NTA to hold CMAT & CPAT on Jan. 28

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New Delhi : The National Testing Agency (NTA) is conducting the Common Management Admission Test(CMAT) on-28th January 28, 2019, (9:30 am.-12:30pm) for 64,582 registered candidates at 183 centres in 84 cities of 24 States/UTs. Four hundred three candidates are registered for the examination at 2 centres in 2 cities in North Eastern States and 1,197  candidates at 14 centres in 3 cities in Jammu & Kashmir.

In view of the request received from the local administration due to inclement weather, CMAT-2019 is also being conducted on January 29, 2019, for 187 candidates belonging to Kashmir Region at Srinagar, who were earlier allotted centres in Jammu.

The NTA is also conducting Graduate Pharmacy Aptitude Test (GPAT) on January 28, 2019, (2:30 pm-5:30 pm) for 42,827 registered candidates at 128 centres in 84 cities of 24 States/UTs, according to a PIB release. Both the Examinations are being conducted completely on Computer Based Test (CBT) Mode.

A Control Room has been opened at NTA HQs and 24 State Coordinators, 99 City Coordinators and 265 Observers are in position. A third party audit of the examination centres has been completed. In order to stop cheating using mobile networks, jammers have been installed in all the centres. A total of about 3,580 jammers (1,342 for each exam) have been put in place.

As done for UGC-NET December 2018 Examination and JEE (Main) January 2019 Examination, CCTV surveillance is being done at the examination centres to curb malpractices at the examinations. The NTA is also making arrangements for live viewing of remote locations and recording CCTVs Systems of all examination centres at Control Room situated at the NTA HQs.