Will ICAI Relax Articleship for CA Final Sep 2025? Guide for Students in Articleship

Will ICAI Relax Articleship for CA Final Sep 2025? Guide for Students in Articleship

Sansar Singh ChhikaraUpdated on 04 Apr 2025, 09:47 PM IST

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India recently detailed out the CA Final Jan 2026 and Sep 2025 eligibility criteria through a detailed notification on its website. However, as ICAI detailed out the eligibility criteria, candidates who registered for their articleship according to the CA Final Nov 2024 session are in a state of frenzy. There are many candidates whose articleship will end just a few days after August 31, 2025, but they will have to wait for 5 more months to give their CA Final exams as they are not eligible for the CA Final September 2025 exam.

Will ICAI Relax Articleship for CA Final Sep 2025? Guide for Students in Articleship
Will ICAI Relax Articleship for CA Final Sep 2025

Amid all this, students are not requesting ICAI to relax the eligibility requirements for such candidates who articleship ends before October 31, 2025 as they were aiming for the CA Final Nov 2025 exams earlier. Read the complete article to know more about the CA Final exams eligibility, articleship requirements, official update from ICAI and more.

What is the CA Final Sep 2025 and January 2026 Requirements for Articleship?

In the CA FInal eligibility notification, ICAI has clearly specified that candidates must have completed their 2.5 years articleship before August 31, 2025 to be eligible for CA Final September 2025 exams. Similarly, for the CA Final January 2026 exams, candidates must have completed their articleship before December 31, 2025.

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Why are students requesting preponing of Jan 2026 exams for some candidates?

There are many candidates who were aiming to appear for the CA Final November 2025 exam and hence they planned their articleship keeping the Nov 2025 eligibility in mind. Such candidates needed to complete their articleship before October 31, 2025. ICAI’s update on CA Final exams being conducted thrice a year came just a week ago. Students whose articleship ends after August 31 but before October 31, 2025 will have to wait for five more months and appear for the CA Final January 2026 exams. This is the reason such candidates are requesting for relaxation in the CA Final Sep 2025 articleship eligibility requirements.

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Students share their concerns on social media

Candidates who have been caught in this situation are taking to social media to register their concerns. On social media X (formerly Twitter), one student shared, “It is truly unfair for the students who were registered for their training post Feb’23. The 2.5 years of my training complete on 5 Sep’25. A difference of 5 days delays my attempt for 5 months. There should be a common rule for all the students who were due for Nov25.”

Another student tweeted, “Sir it’s unfair with those whose who are completing their articleship in march and april 2025 as earlier we eligible for nov 25 and now we have our exams in jan 26 because of the eligibility criteria. My articleship end on 2/3/2026 and bcoz of 2 day my attempt is jan 26 now.” One more student wrote on X, “This is unfair, bringing upon a change retrospectively is unacceptable,I was eligible for Nov’25 attempt but since I joined Articleship after Feb now my attempt has been postponed, if I would have known this fact back then I would hv joined Articleship in Feb”. ICAI is yet to share any official update on this issue.

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Questions related to CA Final Exam

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Have a question related to CA Final Exam ?

Hello Aspirant,

See application process is already live for CA Final 2022 examination for November 2022 session so if you had applied for it then it is alright and the last date to apply for it is July 1st 2022.

Now coming to the question of choice of elective paper so don't worry because choice of elective paper will be asked while filling examination form for CA final 2022 which would be available for the candidates in October 2022 so you can fill it out at that time and till then you will have to wait for it.

You can check out more information from the official site as given below :-

https://www.icai.org/new_post.html?post_id=15755

or you can also check out our article for all latest updates and complete details :-

CA Final Registration 2022 - Steps to Apply Online, Fees, Eligibility (careers360.com)


I hope this information helps you.

Good Luck!!

Hello,

No you cannot apply after the final date of registration. Unless the officials extend the last date you will not be eligible for applying after the final date of registration. As of now there are no information from the officials regarding the extension of the final date. The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) has opened the CA Final 2022 registration in online mode. The last date for the CA Final May 2022 registration was January 1, 2022. You can apply for December session. The last date is on July 1, 2022.

Hi there,

First of all make plan that what are you going to study,for how many hours you are going to study a topic and on what you will focus on. Plan all these things so that you don't get distract while studying. Then maintain a timetable and follow it .

We all have same working hours but we don't utilize them properly so start utilizing your working hour according to your mental energy .

Always study in a peaceful environment so that you can learn more in less time that means effective study .

Now if you are talking pparticularly about commerce then you can divide subjects into two part

(A) Numerical portion: First clear you concepts and after that practice as much as you can for Numerical.

(B) THEORY Portion: Make notes and clear your concept and revise them.

Try to understand instead of just mugging up lessons so that you can remember it for long time .

And last but not least study with enthusiasm. Enjoy study . Don't take study as burden.

Hope it helps you.

Good luck!


Hi Aspirant,

Hope you are doing great as per the question asked by you as you have made mistake while filling up the form you should definitely mail to the required authorities regarding the mistakes you have sometimes correction window is given to the students to correct the mistakes if made any during the process.

Hope you found this answer useful.Stay motivated stay positive.

All the best!

Hey aspirant,

Sorry but this cannot be done as it is mandatory and one must complete at least 2 years of training before sitting for the finals