Your CAT percentile is counted the most in IIM C admissions

IIM C is not really concerned about your performance for undergraduation. On the other hand, the admissions here gives weightage to your CAT performance, says Prof Anup K. Sinha of IIM Calcutta. Narrating the admission process in IIM C, he says: "We do give a little weightage for work-experience. For taking CAT, which is the first round of admission, the undergraduate subject of study doesn't matter. Then at the group discussion and personal interview level we check what we cannot check at the CAT level, that is a student's demeanour, confidence levels, general awareness, communication ability, intellectual ability and reflexes to an extent."

IIM Calcutta gives a lot of emphasis on extra co-curricular activities and insists on imparting in-depth knowledge to students, says Prof. Sinha. In short, IIM Calcutta is a "mix of academic depth with extra co-curricular activities," says he.

At a time when professional business ethics has become farcical, Prof. Sinha has very practical and insightful suggestions to offer. According to him sensitizing a person and making the person aware of the implications of a decision is the best way to make him ethical in his approaches. "If you make him think even once that an ethical choice is an important issue, and that it can have implications which you cannot think of when you take the decision, you end up sensitizing that person," opinons Prof. Sinha.

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