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Securities and Exchange Board of India ( SEBI ) has released the notification for Grade A Officer 2024. Those candidates who are interested in being a part of this prestigious institute are advised to kick-start their preparation as soon as possible. Team Entri provides you with a complete preparation package for the preparation of this premier examination.
Now comes the part where you decide to take up the exam and start with your preparation right? The most important thing to do first is to get to know the complete syllabus for SEBI Grade A Officer Exam 2024.
The paper pattern of SEBI is quite different from other exams. Hence, it becomes all the more important to understand it first.
Here in this article, I will be sharing with you the following information:
- Detailed Exam Pattern for Prelims & Mains.
- Detailed Syllabus for SEBI Grade A Exam preparations.
- Section Wise Topic Distribution for Prelims & Mains Exam.
SEBI Grade A Eligibility 2024: Exam Pattern
Exams for the selection of SEBI Grade A consists of 3 phases:
- Phase 1 (Preliminary Examination)
- Phase 2 -(Main Examination)
- Phase 3 ( Interview)
Phase 1 Online Examination
| Paper | Stream/Subject | Maximum Marks | Duration | Cut Off | |
| Paper I | All Streams: MCQ on English Language, Quantitative Aptitude and Test of Reasoning and the various topics in General Awareness (including some questions related to Financial Sector of easy to moderate difficulty level), . | 100 | 60 minutes | 30% | |
| Paper II | General discipline: MCQ on subjects Finance, Costing, Commerce, Accountancy, Management, Companies Act and Economics | 100 | 40 minutes | 40% | |
| Legal, IT or Information Technology, Official Language: MCQ on Specialized subject related to stream | 100 | 40 minutes | 40% | ||
| Research:- MCQ on subjects like Finance and Commerce, Economics, Econometrics, Statistics. | |||||
| Aggregate Cut off | 40% | ||||
i. There shall be negative marking (1/4th of marks will be reduced from the marks assigned to the question) for the Paper 1 and Paper 2 in Phase 1.
ii. There shall be a cut-off of a minimum of 30% for the first paper(no sectional cut-off shall be there) and a cut-off of a minimum of 40% for the second paper.
iii. Candidates would need to secure independent cut-off in all the papers as mentioned in the second point above as well as aggregate cut-off marks of 40% in Phase I exam to be shortlisted for Phase II. Marks obtained in the initial phase shall be used only for filtering the candidates for the next examination process and will not be counted for the final selection of the candidates.
iv. Subject to the criteria mentioned as the third point above, all the candidates who clear Phase I will be shortlisted for Phase II. Shortlisted candidates for Phase II will be displayed on the SEBI website.
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SEBI Grade A Phase 2 Examination
| Paper | Stream/Subject | Maximum Marks | Duration | Cut Off | Weightage | |
| Paper I | All Streams: English (Descriptive Test) to test the drafting skills | 100 | 60 minutes | 30% | 1/3rd | |
| Paper II | General: Multiple choice questions on subjects Commerce, Accountancy, Management, Finance, Costing, Companies Act and Economics | 100 | 40 minutes | 40% | 2/3rd | |
| Official Language Information Technology, Legal: MCQ on Specialized subject related to stream |
100 |
40 minutes |
40%
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2/3rd |
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| Research:- MCQ or Multiple choice questions on subjects like Finance and Commerce, Economics, Econometrics, Statistics, | ||||||
| Aggregate Cut off | 40% | |||||
i. Candidates selected for Phase II will be issued new admit cards.
ii. Applicants who have applied in more than one stream, Second Phase will be conducted in several shifts, the timings of which will be mentioned in the admit card.
iii. There shall be negative marking assigned to the question for second paper in Phase II (except IT stream for which details shall be informed in due course).
iv. A cut-off of a minimum of 30% for Paper-1 in Phase I and a cut-off of a minimum 40% for Paper-2 in Phase II will be applied.
v. Candidates would need to secure independent cut-off in both the papers as mentioned at (iv) above as well as total cut-off marks of 40% in Phase II exam (weightage of 1/3rd for Paper 1 and 2/3rd for Paper 2) to be short-listed for Phase III.
vi. Dependent to the criteria mentioned at (v) above, candidates adding up to 3 times the number of vacancies shall be shortlisted, in order of merit, for Phase III or the Interview. A list of candidates shortlisted for the Interview will be made announced on the SEBI website.
Interview
Only the shortlisted candidates will get the interview call. The application fee shall not be refunded to the aspirants who did not pass the Phase II exam. Candidate may choose to give interviews either in Hindi or English. The second Phase’s weightage will be 85%, while the third Phase shall be given a weightage of 15%.
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SEBI GRADE A Syllabus 2024
1: What does the acronym "ATM" stand for in banking?
The paper 1 of Phase l will consists of the following subjects:
- English Language
- Reasoning Ability
- Quantitative Aptitude
- General Awareness (including Financial Awareness)
Here is the detailed syllabus of Reasoning Ability, English Language & Quantitative Aptitude sections of Phase l (Paper 1)
Complete SEBI GRADE A Syllabus 2024
| Reasoning Ability | Quantitative Ability | English Language |
| Puzzle | Simplification & Approximation | Reading Comprehension |
| Alphanumeric Series/Alphabets/Numeric Series | Number Series | Cloze Test |
| Direction sense | Inequality (Quadratic & Quality based) | Para jumbles |
| Data sufficiency | Ratio & Proportion, Partnership | Vocabulary |
| Inequalities | Percentage | Fill in the blanks |
| Seating Arrangement | Mixtures & Allegations | Multiple meaning/error spotting |
| Input-Output | Average & ages | Paragraph Completion |
| Syllogism | Profit & Loss | Spelling Errors |
| Blood relation | Time & work & pipe & cistern | Word Replacement |
| Order & Ranking | Simple interest & compound interest | Column based Fillers and Sentence Connectors |
| Coding-Decoding | Time Distance, Boat Stream | Word usage |
| Permutation, combination & probability | Idioms and Phrases | |
| Mensuration (2D & 3D) | Sentence Completion | |
| Data interpretation (Bar, line, pie, mixed, missing, arithmetic, caselet) | ||
| Data sufficiency |
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