Provisional admission to Final Examination to be held in May 2014

Queries are being received from candidates who have been admitted provisionally to Final examination to be held in May 2014, about the status of their admission to the said examination.

Candidates not complying with any one or more of the eligibility requirements, mentioned below, have been admitted to the CA Final examination, on a provisional basis. Admit cards issued to those candidates contain the words “Provisional”

1. The candidate should have passed the Intermediate(IPC) Examination or PE II/PCC/IPCE/Intermediate Examination .

2. The candidate should have been registered for Final Course.

3. The candidate must have a valid registration to the Final Course, as on the date of applying for the exam. Since registration to Final course is valid for 5 years from the date of registration, students whose registration has expired are required to revalidate their registration by applying to the Regional Office concerned along with the requisite fee.

4. The candidate must have

 Completed the prescribed period of articled training on or before 30th April 2014;

or

 Must be serving the last 6 months ( 12 months in the case of those who came through PE II route ) of articleship, i.e., would be completing their articleship (including excess leave, if any)on or before 31st October 2014 ( on or before 30th April 2015, in the case of those who came through PE II route) and be in service as on 1st May 2014. However, this condition of being in service as on 1st May 2014 in articleship, is not applicable to those who are eligible to appear in the Final examination for the first time. Candidates who might have taken termination of articleship for any reason, are required to have re-registered for articleship prior to 1st May 2014 to comply with the above requirement.

Detailed eligibility conditions are published in the Guidance Notes made available with the examination forms and are also hosted on http://icaiexam.icai.org

Candidates are advised to ensure that they fulfill above eligibility conditions /requirements, failing which their results may not be processed.

Examination Department