About The Test :
Common Admission Test (CAT), is the common entrance exam that you have to take to get admission to the Indian Institute of Management. The CAT is now conducted on the second last Sunday of November and is generally the first management entrance examination in a long list of exams to follow. CAT entrance exam is used as a criteria to shortlist applicants for admissions to the IIMs- IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore, IIM Calcutta, IIM Lucknow, IIM Indore, and IIM Kozhikode. Besides the IIMs some other top management institutes like Management Development Institute, S.P. Jain Institute, Nirma Institute of Management, T.A. PAI , IMT and few more also shortlist the applicants on the basis of CAT.
Eligibility :
- Graduate in any discipline with a minimum of 50% in aggregate
- Final year students also apply
- For the admission to PGP at least 3 year Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent in any discipline recognized by AIU/AICTE as eligible for Post Graduate Studies in Management
Application Procedure/ Application Kit :Obtain the CAT bulletin containing the CAT application Form and other information at the branches of UTI Bank/Post Offices as the dates declared for sale of forms
- Buy only one CAT Bulletin irrespective of how many IIMs he/she is applying to.
- Enclose the Copy of Bank’s/IIMs’ Pay-in Slip bearing the Candidate’s name with the CAT Application Form.
- SC/ST candidates should submit a copy of SC/ST Certificate to the Bank /IIM at the time of obtaining the CAT Bulletin.
- Before procuring the CAT bulletin, Candidates should ensure they meet the eligibility criteria of the Programme in which they are interested.
- CAT application forms of ineligible candidates and application forms with incomplete information will be summarily rejected.
- Online Application : The CAT Bulletin (without application form) can also be obtained by making e-payment at the web-site through payment gateway of UTI Bank. The bulletin to candidates making e-payments would be sent to their address.
- All such candidates would have to fill the application compulsorily by revisiting the same web-site five days after making the e-payment as per the dates of sale of form and submission of form.
- After filling up the form at the web-site, the candidates need to take a print-out, sign the form, affix their photograph and send it with the other relevant documents to the concerned IIM (depending upon their choice of test centre).
- Please note that in the absence of photograph, signature and other relevant documents, the online application would be considered incomplete and would be rejected.
- The applications can also be filled up online by the candidates who have purchased CAT bulletin from UTI Bank branches.
- After two days of buying the bulletin, they can visit the web-site to fill up the application form.
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