91,783 students to take ICAI CPT entrance exam
New Delhi: The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) will conduct the Common Proficiency Test (CPT) on December 14, 2008 in 221 centers in 114 cities across the country. A record number of 91,783 students will appear for the December 14 CPT; while earlier in the year in June, about 76,000 students had appeared for this exam. Of the total of 91,783 students appearing for the CPT exam; 28,282 are girls. The CPT entrance examination is conducted twice in a year by the ICAI. The first one this year was conducted in June. CPT is the entrance exam that a candidate needs to undertake as an entrance level route to the Chartered Accountancy (CA) stream which every intending candidate is to clear before enrolling for the professional state. After passing 10th standard examination, a student can register with ICAI and prepare for the entry level test while pursuing 10+2 level study. "It has been observed over the last 3 years that there has been more than a three-fold increase ...