ICSI Exam - Institute of Company Secretaries of India Exam 2019

The Institute of Company Secretaries of India, constituted under Company Secretaries Act, 1980, is a government recognized body which produces Company Secretaries in India.

The course of Company Secretaryship was introduced in 1960 by the Company Law Board. The ICSI was created in 1968 which took over from the Company Law Board to conduct the exam. The Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) was then converted into a statutory body w.e.f. 1.1.1981 under the Company Secretaries Act, 1980.

 The CS certification includes three levels of which one has to appear for three exams:

• Foundation Programme

• Executive Programme

• Professional Programme

Every candidate, who are declared 'pass' in Professional Programme Examination in addition to acquiring practical experience, shall be required to undergo compulsory practical training for four months.

Latest Update:

ICSI Admit Card 2019 released for December session 

ICSI Exam 2019-2020 Highlights
Exam Name	ICSI Exam 2019-2020
Conducting Body	Institute of Company Secretaries of India
Exam Level	National Level Exam
Exam Frequency	twice a year
Exam Mode	Online and offline
Exam Duration	150 minutes
Language	English
Exam Purpose	Training and Certifying Company Secretaries in India
Course Offered	CS
No. of Test Cities	58 cities in India
Exam Helpdesk No.	0120-6204999, 3314111
Exam Website	www.icsi.edu

Also Read: 

• ICSI Admit Card 2019 released for December session; Know how to download

ICSI 2019 Eligibility Criteria 

Foundation Programme

• Any candidate who has completed Higher Secondary or completed Class 12 in any subject, is eligible for Company Secretaryship but such students will have to clear all the three levels.
• Candidates who have completed Graduation in any stream except Fine Arts are eligible for the CS course. Such candidates are exempted from the Foundation Programme. They will have to clear only, Executive Programme and Professional Programme.

Executive Programme

• The candidate's age must not be less than 17 years on the date of application.
• The candidate shall have either passed the Foundation Programme examination of the Institute or is eligible for exemption there from.

Exemption from passing the Foundation Programme examination

A candidate possessing any of the following qualifications will be exempted from passing the Foundation Programme.

• A degree or master’s degree in any discipline (other than Fine Arts); or
• Pass in the Foundation examination of the Institute of Cost Accountants of India (ICAI-CMA) or Common Proficiency Test (CPT) conducted by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) or any other Accountancy Institution recognized in India or abroad.

Non-commerce candidates who seek exemption from the Foundation Programme examination will be provided study material of four subjects of the Foundation Programme, for self-study to acquire the basic knowledge of the related subjects.

Qualifying cutoff:

• A candidate shall be declared 'pass' in Both Modules of the Executive Programme examination if he/she secures at one sitting, a minimum of forty percent marks in each paper and fifty percent marks in aggregate of all the papers put together
• If the candidate has passed in any one Module of Executive Programme examination held under the old syllabus, secures at one sitting a minimum of forty percent marks in each paper and fifty percent marks in the aggregate of all papers.
• For One Module the candidate will be declared ‘pass’ on securing at one sitting, a minimum of forty percent marks in each paper and fifty percent marks in the aggregate of all papers.

Professional Programme

Professional Programme is the final level in Company Secretaryship. Candidates who have cleared their Foundation and Executive Programmes are eligible to undertake Professional Programme.

Eligibility:

The candidate is supposed to register for the Professional Programme nine months prior to the month in which the examination commences to be able to be admitted to the programme.

A candidate registered six months prior to the examination month may be allowed to appear in any one or two module(s) of the Professional Programme.

The candidate must have undergone postal or oral tuition for the modules in which he/she intends to appear in the examination.

Here’s an overview:

Candidate enrolled in	Eligible to appear in
June/July/August	All modules of Professional Programmes Examination to be held in June next year.
September/October/November	Any one or two modules of Professional Programme Examination to be held in June next year.
December/January/February	All modules of Professional Programme Examination to be held in December.
March/April/May	Any one or two modules of Professional Programme Examination to be held in December.

Qualifying cutoff:    
For all Modules:

• A candidate will be declared passed if he/she secures in one sitting a minimum of 40 percent in each of the papers and 40 percent in aggregate of all the papers.
• A candidate will be declared passed is he/she has passed any one or more modules of Professional examination under old syllabus, and secures in one sitting at least 40% marks in each of the remaining papers and 50% marks in aggregate.

For one Module:

• The candidate is required to secure a minimum of 40% marks in each of the papers and 50% percent marks in aggregate, will be declared ‘pass’ in the Professional Programme.
• If a candidate who has failed in one subject, but got a minimum of 60% of the total marks of the remaining subjects of the module, shall be declared ‘pass’ if he/she secures a minimum of 50% in retest.  

ICSI Exam Dates 2019 (December Session)

Events	Dates
ICSI 2019 admit card for CS Foundation programme	December 12, 2019
Admit card for CS Executive and Professional Programme	December 12, 2019
ICSI exam for CS Foundation programme	December 28 and 29, 2019
ICSI exam for executive programme	December 20, 21, 23,24, 26, 27, 28, 29, 2019
ICSI exam for professional programme	December 20, 21, 23,24, 26, 27, 28, 29, 2019

ICSI Exam Fee Structure 

Admissions are open throughout the year and the examination is held twice a year, in June and December.

Fee Structure:

Below is the table indicating fee structure of CS programme:

Course fee:

CS Foundation Programme	Rs 4500/-
CS Executive Programme	Rs 9000/- for Commerce Graduates/CPT passed of ICAI/Foundation passed of ICAI-CMA
CS Professional Programme	Rs 12000/-

Examination fee:

Foundation Programme	Rs 1200
Executive Programme	Rs 1200 per module
Professional Programme	Rs 1200 per module

Late fee is Rs 250.

Fee concession:

Candidates of Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes categories are required to pay half the amount of total application fee.

Only Registration/ Admission Fee will be charged from physically handicapped students. They will have to pay only 25% of the examination fee charged from General category candidates.

Compulsory Practical Training:

Every candidate who will be declared ‘pass’ in Professional Programme Examination in addition to acquiring practical experience, shall be required to undergo compulsory practical training for four months.

ICSI Exam Centres 2019

The list of ICSI exam centres has been released for December 2019 exam. The institute has opened new examination centres at seven cities for CS Foundation Programme exam. Candidates can opt for the new examination centres while erolling for December 2019 exam. 

ICSI exam is conducted at more than 100 examination centres in India and one in Dubai.

Candidates desiring to appear from overseas Examination Centre at Dubai are required to pay in addition to the examination fee, surcharge which presently is US$100 or its equivalent amount in Indian Currency.

Test centers are allotted by the institute. In case any candidate wishes to get their center change, they will have to submit an application along with Rs 250 as fee, to the institute at least 15 days before the exam date.

CS Examination 2019 Test cities (December)

Bhubaneswar	Kota	Vijayawada
Dhanbad	Lucknow	Visakhapatnam
Guwahati	Ludhiana	Ahmedabad
Hooghly	Meerut	Ahmednagar
Howrah	Moradabad	Akola
Imphal	Muzaffarnagar	Amravati
Jamshedpur	Noida	Aurangabad
Kolkata (n)	Pali	Bhayander
Kolkata (s)	Panipat	Bhilai
Patna	Patiala	Bhopal
Ranchi	Rewari	Bilaspur
Rourkela	Shimla	Gandhidham
Sambalpur	Sikar	Gandhinagar
Siliguri	Sonepat	Gwalior
Agra	Srinagar	Indore
Ajmer	Udaipur	Jabalpur
Aligarh	Varanasi	Jalgaon
Allahabad	Yamuna nagar	Jamnagar
Alwar	Bangalore	Kolhapur
Amritsar	Belgaum	Mumbai zone-I
Ambala	Calicut	Mumbai zone-II
Bareilly	Chennai	Mumbai zone-III
Beawar	Coimbatore	Mumbai zone-IV
Bhilwara	Ernakulam	Mumbai zone-V
Bikaner	Guntur-Amaravati	Pune zone-III
Chandigarh	Hubli-Dharwad	Pune zone-IV
Chittorgarh	Hyderabad	Raipur
Dehradun	Kottayam	Rajkot
Delhi (e)	Madurai	Sagar
Delhi (n)	Mangalore	Satara
Delhi (s)	Mysore	Solapur
Delhi (w)	Palakkad	Surat
Faridabad	Puducherry	Thane zone-I
Ghaziabad	Salem	Thane zone-II
Gorakhpur	Thiruvananthapuram	Thane zone-III
Gurgaon	Thrissur	Ujjain
Hissar	Tiruchirapalli	Vadodara
Jaipur	Mumbai zone-VI	Vapi
Jalandhar	Nagpur	Pune zone-II
Jammu	Nashik	Jhansi
Jhunjhunu	Navi Mumbai	Jodhpur
Panaji	Pimpri-chinchwad	Kanpur
Pune zone-I	-	-

ICSI 2019 Exam Centres for Computer Based Exam 

In addition to the above cities, CS Foundation programme exam will be held at the following 9 cities - 

Asansol (East)	Port Blair (South)
Durgapur (East)	Rohtak (North)
Latur (West)	Surendranagar (West)
Mathura (North)	Tumkur (South)
Nanded (West)	-

ICSI New Cities Added 

Imphal (Manipur)	Amritsar (Punjab)
Patiala (Punjab)	Rewari (Haryana)
Gandhidham (Gujarat)	Vapi (Gujarat)
Port Blair( Andaman & Nicobar)	-