Registration for CSEET May 2023 will end on April 15, 2023. Candidates can only sign up for CSEET 2023 online. On May 6, 2023, the exam will be proctored from a distance. ICSI has announced the new CSEET 2023 course plan. From June 16, 2023, candidates who want to take the CSEET exam must study according to the new CSEET exam syllabus.
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CS Executive Entrance Test (CSEET)
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| Conducting Body |
Institute of Company Secretaries of India
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| Exam Level | National |
| Mode of examination | Remote Proctored Mode |
| Exam duration |
120 minutes/ 2 hours for all four parts
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| Medium | English |
| Number of exam cities | N/A |
| Exam website | https://www.icsi.edu/home/ |
CSEET Syllabus 2023: Paper 1- Business Communication
| Essentials of Good English | Communication | Business Correspondence |
Common Business Terminologies
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• English Grammar and its usage-Noun, Pronouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs, Prepositions, Conjunctions, Interjection, Voice, Articles, Tenses, prefixes and suffixes, Punctuations etc.
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• Business Letters – Its Essentials, Parts, Types, Salutations |
Terms defined under various Laws, Rules and Regulations including Financial and Non-Financial terms and expressions.
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| • Enriching Vocabulary-Choice of words, Synonyms and Antonyms | Meaning and Significance of Good Communication |
• Positive Messages, Negative Messages and Persuasive Messages
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| • Common errors in English | Business Communication- Principles and Process |
• Business Reports, Inter and Intra-departmental Communication- Office Orders, Office Circulars, Memorandum, Office Notes, Management Information System (MIS)
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| • Words with multiple meanings | •Means of Communication- Written, Oral, Visual, Audiovisual |
• Concept of Web, Internet and E-correspondence
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| • One-word substitution | • Choice of Modes of Communication |
• Intranet- Benefit and Purpose
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| • Words frequently misspelt | • Communication Networks- Vertical, Circuit, Chain, Wheel, Star |
• Email – Features, Procedure to Write a Formal Email, Email Etiquette
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| • Homophones | • Commonly used Mediums of Digital CommunicationEmail, SMS, Voice mail, Multimedia, Teleconferencing, Mobile Phone Conversation, Video Conferencing etc. |
• Essential Elements of Email- Subject line, Formal Greeting, Target Audience (Reader), Clarity and Conciseness, Formal Closing, Proofreading, Feedback
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| • Idioms and phrases | • Listening Skills-Types, Purpose, Steps to Effective Listening, Barriers to Effective Listening and Ways to overcome the Barriers |
• Advantages and Disadvantages of Email
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| • Proverbs |
• Barriers to Effective Communication and Ways to overcome the Barriers
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| • Abbreviations | |||
| • Para jumbles | |||
| • Sentence completion | |||
| • Sentence arrangement | |||
| • Sentence correction | |||
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• Foreign words and phrases commonly used
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• Comprehension of passage and art of Summarizing
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CSEET Syllabus 2023: Paper 2: Legal Aptitude and Logical Reasoning
Part A: Legal Aptitude
| Indian Constitution | Elements of General Laws (Indian Contract Act and Law of Torts) | Elements of Company Secretaries Legislation | Elements of Company Law | Legal Reasoning |
| • Preamble | Part A: Law of Contract | The Institute of Company Secretaries of India | Meaning and Nature of Company |
Legal Fundamentals and Terms
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| • Citizenship | • Offer, Acceptance, Consideration and Competency to Contract. | • Vision, Mission, Motto and Core Values of the Institute | • Types of Companies |
• Legal Problems – Reading and understanding a case
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| • Fundamental Rights and Fundamental Duties | • Agreement | • Company Secretary under Company Secretaries Act, 1980. | • Incorporation of a Company |
• Legal Terminology and Maxims
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| • Directive Principles of State Policy | • Types of Contract: Void, Voidable, Unenforceable | • Functions of Company Secretary under the Companies Act, 2013 | • Types of capital | • Legal Reasoning- |
| •State under Constitution | • Performance of Contract | • Role of Company Secretary in Employment | • Board of Directors -(Concept, Appointment and Removal of Directors) | (a) Reasoning by Analogy |
| • President and Governors | • Frustration with the Contract | • Role of Company Secretary in Practice | • Board Meetings & Shareholders Meetings |
(b) Inductive and Deductive Reasoning
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| • Council of Ministers and Prime Minister | • Quasi Contract | • Corporate Social Responsibility |
• Questions of Fact (or factual issues)
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| • Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha and Legislative Assembly, Legislative Council |
• Breach of Contract and Remedies
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• Business Ethics |
• Questions of Law (or legal issues)
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| • Supreme Court and High Courts | Part B: Law of Torts | • Ethical Dilemma |
• Landmark Judgments of the Supreme Court and High Court
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| • Landmark Amendment in Constitution | • Basics of Torts | • Reading Comprehension | ||
| • List of subjects-Centre, State and Concurrent | • Specific Defenses | |||
| • Nuisance and Negligence | ||||
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• Strict, Absolute and Vicarious Liability
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| • Trespass | ||||
| • Malicious Prosecution |
Part B: Logical Reasoning
| Logical Reasoning | Verbal Reasoning | Non Verbal Reasoning |
| • Calendars | Alphabet Test | Analytical Reasoning |
| • Cause and Effect Reasoning | • Alpha Numeric Sequence Puzzle | • Classification |
| • Clocks | • Analogy |
• Completion of Incomplete Pattern
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| • Coding and Decoding | • Assertion and Reason | • Figure Matrix |
| • Deriving Conclusion from Passages | • Blood Relations |
• Grouping of Identical Figures
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| • Drawing Inference | • Decision Making | • Mirror Image |
| • Number Test | • Inserting Missing Characters | • Rule Detection |
| • Sequence and Series | • Logical Sequence Test |
• Numeric and Alphabet Series
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| • Statement and Assumptions | • Logical Venn Diagram | |
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• Number, Ranking and Time Sequence Test
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| • Syllogism | ||
| • Truth Tellers and Liars |
Part C: Quantitative Aptitude
| Number System |
Fundamental arithmetical operations
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| Computation of Whole Number | Percentages |
| Decimal and Fractions | Ratio and Proportion |
| Relationship between numbers | Square roots |
| Averages | |
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Interest (Simple and Compound)
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| Profit and Loss |
CSEET Syllabus 2023: Paper 3: Economic & Business Environment
Part A- Economics
| Basics of Demand and Supply and Forms of Market Competition | National Income Accounting and Related Concepts | Indian Union Budget | Indian Financial Markets | Indian Economy |
| Theory of Demand and Supply | • Meaning and methods to compute National Income | • Key terminologies/heads covered under the budget | • Overview of the Indian Financial Ecosystem |
• Primary (Agriculture and allied activities)
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| • Equilibrium Price | • Key variables of National Income (GNP, GDP, NNP, NDP etc.) | • Revenue and Capital Budget | • Key facets of the Indian financial system | • Secondary (Manufacturing) |
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• Elasticity of Demand and Supply and other related concepts
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• Major components of Revenue and Capital Budget | • Growth of Financial Institutions | • Tertiary (Services): | |
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• Increase and Decrease in Demand and Expansion and Contraction of Demand
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• Meaning of Fiscal Deficit | • Public and private sector banks |
• Current scenario of agriculture and allied activities in India
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• Forms of Market Competition- Monopoly, Duopoly, Oligopoly, Perfect Competition and Monopolistic Competition
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• Components/ Variables covered under Fiscal Deficit | • Industrial Finance Corporation of India, Small Industries Development Bank of India |
• Agricultural and Industrial Policies of India
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| Regional Rural Banks |
• Current scenario of services sector in India
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| • Cooperative Banks | • Balance of Payments | |||
| • Non-Banking Finance Companies |
• Components of Balance of Payments
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| • Basics of Capital Market: Types of Shares and Debentures Financial assistance scenario for Small and Medium Enterprises and Start-Ups. |
• Favorable and Unfavorable Balance of Trade
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• Foreign Investments in India- Types and Flows
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Part B: – Business Environment
| Entrepreneurship Scenario | Business Environment | Key Government Institutions |
| • Government initiatives to foster entrepreneurship | • Overview of the Business Environment |
Basic awareness about various institutions and regulatory bodies in India such as NITI Aayog, MCA, SEBI, RBI, IBBI, CCI, NCLT/NCLAT etc.
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| • Need for entrepreneurship in India |
• Features and factors influencing the business environment
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| • Bottlenecks in entrepreneurial growth |
• Types of the environment: Economic environment, Socio-cultural environment, Political environment, Legal and Technological environment
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• Ease of Doing Business Index by World Bank for India and Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) for States
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CSEET Syllabus: Paper 4: Current Affairs, Presentation and Communication Skills
Part A: Current Affairs
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Current affairs of national and international importance relating to:
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• International bodies (ASEAN, BRICS, SAARC, G-20, BIMSTEC, etc.)
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• Organizations like, RBI, NABARD, CCI, IBBI, IMF, OECD, ADB, World Bank, etc.
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| 4 | • Summits and conferences |
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• Current development in Banking and Finance (digital banking, govt. initiatives, financial inclusion, etc.)
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• Current development in stock markets
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• Recent important judgments passed by the Supreme Court and High Courts of India, Tribunals
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• Current affairs related to CS Institute/Profession and regulatory bodies
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• Current updates on the environment, biodiversity, climate change and sustainable development
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• Latest developments in science and technology, IT, Computers and Space science
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• Business personalities and leaders
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• Committees and appointments
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| 13 | • Art and culture |
| 14 | • Books and their authors |
| 15 | • Awards and honours |
| 16 | Sports |
| 17 | • Current political scenario |
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• Initiatives/ schemes of the government
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• Language and national symbols
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| 20 | • Governance and ethics |
| 21 | • International diplomacy |
Part B: Presentation & Communication Skills
| Listening Skills | Written Communication Skills | Oral Communication Skills |
| Questions based on audio clips | Writing on a given topic | Candidates are expected to: |
| Monologue | • Correcting a given paragraph | – Answer a question |
| Dialogue | • Short Note writing | – Speak on a given topic |
| Grammar Test | • Essay writing | – Explain the given term |
| Vocabulary Test | • Precis writing |