The candidates satisfying the minimum eligibility criteria should submit their application online as
described previously in sl. no. 2 i.e. Application procedure.

Based on the applications received, candidates satisfying minimum eligibility criteria will be called
for the Aptitude Test (AT) to be conducted across 34 cities (tentatively) in the country i.e. Ahmedabad,
Bengaluru, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh/ Mohali, Chennai, Dehradun, Delhi, Faridabad, Ghaziabad,
Gurugram, Guwahati, Gwalior, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Kolkata, Kozhikode, Lucknow, Ludhiana, Meerut,
Mumbai, Nagpur, Noida, Patna, Pune, Raipur, Ranchi, Roorkee, Siliguri, Thiruvananthapuram, Udaipur,
Varanasi and Visakhapatnam. However, IIM Indore reserves the right to change the cities/ centres or cancel
the centre at any time if the situation so warrants. The date of conducting AT is Saturday, July 2, 2022
(morning shift i.e., 10.00 AM to 12.00 Noon). The pattern of AT will be as follows:

i. There will be three sections in the Aptitude Test namely Quantitative Ability (Multiple Choice
Question-MCQ), Quantitative Ability (Short Answer Question-SA) and Verbal Ability (Multiple
Choice Question-MCQ).

ii. Each question will carry 4 marks.

iii. There will be a negative marking of 1 negative mark for each wrong answer except
Quantitative Ability (SA) Section (these questions will not carry any negative marking).

iv. The AT will be structured as under

v. Candidate must answer the sections in a pre-specified order and this order will remain same
for all the candidates. The above table does not indicate the final order of sections.

In this stage, the eligible pool for Stage-4 {i.e. Personal Interview (PI)} is created considering only the
candidates having positive raw scores and a minimum mark in each of the three sections of Aptitude Test.
The minimum cut off mark in each section will be decided by the Admissions Committee. The minimum cut off
mark in each section will be based on the categories of applicants. Individual regret letters will not be sent
to applicants who are rejected at this stage.

Sufficient number of candidates will be shortlisted for Personal Interview (PI) from the eligible pool
(refer Stage- 3) for each category (General, EWS, NC-OBC, SC, ST and PwD) using the merit list generated
based on Aptitude Test Score (ATS)

Only those candidates satisfying the requirements mentioned in earlier stages will be considered
for the final selection. Category wise merit list will be generated based on Composite Score (CS) as
mentioned in Table 2 and provisional admission offers will be made accordingly adhering to the Government
of India reservation norms.