SEBI Grade A 2022 Exam: Check complete syllabus

SEBI Grade A Exam Pattern 2022

Before you read the syllabus you first take a look at SEBI Grade A Exam pattern to know how the various topics under the syllabus are divided and how the questions are asked in the examination. Also with the help of exam pattern and SEBI Previous year's Question Paper, candidates will get to know the weightage of each topic under the SEBI syllabus. The SEBI Grade A Exam Pattern 2022 is a systematic representation of online exams. This countrywide competitive exam is divided into three phases wherein phase 1 there is an online screening exam comprising 2 papers each carrying 100 marks followed by phase 2 exam, which is also an online exam having two question papers of 200 total marks, and finally the interview phase.

SEBI Grade A Exam Pattern - Phase 1

In phase 1, all the candidates will have a common paper I and paper II from the general stream. All the questions asked in both the phases will be of MCQ type except the language subject. All question papers of both the phases are set in a bilingual manner (Hindi and English), except the English test.

To compete well, you must be well aware of all the details of the exam, including the unique syllabus and exam pattern. The following table will help you understand the latest SEBI Grade A Phase 1 Exam Pattern well as released under the latest handout.

Paper	Stream/Subjects	No. of Ques.	Maximum Marks	Duration in minutes	Cut-Off (%)
Paper 1	English Language	20	25	60	30
	General Awareness	20	25
	Quantitative Aptitude	20	25
	Test of Reasoning	20	25
	Total	80	100
Paper 2	General Stream: Accountancy, Commerce, Costing, Management, Finance, Companies Act and Economics	50	100	40	40
	Legal, Information Technology, Engineering Stream (Civil & Electrical), Official Language Stream	50	100	40	40
	Research Stream: Economics, Econometrics, Statistics, Finance and Commerce.	50	100	40	40
Aggregate Cut off					40

SEBI Grade A Exam Pattern - Phase 2

Candidates securing the cut-off marks in Phase 1 will be allowed to take the SEBI Grade A Phase 2 Exam. In Phase 2 exams there will be two papers: Paper I and Paper II of 100 marks each. In phase 2, all the candidates will have a common paper I (1/3 weightage) and paper II (2/3 weightage) from the general stream. It is suggested to secure more marks in this phase as this is considered for the final selection.

All the information regarding Phase SEBI Grade A Exam Pattern is given below in the tabular form:

Paper	Stream/Subjects	Maximum Marks	Duration in minutes	Cut-Off (%)
Paper 1	All Streams: English (Descriptive Test) to test the drafting skills	100	60	30
Paper 2	General Stream: MCQ’s on Commerce, Accountancy, Management, Finance, Costing, Companies Act & Economics	100	40	40
	Legal, Engineering Stream (Civil & Electrical) and Official Language stream: MCQs on Specialized subject related to the stream.	100	40	40
	Research Stream: MCQs on Economics, Econometrics, Statistics, Finance and Commerce.	100	40	40
Aggregate Cut off				40

SEBI Grade A Syllabus 2022 Section Wise

SEBI Grade A Syllabus for Paper 2 of Phase I & Phase II in General Stream (Common Syllabus for both Phases)

A. Commerce & Accountancy

Accounting as a financial information system;
Accounting Standards with specific reference to Accounting for Depreciation, Inventories, Revenue Recognition, Fixed Assets, Foreign Exchange Transactions, Investments.
Cash Flow Statement, Fund flow statement, Financial statement analysis; Ratio analysis;
Accounting for Share Capital Transactions including Bonus Shares, Right
Employees Stock Option and Buy-Back of
Preparation and Presentation of Company Final

B. Management

Management: its nature and scope; The Management Processes; Planning, Organization, Staffing, Directing and Controlling;
The Role of a Manager in an Organization. Leadership: The Tasks of a Leader;
Leadership Styles; Leadership Theories; A successful Leader versus an effective
Human Resource Development: Concept of HRD; Goals of HRD;
Motivation, Morale, and Incentives: Theories of Motivation; How Managers Motivate; Concept of Morale; Factors determining morale; Role of Incentives in Building up Morale.
Communication: Steps in the Communication Process; Communication Channels; Oral versus Written Communication; Verbal versus non-verbal Communication; upward, downward and lateral communication; Barriers to Communication, Role of Information Technology.

C. Finance

1) Financial System

Role and Functions of Regulatory bodies in Financial

2) Financial Markets

Primary and Secondary Markets (Forex, Money, Bond, Equity, etc.), functions, instruments, recent developments.

3) General Topics

Basics of Derivatives: Forward, Futures and Swap
Recent Developments in the Financial Sector
Financial Inclusion- use of technology
Alternate source of finance, private and social cost-benefit, Public-Private Partnership
Direct and Indirect taxes; Non-tax sources of Revenue, GST, Finance Commission, Fiscal Policy, Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act (FRBM),
Inflation: Definition, trends, estimates, consequences, and remedies (control): WPI, CPI - components and trends.

D. Costing

Overview of Cost and Management Accounting - Introduction to Cost and Management Accounting, Objectives and Scope of Cost and Management Accounting.
Methods of Costing - Single Output/ Unit Costing, Job Costing, Batch Costing, Contract Costing, Process/ Operation Costing, Costing of Service
Basics of Cost Control and Analysis - (i) Standard Costing, (ii) Marginal Costing, (iii) Budget and Budgetary Control.
Lean System and Innovation:-
- Introduction to Lean System
- Just-in-Time (JIT)
- Kaizen Costing
- 5 Ss
- Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
- Cellular Manufacturing/ One-Piece Flow Production Systems
- Six Sigma (SS)
- Introduction to Process Innovation and Business Process Re-engineering (BPR).

E. Companies Act

The Companies Act, 2013 – Specific reference to Chapter III, Chapter IV, Chapter VIII, Chapter X, Chapter XI, Chapter XII and Chapter XXVII.

F. Economics

Demand and Supply, Market Structures, National Income: Concepts and Measurement, Classical & Keynesian Approach Determination of output and employment, Consumption Function, Investment Function, Multiplier and Accelerator, Demand and Supply for Money, IS – LM, Inflation and Phillips Curve, Business Cycles
Balance of Payments, Foreign Exchange Markets, Inflation, Monetary and Fiscal Policy, Non-banking Financial

Specialized Subject (Legal/Information Technology / Engineering/ Research Streams/Official Language Stream):

SEBI Grade A Syllabus for Paper 2 of Phase I & Phase II in Legal Stream

Phase I
Sr. No.	Subject	Weightage*
1.	Constitution of India – Preamble, Part I, Part III, Part IV, Part IVA, Part V, Part VI, Part VIII, Part IXA, Part IXB, Part XI.	10%
2.	Law of Contracts – Indian Contract Act, 1872 (Chapters I to VI), Specific Relief Act, 1963.	10%
3.	Criminal Law – Indian Penal Code, 1860 (Chapters I, II, III, IV, V, VA, VI, IX, XVII); Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.	15%
4.	Law of Evidence – Indian Evidence Act, 1872.
5.	Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 – Part I, Part II.
6.	Administrative Law and Principles of Natural Justice	10%
7.	Jurisprudence and Interpretation of Statutes	10%
8.	Important Latin terms and maxims	10%
9.	Law of Torts and Consumer Protection Act, 2019	5%
10.	Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 – Part I	5%
11.	Transfer of Property Act, 1882 – Chapter III, Chapter IV, Chapter V.	5%
12.	Companies Act, 2013 – Chapter I, Chapter II, Chapter III, Chapter IV, Chapter V, Chapter VII, Chapter VIII, Chapter IX, Chapter X, Chapter XI, Chapter XII, Chapter XIII, Chapter XV, Chapter XVI.	15%
13.	Securities Laws – SEBI Act, 1992, SC(R) Act, 1956, Depositories Act, 1996	15%

* Weightages are indicative only

Phase II
Sr. No.	Subject	Weightage*
1.	Constitution of India – Preamble, Part I, Part III, Part IV, Part IVA, Part V, Part VI, Part VIII, Part IXA, Part IXB, Part XI, Part XII, Part XIII, Part XIV, Part XIVA, Part XX.	10%
2.	Law of Contracts – Indian Contract Act, 1872 (Chapters VIII to X), Indian Partnership Act, 1932, Specific Relief Act, 1963	10%
3.	Criminal Law – Indian Penal Code, 1860 (Chapters I, II, III, IV, V, VA, VI, IX, XVII, XXI, XXII, XXIII); Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.	10%
4.	Law of Evidence – Indian Evidence Act, 1872.
5.	Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 – Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part VII, Schedule I.
6.	Administrative Law and Principles of Natural Justice	10%
7.	Jurisprudence and Interpretation of Statutes
8.	Important Latin terms and maxims
9.	Law of Torts and Consumer Protection Act, 2019	15%
10.	Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 – Part I, Part III, Part IV.
11.	Transfer of Property Act, 1882 – Chapter III, Chapter IV, Chapter V.
11.	Law of Trusts – Parties to a Trust Deed and Duties of Trustees.
12.	Corporate Law – Companies Act, 2013 (Chapter I, Chapter II, Chapter III, Chapter IV, Chapter V, Chapter VII, Chapter VIII, Chapter IX, Chapter X, Chapter XI, Chapter XII, Chapter XIII, Chapter XV, Chapter XVI, Chapter XXVII, Chapter XXVIII, Chapter XXIX); Limited Liability Partnership Act, 2008; Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (Part I, Part II)	20%
13.	Taxation – General principles, Capital Gains Tax, Securities Transaction Tax	5%
14.	Securities Laws – SEBI Act, 1992, SC(R) Act, 1956, Depositories Act, 1996	20%

* Weightage of each topic are indicative only

SEBI Grade A Syllabus for Paper 2 of Phase I in Information Technology Stream

Phase I
Sr. No.	Topic	Details	Weightage*
1.	Database Concepts	ER‐model. Relational model: relational algebra, tuple calculus, Integrity constraints, normal forms. File organization, indexing (e.g., B and B+ trees), Transactions and concurrency control.	10
2.	SQL Queries	Select, view, truncate, delete, update, alter, Inner join, different types of outer joins,, use of aggregate functions, Union, intersection, except, in and exist clauses, nested queries	10
3.	Programming Concepts (Java /C C++ )	Program control (iteration, recursion, Functions), Scope of variables, Binding of variables & functions, Parameter passing, Functional and Logic Programming, OOPS Concepts, Inheritance, Class and object, Constructors, Functions, Exception Handling	30
4.	Data Analytics Languages (Python / R)	Regex, Slicing, Data reshaping, Dataframes, Dictionaries and Sets, File Management, Classes and Functions, Data Mining, Lists, Importing and exporting data, charts and graphs	10
5.	Algorithms for problem-solving	Tree and graph traversals, Connected components, Spanning trees, Shortest paths; hashing, Sorting, Searching; Design techniques (Greedy, Dynamic Programming, Divide-and-conquer)	10
6.	Networking Concepts	ISO/OSI stack, LAN Technologies (Ethernet, Token ring), TCP/UDP, IP, Basic concepts of switches, gateways, and routers, Application layer protocols (DNS, SMTP, POP, FTP, HTTP), Firewalls	10
7.	Information & Cyber Security Concepts	Cyber Attacks, Software Development Security, Network security, Authentication, CIA - Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability, Network Audit, Systems Audit	10
8.	Data warehousing	Data Extraction, Data Cleaning, Data Transformation, Data Loading, Metadata, Data Cube, Data Mart, Data Models,	5
9.	Shell Programming	Shell Scripting Basics, Shell Variables, Shell Script Arguments, If Statement, Loop, Return, Basic UNIX commands	5
Total			100

* Weightages are indicative only

Please note that Syllabus for Paper 2 of Phase II of Information Technology Stream shall be made available on SEBI website (www.sebi.gov.in ) in due course.

SEBI Grade A Syllabus for Paper 2 of Phase I & Phase II in Research Stream (Common Syllabus for both phases)

Economics: Demand and Supply, Market Structures, National Income, Determination of output and employment, Investment Function, Multiplier and Accelerator, Demand and Supply for Money , IS – LM, Inflation and Phillips Curve, Business Cycles, Inflation, Monetary and Fiscal Policy, Non-banking Financial Institutions.
Public Economics: Public Goods, Tax & Non-Tax Revenue, Direct & Indirect Taxes, Progressive and non- Progressive Taxation, Incidence and Effects of Taxation, Public expenditure , Public Debt, Public Budget and Budget Multiplier.
Statistics and Econometrics: Measures of Central tendency & dispersions, Correlation, Sampling methods, Sampling Distribution, Statistical Inferences, Hypothesis testing, Regression
International Economics: Balance of Payments, Foreign Exchange Markets, Role of International Financial Institutions: BIS, IOSCO, IMF & World
Financial Markets: Asymmetric Information, Market Model, Market Efficiency, Primary Market, Secondary Market, Commodity Markets, Mutual Funds, Stock Exchanges, Depositories, Clearing Corporations, Credit Rating Agencies, Corporate Debt Market. Forwards, Futures, Options, Hedging, Speculation.

SEBI Grade A Syllabus for Paper 2 of Phase I & Phase II in Official Language Stream (Common Syllabus for both phases)

1. भारत सरकार की राजभाषा नीतत (Official Language Policy of the Gov of India) से संबंतित प्रश्न

2. तिन्दी से अंग्रेजी अनुवाद [शब्द / वाक्ांश / वाक् / Terms / Phrases / Sentences]

3. अंग्रेजी से तिन्दी अनुवाद [शब्द / वाक्ांश / वाक् / Terms / Phrases / Sentences]

4. तिन्दी से अंग्रेजी - तवतिक शब्दावली (Legal Terminology)

5. अंग्रेजी से तिन्दी - तवतिक शब्दावली (Legal Terminology)

6. तिन्दी से अंग्रेजी – प्रशासतनक / बैंतकं ग / प ंजी बाजार संबंिी शब्दावली (Administrative / Banking / Capital Market Terminology)

7. अंग्रेजी से तिन्दी - प्रशासतनक / बैंतकं ग / प ंजी बाजार संबंिी शब्दावली (Administrative / Banking / Capital Market Terminology)

Paper 1 of Phase- II :- English Writing Skills

The paper on English shall be framed in a manner to assess the writing skills including expression and understanding of the topic including precis writing/ essay writing/ comprehension.

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