CDAC India Entrance Exam

Hi buddy I want to appear in C-DAC Common Admission Test (C-CAT) exam so would you plz give me its exam key dates ??

[Rajkumar Agarwal]

C-DAC Common Admission Test (C-CAT) conducted in June (for August admissions) and December (for February admissions).

Key dates
Beginning of Online Registration and Application for C-CAT 28 Oct 2016
Closing of Online Registration & Application, and Payment of
Examination Fee for C-CAT 01 Dec 2016
Downloading of C-CAT Admit Cards 8-15 Dec 2016
C-DAC’s Common Admission Test (C-CAT) 11 Dec & 18 Dec 2016
Announcement of C-CAT Ranks 29 Dec 2016
Online Selection of Courses and Centres (1st Counselling) 29 Dec 2016 – 04 Jan 2017
Declaration of 1st Round of Seat Allocation 06 Jan 2017
Last Date of Payment of first installment course fee for
candidates allocated seats through the 1st round 13 Jan 2017
Declaration of 2nd Round of Seat Allocation 18 Jan 2017
Online Selection of Courses and Centres (2nd Counselling) 18-24 Jan 2017
Last Date of Payment of first installment course fee for candidates
allocated seats through the second round 24 Jan 2017
Declaration of Third Round of Seat Allocation
(based on 2nd Counselling) 30 Jan 2017
Last Date of Payment of first installment course fee for candidates
allocated seats through the 3rd round 06 Feb 2017
Last Date of Payment of Balance Course Fee &
Registration of Students at Training Centres 13 & 14 Feb 2017
Commencement of PG Diploma Courses 15 Feb 2017


C-CAT exam pattern
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,

Candidate should 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.

Important Note: A candidate can appear only for the specific section(s) in C-CAT as per the category of the courses opted by him/her at the time of filling the online application form.

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 un-attempted question. The maximum mark a candidate can obtain in any one section of C-CAT is 150.


Books for preparation C-CAT
Section Topic Reference Book
A English Any High School Grammar Book (e.g. Wren & Martin)
Quantitative Aptitude&Reasoning Quantitative Aptitude Fully Solved (R. S. Aggarwal)
Quantitative Aptitude (M Tyara)
Barron’s New GRE 2016
B Computer Fundamentals Foundations of Computing (Pradeep Sinha & Priti Sinha)
Data Communication & Networking Data Communication & Networking (Forouzan)
C Programming C Programming Language (Kernighan & Ritchie)
Let Us C (Yashavant Kanetkar)
Data Structures Data Structures Through C in Depth (S. K. Srivastava)
Operating Systems Operating System Principles (Silberschatz, Galvin, Gagne)
OOP Concepts Test Your C ++ Skills (Yashavant Kanetkar)
C Computer Architecture Computer Organization & Architecture (William Stallings)
Digital Electronics Digital Design (Morris Mano)
Digital Design: Principles & Practices (John Wakerly)
Modern Digital Electronics (R. P. Jain)
Microprocessors Microprocessor Architecture, Programming & Applications with 8085 (Ramesh Gaonkar)
The Intel Microprocessor (Barry Brey)