ICAI CA July 2020 exams cancelled, next session in November

NEW DELHI: The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India has decided to cancel the CA July 2020 session due to the coronavirus pandemic. ICAI has also issued an official notification regarding the cancellation of the exams on its official website. The CA July 2020 exams have now been merged with the November session.

The official notification regarding the cancellation of July exam says “ On a review of above developments and in order to ensure the interest of its students and their well-being, the Institute has decided to cancel May 2020 Examinations and merge the May 2020 attempt with November 2020 Examinations, with due carryover of all benefits already available to students including fee paid and exemptions. The students who have made application for May 2020 Examinations will have an option to change the group(s) of their appearance and centre of Examinations at the time of making a fresh application for November 2020 Examinations, which, subject to conditions prevailing at relevant time, will start from 1st November 2020. It is again clarified that in this schema, the students will be free to exercise the options afresh for the groups that they intend to appear in the November 2020 examinations.”

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT FOR MAY 2020 EXAMINATIONS
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— Institute of Chartered Accountants of India - ICAI (@theicai) July 3, 2020

As per ICAI With Unlock1, the severity of COVID 19 Pandemic was expected to subside from the later part of June 2020, but has rather become more severe and, therefore a Review as per announcement dated 15 June 2020 has become necessary.

Earlier on June 15, ICAI had clarified that it will review the exam decision in the first week of July. The institute had already cancelled the exam twice before due to the pandemic. ICAI has also extended the last date for registration for CA Foundation from June 30 to August 31, 2020. A PIL has also been filed in the Supreme Court regarding the opt-out facility hearing of which was listed for next week.

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