Stepwise Information for CA CPT-Dec 2010 Examination/CPT Dec 2010 Exam/CPT Course

Stepwise Information for CA CPT-Dec,2010 Examination

Common Proficiency Test is an entry level examination for admission to the Chartered Accountancy Course. A 10th Passed student can register for CPT Course by filling in the prescribed registration form along with the requisite fee. A student who has passed higher qualifications than 10th class such as B.Com, M.Com, LL.B., ICWA, CS, MBA is also, in the first instance, to appear and pass CPT Examination to join the Chartered Accountancy Course.

CA CPT December 2010 Eligibility

Eligibility requirements to appear in CA CPT December 2010.
(a) A candidate shall be eligible to appear in Common Proficiency Test December 2010 to be held on 19th December 2010, if he has:
(i) Either passed the Senior Secondary Examination (10+2 examination) or its equivalent or must have appeared in the Senior Secondary Examination (10+2 examination) or its equivalent of a recognized Institution, and
(ii) Registered for CPT Course with Board of Studies of ICAI on or before 1st October 2010.

(b) A candidate who is already registered for Professional Education-I Course with Board of Studies of ICAI and switched over to CPT course on or before 1st October 2010 will also be eligible to appear in December CPT.
Requirement for Passing the Common Proficiency Test
A candidate shall ordinarily be declared to have passed the Common Proficiency Test if he obtains at one sitting a minimum of 50 percent marks in the aggregate of all the four subjects/sections comprised in CPT (Examination), subject to the principle of negative marking.
It is clarified that there is no requirement of securing minimum passing marks in a subject/section of CPT examination.
There will be negative marking for each wrong answer. 1/4 (One Fourth) mark will be deducted for each wrong answer. Please note that multiple darkened circles for a question will also be treated as wrong answer.
Any fraction of mark in aggregate will be rounded off to the next full mark. It is clarified that there is no provision for improvement of result CPT examination in the Chartered Accountants Regulations, 1988.
Therefore, such students who have once passed the CPT examination are not eligible to apply/appear afresh/again in the CPT examination.

Application Form for CPT Entrance Exam 2010

CPT December 2010 Applications for admission to Common Proficiency Test December 2010 (Paper-Pencil Mode) is required to be made on the relevant prescribed form as contained in the CPT December 2010 Information Brochure, which may be obtained from the following address on payment of Rs. 600/- (Rs.500/- towards examination fee and Rs. 100/- towards cost of CA CPT Exam 2010 application form and Information brochure) per CPT 2010 application form.
Additional Secretary (Examinations),
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India,
ICAI Bhawan, Indraprastha Marg,
New Delhi - 110 002

The CPT Exam 2010 fee for candidates opting for Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Doha 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 CPT Exam 2010 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 CPT December 2010 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 CPT Exam 2010 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, 2010.

Common Proficiency Test 2010 application forms duly filled in may be sent so as to reach the Additional Secretary (Examinations) at New Delhi not later than 27th October, 2010. CPT 2010 Applications received after 27th October, 2010 shall not be entertained under any circumstances.
CPT December 2010 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, 2010. 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, 2010 with late fee.
Alternatively the candidate may fill up the CPT 2010 examination application form online at http://icaiexam.icai.org from 6th October, 2010 (10:00 hrs) to 27th October, 2010 (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 2010 (Paper-Pencil Mode). Further details will be available in the Information Brochure containing the CPT application form 2010.
Common Proficiency Test CPT 2010 December (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, 2010 and fulfill the requisite eligibility conditions.

Common Proficiency Test 2010 - CA CPT 2010 December

Common Proficiency Test CPT Exam for the year December 2010, conducted in following modes :
Paper Pencil Mode of Examination - Sunday, the 19th December, 2010
I. Common Proficiency Test (Paper-Pencil Mode)
The Common Proficiency Test (CPT) Paper-Pencil mode Examination will be held on Sunday, the 19th December, 2010 in accordance with the revised scheme of education, training and examination of the Chartered Accountancy Course.

First Session (i.e. Morning Session) 10.30 AM to 12.30 PM (IST)
Section - A Fundamentals of Accounting
Section - B Mercantile Laws
Second Session (i.e. Afternoon Session) 2.00 PM to 4.00 PM (IST)
Section - C General Economics
Section - D Quantitative Aptitude

II. The Next Common Proficiency Test (CPT December 2010) (Paper-Pencil Mode) of the Institute will be held on 19th December, 2010 at the following centres :

1. CPT Exam December 2010 Centres in India - Agra, Ahmedabad, Ahmednagar, Ajmer, Akola, Alappuzha, Aligarh, Allahabad, Alwar, Ambala, Amravati, Amritsar, Anand, Asansol, Aurangabad, Bangalore, Bareilly, Bathinda, Beawar, Belgaum, Bellary,Bharauch, Bhavnagar, Bhilwara, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Bhuj, Bilaspur, Bikaner, Chandigarh, Chennai, Coimbatore, Cuttack, Dehradun, Delhi/New Delhi, Dhanbad, Dunlodo, Durg, Ernakulam, Erode, Faridabad, Gandhidham,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,Nellore, Noida, Palghat, Pali Marwar, Panipat, Panvel, Patiala, Patna, Pimpri-Chinchwad, Pondicherry, Pune, Raipur, Rajamundhry,Rajkot, Ranchi,Ratlam,Rewari, Rohtak, Rourkela, Saharanpur, Salem, Sambalpur, Sangli, Satara, Shimla,Sikar, Siliguri, Solapur, Sonepat, Sriganganagar, Surat, Thane, Thiruvananthapuram, Thrissur, Tinsukia, Tiruchirapalli,Tirupati, Tirupur, Tuticorin, Udaipur, Udupi, Ujjain, Vadodara, Vapi, Varanasi, Vellore, Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam and Yamunanagar.

2. CPT December 2010 Overseas Centres - Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Bahrain, Doha and Kathmandu (Nepal).
Chartered Accountant Common Proficiency Test - CA CPT December 2010.