I am surprised to hear from some students that inspite of working hard they have not cleared. How is it possible????
One clear reason may be that the student has not worked as required. Another reason may be He/She is not aware of standards demanded by ICAI, this reason is not convincing specially for final students. Majority of them are just shifting their fault on institute.
No doubt CA is challenging and that is why it is a professional course. It demands to be expert . Otherwise it would have been like B.com.
I will share one of my Sir(ranker in CS) experience as Supervisor and evaluator of CA exams. He says-- " If 100 students enter exam hall, i see almost 40% entering the hall as if they have come to their in laws house. Around 20- 25% will be like those who have studied as if appearing for B.com exam of some faltoo university where they check on the basis of weight of paper. Approx. 8-10% will be absent. Remaining 20-25% only will be coming who have seriously prepared.
So the real evaluation is among 20 - 25% seriously prepared students. In that some don't present their answer as per benchmark of institute. For. e.g. simple problem of say Non profit org... will be not be like an answer of a professional . some places working notes will be missing. No proper format.Many Cuttings will be there. Even a point which is not relevant in question is not answered by giving proper notes. In other words an answer should be like , where in student is explaining to the fool(assume evaluator is fool). Then see how beautiful answer looks.
Some people use all those bazar type notes which not at all suits CA student personality. CA student should prepare his own notes by referring Good books , ICAI materials and other sources. No short cuts in CA is allowed. There is no use crying over what has happened. Definitely its student fault. Student should try to Excel i.e. what CA demands.
For God sake don't crib by blaming ICAI . Work well and smartly . Just see how ranker study .