COVID19: ICAI Allows Provisional Registration for Class 12 Students

NEW DELHI: Institute of Chartered Accountancy in India, ICAI has announced through an official notification that candidates who have been allotted their class 12 admit card or have appeared in one or more papers of class 12 will be allowed to provisionally register for CA Foundation till June 30. The decision has been made after CBSE announced the postponement of the class 12 examinations that were supposed to be conducted from March 19, 2020.

What does the announcement mean?

The official announcement given on the ICAI website states that due to the non-appearance in all papers of class 12th Examination, the Competent Authority has decided to relax the eligibility criteria for registering in Foundation Course, as a one-time measure. The revised eligibility criteria has been given below:

• Candidates can provisionally register for the CA Foundation Course on or before 30th June 2020 if the candidates

  • have been allotted the admit card and/or

  • appeared in one or more papers in the months of February/March 2020 in the Senior Secondary (10+2) Examination conducted by an examining body constituted by law in India or an examination recognised by the Central Government or the State Government as equivalent thereto for the purpose of admission to graduation course.

• Such candidates can appear for CA Foundation November 2020 examination after passing their Senior Secondary (10+2) examination conducted by an examining body as mentioned above.

Allowing provisional registration in Foundation Course of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) for students who have been allotted either admit card and/or appeared in one or more papers of Class XII Exams.
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Interested candidates can register for CA Foundation at ICAI website i.e. https://www.icai.org and register online https://eservices.icai.org/