All India Council for Technical
Education (AICTE) conducts CMAT twice a year for facilitating institutions to
select suitable students for admission to all management programmes approved by
AICTE. It has notified the First Common
Management Admission Test (CMAT) for admissions to Management Programmes for
the academic year 2015-16.
Applicant should be Graduates in
any discipline or final year students of Graduate Courses (10+2+3) whose result
will be declared before commencement of admission for 2015-16. The Computer
based test will be held between September 25th and September 29th 2014 in two
slots, from 9.30 am to 12.30 pm and from 2.30 pm to 5.30 pm.
CMAT will be held at Agartala,
Ahmedabad, Ahmednagar, Allahabad, Amravati, Amritsar, Aurangabad, Bangalore,
Bareilly, Bhavnagar, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Bhuj, Chandigarh, Chennai,
Coimbatore, Davangere, Dehradun, Delhi, Dhanbad, Dharwad, Durgapur, Gulbarga,
Gurgaon, Guwahati, Gwalior, Hyderabad, Indore, Jabalpur, Jaipur, Jammu,
Jamshedpur, Jodhpur, Kanpur, Kochi, Kolhapur, Kolkata, Kozhikode, Lucknow,
Ludhiana, Mangalore, Meerut, Mumbai, Mysore, Nagpur, Nasik, Navi Mumbai, Noida,
Panaji, Patna, Pune, Raipur, Rajkot, Ranchi, Shimla, Srinagar, Surat, Trivandrum,
Udaipur, Vadodara, Varanasi and Visakhapatnam. Application has to be submitted
online and the Registration window for the same will be open till 25th August
2014 at www.aicte-cmat.in.
Test Fee for General/OBC
candidates is Rs.1400 + Bank charges as applicable. For SC/ST/PD category
candidates, it is Rs.700 + Bank charges as applicable. Payment can be made by
Net Banking /Credit / Debit Card, online through www.aicte-cmat.in . It can also be remitted by way
of Cash at any branch of State Bank of India, using the challan generated
online while registering.
Choice of 3 dates and 3 cities
can be given in the order of preference, while registering online. Allotment
will be on first come first served. Actual allotment however will be subject to
availability of the slots in a particular city.
CMAT will be of 3 hours duration
without any break and will have 100 objective type questions from four areas.
There will be 25 questions each with maximum of 100 marks from each of the four
topics (i) Quantitative Techniques & Data Interpretation (ii) Logical
Reasoning (iii) Language Comprehension and (iv) General Awareness. Each correct
answer will fetch 4 marks. For each wrong answer given, 1 mark shall be
deducted from the score.
At the test venue, the candidate
will be seated at a desk with a computer terminal and he/she will be provided
with a scratch paper for calculations. After the test, candidate must leave the
scratch paper at the desk. Rough work cannot be done on any other paper/sheet,
as nothing will be allowed inside the testing room.
Trial test will be made available
at http://www.aicte-cmat.in/ from August 10, 2014 for the candidates to have a
feel of the online test and navigation functionality. Candidates may go through
them carefully to familiarize themselves with the screens, layout, and
navigation. There is no sectional cut off in the CMAT examination. All the
candidates who appear in the test based on their aptitude towards the
management education will be ranked in the order of their merit. T
he objective of the test is not
to eliminate the candidates from the process of seeking admission in the AICTE
approved management programmes, but to facilitate the institutions to select
the suitable candidates as per their merit. Results will be declared on
30.10.2014. Candidates would be able to take the print out of score cards, from
30.10.2014 to 30.11.2014.
For registering for the
examination, applicant should have access to a Computer with good Internet
connectivity so that there is no breakage of Internet during registration. All
the documents related to the qualification should be available at the time of
registering as the details therein are to be entered while registering.
Applicant will have to upload his/her scanned photo while registering, and so,
should keep ready a scanned clear photo taken on a white background and with size 140 x 160
(60Kb). Applicant will also be required to upload the scanned signature while
registering.
Applicant should keep ready, a
scanned clear signature done on a white background and with size, 60 x 90
(30Kb). Applicant should also have a valid e-mail id which will be used for at
least for the next 6 months. All communication will be done on this e-mail id
which will be entered while registering for CMAT exam. Applicant should also
have a valid mobile number as all information via SMS will be sent to this
number. If the payment is to be done online, applicant should have a valid
Credit / Debit card. There should also be a printer connected to the system to
print the 3 copies of a Challan in case one is planning to pay fee by cash, at
the bank.
Registering for CMAT is a 3 Step
process. In step 1, the applicant should read the Instructions and complete the
Self Registration. For the first time, one has to enter as ‘NEW USER’. Here the
applicant should read the instructions carefully, accept the declaration and
proceed. After this, the Self Registration has to be done in which few basic
details will have to be entered. This has to be verified before clicking on
‘SUBMIT’ button on this page. Once submitted, data entered on this page cannot
be edited. On submitting this page, a unique 6 digit password will be
generated. This password will be shown on the computer screen and will be sent
to the candidate via e-mail and SMS. For subsequent logins to the registration
portal, applicant should proceed as an ‘EXISTING USER’ and login with the
e-mail id and this unique 6 digit password. This completes the self
registration
Step 2 is the payment Process.
Applicant can complete the payment either in the online mode or in the Cash
Mode. If planning to have online payment, the applicant can select ‘ONLINE
PAYMENT’ mode and then make the payment, using Credit card / Debit card / Net
Banking. Once payment is successfully done, applicant will receive a
confirmation e-mail and SMS. On receiving the successful payment confirmation,
applicant can proceed with the remaining part of registration process.
Applicants can select the option
to pay fee by CASH at any of the designated branch of SBI. Once this option is
selected, applicant will see a CHALLAN on the screen with his/her details
already filled in it. Applicant has to take 3 print outs of this CHALLAN, fill
in the details wherever required in all the copies, and go to the nearest SBI
bank with cash, on the next day of generation of Challan.
The last date to pay CASH in bank
is 26th August, 2014,
and registration can be completed by 28th August, 2014. On remitting cash, the
bank will return a copy of CHALLAN with their stamp and a JOURNAL number
written on it. Applicant should ensure that the JOURNAL number is written
clearly and is visible before leaving the bank. After depositing cash and
receipt of acknowledgement CHALLAN, applicant needs to wait for 48 hours by
which time, the payment will get updated in the registration portal. Applicant
will receive an e-mail and SMS confirming that the payment data has got updated
in the registration portal.
Applicant should then re-login to
the portal and proceed with the remaining part of registration process.
In Step 3, applicant has to fill
the remaining part of the form. Once the applicant has filled the complete
form, he/she may once again check the complete data entered by clicking on
VIEW/MODIFY button. Clicking on VIEW/MODIFY button will allow the candidate to
modify the data in case it is to be modified. Once the applicant is sure that
all the data entered is accurate, he/she will have to accept a declaration and
click on ‘I AGREE’. The system will re-confirm to applicant for SUBMIT. Once
confirmed, the form will get finally SUBMITTED and no change in the data is
possible after this SUBMIT. Applicant will then see a message on the screen
stating ‘Thank you for successfully registering for the AICTE CMAT September,
2014 exam. Please login from 12th September 2014 onwards to download your exam
ADMIT CARD. For latest updates, please visit www.aicte-cmat.in’ Applicant can click on PREVIEW button to view
his/her filled form. Applicant may PRINT the filled form and keep a copy for
future reference. This completes the registration process.
The list of AICTE approved
Institutions using CMAT score is given at http://www.aicte-cmat.in/College/Index_New.aspx
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