MICAT-2020, DATES, ELIGIBILITY AND INTROSPECTION
All about MICAT-2020, Dates, eligibility and introspection.
MICAT- Important Dates
The registration for MICAT 2020 is started from 2nd or 3rd week of September, last date to apply for MICAT 2020 is on 3rd week of November 2019, exact dates may vary. According to the released notification by MICA, admit card will be available from last week of November 2019 to students and exam date is scheduled on 1st week of December 2019. Result will be out on 3rd week of December 2019.
Introduction to MICAT and MICA
MICAT is the MICA institute specific entrance exam for admission to PGDM-C and is conducted by MICA. MICAT for admission to PGDM 2020-22 batch will be held in the first week of December 2019 as a computer based test. Apart from appearing in CAT 2019, XAT 2020 or GMAT, the candidates applying for admission to PGDM-C program in MICA will have to appear in MICAT-I in December, 2019 or MICAT-II in February 2020. MICAT commands 50% weightage in shortlisting at MICA, while 50% weight goes to CAT/XAT/GMAT score.
Mudra School of Business Ahemdabad (MICA) was established in 1991, and is a premier B-School in India for commencing PGDM. The flagship program of MICA, PGDM-C was coined as one of the best and elaborative study in market. MICA observes 100% placements mostly every session, last year’s average salary offered was just above 11 lakhs and the fees is around 19 lakhs. One fun fact about MICA is that, this college doesn’t participate in any rankings as the course structure offered here is very unique. Also there are some companies who only prefers MICAns for M/R, that is the niche bench-level MICA is created.
MICAT Pattern
MICA admission test, MICAT 2020 is a multidimensional computer based examination, which will assess candidates in areas such as Divergent Thinking Abilities, Written Communication Abilities, General Awareness about contemporary social and business issues, including areas relevant to media, marketing, advertising & current affairs and Analytical & Verbal Abilities. The Admission test also includes psychometric profiling to assess the candidate’s leadership potential.
The selection process for PGDM-C will happen twice. Candidates will have to take at least one of the three eligibility exams: CAT 2019, XAT 2020 or GMAT .MICAT will be held only in the computer based format in 48 cities across the country. First phase Group Exercise & Personal Interview (GE-PI) will be conducted at Bengaluru, Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai and Ahmedabad and the second phase GE-PI at MICA, Ahmedabad only. Psychometric test is a qualifier. Those who qualify on the Psychometric, their CAT/XAT/GMAT relative performance will be considered (Subject to a minimum cut-off in CAT total percentile/XAT total percentile/GMAT score). Those who qualify based on the CAT/XAT cut-off or GMAT score shall be assessed for the following MICAT sections: Verbal ability (VA), Quantitative ability and Data Interpretation (QADI), General awareness (GA), and Divergent and Convergent Thinking (DCT).
Those who qualify on the basis of relative performance subject to a minimum cut-off in Scaled Scores for each of these sections (namely: VA, QADI, GA and DCT) and CAT/XAT cut-off or GMAT score shall have their Descriptive Tests evaluated. Those who qualify on the basis as mentioned above and on the basis of relative performance subject to a minimum cut-off in Scaled Score in DT shall be considered for short listing for GE and PI. Shortlist will be prepared on the basis of MICAT-I and /or II or better of the two relative performances if a candidate has taken both MICAT-I and MICAT-II. (This will be prepared based on the Composite Score formula of 50% CAT/XAT/GMAT and 50% MICAT). Approximately 1/10th of the total number of candidates who appear in the two MICATs will be shortlisted for GE & PI based on the Total MICAT Scaled Score.
Source - Edumyra
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