Don’t worry I will let you know CDAC Computerised Common Admission Test (C-CAT) exam and dates to register for exam, so that you can remember easily.

Tentative dates
Beginning of Online Registration and Application for C-CAT
Last week October 2017

Closing of Online Registration & Application, and Payment of
Examination Fee for C-CAT
1st week December 2017

Downloading of C-CAT Admit Cards
2nd week December 2017

C-DAC’s Common Admission Test (C-CAT)
3rd week of December 2017

Announcement of C-CAT Ranks
Last week December 2017

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.

Course Category Course Name C-CAT
Paper(s)
I PG Diploma in Geoinformatics (PG-DGi) Section A
II PG Diploma in Advanced Computing (PG-DAC) Section A +

Section B
PG Diploma in Mobile Computing (PG-DMC)
PG Diploma in System Software Development (PG-DSSD)
PG Diploma in IT Infrastructure, Systems & Security (PG-DITISS)
PG Diploma in Big Data Analytics (PG-DBDA)
PG Diploma in Internet of Things (PG-DIoT)
PG Diploma in HPC System Administration (PG-HPCSA)

III
PG Diploma in Embedded Systems Design (PG-DESD) Section A +
PG Diploma in VLSI Design (PG-DVLSI) Section B +
PG Diploma in Biomedical Instrumentation & Health Informatics (PG-DBIHI)
Section C

Syllabus
Section A
English, Quantitative Aptitude, Reasoning

Section B
Computer Fundamentals, C Programming, Data Structures, Data Communication & Networking, Object Oriented Programming Concepts, Operating Systems

Section C
Computer Architecture, Digital Electronics, Microprocessors