Welcome CAT aspirants!
CAT 2008 has come and gone and its that time of the year again when a war of words at Group Discussions and a test of your nerves at those grilling IIM interviews await you. Team Jokatimes conveys its hearty Congratulations to all those who have crossed the first big hurdle towards attaining their aspirations!
Having gone through the very same process last year, we can gauge the tremendous need for information that every prospective IIM C-ian has. In order to help you in your quest to know IIM C better we have a smorgasbord of articles on board starting from the section about Campus Life to Student Profiles.
You can also browse through the CAT corner, a section dedicated to prospective students in helping them cross the next hurdle with ease. Browse through our series on Interview Experiences or get gyaan from Baba-knoweth-all in our series on Interview Preparation.
The Student body in IIM C has come up a personalized initiative to help all call-getters, the IIM Calcutta Mentorship Program 2009-10, Fill in your details to help us reach out to you in whatever manner we can to make this transition smoother. We will soon put up a forum with access to mentors and call-getters.
A few relevant Links for your benefit:
Team Jokatimes’ best wishes to the prospective batch of 2009-11!
For Jokatimes
Chandrima Das
January 14th, 2009 at 10:13 pm
hi,
I had a query regarding the selection criteria of the iimc heard that they emphasize on the CAT score smore than the academic scores. is that right.
cheers
vikram
January 14th, 2009 at 10:36 pm
Hi……..great innovation…!!! such a nascent idea…one thing i wanted to know…is the mentorship pgm only fr those selected in cat-08 or even for any aspirant?…
January 15th, 2009 at 2:02 am
@Vikram: Well, IIM C has a 75% weightage for CAT scores as per 2008 admission criteria. For more details you can look up the criteria as given on the IIM Calcutta website http://www.iimcal.ac.in
@ adit: The Mentorship program is meant for IIM C GDPI call getters for PGDM/PGDCM only.
January 15th, 2009 at 3:17 am
PGDM calls have been decided totally through CAT percentile cutoffs while PGDCM calls were given out on a combined basis of 10th/12th marks, workex and car percentile.
January 15th, 2009 at 11:31 am
hello……..
does the sectional percentiles also carry weights???
January 15th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
one more thing……. when u say 75% weightage to cat percentile…. u mean the final selectionorselection for GD and PI??
January 20th, 2009 at 6:14 am
The breakup for admissions is for the final stage. I cannot tell you for sure but I think for giving out calls, the marks for the other criteria (minus GD, PI) are normalized.
Cutoffs are applied on sectional percentiles. And that is why we see people with high overall percentiles lose out due to lower marks in one section.
January 22nd, 2009 at 1:26 am
when will we be assigned mentors
so that our access becomes easy?
January 22nd, 2009 at 8:45 am
hello,
i got a call this yr frm IIMC. can somebody guide me as to how r we supposed to make the resume needed for PI. wat all has to be put in it and wat not? also if someone from the mentors could mail me their resumes, it would be really helpful. Please do mail me the resume at prakharasthana@gmail.com.
Thanks a lot!
January 22nd, 2009 at 12:29 pm
@suyash: the mentors have already been assigned to all the people who have registered. if you havent yet then please register at http://www.iimcal.ac.in/mentor.asp. If u have registered than please drop a mail to mentorship@email.iimcal.ac.in with your details.
@prakhar: please use the mentor assigned to you or the forum(once it is up) for all the queries.
January 27th, 2009 at 10:51 pm
sir
ihave already registered but m still waiting pls help
my email id is suyash_01@yahoo.co.in
January 29th, 2009 at 7:08 pm
I received a mail from the mentorship program saying i should subscribe for notices from a link that says subscribe topic.. where do i find this?
and also thank you for this mentorship programme.
February 10th, 2009 at 5:31 am
Dear Chandrima
I have already registered for the mentorship program. Since I didn’t get a reply for quite some time, I registered again. Is there something else I can/should do?
Thank you
March 5th, 2009 at 7:49 am
i have a query regarding application form , those who get grade points they are supposed to submit in writing from their institute the procedure for its conversion to percentage, but our institute (IIT BOMBAY) has refused to give anything like that….wht do we do?