IIM-CAT

Common Admission Test (CAT 2009)

A Practical Guide to the CAT

This guide serves as a supplement to the video "What to expect on test day" which is available YouTube. In addition to taking applicants through the expectations on test day, the guide also offers some practical tips to make your experience more comfortable. Click here to view.

Extended Registration & Scheduling is now closed

The registration & scheduling window for CAT 2009 is now closed. Registered candidates may still log on to https://iim.prometric.com to request for their Application and/or Admit Card to be resent.

Are you eligible for a refund?

Candidates who have purchased more than 1 voucher may be eligible for a refund if any of the following applies:

• You purchased a 2nd voucher due to inability to change your profile and/or application data.
• You purchased a 2nd voucher due to incorrect spelling of your name, middle name not entered, name entered as initials, and first / last name entered in the wrong order.

If any of the above applies to you, please send an email to CAT.candidateservice@prometric.com with your full name, date of birth, email address, phone number, CAT registration number, scanned copies of both vouchers and pay-in slips. Please mark the subject of the email as "Voucher Refund". We must receive all refund requests by October 16. Any refund requests received after October 16 will not be processed. You will receive a response to your email within 10 business days.

Information on the Common Admission Test

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:

• IIM Ahmedabad http://www.iimahd.ernet.in/
• IIM Bangalore http://www.iimb.ernet.in/
• IIM Calcutta http://www.iimcal.ac.in/
• IIM Indore http://www.iimidr.ac.in/
• IIM Kozhikode http://www.iimk.ac.in/
• IIM Lucknow http://www.iiml.ac.in/
• RGIIM Shillong http://www.rgiim.ac.in/

A list of non-IIM member institutions that have registered to avail the CAT 2009 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 2009 only once during the 10-day testing window.

CAT Eligibility

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.

CAT 2009 Candidate Flow

CAT Preparation

• Maintain a valid email account
• Keep mark sheets of your academic years handy
• A CAT demo test is available by clicking here. This provides a tutorial to help orient you to the computer testing environment as well as some sample questions for you to practice marking and reviewing your answers.

Step 1
Purchase a CAT Voucher (9 September – 11 October 2009)

Sale of CAT 2009 vouchers is now closed. 

Step 2
Registration & Scheduling (9 September – 1 October 2009)

The registration & scheduling window for CAT 2009 is now closed.

Step 3
CAT 2009 Testing Window (28 November – 7 December 2009)

• Arrive at your allocated test centre at least 2 hours before your scheduled appointment.
• Bring along your Voucher, Admit Card and a valid (non-expired) photo ID.
• SC/ST candidates must bring along valid eligibility document.
• Personal items will be stored at the test centre at your own risk.
• Candidates will be seated at a desk with a computer terminal and serial-numbered scratch paper will be provided for calculations. These must be left on the desk at the end of the test.
• Digital video recording will be used at all test centres.
• Test duration is 2.5 hours and a count-down clock will be shown on your computer screen. No scheduled breaks will be provided.
  
  CAT 2009 Scores will be available for download at http://www.catiim.in from 22 January 2010. Candidates must retain a print-out of their score card.

Test Locations

You may select from a list of 32 locations – Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Cochin, Coimbatore, Delhi, Durgapur, Faridabad, Ghaziabad, Gurgaon, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Jamshedpur, Kolkata, Kozhikode, Lucknow, Mumbai, (Navi) Mumbai, Nagpur, Noida, Patna, Pune, Ranchi, Shillong, Siliguri and Varanasi. Click here for the complete list.

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