CAT 2009 Notification
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The Indian Institutes of Management will conduct Common Admission Test (CAT) between November 28, 2009 and December 7, 2009. CAT is conducted by IIMs as a pre-requisite for admission to various management programmes of IIMs.
How and when to apply for CAT 2009
You don’t need to buy the CAT Bulletin any more from any bank.
A prospective candidate needs to buy only a scratch-voucher from the designated bank branches, and then register Online for CAT 2009.
Sale of CAT 2009 vouchers: The CAT 2009 vouchers can be obtained from branches of Axis Bank and their associated outlets from September 9, 2009 to October 1, 2009 for Rs. 1400/- (Rs. 700/- for SC/ST candidates). Please note that a candidate needs to buy only one CAT 2009 voucher irrespective of the number of institutes he/she is applying to. Also, 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 2009 voucher from the Axis Bank branches.
Voucher once sold will not 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.
Visit www.catiim.in for exact locations of Axis bank branches and their associated outlets where voucher sale is arranged.
Registration for CAT: On purchasing the CAT 2009 voucher, prospective candidates must log on to www.catiim.in to register for CAT 2009. The registration window starts on September 9, 2009 and will close on October 1, 2009. Details of the registration process are provided at www.catiim.in.
CAT 2009 ONLINE EXAM DATES
CAT will be held during the period November 28, 2009 to December 7, 2009. You can choose a test date, session (morning/afternoon), and venue across thirty centres all over India, subject to availability.
For more information visit www.catiim.in
Test centres: The test will be conducted in venues across many centres. These centres are Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Cochin, Coimbatore, Delhi, Durgapur, Faridabad, Ghaziabad, Greater Noida, Gurgaon, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Jamshedpur, Kolkata, Kozhikode, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, Noida, Patna, Pune, Ranchi, Siliguri and Varanasi. 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.
CAT score: A candidate’s CAT score card will be available to the candidate at the website www.catiim.in from January 22, 2010. Candidates must retain a print-out of their score card.
