Five Year Analysis Of The Difficult To Crack CS Exam

Five Year Analysis Of The Difficult To Crack CS Exam

Edited By Nidhi Agarwal | Updated on Dec 07, 2022 09:10 AM IST | #CS Executive Exam

About 45.9 per cent of enrolled students appeared for the foundation programme of Company Secretaries (CS) exam in December 2021. Out of which 61.6 per cent of students passed the exam. For the executive and professional programmes, less than five per cent of the appeared students passed all modules in their first attempt.

For regulating the profession of company secretaries in India under the Company Secretaries Act of 1980, the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) conducts the CS exams. The exams are held in a series of three stages- foundation, executive and professional programme. The executive programme consists of two modules and the professional programme consists of three modules.

Through this article, Careers360 has analysed the exact number of students who enrolled, appeared, and passed in all the modules over the last five years. We have also presented the percentage of students clearing this exam region wise.

Enrolled, Appeared, Passed: CS 2021

Students can sit for one module or set of modules in a programme at a time. In this article we have the number of students who sat for all the modules together for a particular programme.

For the foundation programme in 2021, 61.6 per cent of the students appeared. This is the highest percentage among all the levels of CS programmes. Professional Programmes of the old syllabus (O/S) have the lowest percentage of passing among all the levels, which is only 1.62 per cent.

Students Who Enrolled, Appeared And Passed In 2021: All Modules

STAGE OF EXAMINATION

ENROLLED

APPEARED

PASSED

Foundation Programme

375

172

106

Executive Programme (O/S) *

4583

2333

48

Executive Programme (N/S) **

9870

7437

331

Professional Programme (O/S) *

1725

861

14

Professional Programme (N/S) **

1827

1506

124

*(O/S)- Old Syllabus

**(N/S)- New Syllabus

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Appeared students : Over the Last Five Years

Below table gives the detailed study about the percentage of students who appeared in the different levels of CS programme. Percentages were calculated based on the number of students who appeared out of the total enrolled. The information about the old syllabus (O/S) and new syllabus (N/S) students is also mentioned.

Students Appeared In The Examination (In %)

Programmes

Dec 2021

Dec 2020

Dec 2019

Dec 2018

Dec 2017

Foundation Programme

45.9

66.7

93.1

93.3

94.6

Executive Programme (O/S)

50.9

53.4

73.7

83.3

83

Executive Programme (N/S)

75.3

74.6

75.2

80.4

-

Professional Programme (O/S)

49.9

53.2

91.3

87.1

82.9

Professional Programme (N/S)

82.4

83.4

94.3

-

-

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Percentage Of Passed Students

Most of the students who appeared for the foundation programme passed, as compared to those who appeared for executive and professional programmes. Which tells us that, it is easier to crack the foundation stage than both the other stages.

In the executive and professional programme, the passing percentage of students from the old syllabus is quite low when compared to that of those studying the new syllabus.

Passing percentages were calculated based on the students appearing in different levels of CS programme.

Percentage of students who passed

Programmes

Dec 2021

Dec 2020

Dec 2019

Dec 2018

Dec 2017

Foundation Programme

61.6

70.2

67.1

62.1

67.1

Executive Programme (O/S)

2.1

2.6

3.3

2.3

3.3

Executive Programme (N/S)

4.5

4.6

2.5

3.9

-

Professional Programme (O/S)

1.6

1.7

4.5

2.3

4

Professional Programme (N/S)

8.2

9

19

-

-

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Region-Wise Analysis: CS Exams

Below table shows the data of all the four Indian Regional Councils named Eastern Indian Regional Councils (EIRC), Northern (NIRC), Western (WIRC) and Southern (SIRC). The information we have is till June 30, 2022.

Out of all the regions north and south had the highest percentage of members while east had the lowest. Northern region had the highest number of students in the foundation programme.

Region-wise Division (In %)

Particular

EIRC

NIRC

WIRC

SIRC

Members

9.78

35.89

18.88

35.45

For Regular Programme

11.33

31.26

23.63

33.78

For Foundation Programme

11.48

31.52

26.52

30.48

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An aspirant who is seeking admission into the CS programme should at least appear or pass 10+2 or an equivalent examination. Candidates must apply for the national-level Company Secretary Executive Entrance test (CSEET).

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Questions related to CS Executive Exam

Have a question related to CS Executive Exam ?

Hello Saniya,

if you can read the module in one go and can revise the same Atleast 3 to 4times  from august month to December then you should definatelly go for it.

But if you are having a doubt in mind if you cant clear CSEET or Cs group 1 then my advice for you to go for both the modules in June 2023 and clear both module in 1st attempt if possible and try harder to do so.

Start your preperation early for that and appear for both modules in June 2023.


I hope I had help you with this. All the Best.

Hello Aspirant,Hope you are doing well

If student fails to fill the exam form of CS Executive then that particular student is not allowed to write the exam as filling a form is an essential requirement.That student can write the exam only in next term after filling the form.

Hope this helps you

ALL THE BEST

Hello aspirant,

Hope you are doing good.

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Hello there,

Yes , you are eligible for CS Executive exam .

Here is the Eligibility criteria for CS Executive Eligibility Criteria  :-

As per the eligibility criteria candidate must have completed their graduation / post graduation can registered for the CS Executive course.

As per CS Executive eligibility criteria , Fine arts students are not eligible for applying directly for CS Executive exam. Firstly they have to appear in CSEET exam.

Also there is no age boundations for  the candidates on the basis of maximum age limit . But for Lower age limit candidate must have completed their 17 years of the Age.

Talking about number of Attempts : - A candidate are allowed 10 sessions attempts with in one Registration . Candidate  once registered under the CS executive course are registered for 5 years with ICSI . Thus they are allowed to appear in 10 sessions post registration.

For more Information about CS Executive exam click on the given link below :- https://finance.careers360.com/articles/cs-executive

Hope this Information will help you at some extant.

Thank you:)


Hello Aspirant.

Hope you are doing well.

There is no specific syllabus for the Pre-exam test. As it applies to the executive program students, the test is conducted in all the papers of the Executive Program modules. The candidate is expected to possess knowledge about the Foundational syllabus to a certain extent as well. The Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) conducts the mandatory Pre-examination test for candidates who have enrolled for the CS Executive Program. It was from December 2018 that the institute began the Pre-exam test, prior to which there was no mandatory test.

GOOD LUCK, STAY MOTIVATED AND HOPE THIS HELPS.

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