CS Foundation Exam 2024 – Company Secretary Foundation Exam acronym CS Foundation Exam is conducted by the Institute of Company Secretary of India ICSI to form the base of the CS profession.
CS Foundation Exam 2024 Important Dates
Date of Notification and Start of Online Registration
- January 2024 - June Session
- July 2024 - December Session
Last Date of Submission of Application Form
- March 2024 - June Session
- September 2024 - December Session
Date of Entrance Exam
- June 2024 - June Session
- December 2024 - December Session
Date of Declaration of Result
- July 2024 - June Session
- January 2025 - December Session
CS Foundation Exam 2023 was held on-
- 7th January 2023 - First session.
- 6th May 2023 - Second session.
- 30th July 2023 - Third session.
- 4th November 2023 - Fourth session.
CS Foundation Exam 2024 Eligibility
Eligibility criteria for CS Foundation Exam to join the CS course are as follows:
Educational Qualification
- The candidates should have passed the Senior Secondary (10+2) examination of a Board / University constituted by law in India or any examination recognized by the Central Government as equivalent thereto.
Exemption from CS Foundation Exam
- All graduates and postgraduates (excluding fine arts) and those having passed in the Foundation examination of The Institute of Cost Accountants of India or the Common Proficiency Test (CPT) conducted by The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India or of any other accountancy Institution in India or abroad recognized as equivalent thereto by the Council of the Institute are exempted from passing the Foundation Program examination.
- Such students may directly seek registration for the Executive Program stage of the CS Course.
- The duration of the Foundation Program is 8 months, excluding the months of admission and the examination.
- Foundation Program students are required to pass the Foundation examination within 3 years from the date of their admission.
CS Foundation Exam 2024 Syllabus
CS Foundation Exam consists of questions from the following subjects/topics
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Business Environment and Entrepreneurship (BEE)
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Business Management, Ethics, and Communication (BMEC) |
Business Economics (BE) |
Fundamentals of Accounting and Auditing (FAA) |
CS Foundation Exam 2024 Pattern
CS Foundation Exam is a Computer Based Examination consisting of Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) as given below:
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Days
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Subjects |
No. of Questions |
Marks |
Time |
| Day 1 |
Business Environment and Entrepreneurship (BEE)
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50 |
100 |
90 Minutes |
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Business Management, Ethics, and Communication (BMEC)
|
50 |
100 |
| Day 2 |
Business Economics (BE)
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50 |
100 |
90 Minutes |
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Fundamentals of Accounting and Auditing (FAA)
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50 |
100 |
How to register/ apply for CS Foundation Exam 2024?
Interest candidates can register with the Board of Studies on submission of the prescribed filled-in form. The form can also be downloaded from the website www.icsi.org.
CS Foundation Exam 2024 Fees
For CS Foundation Course
The registration and tuition fee is Rs. 1500/- which is to be paid at the time of submitting the fully filled-in application form for registration.
For CS Foundation Exam
A student has to follow the examination notification to be issued by the Examination Department of the ICSI and apply in the prescribed form along with the examination fee of Rs. 1000/-.
The examination department will announce the examination centers and issue admission cards.
CS Foundation Exam 2024 Dates
CS Foundation Exam is held twice a year in the months of June and December.
CS Foundation Exam 2024 Centres
There are a total of 164 Examination Centres in India. Some of them are as follows:
- Agra, Ahmedabad, Ahmednagar, Ajmer, Akola, Alappuzha, Aligarh, Allahabad, Alwar, Ambala, Amravati, Amritsar, Anand, Asansol, Aurangabad
- Bangalore, Bareilly, Bathinda, Beawar, Belgaum, Bellary, Berhampore, Bhagalpur, Bharuch, Bhavnagar, Bhiwani, Bhilwara, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Bhuj, Bikaner, Bilaspur
- Chandigarh, Chennai, Coimbatore, Cuttack
- Dehradun, Delhi/ New Delhi, Dhanbad, Dundlod, Durg
- Ernakulam, Erode
- Faridabad
- Gandhidham, Ghaziabad, Gorakhpur, Guntur, Gurgaon, Guwahati, Gwalior
- Hisar, Hubli, Hyderabad
- Indore
- Jabalpur, Jaipur, Jalandhar, Jalgaon, Jammu, Jamnagar, Jamshedpur, Jodhpur
- Kakinada, Kanpur, Karnal, Kishangarh, Kollam, Kolhapur Kolkata, Kota, Kottayam, Kozhikode, Kumbakonam
- Latur, Lucknow, Ludhiana
- Madurai, Mangalore, Mapusa, Margao, Mathura, Meerut, Moradabad, Mumbai, Muzaffarnagar, Mysore
- Nagpur, Nanded, Nashik, Nellore, Noida
- Palghat, Pali Marwar, Panipat, Panvel, Patna, Patiala, Pimpri-Chinchwad, Pondicherry, Pune
- Raipur, Rajamahendravaram, Rajkot, Ranchi, Ratlam, Rewari, Rohtak, Rourkela
- Saharanpur, Salem, Sambalpur, Sangli, Satara, Shimla, Sikar, Siliguri, Sirsa, Sivakasi, Solapur, Sonepat, Sri Ganganagar, Surat, Surendranagar
- Thane, Thiruvananthapuram, Thrissur, Tinsukia, Tiruchirapalli, Tirupati, Tirupur, Tuticorin
- Udaipur, Udupi, Ujjain
- Vadodara, Vapi, Varanasi, Vellore, Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam
- Yamuna Nagar
