{"id":6967,"date":"2020-09-06T13:35:17","date_gmt":"2020-09-06T08:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/online.2iim.com\/cat-exam\/blogs\/?p=6967"},"modified":"2020-09-06T13:35:19","modified_gmt":"2020-09-06T08:05:19","slug":"iim-indore-ipmat-2020-5-changes-selection-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/online.2iim.com\/cat-exam\/blogs\/ipmat\/iim-indore-ipmat-2020-5-changes-selection-process\/","title":{"rendered":"IIM Indore’s IPMAT 2020: 5 Changes in the Selection Process"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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IIM Indore’s IPMAT 2020 examination<\/a> is going to be conducted tomorrow (7 September 2020<\/strong>) across 34 cities in the country. The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a lot of ad-hoc changes and contingency measures pertaining to the admission processes. The IPMAT 2020 process in this ‘new normal’ is not going to be similar to how it was in the ‘old normal’<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

IIM Indore has released the official notification<\/a> detailing the selection process. There are five major changes in the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What changes?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

1) The duration of IIM Indore’s IPMAT 2020<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The duration of the examination has come down to 90 minutes from the usual 120 minutes. Each of the three sections – Quantitative Ability (Multiple Choice Questions) [QA-MCQ], Quantitative Ability (Short Answers) [QA-SA] and Verbal Ability (Multiple Choice Questions) [VA-MCQ] – will get an equal share of the pie, with 30 minutes allotted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Section<\/td>Duration – Earlier<\/td>Duration – IPMAT 2020<\/td><\/tr>
QA (MCQ)<\/td>40 minutes<\/td>30 minutes<\/td><\/tr>
QA (SA)<\/td>40 minutes<\/td>30 minutes<\/td><\/tr>
VA (MCQ)<\/td>40 minutes<\/td>30 minutes<\/td><\/tr>
Total<\/td>120 minutes<\/td>90 minutes<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>
Table 1 – Changes in the exam duration for IIM Indore’s IPMAT 2020<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

2) The number of questions and total marks<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The total number of questions has come down from 100 to 60. This effectively means that the total marks have also diminished from 400 to 240.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Section<\/td>Total questions \u2013 Earlier<\/td>Total questions \u2013 IPMAT 2020<\/td><\/tr>
QA (MCQ)<\/td>40<\/td>20<\/td><\/tr>
QA (SA)<\/td>20<\/td>10<\/td><\/tr>
VA (MCQ)<\/td>40<\/td>30<\/td><\/tr>
Total<\/td>100<\/td>60<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>
Table 2.1 – Changes in the total number of questions in IIM Indore’s IPMAT 2020<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Section<\/td>Total marks \u2013 Earlier<\/td>Total marks \u2013 IPMAT 2020<\/td><\/tr>
QA (MCQ)<\/td>160<\/td>80<\/td><\/tr>
QA (SA)<\/td>80<\/td>40<\/td><\/tr>
VA (MCQ)<\/td>160<\/td>120<\/td><\/tr>
Total<\/td>400<\/td>240<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>
Table 2.2 – Changes in the total marks in IIM Indore’s IPMAT 2020<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

3) The curious case of Verbal Ability section<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Table 2.1 clearly conveys that the number of questions in the Quantitative Ability section has been reduced to exactly half of its usual numbers. Specifically, QA-MCQ will have a total of 20 questions, as opposed to 40, and QA-SA will have 10 questions, as against the usual 20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the difference is in the VA-MCQ section. The number of questions has come down only by 25%, from 40 to 30. There is a clear increase in weight for the Verbal Ability section, in terms of the total marks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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