PGPMHR. The institute is growing and we have decided to increase our intake,” Gupta said.

IIM-Trichy will conduct the common admission process 2022 (CAP 2022) on behalf of nine IIMs in Bodh Gaya, Jammu, Kashipur, Raipur, Udaipur, Ranchi, Sambalpur, Sirmaur and Trichy. Overall, the number of seats available for common admission process 2022 is likely to increase by around 200 this year. “We expect approximately 2,600 seats will be available for the admission process,” he added.

The institute said the nine IIMs have decided to exclude the written ability test (WAT) like last year and conduct personal interview online due to the pandemic. “IIM-Trichy used to give 10% weightage to WAT. Now that weightage for personal interview has increased from 18% to 25% and remaining 3% weightage will be given to verbal comprehension, which will be taken from the candidates’ CAT score,” officials said.

(With inputs from Vincent

Arockiaraj in Trichy)