How to enter IIM???

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I'm compiling this piece of information on request of my esteemed reader "Umar" who is an aspirant of CAT... 

The selection for the post-graduate programme (MBA) in Indian Institute of Management - IIM is done through a two-stage process. In the first stage, candidates to be called for personal interview are short-listed from among those who have applied to IIMA’s post-graduate programme. While short-listing the candidates for personal interview, candidates belonging to categories for which seats are reserved, are treated differently. The criteria used for short-listing would be disclosed on the CAT web-site (www.catiim.in) and/or the IIMA website (www.iimahd.ernet.in) along with the list of short-listed candidates on 9th January 2009 (Current Academic Year). Please note that the cut off for short listing SC/ST/PWD candidates for personal interview would not be less than 17% score in each of the three sections of CAT 2008 and no less than 25% score in aggregate. For other categories, it would be no less than 25% in each of the three sections and no less than 33% in aggregate.  The actual cut-offs used for short-listing, however, may be higher than the above mentioned percentage scores and would depend upon the performance of candidates in Common Admission Test - CAT .

In the second stage, candidates to be admitted to the post-graduate programmes are selected from among those who have attended the personal interviews.  In preparing this admission list, inputs such as performance in personal interview, the CAT score, academic background and achievements, extra-curricular activities, and post-degree work experience, are taken into consideration.

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What is MBA at IIMA???

The Post-Graduate Programme is the most prestigious curriculum at IIMA. The programme nurtures world-class managers by exposing them to real life unstructured situations along with analytical tools and business philosophies. Participants discover their true potential after practising rigour and focused hard work. Students gain conceptual and interpersonal skills while fine-tuning on the social purpose in managerial decision-making.

The Institute has initiated exchange programmes with more than twenty-five foreign Institutions of equal repute. Every year the Institute selects close to a quarter of the students to spend one term at some of these institutes. The students get to benefit from the rich exposure that they receive. Similarly students from the corresponding institutes visit IIMA for a term. Joint activities provide each school with a better understanding of teaching methods they practice and give them a better poise. Students learn to appreciate diverse cultures and working environments and develop a holistic vision. 

Another important aspect of the PGP is the Summer internship. This eight-week programme provides the students an opportunity to work with reputed companies from various sectors where they get to put their ideas and skills to work. In retrospect the companies get to know their prospects better and a chance to enhance their visibility on the campus using the intern as their ambassador.

Some of the best companies, in India and the world, visit the campus every year searching for the best talent in the field. Close to 6000 graduates of the PGP course have scaled to high positions in a number of reputed Indian and International corporations and institutes.

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The magic called IIM !!! Shaping future ahead...

In just four decades IIMA has evolved from being India’s premier management institute to a notable international school of management. 

It all started with Dr Vikram Sarabhai and a few other public spirited industrialists realizing that agriculture, education, health, transportation, population control, energy

, and public administration were all vital elements in a growing society and that it was necessary to link these meaningfully with industry. The result was the creation of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad in 1961 as an autonomous body with the active collaboration of the Government of India, Government of Gujarat, and industry. 

It was evident that to have a vision was not enough. Effective governance and quality education were seen as critical aspects. From the very start the founders introduced the concept of faculty governance: all members of the faculty play an important role in administering the diverse academic and non-academic activities of the Institute. The empowerment of the faculty has been the propelling force behind the high quality of learning experience at IIMA. The Institute had initial collaboration with Harvard Business School. This collaboration greatly influenced the Institute’s approach to education. Gradually it emerged as a confluence of the best of Eastern and Western values.

Mission

• IIMA's mission is to help India and other developing countries improve their managerial practices both in the private and in the public sectors, and adopt superior public policies. It seeks to do this through producing risk-taking leader-managers who will pioneer new managerial practices and set new standards; through producing teachers and researchers who will generate new ideas of International significance; and through purposeful consulting aimed at helping client organizations scale new heights. 
  

Objectives 

• To provide learning facilities to men and women of exceptional
  
• calibre for pursuing careers in management or becoming teachers and researchers in different management fields.
  
• To promote knowledge through research, both applied and conceptual, relevant to management, and to disseminate such knowledge through publications.
  
• To participate in and contribute to the formulation of public policy, which would provide answers to questions of social importance.
  
• To enhance the decision-making skills and the administrative
  
• competence of practising managers and assist organizations to solve their managerial problems by providing them with consulting services based on actual requirements.
  
• To collaborate with other institutions in India and abroad with a
  
• view to further professionalising management education and assisting in institution building, in a meaningful manner.
  

Source: http://www.iimahd.ernet.in (IIM Official Website)

What actually is AIMA all about???

Today amid all the transitions, there is one Indian body that’s helping the Indian managers to make the most of the new opportunities. One body that’s assimilating the changed global perspective and equipping the Indian managers for it. One body that’s ready for tomorrow is All India Management Association (AIMA).

The All India Management Association (AIMA) was created as an apex body of professional management with active support of the Government of India and Industry in 1957. AIMA is a group- a body to pool management thoughts in the country, a forum to develop a national managerial ethos, an orgnisation to facilitate the furtherance of the management profession in the country.

AIMA is a federation of Local Management Associations (LMAs). AIMA today affiliates 58 LMAs across the country and two Co-operating management associations i.e. Qatar Indian Management Association and Mauritius Management Association.

AIMA has established close linkages with over 3000 institutions and over 30,000 individual professionals directly and through network of the Local Management Associations. AIMA’s activities include Distance management Education, management Development Programmes, national Events, Competitions, Research, Publication and Testing Services.

AIMA is represented on a number of policy making bodies of the Government of India and a number of National bodies / organizations. Some important ones are as under :

All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), which is the apex regulatory body for professional education in the country under the Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD), Government of India

1. Council of Institute of Applied Manpower Research
   
2. Boards of Governors, Indian Institutes of Management (Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Calcutta, Indore and Kozikode)
   
3. Bureau of Indian Standards, New Delhi
   
4. National Productivity Council, New Delhi
   
5. Central Direct Taxes Advisory Committee
   
6. AIMA is frequently co-opted by the Government on Specialised Committees.
   

AIMA is an active member of the Asian Association of Management Organizations (AAMO), which is the Asia-Pacific regional body of the World Management Council (CIOS). AIMA currently holds the Presidency of AAMO. The current 15 member countries of AAMO include Australia, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Macau, Malaysia, Mauritius, Nepal, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Singapore, Sri Lanka and Taiwan.

AIMA maintains close links with a number of overseas professional institutions like the American Management Association, Chartered Institute of Management (UK), all the National Management Organisations in the Asia Pacific Region and St Gallen University of Switzerland among others.

Source: http://www.aima-ind.org/ (Official Website of AIMA)

I was off for too long...

A/A dear friends...

Well, I was off the blog for too long... apologies for this..

But we now have a new start, I have finished my 2nd year from the Islamia College of Science and Commerce and I'm now into my final year and preprations are now to begin for the MAT, CAT, GMAT, GRE and other national and internation management entrance tests. I hope to prepare myself pretty well, God willing. In the meantime, I will be posting all the information I acquire regarding the tests above mentioned. I shall post all relevant material here. But, in return I need your valued feedback and suggestions..

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