CAT Admit Card 2015: Schedule of activity to begin 1 hour before on Oct 25

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October 24, 2015
The schedule of activities by CAT 2015 aspirants should begin an hour before tomorrow to make sure the access to Admit card which may be enabled 5-10 minutes before 1PM on Oct 25
With 2.18 lakhs of candidates thronging the website simultaneously, even a delay of few minutes in viewing and downloading the CAT 2015 Admit card may result in technical glitches

Hectic activities followed, post closure of CAT 2015 registration process on Sep 25, 2015 resulting in higher than in last 5 years registrations reaching to new high of 2.18 lakhs candidates. No doubt CAT 2015conducting IIM Ahmedabad and testing agency TCS had to move away from their earlier commitment of issuing the CAT 2015 Admit cards on October 15 to October 25, 2015.

Since Admit Card is the foremost requirement prescribed by CAT 2015 conducting IIM Ahmedabad and without this document, candidate will not be allowed to enter the testing centre, you will have to download, save and carry the hard copy of your CAT 2015 Admit card to the examination centre by all means.

Now the message from CAT 2015 conducting IIM Ahmedabad reads ‘Admit Card for CAT 2015 will be available from 25th Oct 2015, 1 PM till exam day You will have to log onto the CAT website with your registered User ID’ The change in schedule of issuing the CAT 2015 admit cards although created a bit of anxiety among CAT 2015 aspirants, still a month remains to plan the itinery and make other arrangements to take CAT 2015 on November 29, 2015 at the allotted testing venue and time slot.

Schedule of activities before 1 PM on Oct 25

-- Switch-on your computer/lap top around 12 Noon, an hour before the scheduled time of CAT 2015 Admit card going to be enabled.

-- If you have to visit some cyber-café for the purpose, book your slot from 12.15PM to 1.15PM in advance and take hold of the best system equipped with latest browser versions.

-- Keep your pen drive with you, if you are going to the cyber-café, so that you could copy your admit card in it and take prints of the same from it.

-- Check whether the recommended versions are running well in your system. CAT Centre 2015 has recommended “If the registration website is not accessible for any reason, please close your Internet browser and try again”

-- Ensure that you are using the correct versions of the recommended Internet browsers-Internet Explorer – 7, 8, 9 version; Mozilla Firefox – 14 to 28; Google Chrome 20 to 33. The best viewed as recommended by CAT Centre 2015 are Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome browsers.

-- Check for the updates, FAQs and details with other icons on CAT 2015 site to know about the current status

-- Go on refreshing/reloading the CAT 2015 website periodically so that you do not miss any of the updates from CAT Centre 2015.

10 minutes to 1PM
Admit card for CAT 2015 is expected to be enabled about 5-10 minutes before 1PM tomorrow as has been the practice, it will be better to view and download it immediately when it is enabled.

Avoid Delay; may cause technical glitches
With 2.18 lakhs of candidates thronging the website simultaneously, even a delay of few minutes in viewing and downloading the CAT 2015 Admit card may result in technical glitches

Despite it being a very strong site capable to cope with the high volume of CAT 2015 aspirants, it may develop some technical glitches like getting slow, not displaying full details or giving you some error messages. This might create irritation and may cause more anxiety. When you can very well avoid it, there is no need to wait and waste time.

Verify the details & report the error
Your CAT 2015 admit card should contain all the relevant details like your name, Registration/user ID, Test venue, exam slot. If  you are able to timely download the Admit Card and verify all the details like the spelling of your name, you will be able to point out the discrepancy, if any, to the help desk of CAT Centre 2015 so that the due correction can be made.

Please remember, Admit card for CAT 2015 is a mandatory requirement.  You will not be allowed to enter the examination centre without a print out of your CAT 2015 Admit Card. Hence note to download, save and take 2-3 prints of your CAT 2015 Admit Card without fail.

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