CA CPT 2022 Application Form, Eligibility, Exam Date, Syllabus, Pattern

CA CPT 2022: ICAI or the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India organizes CA CPT or Common Proficiency Test twice every year for the aspirants who are seeking a career as Chartered Accountants. This national level entrance test is conducted in the month of June and December. Candidates who are willing to seat for May CA CPT 2022 can avail of their application forms from February 2022. CA CPT qualified candidates will get a chance to enroll themselves for this Chartered Accountancy Programme.

CA CPT 2022 Notification:

• 23rd February 2022: Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) has been released the CA CPT 2022 Application Form on 21 February 2022.

Contents:

• CA CPT 2022 Highlights
• Exam Dates
• Application Form
  • Application Fee
  • Steps to apply
• Eligibility Criteria
• Exam Center
• Exam Pattern
• Syllabus
• Admit Card
• Answer Key
• Result
• Cut Off

CA CPT 2022: Highlights

Exam Name	CA CPT 2022
Full Form	Chartered Accountant Common Proficiency Test
Exam Level	National Level
Conducting Body	Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI)
Applciation Mode	Online
Exam Mode	Offline, i.e., Pen and Paper Based Test
Official Website	www.icai.org

CA CPT 2022 Exam Date:

Events	Exam Date
Online Application form Start	21st February 2022
End to submit the online registration form	13th March 2022
Print out the application form	13th March 2022
CA CPT 2023 Exam Date	Gropu-l: 15,18,20 and 22 May 2022 Group-ll: 24,26,28 and 30 May 2022
Result	To be announced

CA CPT 2022 Application Form:

The application form for CA CPT 2022 will be available via online mode from February 2022. At first, the candidates need to go to the official website of ICAI to get the application form. By furnishing details like name, date of birth, sex, parents name, address, nationality, category, academic qualification, the candidate has to fill up the form. They also need to send a recent passport size photograph as well. Through ICICI Bank candidates need to process their application fees. Candidates have to take a printed copy of the application form to get enclosed with certain other essential documents which they need to send to ICAI. The essential documents comprise of the Demand Draft of the Application Fees, a certificate of qualifying class 10^th examination, nationality and certificate of the category a student belongs to.

Application Fee:

The fee for application will be different for candidates applying from India or outside. Candidates can pay their online application fees through a Master or Visa card. DR or CR card is also acceptable.

• An application fee of INR.1500 without INR 600 (late charges) needs to be submitted by the candidates appearing at the entrance from India.
• For Nepal, candidates have to pay INR.2200 without INR 600(late charges) for the application form.
• Candidates enrolling for exam centers in Doha, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Muscat have to pay $325 without $10(late charges) for the application form.

Steps to apply for CA CPT 2022 Application Form:

• Firstly, the aspirants must visit the official website.
• The official website is: www.icai.org
• Then register yourself by filling in the details.
• The candidates will have to fill in the details like Name, Date of Birth, mobile number.
• Submit the form after that.
• After that log in with id and password sent via E-Mail.
• Fill in the other details like Mother’s Name, Father’s Name, Address, Category, Nationality, Medium of Study, Educational Qualification
• Upload your Recent Passport Sized Photograph.
• Make the payment of the application form.
• Generated a print of the application form for future reference.

CA CPT 2022 Application Form: Click here

Eligibility Criteria:

Candidates applying for CA CPT 2022 must qualify class 12th examination or equivalent from any reputed academic board. Graduate and Postgraduate commerce candidates with at least 55% marks can enroll for the entrance test. 60% in aggregate in Graduation or Post-graduation is desirable for candidates from any other stream. Open University candidates with UG or PG degrees are not permissible for the test. There is no such age limit for candidates willing to apply for CA CPT 2022.

Exam Centre:

• Ahmedabad
• Aurangabad
• Bengaluru
• Bhopal
• Chennai
• Delhi/New Delhi
• Hyderabad
• Indore
• Jaipur
• Kolkata
• Mumbai
• Nagpur
• Nashik
• Pune
• Surat
• Thane
• Vadodara
• Vasai

Exam Pattern:

• Candidates appearing for CA CPT Exam need to answer objective questions carrying 200 marks for 4 hours.
• The exam will be conducted in 4 segments.
• 1 mark will be deducted for 4 incorrect answers.
• The examination will be conducted in offline mode with English/Hindi as the test medium.
• CA CPT Exam takes place in two shifts. The morning shift is from 10 AM to 12.30 PM for Fundamentals of Accounting and Mercantile Law while the afternoon shift is from 2 pm to 4 pm for General Economics and Quantitative Aptitude.
• The first segment of CA CPT will be divided into two sections. Candidates have to answer for 40 marks on Fundamentals of Accounting and 60 marks on Mercantile Laws within 2 hours.
• In the second segment comprising 2 sections aspirants need to answer 50 marks on General Economics and 50 marks on Quantitative Aptitude within 2 hours.

Syllabus:

The syllabus for the Exam is as follows:

• Fundamentals of Accounting includes Accounting Process, Depreciation accounting, Theoretical Framework, Introduction to Company Accounts, Bank Reconciliation Statement, Partnership Accounts, Preparation of Final Accounts for Sole Proprietors, Accounting for Special Transactions.
• Mercantile Laws incorporates a summary of Sections 1 to 75 including the overall nature of the agreement, The Indian Contract Act of 1872, The Indian Partnership Act of 1932, The Sale of Goods Act of 1930.
• General Economics includes Introduction to Micro Economics,, Micro Economics, Indian Economy, Theory of Demand and Supply, Theory of Production and Cost, Price determination in different markets, Money & Banking, Selected aspects of Indian Economy.
• Quantitative Aptitude includes Simple and Compound Interest including annuity (Applications, Correlation, Regression), Theoretical Distributions( Sets, Relations & Functions), Ratio and Proportions, Indices, Inequalities, Sequence and Series(Arithmetic and Geometric Progressions).

Admit Card:

The Admit Card for CA CPT 2022 will be released within 14 days before the examination commences. Only the registered candidates will receive the admit cards via online mode. In order to download the admit card candidates need to provide their Login ID and password on the official website. Admit card is the most essential document which the candidate has to carry in the examination hall along with them. It includes different details like candidates’ names, examination time & venue, date of birth, name of the examination and so on.

Answer Key:

Candidates need to check the answer key provided by ICAI on their official website. Various other coaching centers will also release the answer key. The answer key will have all the answers to the questions asked in the CA CPT Exam. The candidates will thus get a chance to cross-examine their answers and can also estimate their score in the exam. Before the results are announced the candidates need to pay an amount in order to verify the answer script.

Result:

The results for CA CPT will be announced via online mode. Candidates can acquire their results in the month of July from the official website of ICAI. For checking the result aspirants need to go to their account registered earlier and can get their scorecard too from there. Candidates can access their results via e-mail from ICAI provided they have to mention it while filling up the application form.

The aspirant can also get their CA CPT 2020 Result through SMS. For that candidates need to follow a proper procedure as mentioned below. Candidates have to type CPT space roll number to avail this facility. They need to send this message to 58888. In order to check the result through the official website, an applicant needs to type their CPT 2022 with their roll number and can check the total as well as segment-wise segregation of marks.

Cut-Off

Candidates need to get 50% marks in the Exam to qualify for the Chartered Accountancy Programme of ICAI. For Fundamentals of Accounting, the qualifying mark is 30% out of 60 and for Mercantile Laws candidates have to score 30% out of 40. For General Economics and Quantitative Aptitude, a score of 30% out of 50from each is desirable.