CA Foundation Exam Jan 2025: Exam Form (Out), Exam Dates, Syllabus & Pattern, Preparation Tips

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) announced the schedule for CA Foundation January 2025 MTPs. ICAI will commence the CA Foundation January mock test paper for series 1 from December 20-24, 2024, and conduct the MTPs series 2 from December 31, 2024. Candidates planning to appear in the CA Foundation January 2025 exams are advised to check their status at the Self-Service Portal to ensure that they meet the eligibility criteria to fill out the exam forms. The ICAI released the exam forms for the CA Foundation January 2025 on November 10 on its official website. The CA Foundation exam will be conducted under the ICAI's new scheme of education and training that became effective on July 1 last year. The last date to out the CA Foundation January 2025 session exam forms is November 26, 2024 till 11:59 PM. The CA Foundation exam date 2025 for January is 12, 14, 16, and 18, 2025. 

CA Foundation New Scheme of Education

Institute of Chartered Accountants of India released the new scheme of education and training for the CA Foundation on June 23, 2023. The new scheme of education for the CA Foundation exam became applicable on July 1, 2023.  

Let us look at some of the changes in the syllabus and pattern under the new scheme:

What's new under CA Foundation New Scheme of Education?

• The number of subjects in CA Foundation have been reduced from 6 to 4.
• Business & Commercial Knowledge subject has been removed from Business Economics & Business & Commercial Knowledge Paper
• Business Correspondence Reporting subject has also been removed from Business Laws & Business Correspondence Reporting paper.
• ICAI is also planning to bring in a provision of negative marking under the new scheme.
• 0.25 mark will be deducted for each incorrect answer.
• The pass percentage under new scheme will be 50% in each paper.

What is CA Foundation Exam?

The entry level for Chartered Accountancy Course is the CA Foundation course. CA Foundation has 4 papers out of which two are objective and two subjective. The CA Foundation exam is held thrice a year - in January, May/June and September. Students who have registered for the Foundation course must also apply for the CA Foundation exam.

Exam Pattern of CA Foundation

There are four papers in the CA Foundation exam. Each paper has 100 questions.

• Paper 1 -  Accounting
• Paper 2 - Business Laws 
• Paper 3 - Quantitative Aptitude: Business Mathematics, Logical Reasoning and Statistics
• Paper 4 - Business Economics 

CA Foundation Qualifying Marks

To quality CA Foundation exam level, candidates need to secure a minimum of 40% marks in each paper and an aggregate of 50% in all papers.

CA Foundation Exam - Statistics