CA Foundation — last-minute checklist
Built from the CA Foundation (ICAI) records on our exam tracker. Every date carries its source tier: official (the conducting body's own site), reported (a secondary source — verify it) or expected (a typical-cycle estimate, not an announcement). Your admit card and the official notice always win.
🎯 Exam day
The paper was held on 9 Sept (reported). Source ↗
Tracker row: September 2026 exam – Paper 4 (Business Economics)
- 🕘 Timings / reporting, tracker row for 9 Sept (reported): 2 PM - 4 PM (2 hours)
- 🕘 Timings / reporting, tracker row for 2 Sept (reported): 2 PM - 5 PM (3 hours)
🎒 What to carry
- Admit card (hall ticket / call letter), printed — the instructions printed on it override anything on this page
- Original photo ID with the same name as your admit card (Aadhaar, PAN, voter ID, passport or driving licence — your admit card lists which it accepts); a photocopy alone is not enough
- Leave your phone, smartwatch, earphones and other electronic gadgets at home or outside — they are not allowed in the exam hall, and do not count on a cloakroom at the centre
- Reporting time and gate-closing time are printed on your admit card — late entry is refused, so plan to reach well before
- Passport-size photographs, if your admit card asks for them — use the same photo you uploaded in the application
- Pen: an offline OMR sheet needs a ballpoint pen of the colour your admit card names (usually black); computer-based tests generally give you a pen and rough sheet at the centre — check your admit card
- Transparent water bottle, sanitiser or a simple wrist watch: allowed at some exams and banned at others — check your admit card before you pack
- Using a scribe or compensatory time? Carry the certificate and the scribe's own photo ID in the format your admit card or notice asks for
✅ true of every exam hall · 🔎 varies by exam — check your admit card or notice. The night before: no new topics, and sleep.
🎫 Admit card
September 2026 admit card released: 14 Aug (reported) Source ↗
From the tracker row: Download from eservices.icai.org using SSP credentials
📝 Exam pattern on our records
CA Foundation (ICAI)
100 questions, 100 marks, 180 minutes
Marking: +1 per correct answer, −0.25 per wrong answer
Languages: English, Hindi
Institute of Chartered Accountants of India entry-level examination for the CA course. 4 papers: Principles & Practice of Accounting, Business Laws + BCR, Business Mathematics + Logical Reasoning + Statistics, Business Economics + BCK. Held twice yearly (May/June + November/December).
Patterns can change between cycles — this cycle's official notice is final.
🔑 After the paper
- Answer key: not announced yet
- Result: 31 Oct (expected)
- Next stage — January 2027 exam (expected): 18 Jan 2027 (expected)
🔗 Official portal and useful links
Official portal: Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) ↗
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