CPT ENTRANCE /December/2013

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

[Set up by an Act of Parliament]

Post Box No.7112, ‘ICAI BHAWAN’, Indraprastha Marg

New Delhi – 110002

TO BE PUBLISHED IN PART III SECTION 4 OF THE GAZETTE OF INDIA
NOTIFICATION

5h July, 2013

No.13-CA (EXAM)/CPT/December/2013: In pursuance of Regulation 22 of the Chartered

Accountants Regulations, 1988, the Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India is pleased to

notify that the Common Proficiency Test will be held on Sunday, 15th December, 2013 in two sessions
as below, at the following centres provided that sufficient number of candidates offer themselves to appear
from each centre.

[This Common Proficiency Test will be conducted as per provisions of Regulation 25 D (3) of the Chartered

Accountants Regulations, 1988 and the syllabus as published in the pages 291-293 of the Journal ‘The
Chartered Accountant’ August 2006 issue and pages 12-13 of Chartered Accountants Students’ Newsletter
August 2006 issue.]

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

PLACES OF EXAMINATION CENTRES IN INDIA:
1 AGRA 2 AHMEDABAD 3 AHMEDNAGAR
4 AJMER 5 AKOLA 6 ALAPPUZHA
7 ALIGARH 8 ALLAHABAD 9 ALWAR
10 AMBALA 11 AMRAVATI 12 AMRITSAR
13 ANAND 14 ASANSOL 15 AURANGABAD
16 BANGALORE 17 BAREILLY 18 BATHINDA
19 BEAWAR 20 BELGAUM 21 BELLARY
22 BERHAMPORE 23 BHAGALPUR 24 BHARAUCH
25 BHARATPUR 26 BHAVNAGAR 27 BHILWARA
28 BHIWANI 29 BHOPAL 30 BHUBANESWAR
31 BHUJ 32 BIKANER 33 BILASPUR
34 CHANDIGARH 35 CHENNAI 36 COIMBATORE
37 CUTTACK 38 DEHRADUN 39 DELHI/NEW DELHI
40 DHANBAD 41 DUNDLOD 42 DURG
43 DURGAPUR 44 ERNAKULAM 45 ERODE
46 FARIDABAD 47 GANDHIDHAM 48 GHAZIABAD
49 GORAKHPUR 50 GUNTUR 51 GURGAON
52 GUWAHATI 53 GWALIOR 54 HISAR
55 HUBLI 56 HYDERABAD 57 INDORE
58 JABALPUR 59 JAIPUR 60 JALANDHAR
61 JALGAON 62 JAMMU 63 JAMNAGAR
64 JAMSHEDPUR 65 JODHPUR 66 KAITHAL
67 KAKINADA 68 KANNUAR 69 KANPUR
70 KARNAL 71 KISHANGARH 72 KOLLAM
73 KOLHAPUR 74 KOLKATA 75 KOTA
76 KOTTAYAM 77 KOZHIKODE 78 KUMBAKONAM
79 LATUR 80 LUCKNOW 81 LUDHIANA
82 MADURAI 83 MANGALORE 84 MAPUSA (GOA)
85 MARGAO (GOA) 86 MATHURA 87 MEERUT
88 MORADABAD 89 MUMBAI 90 MUZAFFARNAGAR
91 MYSORE 92 NAGPUR 93 NANDED
94 NASHIK 95 NELLORE 96 NOIDA
97 PALGHAT 98 PALI MARWAR 99 PANIPAT
100 PANVEL 101 PATNA 102 PATIALA
103 PIMPRI-CHINCHWAD 104 PONDICHERRY 105 PUNE
106 RAIPUR 107 RAJAMAHENDRAVARAM 108 RAJKOT
109 RANCHI 110 RATLAM 111 REWARI
112 ROHTAK 113 ROURKELA 114 SAHARANPUR
115 SALEM 116 SAMBALPUR 117 SANGLI
118 SANGRUR 119 SATARA 120 SHIMLA
121 SIKAR 122 SILIGURI 123 SIRSA
124 SIVAKASI 125 SOLAPUR 126 SONEPAT
127 SRI GANGANAGAR 128 SRINAGAR 129 SURAT
130 SURENDRANAGAR 131 THANE 132 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM
133 THRISSUR 134 TINSUKIA 135 TIRUCHIRAPALLI
136 TIRUPATI 137 TIRUPUR 138 TUTICORIN
139 UDAIPUR 140 UDUPI 141 UJJAIN
142 VADODARA 143 VAPI 144 VARANASI
145 VELLORE 146 VIJAYAWADA 147 VISAKHAPATNAM
148 WARANGAL 149 YAMUNA NAGAR
PLACES OF EXAMINATION CENTRES OVERSEAS:
(1) ABU DHABI (2) DUBAI (3) BAHRAIN (4) DOHA (5) KATHMANDU

The Council reserves the right to withdraw any centre at any stage without assigning any reason.
Applications for admission to Common Proficiency Test is required to be made in 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 – 110002 on payment of ` 1000/- (` 500/- towards examination fee and ` 500/- towards
cost of application form and Information brochure) per application form. The 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 fee for the candidates opting for Kathmandu centre are required to remit INR.1350/-(INR 850/- towards
examination fee and INR 500/- 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 7th October, 2013.
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 28th October, 2013. Applications received after 28th
October, 2013 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 28th
October, 2013. 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 28th October, 2013 with
late fee.

The candidates who fill up the examination application form online at http://icaiexam.icai.org from
7th October, 2013 (10.00 hrs) to 28th October, 2013 (17.30 hrs) and remit the fee online by using either
VISA or MASTER Credit/ Debit Card shall not be charged ` 500/- (i.e. cost of application form fee).
The aforesaid Common Proficiency Test (CPT) is open only to students registered with the
Institute of Chartered Accountants of India for the Common Proficiency Course on or before 1st
October, 2013 and fulfill the requisite eligibility conditions.

QUESTION PAPER BOOKLET LANGUAGE:

Common Proficiency Test is an objective type multiple choice questions based examination.
Candidates will be allowed to opt for Hindi medium Question Paper Booklet for answering the questions.
Detailed information will be found given in the Information brochure.

(G. SOMASEKHAR)
ADDITIONAL SECRETARY (EXAMINATIONS)