Short-listing criteria for IIMA Personal Interviews through CAT-2009:

Our Institutional Profile stated the following:

“A non-overseas category candidate who does not belong to the SC/ST/DA or NC-OBC
categories should have scored at least 25% in each of the three sections of CAT and at least
33% in aggregate. A non-overseas category candidate who belongs to the NC-OBC category
should have scored at least 20% in each of the three sections of CAT and at least 30% in
aggregate. A non-overseas category candidate who belongs to the SC/ST/DA categories should
have scored at least 17% in each of the three sections of CAT and at least 25% in aggregate.”

In our process, we first selected 71904 General candidates, 11407 NCOBC candidates, 7526 SC
candidates, 1822 ST candidates, and 396 DA candidates who satisfied these criteria. These
candidates were considered for short-listing. Among them, the following candidates have
been shortlisted for Personal Interviews:

General Category candidates: 562 candidates whose percentiles in each section were 96.1
and above, and who had an overall percentile of 99 and had 70% and above in 10th and 12th
Standard were considered for personal interview.

NC-OBC Category Candidates: 200 NC-OBC candidates whose percentiles in each section were
89 and above and who had an overall percentile of 94 were considered for personal interview.

SC Category Candidates: 114 SC candidates whose percentiles in each section were 80 and
above and who had an overall percentile of 85 were considered for personal interview.

ST Category Candidates: 53 ST candidates whose percentiles in each section were 67 and

above and who had an overall percentile of 80 were considered for personal interview.

DA Category Candidates: 31 DA candidates whose percentiles in each section were 67 and

above and who had an overall percentile of 80 were considered for personal interview.
 Details of short-listing for Group Discussion and Personal Interview PGP-ABM (IIMA)
2010-2012 Batch

1. Applications and Seats for PGP-ABM

Number of candidates applying to Two-Year Post-Graduate Programme in Agribusiness

Management at IIMA are:

General 111438
NC-OBC 16987
SC 7081
ST 1615
DA 423
TOTAL 137544

For academic year 2010-2011 there are a maximum of 46 seats available at IIMA for PGP-
ABM, with reservations as mandated (NC-OBC: 13%, SC:15%, ST :7.5%, DA:3%).

2. Procedure for short-listing: As mentioned in the CAT bulletin, PGP-ABM is a sector

specific programme. Accordingly, consistent with past practice, candidates were classified
into four discipline categories based on the relevance of their graduation discipline to agri-
business. Candidates were shortlisted on meeting all cut-offs for their category. These
categories and their respective cut-offs for being short-listed for GD and Personal Interviews
are given below.

CAT 2010 Sectional Cut-offs (Percentile) for PGP-ABM

AGRI AND RELATED GENERAL-I GENERAL-ENGINEERING OTHERS

V Q DI V Q DI V Q DI V Q DI

GENERAL 80 80 80 87 87 87 99.5 99.5 99.5 92 92 92

NC-OBC 74 74 74 80 80 80 97 97 97 85 85 85

SC 67 67 67 67 67 67 95 95 95 80 80 80

ST 67 67 67 67 67 67 88 88 88 80 80 80

DA 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80

Details of Discipline Categories

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Academic Discipline
Academic Discipline(s) Discipline
Category
Code
Agriculture and related Agriculture: Agronomy, Soil Science, Agricultural
disciplines Biochemistry, Agricultural Economics, Agricultural
01
Extension, Plant Breeding and Genetics, Entomology,
Plant Pathology etc.
Agricultural Engineering 02
Animal Husbandry 03
Dairy Science/Technology 11
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Academic Discipline
Academic Discipline(s) Discipline
Category
Code
Fisheries 14
Forestry 15
Food Technology 16
Horticulture 17
Rural Studies/Rural Sociology/Rural Cooperatives/Rural
23
Banking
Veterinary Science 27
General-I: Life Sciences, Commerce/Economics: Accountancy, Auditing, Banking,
Commerce and related Business Mathematics, Business Organisation,
06
disciplines Economics, Economic Development and Planning, Public
Administration, Public Finance, Secretarial Practices, etc.
Chartered Accountancy 07
Cost and Works Accountancy 08
Management (Business Administration/Business
20
Management/Business Studies/Management Studies)
Medicine/Dentistry 21
Science: Biology, Biochemistry, Bio-technology, Botany,
24
Life Science, Zoology
General-II Computer Science/Computer Application/Information
10
Technology
Engineering/Technology: B.E./M.E., B.Sc. (Engg)./M.Sc.
(Engg.), B.Tech./M.Tech. in all engineering subjects,
13
including Computer Engineering other than Agricultural
Engineering and Dairy Technology
Others Architecture 04
Arts/Humanities: Archaeology, Education, Fine Arts
(Dance, Music, Painting), Geography, History, Journalism,
Languages, Library Science, Literature, Philosophy, 05
Political Science, Psychology, Public Administration,
Social Work/Welfare, Sociology, etc,
Company Secretaryship 09
Education (including Physical Education and Sports) 12
Hotel & Tourism Management 18
Law 19
Pharmacology/Pharmacy 22
Science: Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics, Statistics 25
Science (Others): Home Science, Nursing, and all other
branches of Science not explicitly mentioned elsewhere in 26
this list
Any Other 28

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