CAT 2024: 5 Registration Form Mistakes You Must Avoid; Check How to Register Error Free; Last Date Closes on Sept 13

Conducted by IIMs, CAT 2024 is the largest MBA entrance exam for MBA admission 2025 in 21 IIMs and 100+ top MBA colleges in India including FMS, IIFT, TISS, SPJIMR, MDI. This year IIM Calcutta will conduct CAT on November 24, 2024 in three slots of 2 hours duration each.  The first step to get admission 2025 into any CAT accepting college is to complete the CAT 2024 registration process carefully and without error. CAT 2024 registration process is open at iimcat.ac.in. for next few days. CAT last date to apply 2024 closes on September 13. Making mistake in CAT 2024 registration form can put your candidature at risk.

Before, checking how to fill CAT 2024 form error free by avoiding the 5 key mistakes which the CAT aspirants make in filling the CAT Application Form 2024, shared below are the key changes and facts about CAT 2024 exam:

CAT 2024 Exam: Key Changes & Facts

Read below how you can avoid registration mistakes while filling up the CAT 2024 registration and application form and complete it error free

CAT 2024 – 5 Registration Form Mistakes You Must Avoid 
With many changes introduced in CAT 2024 registration process, you need to be careful while filling your CAT application form 2024. CAT 2024 Registration and Application form is revised with changes like getting two OTPs instead of one, change in choice of test cities, clubbing of many test cities, increase in fees among others. All of them call for careful data entry while filling up the CAT registration and application form to avoid any wastage of your application money.

1. Your CAT 2024 Eligibility: Check Carefully
Make sure that you are eligible to apply for CAT 2024 as per the eligibility criteria regarding minimum or maximum age, academics, nationality, category among others. If you are not eligible to register for CAT 2024, there is no need to proceed with CAT registration process. So, before beginning the CAT registration process, check your CAT eligibility criteria.

While completing the 1st page of CAT 2023 registration form after login as new user and login again with the CAT 2023 user Id and password to complete the CAT application form, no specific skill is required. You simply need to be careful while filling up the CAT 2023 application form in which you have to fill up the specific academic details, upload your signature and photograph, upload required certificates and make payment. The five CAT Registration mistakes to be avoided are

2. Fill Your Personal Details Correctly in CAT Registration Form 2024
The first page in CAT registration form needs you to fill personal details. Most of the mistakes are made on this page. To avoid CAT registration form mistakes on this page, check below how to fill the correct particulars about your personal details. You need to enter your name exactly in same pattern and style as it is written in your class 10/SSC certificate. Please ensure to insert correct date of birth from the menu at the column, Gender, Address. Besides, filling up the correct category like Gen/EWS/SC/ST/ OBC/ PwD is also very important. Refer to the columns in this page as given below as per the CAT 2024 registration form. It may also be noted that you will not be allowed to modify any of these details once the registration form is submitted. So, make sure not to make any mistake.

3. Fill Correct Academic Details in CAT Registration Form
The next one in the CAT 2024 Registration Form Mistakes is how to fill academic details in CAT registration and application form. This is one of the important CAT registration mistakes to be avoided while filling up your CAT form. You need to enter your education details in the 3rd page of CAT 2024 online application form. The details like percentage of marks obtained are to be entered in all sections. Required details for class 10, 12, bachelor’s degree, Master’s degree and Other Professional Degree need to be entered. 

Many CAT aspirants make mistake in filling up the correct marks and percentage scored in different exams in CAT registration and application form. This is one of the key CAT Registration Form Mistakes that you should avoid. CAT 2024 online application form provides column with ‘nnn.nn’ space to fill up your percentage of marks.  The first three ‘nnn’ can be used only when you have scored 100% marks otherwise you should use only 2 digits if your percentage of marks is anywhere between 45% and 99.99%.

You must insert the percentage upto 2 decimal digits. There is no need to prefix ‘0’ before writing your percentage of marks as it will not accept it.
Correct: 96.50; Wrong: 096.50

After inserting the first 3 digits, if you place decimal and try to write 2 decimal digits, the last digit will not be inserted and the message will be to insert 2 decimal digits. To avoid this mistake in CAT Registration form, it is advisable to write only the correct form of the percentage of marks.

4. Carefully Select IIM Programmes & Check Program Eligibility
This is one of the common CAT registration form mistakes which most CAT applicants make while filling up the CAT application form as they do not check their program eligibility for admission. So, prior to choosing the programme and interview city, prepare a list of programmes for which you are eligible to apply. If you are a fresh graduate, you CAN NOT apply to executive MBA or one year MBA; if you are not a science, Agriculture, Biotech, Engineering or not a graduate in related streams you may not apply to IIMs’ ABM, FABM; IIM Mumbai O&SCM programmes. So, check carefully and make sure to tick on such IIM programmes for which you are eligible

5. Choose Five CAT Exam Cities Carefully
IIMs change number and type of CAT cities every year. Sometimes CAT cities are separated and sometimes many cities are clubbed into one choice. There are 170 CAT exam cities for 2024. As you are proceeding to complete your CAT 2024 registration and application form, you have to choose the 5 preferred test cities otherwise your form will remain incomplete. Later when IIM Calcutta offers the opportunity to change the test cities, you may revise your preferences. So,  choose the test cities after assessing the approach, travel time, means of transport and expenses involved and make a list preference wise and fill accordingly as preference one to five in the CAT application form. It is very much possible that you may not get the first preference, so keep your second and third preferred cities which are easy to approach.

Review before Making Payment & Final Submission
CAT 2024 Registration fee is increased to Rs.2500. To avoid your exam fee getting stuck due to inadvertent mistakes, you should avoid any type of CAT 2024 Registration Mistakes. Please note that you cannot edit any details on the Application form after you have made the online payment. It is therefore must to take at least following two steps before making CAT fee payment and finally submitting the CAT form:

• Review all the application pages before submitting and making payment of CAT registration fee as the CAT 2024 Registration and application form is different from last year
• The CAT Registration is a 30 minutes process and you should collect all the required documents/material before starting the CAT registration and Application Process.

Documents Required to Complete CAT 2024 Registration
Before beginning your registration, you should Download CAT Registration Guide Pdf and read instructions contained in it as it clarifies each and every step to systematically complete the CAT online registration and online application form. CAT 2024 Exam Center at IIM Calcutta has suggested to follow the 5 undernoted important instructions before you start filling up the CAT 2024 registration and application form  

• Gather all the information, documents, certificates regarding your date of birth, exact style of writing name, academics from class 10 onwards, caste, online fee payment instrument that you will need for filling the form beforehand
• Check your eligibility for CAT 2023 by referring to the Eligibility document on the CAT 2023 website.
• Ensure you have a valid and unique email address and mobile number.
• “*” (asterisk) in the CAT 2024 registration and application form indicates a mandatory field. The boxes marked with this symbol must be filled in, or you will not be allowed to submit your application for CAT 2024.
• For CAT 2024 registration, you will receive two OTPs- on Mobile and on Mail. So, Keep your Mobile phone near you to verify OTP and your laptop open with your mail id - to get CAT ID & PW and verify the same. Only after receiving the CAT user ID & Password from CAT Centre, you can login to CAT 2024 registration site as registered candidate to fill application form.

All candidates will be treated at par who apply for CAT Registration between opening date and last date in slot and test centre allotment. So, take your time and register and apply when it is most convenient during the registration window.

Avoid filling the CAT Registration & Application Form in One Go: Key to Avoid Mistake
You can Logout and exit the CAT 2024 Application form as many times as you wish, to edit and complete later or Save & Continue each section till you submit the application.

After Submission, No Correction is Allowed in CAT 2024 Form
Please note that CAT Registration Form Mistakes after submission of the CAT Registration & application form cannot be corrected. There is no chance of rectifying some of the important CAT Registration Form Mistakes especially your personal details. As such, you should be careful while completing your CAT 2024 Registration and must not submit till you are satisfied that it is error free.

Common Admission Test (CAT) 2024 is the mandatory exam for admission to management programmes in all the 21 IIMs – old and new. Apart from IIMs, top 100 MBA colleges in India will also accept CAT 2024 score for MBA Admission 2025 like FMS Delhi, IITs, IIFT, TISS, MDI Gurgaon, SPJIMR Mumbai among others.

Last year 3.30 lakh candidates applied for CAT and 2.88 lakh appeared in the exam. This number may increase this year as during last few years CAT has seen tremendous growth in registration of candidates and test takers. IIMs alongwith other top B-schools offer admission to more than 50000 students in their different management programs. 

Stay tuned to MBAUniverse.com for more updates on CAT 2024