CS Foundation (CSEET) — last-minute checklist

🎒 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

Admit card: not announced yet on our tracker. It is published on Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) ↗.

📝 Exam pattern on our records

CS Foundation (ICSI / CSEET)

140 questions, 200 marks, 120 minutes

Marking: On our records CS Foundation (CSEET) carries 1.4 marks per question, which is an average across papers that score differently — one per-question mark cannot be stated.

Languages: English, Hindi

Institute of Company Secretaries of India's Company Secretary Executive Entrance Test (CSEET, replaced earlier CS Foundation). 4 papers: Business Communication, Legal Aptitude + Logical Reasoning, Economics + Business Environment, Current Affairs + Psychometric. Held 4 times yearly.

Patterns can change between cycles — this cycle's official notice is final.

🔑 After the paper

• Answer key: not announced yet
• Result: 20 Dec (expected)
• Next stage — CSEET February 2027 exam (expected): 6 Feb 2027 (expected)

🔗 Official portal and useful links

Official portal: Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) ↗