CAT 2013 Exam Date Notification, Form & Eligibility

Download CAT 2013 Exam Date Notification, Find the Form & the Eligibility Required. This article also predicts the date for CAT 2014.

Common Admission Test (CAT) 2013 Notification has already come out and submission of online application form has began from 5th August with the last date for online submission of form/registration as 26th September, 2013. 

IIM, Indore is the coordinator of CAT 2013, organizing the exam on behalf of all the IIMs and Prometric is the test delivery partner for CAT 2013, scheduled to be held in the test window period from 16th October to 11th November 2013.  This article tells you in a nutshell how to apply for CAT 2013 by quoting the relevant information on eligibility and application form from the notification.

I am also making following subsequent blog post to help you prepare for the exam:
CAT 2013 Analysis: Exam Pattern/Format & Syllabus.
CAT 2013 Prep Material: Mock Test, Sample Papers & Prep Books.

For those uninitiated in to CAT, let us start with a quick write up on what is CAT.

What is CAT:

CAT (Common Admission Test) is a very competitive entrance exam for top-rung management institutes in India. Through CAT you can get admission to not only thirteen famed IIMs (Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Calcutta, Indore, Kashipur, Kozhikode, Lucknow, Raipur, Ranchi, Rohtak, Shillong, Tiruchirappalli, Udaipur), but more than 116 other top-rung management institutes in India, which have registered to use the CAT scores for their admission. In addition to these institutes, there are a lot of other good management institutes, which uses the CAT scores in their admission process.

For the fresh CAT examinees, let me tell you that CAT is only the first step for admissions to these management institutes. CAT scores are used to shortlist the candidates for further selection processes (like GD & Interview), the admission process of each management institutes varying from one another.

Number of seats through CAT 2013 has been increased by another 115 seats, taking the total to 3,335 seats in IIMs.

CAT 2013 list of management institutes:

Not all the candidates who appear in CAT gets a seat in IIMs. So which are the other non-IIM management institutes in which you can get a seat through CAT 2013? I have uploaded the list of CAT 2013 non-IIM management institutes in box.net. Click here to find the same.

CAT 2013 Test centres:

CAT 2013 is going to be held in the Prometric test centres in following 40 cities all over India:

Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Coimbatore, Dehradun, Durgapur, Faridabad,  Ghaziabad,  Greater Noida,  Gurgaon,  Guwahati,  Hyderabad,  Indore,  Jaipur,  Jammu, Jamshedpur,  Kochi,  Kolkata,  Kozhikode,  Lucknow,  Mumbai,  Nagpur,  Navi Mumbai,  New Delhi, Noida,  Patna,  Pune,  Raipur,  Ranchi,  Shillong,  Siliguri,  Surat,  Thiruvananthapuram,  Udaipur,  Varanasi, Vijaywada,  Visakhapatnam.

CAT 2013 Eligibility:

Minimum 50% marks (45% in case SC/ST/DA (Differently abled) categories) or equivalent CGPA in your Bachelor’s Degree from a recognized university.

Final year students can also apply, provided only if he/she submits a certificate latest by June 30, 2014 from the Principal/Registrar of his/her College/Institute (issued on or before June 30, 2014) stating that the candidate has completed all the requirements for obtaining the bachelor’s degree/equivalent qualification on the date of the issue of the certificate.

CAT 2013 Application Form/ CAT 2013 Vouchers:

You can apply for CAT 2013 only online. I am posting a separate article titled: CAT 2013 Registration/ Application Form Process just to make things easier for you.

CAT 2014 Exam dates:

Some of you may be appearing in next CAT exam and hence would like to know what would be the CAT 2014 exam date.
I have analyzes the schedule of last three CAT tests and following are the findings:

Accordingly following exam/registration dates for CAT 2014 can be predicted:
Date of Sale of  CAT 2014 Vouchers: 1st week of August - 2nd week of September, 2014

Dates for CAT 2014 Registration: 1st week of August - 2nd week of September, 2014
CAT 2014 Test Dates: 2nd week of October - 2nd week of November, 2014
CAT 2014 Result Date: Around 10th Jan, 2015.
Mind you, these are predicted dates. You should check for the CAT 2014 notification from July last week, 2014 in admission webpages of IIMs, such as this page from IIM, Ahmedabad.

Hope this information enables you to apply for CAT 2013 confidently. I would post more information on CAT 2013 Exam Pattern as well as study materials for CAT 2013. So please do visit this blog again!