CMAT Application Process

Male candidates in the General category must pay an application fee of INR 2,000 for the CMAT. The cost for female candidates is INR 1,000. The application fees are INR 1,000 for male candidates from Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribes and INR 1,000 for female candidates from Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribes and transgender candidates. The CMAT application fee is INR 1,000 for candidates who fall under the Persons with Disability category as well. Only online payments using debit cards, credit cards, net banking, or UPI wallets are accepted for the fee. When submitting the application form, the fee must be paid. The application form will not be submitted until the fee has been successfully paid. The CMAT charge is nontransferable and nonrefundable.

Candidates willing to appear for CMAT Entrance Examination are advised to follow the following steps: • Open the official website of CMAT Examination. • Fill all the mandatory details like your name, email id and date of birth online to register for CMAT Examination.• You must have recieved an OTP via email, complete your registration process with verifying through the same OTP or email verification.• Browse through the website and find the CMAT application form, fill it with all the required details. • Complete all the details along with the scanned documents and signatures required .• You will be led to payment page, make the payment and wait to receive the sms for successful registration of the candidate along with the application number. To know more about the CMAT Examination, refer to the official website of the examination.  

CMAT exam is held in over 100 cities across India. They are Port Blair, Hamirpur, Mumbai, Guntur, Jammu, Nashik, Nellore, Bokaro, Satara, Vijayawada, Dhanbad, Palghar, Kakinada, Hazaribagh, Ulhasnagar, Rajahmundry, Jamshedpur, Shillong, Visakhapatnam, Ranchi, Aizawl, Kurnool, Belagavi (Belgaum), Kohima, Tirupati, Bengaluru, Balasore, Vizianagaram, Hubballi (Hubli), Cuttack, Itanagar, Mysuru (Mysore), Sambalpur, Dibrugarh, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga), Berhampur, Silchar, Shivamogga (Shimoga), Dhenkanal, Guwahati, Dharwad, Bhubaneswar, Tezpur, Mangaluru (Bangalore), Rourkela, Jorhat, Udupi, Puducherry, Aurangabad-Bihar, Kannur, Pathankot, Darbhanga, Ernakulam, Ludhiana, Arrah, Kollam, Amritsar, Muzaffarpur, Kottayam, Bhatinda, Bhagalpur, Kozhikode, Patiala, Patna, Thrissur, Jalandhar, Mohali, Trivandrum, Sangrur, Chandigarh, Bhopal, Ajmer, Bhilai Nagar, Jabalpur, Jaipur, Bilaspur, Ujjain, Sikar, Raipur, Gwalior, Alwar, Delhi, Sagar, Jodhpur, Faridabad, Indore, Udaipur, Gurugram, Satna, Bikaner, Ghaziabad, Bhopal, Kotak, New Delhi, Jabalpur, Madurai, Greater Noida, Ujjain, Chennai, Noida, Gwalior, Salem, Meerut, Sagar, Trichy, Panaji, Indore, Coimbatore, Ahmedabad, Satna, Vellore, Mehsana, Amravati, Tirunelveli, Vadodara, Jalgaon, Hyderabad, Anand, Nagpur, Karimnagar, Rajkot, Pune, Warangal, Gandhinagar, Solapur, Allahabad, Surat, Navi Mumbai, Bareilly, Ambala, Ahmednagar, Kanpur, Hisar, Kolhapur, Muzaffarnagar, Karnal, Nanded, Agra, Kurushetra, Raigad, Gorakhpur, Panipat, Thane, Lucknow, Rohtak, Vasai, Varanasi, Shimla, Aurangabad, Aligarh, Jhansi, Moradabad, Dehradun, Haldwani, Roorkee, Asansol, Durgapur, Bankura, Burdwan, Kolkata, Hooghly, Kalyani, Siliguri, Srinagar and Imphal.

No, the CMAT application form can only be filled online on the official website NTA-CMAT. There is no option to submit the CMAT form in offline mode. Candidates have to create an account on NTA CMAT website to register for the exam. Once the registration is done, candidates have to fill the CMAT form through that candidate account. Candidates must also note that no other website hosts the CMAT form other than NTA. There is no provision of paying CMAT fees in cash, bank challan or Demand Draft either. The CMAT registration fee can be paid in online mode only through internet banking, credit/debit card or mobile wallets only. The payment window will be available in the candidate dashboard as part of the CMAT application form. Candidates have to simply follow the instructions to pay the fee. Candidates must note that fee payment is mandatory for CMAT form filling. The form will remain pending until the fee payment is done successfully. Thus, candidates must check the fee payment acknowledgement slip after making the payment.

The CMAT registration and form filling process is incomplete without submission of certain documents. Candidates need the following documents to fill the CMAT application form. While photo, signature and Certificate are to be uploaded with the form, other documents are required for making entries in it.
1. Recent passport size photo (colour with white background)
2. Scanned signature on a white paper
3. Scanned copy of photo ID card such as Aadhaar card, PAN card, Voter ID card, Passport
4. Class 10 marksheet
5. Class 12 marksheet
6. Graduation marksheet
7. PG degree marksheet (if applicable)
8. Bank details
Candidates belonging to Reserved category are required to upload caste Certificate and candidates belonging to PwD category have to upload a Certificate for the same. They also need to upload scribe Certificate to avail the facility on the exam day. These Certificate formats can be downloaded from CMAT website.

Once you have submitted the CMAT application form, you cannot edit it. Thus, you will have to fill the CMAT form again by creating a new login ID and paying the fee again. However, if the mistake is in photo, signature or test centre fields, you can correct it at the time of form correction. The CMAT form correction window will be opened for three days after the conclusion of application form submission process. During the form correction period, candidates will be able to edit photo, signature, test city and graduation score fields. Given below is the process to make changes in the CMAT form at the time of form correction:
1. Log on to NTA-CMAT website
2. Click on form correction tab
3. Enter application number and password/DoB
4. Enter security pin and click on submit
5. Go to application form and make changes
6. Click on save and submit the form.

No, the CMAT registration fees is non-refundable. If they do not appear for the exam they cannot claim refund for the application form. Since, it is mentioned in the exam information brochure that the fee is non-refundable, no requests for refund are entertained by the NTA. The fee will not be refunded to any candidate under any circumstances, which includes errors in the form. Thus, candidates must check eligibility criteria and terms and conditions before applying or the exam. They must also not make mistakes in the form to avoid double form filling and fee payment. Because if they make mistakes in the form they cannot edit it (except for graduation score, test city, photo and signature). They will have to fill a fresh CMAT application form and pay the fee amount again. However, if there is error at the time of fee payment and your money is deducted but the payment is not completed then your money will be refunded by the bank within 5 working days.

There is no minimum marks criterion for appearing in CMAT exam. Any candidate who has passed a Bachelor's degree programme from a recognised university can apply. Final year candidates are also eligible to apply for CMAT if they scored passing marks in their first and second year of Bachelor's degree programme. However, there is a minimum score requirement at CMAT accepting colleges for admission. All the UGC and AICTE approved institutions have the minimum score requirement of 45 per cent in aggregate in graduation for candidates for Scheduled Caster/ Scheduled Tribe and Person with Disability categories. Thus, you must ensure that you have an aggregate score of at least 45 per cent in your graduation to be able to get admission into a full-time MBA programme at a government recognised institution.