CPT

Many CA students dont know for how many attempts, their registration is valid ? and they think after some particular number of attempts, they should pay again 6000/- for CPT or 12000/- for IPCC or 10000 for CA Final. If you think like this, you are wrong. You need not to pay again these 6000/- or 12000/- or 10000/-. You should pay revalidation fee only I;e 300/- for CPT and 400/- for IPCC and 500/- for CA Final
Initial registration for Final Course is valid for 5 years.
Students, who have registered for the Final Course on or before 31st December, 2008 (including shifted students of Final (Old) Course to Final (New) Course) are required to re-validate their Final Course registration. Such students are advised to apply for re-validation before 31st December, 2013 without paying re-validation fee. In case any student fails to apply for re-validation by 31st December, 2013 he/ she then shall have to pay the prescribed re-validation fee, as stated above, after 1st January, 2014 for re-validating the registration.
Fee for re-validation is Rs. 500/- for each re-validation.
Each Re-validation shall be valid for 5 years.
Students are required to ensure before applying for admission to Final examination that they have valid registration.

After passing class 10th, a student is eligible for registration for Common Proficiency Test. But a student can appear for CA-CPT only if he has appeared in the Senior Secondary Examination (10+2 Examination).
A student who has got himself registered for Common Proficiency Test 60 days prior to the first day of the month in which CPT examination is to be held i.e. on or before 1st April and 1st October, can appear in the CPT examination to be held in June and December respectively. Common Proficiency Test examinations are held in June & December every year
To apply for admission to the CPT course a student is required to apply in the prescribed form.
A student may buy Prospectus from ICAI center by remitting Rs.100. The application form is available in the Prospectus.
Alternatively, the application form can be downloaded.

Definitely, it is not you alone but almost all the students who are planning to appear for CPT exam and are going to get roughly 3 months for preparation. Let me tell you this, 3 months are more than sufficient. There are certain tips that I would like to give you here:
1. Pay attention to all subjects as you know it is compulsory to pass in all topics, so you cannot skip out on maths, economics or any of the topics.
2. Attempt a lot of scanners or previous year papers. This will help you understand how to time yourself and also it will indicate to you what chapters you need to focus on.
3. Since you are already through with TS in accounts and Sandeep Garg, you have the knowledge of around 80% of the syllabus in both accounts and economics, therefore you will have time to focus on law specially mercantile law, which is a new subject for you. So manage your schedule accordingly.
It will not be very difficult to clear this exam and if you put in a hard work you can pass with flying colours. It's always beneficial to enter the course with good marks as it boosts your confidence.