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.
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
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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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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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).
On Question asked by student community
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
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
Hello aspirant,
Hope you are doing good.
So , basically I didn't get your question properly. But all I could understand was that you require the names of best CS exam coaching institutes from Ahmedabad.
So I provide you with some of those institute's names.
Tejas Shah Personal and Group
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
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
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