The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) has officially released the schedule for the CA Foundation and Intermediate exams to be held in September 2024. Aspiring Chartered Accountants can now mark their calendars and start their preparations according to the announced dates.
Official copy of the announcement has been mentioned below
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT
No. 13-CA (EXAM)/SEPTEMBER/2024: In pursuance of Regulation 22 of the Chartered Accountants Regulations, 1988, the Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India is pleased to announce that the next Chartered Accountants Foundation and Intermediate Examinations will be held on the dates and places which are given below provided that sufficient number of candidates offer themselves to appear from each of the below mentioned places.
FOUNDATION COURSE EXAMINATION
[As per syllabus contained in the scheme notified by the Council under Regulation 25 F of the Chartered Accountants Regulation,1988]
13th, 15th, 18th & 20th September 2024
INTERMEDIATE COURSE EXAMINATION
[As per syllabus contained in the scheme notified by the Council under Regulation 28 F of the Chartered Accountants Regulation,1988]
- Group I: 12th, 14th & 17th September
- Group II: 19th, 21st & 23rd September
No examination is scheduled on 16th September 2024 (Monday) on account of Milad – un - Nabi, being a compulsory (gazetted) Central Government holiday as per F. No. 12/2/2023-JCA dated 3.7.2023 issued by Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievance and Pensions, Government of India.
It may be emphasized that there would be no change in the examination schedule in the event of any day of the examination schedule being declared a Public Holiday by the Central Government or any State Government / Local Bodies.
Paper(s) 3 & 4 of Foundation Examination are of 2 hours duration. Howeve
Examination | Paper(s) | Exam Timings (IST) | Duration |
Foundation |
Paper 1 & 2 Paper 3 & 4* |
2 PM to 5 PM 2 PM to 4 PM |
3 Hours 2 Hours |
Intermediate | All Papers | 2 PM to 5 PM | 3 Hours |
*In Paper 3 and 4 of Foundation Examination there will not be any advance reading time, whereas in all other papers / exams mentioned above, an advance reading time of 15 minutes will be given from 1.45 PM (IST) to 2 PM (IST).
Further, in case of composite papers having both MCQs based & Descriptive Question Papers, seal of MCQs based Question Paper shall be opened at 2 PM (IST), in other words there will be no advance reading time for MCQs based Question Papers.