Common Admission Test (CAT 2011) |
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The CAT 2011 will be conducted during a 20-day testing window between Saturday, 22 October and Friday, 18 November 2011.
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Important Dates: |
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| Sale of CAT 2011 Vouchers | Wednesday, 17 August – Saturday, 1 October 2011 |
| Registration / Scheduling for CAT 2011 | Wednesday, 17 August – Tuesday, 4 October 2011 |
| CAT 2011 Testing Window | Saturday, 22 October – Friday, 18 November 2011 |
| CAT 2011 Results | Wednesday, 11 January 2012 |
The CAT 2011 vouchers can be obtained from selected Axis Bank branches between Wednesday, 17 August and Saturday, 1 October 2011 for Rs. 1600/- (Rs. 800/- for SC/ST candidates). Visit www.catiim.in for the exact locations of these Axis Bank branches.
Sample of a General/NC-OBC/DA Voucher
Sample of a SC/ST Voucher
Please note that a candidate needs to buy only one CAT 2011 Voucher irrespective of the number of institutes he/she is applying to. Note that the Voucher must be bought only in the name of the candidate as it appears in the school leaving certificate. If the name has been changed due to events such as marriage, the candidate must show the relevant document such as a marriage certificate and submit a photocopy at the time of the test, interview and at the time of joining a programme. SC and ST candidates must show a copy of their SC/ST Certificates at the time of obtaining the CAT 2011 Voucher from the Axis Bank branches.
Voucher once sold cannot be refunded under any circumstance including but not limited to loss of voucher, inability to read voucher number due to mishandling of the voucher by candidate, candidate being ineligible for taking CAT, CAT not being a pre-requisite for a programme, and rejection of candidate registration due to incomplete and/or wrong information. If the voucher is lost, voucher number is not readable due to mishandling of the voucher by candidate, and/or candidate thinks he/she has made mistake(s) in filling-out information during the online registration, then the candidate can purchase a new voucher and re-register online.
On purchasing the CAT 2011 Voucher, prospective candidates must log on to the website http://www.catiim.in/ to register for CAT 2011. The registration window opens on Wednesday, 17 August 2011 and will close on Tuesday, 4 October 2011. For instructions on registration / scheduling, please read the CAT 2011 Registration Guide.
CAT 2011 will be conducted in test centres across 36 cities: Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Bhilai, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Cochin, Coimbatore, Dehradun, Delhi, Durgapur, Faridabad, Ghaziabad, Greater Noida, Gurgaon, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Jammu, Jamshedpur, Kolkata, Kozhikode, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, Navi Mumbai, Noida, Patna, Pune, Ranchi, Shillong, Siliguri, Varanasi, and Vishakapatnam.
IIMs reserve the right to change or cancel any test venue/centre and/or change the test window time and dates at their own discretion. For a full list of test centres, click here.
The Common Admission Test (CAT) is conducted by the Indian Institutes of Management (IIM) as a pre-requisite for admission to various management programmes of IIMs. For details on programmes offered by each of the IIMs, please refer to their respective websites:
A list of non-IIM member institutions that have registered to avail the CAT 2011 scores is available at http://www.catiim.in/. CAT score use is restricted only for admission to IIMs and non-IIM member institutions. A candidate can appear for CAT 2011 only once during the 20-day testing window.
The candidate must hold a Bachelor's Degree, with at least 50% marks or equivalent CGPA [45% in case of the candidates belonging to Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST) and Differently Abled (DA)1 categories], awarded by any of the Universities incorporated by an act of the central or state legislature in India or other educational institutions established by an act of Parliament or declared to be deemed as a University under Section 3 of the UGC Act, 1956, or possess an equivalent qualification recognized by the Ministry of HRD, Government of India.
The percentage of marks obtained by the candidate in the bachelor's degree would be calculated based on the practice followed by the university/ institution from where the candidate has obtained the degree. In case the candidates are awarded grades/CGPA instead of marks, the conversion of grades/CGPA to percentage of marks would be based on the procedure certified by the university/ institution from where they have obtained the bachelor's degree. In case the university/institution does not have any scheme for converting CGPA into equivalent marks, the equivalence would be established by dividing the candidate's CGPA by the maximum possible CGPA and multiplying the result with 100.
Candidates appearing for the final year of bachelor's degree/equivalent qualification examination and those who have completed degree requirements and are awaiting results can also apply.
IIMs may verify eligibility at various stages of the selection process, the details of which are provided at the website http://www.catiim.in/.
1 Also referred to as Persons with Disability (PWD)
