IIM Admission Procedure 2014 has no Group Discussion

Group discussion

IIM Admission Procedure 2014 has no Group Discussion

Out of these 13 IIM’s, 11 IIM’s will not have any group discussions for the admission procedure of 2014. Remaining 2 IIM’s only conducting this group discussion. Those IIM’s were IIM Kozhikode and IIM Lucknow.

Delhi: In India, there are 13 IIM (Indian Institute of Management) Institutions. Out of these 13 IIM’s, 11 IIM’s will not have any group discussions for the admission procedure of 2014. Remaining 2 IIM’s only conducting this group discussion. Those IIM’s were IIM Kozhikode and IIM Lucknow.

Earlier, in the admission procedure of all the IIM’s includes Group discussion along with personal interview and separate written test for each department. Apart from that CAT or GMAT Scores are also considered. But now this admission procedure was changed. For the academic year 2014-16, 11 IIM’s will not conduct group discussion. They will consider CAT or GMAT scores. GMAT will be used for the admission for the international candidates and CMAT score will be used for the admission for Indian Nationals.

Along with these scores, Written Aptitude Test will be conducted and after the written test Personal interview will be conducted to the qualified persons. Add on to have admission in the IIM’s is past academic record and work experience. Written test conducts to known the clear vision about the thoughts. This will also help to known the structured thinking, analytical ability of the candidates.

Main aim of conducting the Group discussion is to test the logical thinking, analytical skills and communication ability of the candidates. Though it is conducting to known the skills of the aspirants, it is also having some loop wholes. Major drawback to this group discussion is that aggressive candidates are dominating other candidates.

Some people are not getting any chance to speak due to these aggressive candidates though they were having strong managerial aptitude skills. It is expecting that admission procedure will start after 14th January 2014 as CAT Results will be announced on 14th January 2014.