Admissions to all PG Diploma courses of September 2022 batch are done through C-DAC’s Common Admission Test (C-CAT) that will be conducted in computerized mode physically at C-DAC’s test centers. Candidates who clear C-CAT will only be considered for admission to C-DAC’s PG Diploma courses on the basis of their C-CAT ranks and center/course preferences.

C-CAT has three sections (Section A, Section B, Section C) of one hour duration each. As shown in Table,, depending on the category of courses selected by the candidate, he/she will have to either appear for just one test paper (Section A) or two test papers (Section A and Section B) or all the three test papers (Section A, Section B and Section C). The medium of C-CAT is English.

The C-CAT examination has three sections A, B & C and the C-CAT syllabus or topics and the duration of the each section is provided in table below:

Every section in C-CAT will have 50 objective-type questions. Each question will have four choices as possible answers of which only one will be correct. There will be +3 (plus three) marks for each correct answer, -1 (minus one) for each wrong answer, and 0 (zero) marks for each unattempted question. The maximum mark a candidate can obtain in any one section of C-CAT is 150.

Category-wise C-CAT fee (inclusive of GST)