CDAC or Center for Development of Advanced Computing anticipates applications for admission to its various post graduate diploma courses. CDAC a premier research establishment affiliated with the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology of the Government of India offer PG diploma courses in India.

C-DAC Common Admission Test (C-CAT) 2016

Beginning of Online Registration and Application for C-CAT
08 May 2016

Closing of Online Registration & Application, and Payment of Examination Fee for C-CAT
09 June 2016

Downloading of C-CAT Admit Cards
16 June to 23 June 2016

C-DAC’s Common Admission Test (C-CAT)
19 June 2016 / 26 June 2016

Announcement of C-CAT Ranks
07 July 2016

Online Selection of Courses and Centres (1st Counselling)
07 July – 12 July 2016

Declaration of 1st Round of Seat Allocation
14 July 2016

Last Date of Payment of first installment course fee for candidates allocated seats through the 1st round
21 July 2016

Declaration of 2nd Round of Seat Allocation
26 July 2016

Online Selection of Courses and Centres (2nd Counselling)
26 July – 01 Aug 2016

Last Date of Payment of first installment course fee for candidates allocated seats through the second round
01 Aug 2016

Declaration of Third Round of Seat Allocation (based on 2nd Counselling)
05 Aug 2016

Last Date of Payment of first installment course fee for candidates allocated seats through the 3rd round
10 Aug 2016

Last Date of Payment of Balance Course Fee & Registration of Students at Training Centres
16 Aug 2016

Commencement of PG Diploma Courses
17 Aug 2016

C-CAT Syllabus

Syllabus of the different sections of test papers in C-CAT:

Test Paper Topics Duration
Section A English, Quantitative Aptitude, Reasoning 1 hour

Section B Computer Fundamentals, C Programming, Data
Structures, Data Communication & Networking, Object
Oriented Programming Concepts, Operating Systems 1 hour

Section C Computer Architecture, Digital Electronics,
Microprocessors 1 hour