AICTE is conducting the first National level Common Management Admission Test (CMAT)-2012 for facilitating institutions to select suitable students for admission in all management programmes approved by AICTE for the year 2012-13. The testing window for computer based test will be open for nine days i.e. from 20th February, 2012 to 28th February, 2012 in 61 cities. The candidates will have option of selecting date and city for appearing in the test.

Pre-requisites before starting the CMAT Registration:

We suggest you have the following ready before starting the CMAT registration process

• A Computer with good Internet connectivity so that there is no breakage of Internet during registration
• All your qualification details as you need to enter them while registering for CMAT exam
• A Valid e‐mail id which you will be using at least for the next 6 months. All communication will be done on this e-mail id which you will enter while registering for CMAT exam
• A Valid mobile number as all information via sms will be sent to this number
• A valid Credit / Debit card in case you want to pay ONLINE
• A Printer connected to your system as you will have to PRINT a copy of CHALLAN in case you are planning to pay by CASH at the bank

Registering for CMAT is a 4 Step process as mentioned below:

Step 1) First time you will enter as NEW USER. Here you will read the instructions carefully, accept the declaration and proceed

Step 2) Self registration: Here you need to enter few basic details. Submitting this page will generate a unique 8 digit password. This password will be shown on your screen and will be sent to you via e-mail and sms. From now onwards, whenever you wish to login to the registration portal, you will come as an EXISTING USER and login with your e‐mail id and this unique 8 digit password. This completes your self registration

Step 3) Payment Process: You can do the payment in either of the two modes mentioned below:

Mode I) ONLINE PAYMENT: You can select ONLINE PAYMENT mode and then do the payment using Credit card / Debit card / Net Banking Once your payment is successfully done, you will receive a confirmation e-mail and sms. Once you have received the successful payment confirmation, you can proceed with the remaining part of registration process

Mode II) CASH Payment in bank: You can select this option to pay by CASH at any of the designated SBI bank branch. Once you select this option and proceed, you will see a CHALLAN on your screen with your details already filled in it. You need to take a PRINT OUT of this CHALLAN, fill in the details wherever required in both the copies, walk in to your nearest SBI bank branch and deposit the CASH In return, the bank will give you one copy of CHALLAN with their stamp and a JOURNAL number written on it. Please ensure the JOURNAL number written is clearly visible as you need to enter this JOURNAL number on the registration portal when you login.

Now that you have deposited the CASH and got the acknowledgement CHALLAN, you need to wait for 72 hours. In these 72 hours, your payment will get updated in the registration portal. You will receive an e‐mail and sms confirming that your payment data has got updated in the registration portal. Then you need to re login to the portal and enter your JOURNAL number and Payment date. After this you can proceed with the remaining part of registration process Step 4) Now that you are done with the payment, you need to fill the remaining part of the form. Once you have filled the complete form, we suggest you once again check the complete data entered. You can still modify the data entered by clicking on VIEW / MODIFY Once you are sure that all the data entered is accurate, you will have to accept a declaration and click on SUBMIT.

The system will re-confirm to you for SUBMIT. Once you confirm, your form will get finally SUBMITTED and no change in the data is possible after this SUBMIT You will see a message on your screen stating Thank you for successfully registering for the AICTE CMAT 2012 exam. Please login from 30th Jan 2012 onwards to download your examADMIT CARD. For latest updates, please visit www.aicte-cmat.in.

This completes the registration process :
NOTE: The detailed instructions are also available under NEW USER tab which you will click on to start the registration process from 9th Jan 2012 onwards In case of any query you can contact our helpline number mentioned under the Helpline tab. Please visit our website www.aicte-cmat.in for all the latest updates