ICAI Exam Pattern

The Integrated Professional Competence Course or IPCC examination is an improvised version of the PCC examination for Chartered Accountants in India. A student can register for IPCC after completing the CA CPT (Foundation) exam, without article registration.After clearing the Group-I papers of the IPCC, the aspirant can register for the articles. Under the new scheme of IPCC, the student is eligible to appear for the final year examination during their last six months of their article ship.All the candidates who had registered for the PCC examination on or before January 2009 were eligible to appear in the new version of the IPCC examination. They have to complete the nine months of the study course and a hundred hours of orientation course and Information Technology Training before taking up the final Group-II examination of CA Intermediate course.  

PCC or IPC is the first stage of the Chartered Accountancy course curriculum wherein only working knowledge of core and allied subjects is covered.The objective of the PCC course is to lay a strong foundation for Chartered Accountants in the preparation and presentation of financial statements. In PCC, candidates also learn the computerized accounting system. The course curriculum includes the following subjects:Advanced Accounting (100 Marks)Auditing and Assurance (100 Marks)Law, Ethics, and Communication (100 Marks) Cost Accounting and Financial Management (100 Marks)Taxation (100 Marks)Information Technology and Strategic Management (100 Marks)

The time duration of CA exams varies for each paper. Some CA exam papers are of two hours duration whereas some are of three hours duration. The ICAI CA exams are conducted from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm and 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm. The exam timings of every paper will be mentioned in the date sheet and the CA admit card of each candidate. Given below is the table indicating CA Foundation, Intermediate and Final exam timings:CA ExamPaper (s)Exam TimingsCA FoundationPaper 1 & 22:00 PM to 5:00 PMCA FoundationPaper 3 & 42:00 PM to 4:00 PMCA Intermediate (IPC) (Old Scheme)All papers2:00 PM to 5:00 PMCA Intermediate (New Scheme)All Papers2:00 PM to 5:00 PMCA Final (Old Scheme)All Papers2:00 PM to 5:00 PMCA Final (New Scheme)Paper 1 to 5 & Paper 7 & 82:00 PM to 5:00 PMPaper 6 (Elective)2:00 PM to 6:00 PMIRM and (INTT– AT)All2:00 PM to 5:00 PM