Hence, please ensure that you fill in your student registration number exactly as per the registration letter sent to you. You may keep a copy of the letter from Board of Studies, ICAI registering you as a student of ICAI ready, so that you can fill your registration number correctly. Also ensure that you fill in your date of birth, as per the documents submitted by you to the Institute at the time of registration. In case your details do not match with our records, we shall still issue the user ID and password. However, you will be permitted to submit a provisional application, subject to submission/verification of documentary evidence, i.e. your copy of your registration letter indicating your registration number and date of registration to Common Proficiency Course. Some of the errors committed by candidates while filling the on-line forms are as follows:

Your unique student registration number typed on the on-line registration form may be different from the one that is communicated to you by the Board of Studies of the Institute. The date of birth you enter in the form may be different from the date of birth on the records of the Institute.

You can continue to fill up the form on provisional basis as under: Under this message you will find a check-box with the words “YES. Register me as Provisional Candidate” Click on this box and then in the box against the words “Registration Number as per your Records” enter the registration number received by you from the regional office taking care that the first three characters are alphabets and the remaining seven are digits. After submission of other details ie; email-id and mobile number against this combination of name and date of birth, the system will display a system generated log-in ID having 3 alphabets “PRC” with a 7 digit numeric suffix only for the purpose of submission of provisional application for CPT exam. You can log in using these details to fill your exam form online. The registration will be provisional. The office will try to regularise the registration with the help of particulars provided by you and will bother you only in case it remains unresolved at our end. In case you receive the registration number after filling the on-line exam form, you may send a scanned copy of your registration letter by email at cpt_exam@icai.in Please do read the Guidance Notes to satisfy yourself about the eligibility conditions. Also, contact the concerned Regional Office of the Institute and get your registration number. Thereafter, you may submit a copy of the your registration letter to the Exam Department at the address given below (enclosing therewith a copy of your on-line application form), by separate post, along with a signed letter quoting your registration number and bar code/control number of your exam application form requesting for taking your correct Registration Number on record before hosting of Admit Cards. The Joint Secretary (Exams) Examination Department The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India ICAI Bhawan Indrapastha Marg New Delhi 110 002 In case you fulfill the eligibility conditions as mentioned in “Guidance Notes” and you have applied for Common Proficiency Course registration on or before 30th June, 2017 but have not yet received your registration number OR for your registration number the on-line exam portal is indicating “Already Registered” and you wish to apply on-line, you may apply as a provisional candidate as follows: In the “Select Prefix” select “OTHERS” In the area/box “Enter the seven digits of your registration number” enter any seven digits say 1234567 Enter your date of birth that you had filled in the CPT Course registration form. Under this message you will find a check-box with the words “YES. Register me as Provisional Candidate” Click on this box and then in the box against the words “Registration Number as per your Records” Enter the registration number as per the example given below: Example Name: ASHISH KUMAR SINGH Example Date of Birth: 01-10-1997 Then you may fill ASHI011097 (first four characters of name + Date + Month+Year of Birth) in the box “Registration Number as per your Records” Please do read the Guidance Notes to satisfy yourself about the eligibility conditions. After submission of other details ie; email-id and mobile number against this combination of name and date of birth, the system will display a system generated log-in ID having 3 alphabets “PRC” with a 7 digit numeric suffix only for the purpose of submission of provisional application for CPT exam. The registration will be provisional. The office will try to regularise the registration with the help of particulars provided by you and will bother you only in case it remains unresolved at our end. In case you receive the registration number after filling the on-line exam form, you may send a scanned copy of your registration letter by email at cpt_exam@icai.in Take care to give your details when filling in the on-line form. When paying for your exam, we will ask you for the cardholder’s details. Please fill the form early to avoid any last minute technical glitches and rush. In case you have made payment of exam fees more than once which is received by us for the same student registration number and you do not get a refund within 21 days from the last date for submission of forms, you can claim a refund of the excess amount paid by you, by writing to us within 30 days from the last date for submission of forms, along with documentary evidence, such as bank/credit card statement, of having paid the exam fees more than once. ICAI will verify the same and refund the excess amount, if any, paid by you. Last date for receipt of the print-out (PDF) of the on-line exam forms is – 06-05-2019 (Upto 17.30 Hrs IST) You may take a print out of the provisional exam application form and send us in the normal course, as per the procedure prescribed. Also send seperately, a signed letter quoting the registration number and bar code number/control number, with a copy of your Common Proficiency Course registration letter, to us to verify your registration number, by separate post. Please do not send the request letter along with the print out of the on-line form. Send it by separate post. If you have not received your registration letter from the concerned regional office of ICAI so far, you may fill in and submit your exam application form as Provisional ( Refer Q13 & 14 above) and later on submit a copy of the same as soon as you receive it. Do get in touch with your regional office to confirm your registration number and date of birth. Applicants whose photograph / signature are not appearing on the PDF have to affix their photograph & sign the PDF before necessary attestation and dispatch/ the same to Exam Section or submit it by hand delivery at the offices of the Institute mentioned in the Guidance Notes. IMPORTANT : Candidates are advised NOT to paste the photographs over the photographs already appearing in the PDF from the system (based on the respective candidates photograph and signatures appearing in the previous Exam forms submitted by him) or sign over the signature already appearing in the PDF from the system as NO cognizance of the same will be taken of and such changes will be summarily ignored. Printout of Exam Application form (PDF) received after 06-05-2019 will not be entertained under any circumstances. Therefore, candidates are advised to fill up the exam forms on-line at an early date to avoid last minute technical glitches and send the PDF form generated at least 3-4 days in advance of the last date. Submission by Post : You may send printout of the on-line submitted form (PDF) by SpeedPost/Registered Post Only(not by courier/ordinary post) without folding and superscribing the envelope as “Exam Application Form CPT, June-2019” so as to reach us on or before 06-05-2019. The address for posting is as under: The Joint Secretary (Exams) Examination Department The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India ICAI Bhawan, Indraprastha Marg, New Delhi – 110 002. Also send SEPARATELY a signed request letter quoting the registration number and bar code number/control number intimating the correction required. Please do not send the letter along with the print out of the on-line form. Send it by separate post.. II. On-line facility for seeking change of Centre/Medium for a fee of Rs 1000/- (To be hosted normally on 25th May/25th November for June/December CPT respectively and closing date one week before the date of CPT Examination)

  1. A candidate while applying for change of Centre/Medium through the on-line facility as mentioned above, can login to the system using their log-in ID and password. During pre-defined timeline indicated under the Important dates, the candidates can select to Apply for the correction through their dashboard
  2. Candidates will be permitted to correct errors if any thru this channel, in Centre/Medium, in the data hosted, when the “Correction Window” is open at a fee of Rs. 1000/- for either one or more changes.
  3. Candidate will also be permitted to change the centre opted ie; from Indian Centre to Overseas Centre and pay the differential examination fee plus the fee of Rs. 1000/- as mentioned in para 2 above, online through payment gateway.
  4. A change may include change of Centre/Medium either jointly or severally.
  5. Candidate will be required to upload scanned copy of a handwritten/typed application for change of Centre/Medium duly signed by him.
  6. Upon submission of the request, the candidate will get a Successful Submission confirmation on the screen. Candidates must ensure to check that their request for correction has been captured successfully. Mere deduction of the amount from the candidates account is not sufficient. It is made clear here that successful submission of request does not mean that the request has been approved. Upon approval of the request, details of the changes effected will be hosted on the same website and candidates can check the same.
  7. Applications for changes sought shall be permitted only once. Once a candidate submits his option for a change, he cannot go back to the earlier choice or seek another change.
  8. The candidates as well as the new examination centres where they are shifted, as per the request of the candidate, will be informed of the change by way of letter/e-mail.
  9. No fresh Admit Card will be issued to the candidates. Candidates will be required to appear in the CPT (Examination), with the Admit Card already issued/downloaded from website icaiexam.icai.org alongwith a copy of the approval letter/e-mail sent to them.
  10. Requests for change of Centre/Medium received subsequent to the closure of the “Correction with Fee-Window” i.e; 7 days before the date of CPT (Examination), shall not be entertained under any circumstances.
  11. The fee of Rs 1000/- received for change of Centre/Medium will not be refunded, except in those cases where the request cannot be considered on account of administrative reasons. Refund of such fee of Rs 1000/-, would be made within 30 days after the date of CPT (Examination). In case you have submitted a provisional form, you will be admitted provisionally and permitted to appear for the exam, on provisional basis only and in case it is found that you did not meet the eligibility requirements, your admission to CPT, and if already appeared, the result thereof will not be published. In case you are ineligible, ICAI will send you a separate communication for compliance of eligibility requirements. In case you do not send us the print out of your on-line exam form, issue of admit card to you will be held up. Absence of your photograph and signature will create difficulties in issue of your admit card and result card. Hence you are advised to send the print out of your on-line application containing your photograph and signatures duly attested so as to avoid these difficulties/correspondence at a later date. i) onlineexamforms@icai.in (Only For feedback relating to Technical difficulties in filling on-line forms during the duration of the on-line filling of form ) and ii) cpt_exam@icai.in b) Phone: 18004192929-For users of MTNL or BSNL lines and for others :-