AICTE has announced the dates for the first ever common entrance test for management
courses in the country.
The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has
announced the dates for the first ever common entrance test for management courses
in the country. Officially christened as Common Management Admission
Test (CMAT), it will be an online test to be held twice daily over a period of nine
days. Students can appear for the exam on any day from February 20-28.
The registration for the CMAT will start on December 9 and end a month later. Students
are required to register online at and create a user ID first, following which a
password will be generated. Then after logging into their account they can proceed
for payment in either the online or offline mode. For online mode, students can
use their credit or debit cards and complete the entire process. The hall ticket
can be downloaded from the website from January 30 onwards.
For offline method, the students will have pay cash at any branch of the State Bank
of India against the online generated challan. Cash can be deposited only 24 hours
after generating the online challan. Under the current system it is important for
students to register as early as possible. That's because the exam seats will be
allocated on a first come first served basis. With only four exam centres in Maharashtra
(Mumbai, Pune, Aurangabad and Nagpur) students will have to ensure that they do
not miss out on a seat. The three-hour long CMAT will be held twice daily, once
in the morning starting at 9am and the other starting at 2.30pm.
However, the CMAT-2012 will not be mandatory as the AICTE wants to give every stakeholder
enough time to ease into the new format. Lalit Khullar, director at Tirpude College
of Management Studies and Research, said, "For the 2012-13 academic session every
institution will have the option of using the CMAT as their entrance eligibility
criteria. Because now we have other exams as well including the state's own entrance
exam. From 2013, all of this is proposed to be abolished and only CMAT will be there.
We will follow whatever decision the state's Directorate of Technical Education
takes regarding this for 2013."
The AICTE will be holding the CMAT for about four lakh management seats across the
country. The AICTE has now urged every state government to register online for opting
to use CMAT-2012 scores for admissions for academic year 2012-13.
Courtesy: Times of India
