ICAI Articleship Exam - Complete Guide

Chartered Accountant is the professional course which is conducted by ICAI. CA Course is Divided into four phases CA Foundation, CA Intermediate, 3 years CA Articleship Training, and CA Final. Students must need to clear these four levels to become a CA where 3years ICAI Articleship Exam is compulsory for every student.

The major reason behind the 3 years of ICAI practical training exam is to build student expertise in executing practical and theoretical knowledge in the practical world. They also make them proficient to facing the corporate and finance world. ICAI practical training exam is a very important part of CA which is necessary for every CA student to complete it.

Some student thinks that CA Articleship Exam is the wastage of time they do not appraise training important. Some of them undertake between a dummy article-ship and others are taking as time passes. ICAI Articleship Exam is introduced by ICAI to make the students understand the meaning and importance of CA Articleship Exam.

ICAI Articleship Exam is mandatory For the CA Students

ICAI CA Articleship Exam is mandatory for all CA students According to the Official notification, these exams will be a mandatory part of the CA course. In which students get some grades and Grades are mentions in CA Final Marksheet and on the basis of grades the company will able to test the practical knowledge of the students.

Criteria and Eligibility For ICAI Articleship Exam

According to the ICAI notification, it has been said that the board will judge the candidate on the basis of the online test. In online test have objective question and candidate can attempt after completing the first and second year of icai practical training exam. According to the process and notification, the First-year candidate will have to undertake a test of 75 marks with 2 hours duration and the second-year candidate will have to undertake an exam of 100 marks with 3 hours time duration.

Evaluation of Grades

According to the institute, CA Articleship Examination’s grades will be allocated according to the student's performance in the test. the grades will be divided according to the ICAI CA Articleship Exam percentage. Which students get more marks in the test they will get A Grade and other get B and C grade.

Here is the list of CA Articleship Exam grades:

A grade: 80% and above students get A grades.

B grade: 60% and above but below 80% of students get B grade.

C grade: 40% and above but below 60%of students get C grade.

D grade: Below 40%of students get D grade.

Attempts

Students have two more chances to improve their CA Articleship Examination grade.They can appear in a particular test maximum three times to improve his grade And best grade will be mentioned in the mark sheet.

Structure of ICAI Articleship Exam

1st Level Structure

In CA Articleship Examination Accounting and Auditing are compulsory subjects for your particle test. Student can choose the particular one module out of three from the optional.below we provide a list of Subjects, no. of question and marks:

Subjects	Marks	Number of Questions	Marks Per Question	Compulsory/ Optional
Accounting and Auditing	50	50	1	Compulsory
Direct Tax	25	25	1	Optional
Indirect Tax	25	25	1	Optional
Internal Audit	25	25	1	Optional

2nd Level Structure

Same as 1st Level, In CA Articleship Examination Accounting and Auditing, are compulsory subjects for your particle test. Student can choose the particular one module out of three from the optional. below we provide a list of Subjects, no. of question and marks:

Subject	Marks	No. Of Question	Compulsory/ Optional
Accounting and Auditing	50	30 10	Compulsory
Direct Tax including International Taxation	25	15 5	Optional
Indirect Tax	25	15 5	Optional
Internal Audit	25	15 5	Optional