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Announcement 20 February, 2013
Revised passing requirements for Common Proficiency Test (CPT) effective from June, 2013
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In terms of the decision of the Council taken at its 317 meeting in pursuance of
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Notification No. 1-CA(7)/145/2012 dated 1 August, 2012, it is notified for general information that
the passing requirements of CPT effective from June, 2013 shall be as under:-
"A candidate for the Common Proficiency Test shall ordinarily be declared to have passed the test if he
obtains at one sitting a minimum of thirty per cent marks in each section and a minimum of fifty per cent
marks in the aggregate of all the sections, subject to the principle of negative marking, in such manner
as may be determined by the Council, from time to time."
¼ (one fourth) mark shall continue to be deducted for each wrong answer and multiple darkened circles
for a question will also be treated as wrong answer.
Accordingly, the minimum marks required in each section and in the aggregate in all sections of CPT as
per the revised passing requirements will be as under:-
Section Subject Maximum Marks Minimum Marks
(Mandatorily to be secured after negative marking)
A Fundamentals of 60 18
Accounting
B Mercantile Laws 40 12
C General 50 15
Economics
D Quantitative 50 15
Aptitude
Total 200 100*
*A candidate is required to secure a minimum of 30 per cent marks in each Section and a minimum of
50 per cent marks in aggregate in all the four Sections to pass the Common Proficiency Test.
In other words, it is clarified that if a candidate secures a minimum of 50 per cent marks in the
aggregate but fails to secure the minimum marks required in any one or more of the sections A, B, C
or D (as mentioned above), his result will be FAIL. Similarly, if a candidate secures a minimum of 30
per cent marks in each section but fails to secure 50 per cent marks in the aggregate of all sections,
his result will be FAIL. The following table will further illustrate the revised passing requirements :-
MARKS SECURED #
Section A Section B Section C Section D
Illustration
Fundamentals Mercantile General Quantitative
Cand-
of Accounting Laws Economics Aptitude Total Result
idate
Marks Maximum Marks Maximum Marks Maximum Marks Maximum Marks Maximum
obtained Marks obtained Marks obtained Marks obtained Marks obtained Marks
1. A 55 60 25 40 28 50 17 50 125 200 PASS
2. B 36 60 20 40 15 50 29 50 100 200 PASS
3. C 47 60 25 40 23 50 10 50 105 200 FAIL
4. D 30 60 22 40 25 50 15 50 92 200 FAIL
5. E 17 60 20 40 15 50 10 50 62 200 FAIL
# Marks secured are after negative marking, if any, for wrong answers/multiple darkened answers for
a question/s.
Complete text of the said Notification is hosted on www.icai.org under the link "Notifications" on home
page.
EXAMINATION DEPARTMENT
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