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CPT June 2011 Examination – ICAI notifies Examination dates, For Filing Date, Examination Centre, Fees etc

The next Common Proficiency Test (CPT) ( Paper-Pencil Mode) of the Institute will be held on 13th December, 2009 at the following centres : 1) Centres in India – Agra, Ahmedabad, Ahmednagar, Ajmer, Akola, Alappuzha, Aligarh, Allahabad, Alwar, Ambala, Amravati, Amritsar, Anand, Asansol, Aurangabad, Bangalore, Bareilly, Bathinda, Beawar, Belgaum, Bellary, Bhavnagar, Bhilwara, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Bhuj, Bilaspur, Bikaner, Chandigarh, Chennai, Coimbatore, Cuttack, Dehradun, Delhi/New Delhi, Dhanbad, Durg, Ernakulam, Erode, Faridabad, Ghaziabad, Goa, Gorakhpur, Guntur, Gurgaon, Guwahati, Gwalior, Hisar, Hubli, Hyderabad, Indore, Jabalpur, Jaipur, Jalandhar, Jalgaon, Jammu, Jamnagar, Jamshedpur, Jodhpur, Kanpur, Karnal, Kolhapur, Kolkata, Kollam, Kota, Kottayam, Kozhikode, Kumbakonam, Latur, Lucknow, Ludhiana, Madurai, Mangalore, Mathura, Meerut, Moradabad, Mumbai, Muzaffarnagar, Mysore, Nagpur, Nanded, Nashik, Noida, Palghat, Pali Marwar, Panipat, Panvel, Patiala, Patna, Pimpri-Chinchwad, Pondicherry, Pune, Raipur, Rajkot, Ranchi, Rohtak, Rourkela, Saharanpur, Salem, Sambalpur, Sangli, Satara, Shimla, Siliguri, Solapur, Sonepat, Sriganganagar, Surat, Thane, Thiruvananthapuram, Thrissur, Tinsukia, Tiruchirapalli, Tirupur, Tuticorin, Udaipur, Udupi, Ujjain, Vadodara, Varanasi, Vellore, Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam and Yamunanagar.

2) Overseas Centres – Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Bahrain and Kathmandu (Nepal).

Applications for admission to Common Proficiency Test (Paper-Pencil Mode) is required to be made on the relevant prescribed form as contained in the Information Brochure, which may be obtained from the Additional Secretary (Examinations), The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, ICAI Bhawan, Indraprastha Marg, New Delhi – 110 002 on payment of Rs. 600/-(Rs.500/- towards examination fee and Rs. 100/- towards cost of application form and Information brochure) per application form. The fee for candidates opting for Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Bahrain centres will be US $160 ( US $ 150 towards examination fee and US $ 10 towards cost of application form and information brochure) or its equivalent Indian Currency. The fee for the candidates opting for Kathmandu (Nepal) centre are required to remit INR.950/-(INR 850/- towards examination fee and INR 100/- towards the cost of application form and information brochure) or its equivalent foreign Currency. Since the cost of Information brochure containing Common Proficiency Test application form includes the examination fee , no separate fee is required to be remitted at the time of submitting the filled in application form. The Information brochure containing Common Proficiency Test application form will also be available in the Regional and Branch Offices of the Institute and can be obtained there from on cash payment on or from 6th October, 2009 to 27th October, 2009.

Common Proficiency Test application forms duly filled in may be sent so as to reach the Additional Secretary (Examinations) at New Delhi not later than 27th October, 2009. Applications received after 27th October, 2009 shall not be entertained under any circumstances. Applications duly filled in will be received by hand delivery at the offices of Institute at New Delhi and at the Decentralised Offices of the Institute at Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Kanpur, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Jaipur and Pune upto 27th October, 2009. Candidates residing in these cities are advised to take advantage of this facility. It may be noted that there is no provision for acceptance of application forms after 27th October, 2009 with late fee.

Alternatively the candidate may fill up the examination application form online at http://icaiexam.icai.org from 6th October, 2009 ( 10:00 hrs) to 27th October, 2009 ( 17:30hrs) and remit the fee online by using credit card, either VISA or Master Card.

Candidates will be allowed to opt for Hindi question paper booklets for the said CPT(Paper-Pencil Mode). Further details will be available in the Information Brochure containing the application form.

Common Proficiency Test (Paper-Pencil Mode) is open only to those students who are already registered with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India for the said course on or before 1st October, 2009 and fulfill the requisite eligibility conditions.

ONLINE CPT :

Apart from the above, it is also hereby notified that the Council of the Institute has decided to hold the Common Proficiency Test (CPT) Online for the candidates who would be willing to take the Test Online. The Online CPT will be conducted on 22nd and 23rd August, 2009 at Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi/New Delhi, Kanpur, Kolkata, Mumbai, Jaipur, Hyderabad, Pune , Chandigarh, Coimbatore, Ernakulam, Guntur, Indore, Lucknow, Surat, Thiruvananthapuram, Udaipur and Visakhapatnam ONLY , on 26th and 27th September, 2009 at Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi/New Delhi, Kanpur, Kolkata, Mumbai, Jaipur, Hyderabad, Nagpur,Pimpri-Chinchwad,Jodhpur, Pune , Chandigarh, Coimbatore, Ernakulam, Guntur, Indore, Lucknow, Surat, Thiruvananthapuram, Udaipur and Visakhapatnam Only, on 24th and 25th October, 2009 at Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi/New Delhi, Kanpur, Kolkata, Mumbai, Jaipur, Hyderabad, Nagpur , Pimpri-Chinchwad, Jodhpur, Pune , Chandigarh, Coimbatore, Ernakulam, Guntur, Indore, Lucknow, Surat, Thiruvananthapuram, Udaipur and Visakhapatnam Only and on 21st and 22nd November, 2009 at Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi/New Delhi, Kanpur, Kolkata, Mumbai, Jaipur, Hyderabad, Nagpur, Pimpri-Chinchwad, Jodhpur, Pune , Chandigarh, Coimbatore, Ernakulam, Guntur, Indore, Lucknow, Surat, Thiruvananthapuram, Udaipur and Visakhapatnam Only. Candidates intending to appear in Online CPT from the above cities will be required to fill up examination form Online at http://icaiexam.icai.org and option once exercised shall be treated as final and no change to Paper-Pencil mode Test will be allowed at a later stage under any circumstances. The medium of test for Online CPT would be ENGLISH only.

The candidates intending to take the CPT Online Test shall be required to fill in the Online examination application form with requisite fees and the facility for Online filling up of examination form would be made available as indicated below:-

* or till the seats are full.

A candidate can appear in Common Proficiency Test two times in a period of six months i.e. once in Online test either in August, September, October or November, 2009 and once in Paper Pencil mode CPT in December, 2009.

The decision of the Institute to admit a candidate to either Online Test in August/ September/October/November 2009 or Paper-Pencil Mode Test in December-2009 is final and no correspondence for change of Test / Centre etc. will be entertained under any circumstances. The medium of Test for Online CPT would be ENGLISH only.

(G.Somasekhar)
Additional Secretary(Exams)

CPT June 2011 Examination – ICAI notifies Examination dates, For Filing Date, Examination Center, Fees etc