Government
of India,
All
India Council for Technical Education
7th
Floor, Chanderlok Building, Janpath, New Delhi-110 001
CMAT 2014-2015
All India Council for Technical Education, a
statutory body of the Government of India, located at 7th Floor, Chanderlok
Building, Janpath, New Delhi-110 001, has notified the Second Common Management
Admission Test (CMAT) for 2014-15.
AICTE conducts CMAT twice a year for facilitating
institutions to select suitable students for admission to all management
programmes approved by AICTE.
Test Venues include 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.
Candidates who have already appeared in the first
test for 2014-15 can appear for the second test also. The better of two scores
will be used for admission for 2014-15. 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 2014.
Test Fee for General/OBC candidates for any test
centre in India, is Rs.1200 + Bank charges as applicable. For SC/ST/PD category
candidates, it is Rs.600 + 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.
Registration window will be open from 1.11.2013 to
2.1.2014 at www.aicte-cmat.in. Applicants will have the facility to take the
Print out of Hall ticket from 5.2.2014. The Computer based test will be held
between 20.2.2014 and 24.2.2014 in two slots, from 9.30 am to 12.30 pm and from
2.30 pm to 5.30 pm.
Choice of 3 dates and 3 cities of India 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.
Results will be declared on 14.3.2014. Candidates
would be able to take the print out of score cards, from 14.3.2014 to
13.4.2014. The detailed merit list will be provided to the respective State
Governments for allotting the students through central counseling or otherwise
as per their notified admission procedure. In case there is no central
counseling, scores awarded will be used for admission in the AICTE approved
Institutes/University Departments.
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. 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.
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.
The 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.
A Trial test will be made available at
http://www.aicte-cmat.in/ in due course 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.
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. If the Challan has been generated and
copies printed on 4th November 2013, then payment can be made at a branch of SBI from 5th
November, 2013 onwards.
The last date to pay CASH in bank is 3rd January, 2014 and
registration can be completed by 5th January, 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 February, 2014 exam. Please login
from 5th February 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
For more details, visit www.aicte-cmat.in
