ICSI exam Pattern

As per the ICSI CS Professional marking scheme each question is given equal marks. Candidates will be given partial marks for every correct answer. There is no negative marking for any wrong answer or not attempted question. As per the CS Professional marking scheme, the total marks for each paper is 100 marks.

Candidates will be required to pay the CS Pre Examination Test fee of INR 1000. However, students who have already remitted the Pre-Examination Test Fee while seeking registration to CS Executive / Professional Programme Stages are not required to remit the fee again.

Candidates can appear for CS Pre Examination Test before enrolling for the CS Executive or CS Professional examination. Candidates will have to compulsorily qualify the CS Pre Examination Test to enroll for CS Examinations. Without appearing for pre-examination test, candidates cannot enrollf or upcoming examinations.

• CS Professional exam total marks are 800 for both group 1 and group 2.
• CS Professional exam is divided into two groups.
• Group 1 total marks are 400
• Group 2 total marks are 400 
• To pass the exam, student must score a minimum of 50 percent marks in total and 40 percent in each paper.

ICSI CS exam questions length depends upon the type of question. The length of the answers are generally long. Hiwever it may vary from question to questions. Candidates can check the demo ICSI answer sheet to check the length of the answers. Candidates must follow the ICSI answer guidelines to answer the questions.

As per the ICSI CS Executive exam marking scheme each question has equal marks. The total marks for CS Executive each paper is 100 marks. There will be no negative amrking for any incorrect answer or not attempted questions. Candidates will be given partial marks for every correct answer.

The duration of CS Professional exam for each paper is three hours. CS Professional exam is divided into two groups. The CS Professional group 1 consist of four papers whereas, second group consists of three papers. Candidates will have to attempt the questions of each paper within the given time duration. ICSI CS Professional December 2025 datesheet has been released.