How to Apply for Common Admission Test 2007 (CAT 2007): Sale Of Common Admission Test 2007 (CAT 2007) Bulletin By Banks / Post Offices: The Common Admission Test 2007 (CAT 2007) Bulletin containing the CAT Application Form and other information can be obtained at branches of UTI Bank/ Post offices listed below, between July 17 and August 17, 2007 for Rs.1100/- (Rs.550/- for SC/ST candidates).

Please note that a candidate needs to buy only one CAT Bulletin irrespective of how many IIMs he/she is applying to. Candidates buying the form from UTI Bank/ Post Offices/ IIMs must enclose the 3rd Copy of Banks/IIMs. Pay-in Slip bearing the Candidates name with the CAT Application Form. SC/ST candidates should submit a copy of SC/ST Certificate to the Bank / IIM at the time of obtaining the CAT Bulletin. Candidates should ensure they meet the eligibility criteria of the programme in which they are interested, before procuring the CAT bulletin. CAT application forms of ineligible candidates and application forms with incomplete information will be summarily rejected. No claim of refund will be entertained on sold Bulletins.

The Common Admission Test 2007 (CAT 2007) Bulletin can also be purchased online. The details are provided under the heading “SALE OF CAT BULLETIN AND FILLING UP OF APPLICATION FORM ON THE INTERNET” in this advertisement. The candidates, who would like to buy the Bulletin from Bank/ IIMs /Post offices also have the option of completing their application online as detailed under the above mentioned heading.

List of UTI Bank Branches:

ANDHRA PRADESH:
Chittoor (Prakasam High Road), Hyderabad Main (Begumpet Road), Secunderabad (Rashtrapati House), Kakinada (Subhash Road), Kurnool (Railway Station Road), Vijayawada (Rajagopalachari Street), Vishakhapatnam (Dwaraka Nagar), Warangal (Station Road); ASSAM: Guwahati (Dispur), Jorhat (A.T. Road); BIHAR: Bhagalpur (Patal Babu Road), Muzaffarpur (Club Road), Patna (S.P. Verma Road)

CHATTISGARH:
Bhilai (Off. GE Road), Bilaspur (Near New Bus Stand), Korba (Power House Road), Raipur (Jeevan Bima Marg)

DELHI:
Delhi Main (Barakhamba Road), Dariaganj (Netaji Subhash Marg), Defence Colony, Greater Kailash-II, Malviya Nagar, Rajouri Garden (Vishal Enclave), Vasantkunj (Nelson Mandela Road);

GOA:
Panaji (Dr. Atmaram Borkar Marg)

GUJARAT:
Ahmedabad Main (Ellisbridge), Ahmedabad (Vastrapur), Ahmedabad (Maninagar), Baroda, (Race Course Circle - North), Bhavnagar (Waghawadi Road), Rajkot (Kalawad Road), Surat Main (Ghod Dod Road), Vallabh Vidyanagar (Nr. HM Patel House)

HARYANA:
Ambala Cantt. (Jagadri Road), Gurgaon (Sector-14), Faridabad (NIT), Kurukshetra (Railway Road), Panipat (GT Road), Rohtak (Delhi Road)

HIMACHAL PRADESH:
Shimla (Kasumpti)

JHARKHAND:
Dhanbad (Bank More), Jamshedpur Main (Bistupur), Ranchi (Main Road)

KARNATAKA:
Bangalore Main (M.G. Road), Bangalore (J.P. Nagar), Bangalore (Jayanagar), Bangalore (Koramangala), Bangalore (Marathahalli), Bellary (Main Road), Belgaum (Congress Road), Davanagare (PB Road), Gulbarga (Super Market), Hubli (Deshpande Nagar), Karwar (Green Street), Mangalore (Bunts Hostel Circle), Mysore (Temple Road)

KERALA:
Kozhikode (YMCA Cross Road), Kochi (Rajaji Road), Thiruvananthapuram (MG Road)

MADHYA PRADESH:
Bhopal(MP Nagar), Gwalior (Madhavrao Scindia Marg), Indore (Yaswant Niwas Road) , Jabalpur (Shastri Bridge Chowk), Satna (Rewa Road)

MAHARASHTRA:
Ahmednagar (Tilak Road), Amaravati (Nr. Jaistamb Chowk), Aurangabad (Adalat Road), Kolhapur (Station Road), Mumbai (Main Fort), Mumbai (Andheri West), Mumbai (Borivli West), Mumbai (Shivaji Park), Mumbai (Bandra West), Mumbai (Mulund West), Mumbai (Vashi), Nagpur Main (Sitabuldi), Nashik (Sharanpur Road), Pune Main (J.M.Road), Thane Main (L.B.S. Marg)

MEGHALAYA:
Shillong (Jail Road)

ORISSA:
Angul (Main Road), Balasore (OT Road), Berhampur (Ganjam), Bhubaneswar (Satyanagar), Cuttack, (Badambadi) Rourkela (Kachery Road), Sambalpur (VSS Marg)

PUNJAB:
Amritsar (Court Road), Jalandhar (Mahavir Marg), Ludhiana Main (The Mall), Patiala (Rajwara Road)

RAJASTHAN:
Ajmer (Kutchery Road), Bikaner (Rani Bazar Road), Jaipur Main (Ashok Marg), Jodhpur (Chopasni Road), Kota (Shopping Centre), Udaipur (Chetak Marg); SIKKIM: Gangtok (M.G. Road)

TAMILNADU:
Chennai Main (Mylapore), Chennai (Adyar), Coimbatore (Avinashi Road), Madurai (Goods Shed Street), Salem (Omalur Main Road), Tiruchirapalli (Salai Road), Tirunelveli (East Car Street)

TRIPURA:
Agartala (HG Basak Road)

UTTARANCHAL:
Dehra Dun (Rajpur Road), Roorkee (Civil Lines), Rudrapur (Nainital Road)

UTTAR PRADESH:
Agra (Sanjay Palace), Aligarh (Ramghat Road), Allahabad (MG Marg), Bareilly (Civil Lines), Gorakhpur (Bank Road), Jhansi (Civil Lines), Kanpur (The Mall), Lucknow Main (Ashok Marg), Meerut (Boundary Road)

NOIDA:
(Sector-16), Varanasi (Shastri Nagar)

WEST BENGAL:
Burdwan (GT Road), Durgapur (City Centre), Kharagpur (Malancha Road), Kolkata Main(Shakespeare Sarani), Kolkata (Behala), Kolkata (Salt Lake City), Kolkata (Golpark), Kolkata (Dalhousie Square), Kolkata (Shyam Bazar) Siliguri (Sevoke Road)

CHANDIGARH:
Chandigarh (Sector 34A);

PONDICHERRY:
Pondicherry (Bussy Street).

List of Post Offices:

ARUNACHAL PRADESH:
Head Post Office Itanagar;

JAMMU & KASHMIR:
Head Post Office Jammu, Head Post Office Srinagar;

MANIPUR:
Head Post Office Imphal;

MIZORAM:
Head Post Office Aizawal;

NAGALAND:
Head Post Office Kohima

Important Dates for CAT 2008

Issue of CAT Bulletins by Axis Bank STARTS :
JULY 14, 2008 (Monday)
Issue of CAT Bulletins by Axis Bank ENDS :
AUGUST 8, 2008 (Friday)
Issue of CAT Bulletins by IIMs ENDS :
AUGUST 13, 2008 (Wednesday)
Last date for receipt of completed CAT Applications by the IIMs : SEPTEMBER 5, 2008 (Friday)
COMMON ADMISSION TEST :
NOVEMBER 16, 2008 (Sunday)

Important Dates and Addresses
Common Admission Test [2007] Dates:

Interactive Voice Response System Numbers:

Institute Name Contact No.
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad 079-26307258
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore 080-26484650
Indian Institute of Management Calcutta 033-24380266
Indian Institute of Management Indore 0731-4058370
Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode 0495-2803005
Indian Institute of Management Lucknow 0522-2736666

Common Admission Test 2007:
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Indian Institute of Management Indore
Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode
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Common Admission Test 2007

Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs)

Ahmedabad
Bangalore
Calcutta
Indore
Kozhikode
Lucknow

Common Admission Test 2007 [CAT 2007] will be held on Sunday, November , 2007.

This Common Admission Test(CAT 2006) Bulletin details the eligibility, the admission process, and other terms and conditions related to admission to the Post-graduate and Fellow programmes of Indian Institutes of Management, for which Common Admission Test is an important pre-requisite. Candidates applying for admission to Post-graduate and Fellow programmes of IIMs and writing Common Admission Test are advised to tear off this advertisement and keep it with them for future reference

CAT 2007 Important Dates for Session beginning June-July 2007

Last date for receipt of completed CAT 2007 - Applications September, 2007

Dispatch dates for Admit Cards - October, 2007

Date after which IIM should be contacted

In case of non receipt of Admit Card - November, 2007

Common Admission Test 2007 - November 2007

IIMA’S Bond Batch as the 2007 PGP is popularly known is all set for yet another blockbuster show. If a number of IIMA grads from previous batches have chucked lucrative job offers to start their own ventures, a small group of 007 PGP batch is taking it further.

Four students from the second year PGP students have launched their own startup, even before the final placements take place. These four Bonds from the second year PGP batch have come together to start a new venture a web site to help students bell the CAT. After graduation, the four intend to take the initiative fur- there to venture into new businesses.

The web site has recorded close to one lakh hits in the first four days of its launch. Moreover, it already has over 1,500 registered users.

Retired army major Devashish Chakravarty, 34, IT and research professional Bhushan Dabir, Vineeta Singh, a fresher from Indian Institute ofTechnology, Madras (HTM) and an IT professional Vishal Prabhukhanolkar have launched a website to help IIM aspirants in CAT coaching. The web site www.tenaday.co.in has test papers with 10 questions in three different sections. The aspirants can take a test every day and check their score and also take some tips on how to bell CAT.

“We were discussing the possibility of launching something of our (own a few months back. That’s when the idea came up,” says Dabir. He says the team invested Rs 7,500 for the project. “As students, we have restrictions on starting our own business. We plan to launch a new venture as soon as we pass out. The web site is just a beginning,” he says.

Students are taking help from faculty members and fellow students on studying different markets for their proposed venture. “We are in the process of evaluating different seams.

Notification

Unhappy with the quality of students, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIM-B), has decided to allow students from other avenues entry into the B-school. CAT will no longer be the sole entrance test to determine doctoral students. This year, IIM-B has just eight doctoral students. Starting 2006, it will admit students who have given their Graduate Record Exam (GRE), Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) and Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) for its Fellow Programme in Management. The move is to combat the acute shortage of candidates who qualify for admission for FPM, which is an equivalent to a PhD by traditional universities. Though IIM-B offers FPM in eight areas, there is not a single student in Production and Operations Management and Marketing programme. We have been getting about 500 applicants every year and the final number of students who qualify is too low. Though we accept GMAT scores for NRI and foreign students practically no one has ever qualified through this. We decided to open up other channels because we will get more qualified students, L Prasad chairperson (FPM), IIM-B said. Prasad feels there will be more choice for IIM-B to choose the right candidate. This year there was only one student who applied for production. If we go beyond CAT, we hope to get quality students from IISc and IITs. For instance, we may get good students with economics background who wants to do public policy by opening up GRE stream. GATE will give us good engineering students, said Prasad. The FPM admissions committee will shortlist applicants and send it to eight areas offering doctoral programmes. Each area headed by a specialist with three to four faculty as members will decide the final number of students. The role of the admissions team is just to shortlist candidates. It is then left to the concerned area to select candidates, said Prasad

Notification

All the applicants to CAT-2005, which is scheduled to be conducted on Sunday, November 20, 2005, are advised to visit the Web site of any of the six IIMs on Saturday, October 1, 2005 to check whether their application is in the fist of rejected applications, in case your application is in the list, you may have to adopt corrective measures as specified on the Web site. All errors that may result in rejection of application have to be rectified on or before Friday, October 7, 2005. This might require visiting the IIM, where you have submitted your application. Note that no corrections will be accepted after Friday, October 75 2005. Any application on this list not rectified by Friday, October 7, 2005, is liable to be rejected. Candidates whose applications are rejected will not be issued admit cards and hence will not be allowed to appear for CAT-2005 under any circumstances.

Notification

The rat race for Common Admission Test (CAT) is nearly two-lakh strong and growing at over 20% annually. With the number of CAT applicants likely to touch 3.5 lakh in the next five years, the institutes offering preparatory courses are aggressively expanding their presence. The coaching class industry for CAT and other entrance exams for B-schools is estimated at over Rs 500 crore.

According to industry estimates, about 60% of CAT applicants in urban and semi-urban areas opt for coaching classes. The aspirants do not mind shelling out Rs 10,000-25,000 to take coaching for cracking CAT. Apart from six IIMs, more than 80 other B-schools consider CAT score for their admission process.

The market for players like Time, Professional Tutorials (PT), IMS, Career Forum and Career Launcher is not limited only to major cities. Smaller towns are also emerging rapidly on their radar.

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