SEBI’s notification for Grade A Officer was revealed recently. There is no change in the exam pattern this year. While Phase I has MCQs on the subjects viz. General Awareness (including some questions related to Financial Sector of easy to moderate difficulty level), English Language, Quantitative Aptitude and Test of Reasoning, Paper 2 has different topics depending on the stream for which you have applied. The streams are General, Legal, Information Technology, Research & Official Language. To help you with your preparation, we have come up with this article where we will put light on the syllabus of the SEBI Grade A 2022 Phase I syllabus.
SEBI Grade A Phase I- 30 Days Study Plan
Phase I is scheduled to be on February 20, 2022, which is exactly 1 month away. If you are planning to start your preparation, there is no better time than now. Take a Free Mock Test of SEBI Grade A 2022 Phase I and see which areas are you able to score well and which areas still need improvement. Start working on your weak areas now to ensure that you score really well in the actual exam. Also, keep taking Mock Tests at different intervals to ensure that your preparation is going on the right track. Let’s now have a look at the SEBI Grade A Phase I Exam Pattern.
SEBI Grade A Phase I Exam Pattern
| Paper | Streams/ Subjects | Maximum Marks | Duration | Cut off |
| Paper 1 | All Streams: Multiple choice questions on the subjects viz. General Awareness (including some questions related to Financial Sector of easy to moderate difficulty level), English Language, Quantitative Aptitude and Test of Reasoning. | 100 | 60 minutes | 30% |
| Paper 2 | General Stream: Multiple choice questions on subjects Commerce, Accountancy, Management, Finance, Costing, Companies Act and Economics. | 100 | 40 minutes | 40% |
| Paper 2 | Legal, Information Technology & Official Language stream: Multiple choice questions on Specialized subject related to stream. | 100 | 40 minutes | 40% |
| Paper 2 | Research Stream:- Multiple choice questions on subjects Economics, Econometrics, Statistics, Finance and Commerce. | 100 | 40 minutes | 40% |
| Aggregate Cut off | 40% |
Note:
- There shall be negative marking (1/4th of marks assigned to the question) for the Paper 1 and Paper 2 in Phase I.
- There shall be a cut-off of minimum 30% for Paper 1 (no sectional cut-off shall be there) and a cut-off of minimum 40% for Paper 2 in Phase I.
- Candidates would need to secure separate cut-off in each paper as mentioned at (ii) above as well as aggregate cut-off marks of 40% in Phase I exam to be shortlisted for Phase II. Marks obtained in Phase I shall be used only for shortlisting the candidates for Phase II examination process and will not be counted for the final selection of the candidates.
- Subject to the criteria mentioned at (iii) above, all the candidates who clear Phase I shall be shortlisted for Phase II. List of candidates shortlisted for Phase II will be made available on SEBI website.
SEBI Grade A Notes for SEBI Exam Preparation- Download Free PDFs
Here is the syllabus of the SEBI Grade A Phase I exam. Have a look at it and see which topic you are not comfortable with. Start putting more time on those topics where your performance needs to improve.
SEBI Grade A Phase I Syllabus
SEBI Grade A Phase I Paper I Syllabus
| English Language | Test of Reasoning |
| Cloze Test | Alpha-numeric/ Alphabetical Series |
| Correct Usage | Analogy |
| Error Spotting | Analytical Reasoning |
| Fillers – Single, Double | Blood Relations |
| Idioms and Phrases | Coded Inequalities |
| Odd One Out | Coding and Decoding |
| One Word Substitution | Data Sufficiency |
| Para | Directions and Distances |
| Jumbles | |
| Paragraph Completion | Double Line-up |
| Reading Comprehension | Inequality |
| Sentence Improvement | Input Output |
| Synonyms/ Antonyms | Order and Ranking/Direction |
| Vocabulary based questions | Puzzles – Box based, Floor, Calendar, Day/Months based, etc. |
| Word/Phrase Replacement | Scheduling |
| Seating Arrangement– Linear, Circular, Facing Inside/Outside, Mixed | |
| Statement and Conclusion | |
| Statement-Course of Action | |
| Syllogism |
| Quantitative Aptitude | General/Financial Awareness |
| Age Problems | International Organisations’ HQ/ President/ Chairman/ Secretary General |
| Average | Country in news, with its capital, important rivers, President and PM. |
| Boats and Stream | National Parks |
| Clock and Calendar Problems | Wildlife Sanctuaries |
| Data Interpretation – Charts and Graphs: Line Graph, Bar Graph, Pie Chart; Tabular; Caselet; Mixed DI | Atomic, Nuclear, Thermal Plants |
| Data Sufficiency | Important Dams |
| Decimal and Fractions | Dance Forms |
| Indices and Surds | Ministers and their Constituencies |
| Ministers and their Portfolios | |
| LCM and H.C.F | Current Affairs (last 6 months) |
| Mensuration | Indian Financial System |
| Mixture and Allegations | History and Structure of Indian Banking |
| Number Series | Indian Economy |
| Number System | Regulatory bodies- RBI, SEBI, IRDA, PFRDA, FSDC, FMC |
| Partnership | History/Functions/Roles of RBI |
| Percentage | Budget Basics |
| Permutation and Combination | Current Union Budget |
| Pipes and Cisterns | International Organisations/ Financial Institutions |
| Probability | Indian Constitution |
| Profit, Loss and Discount | Government Schemes |
| Quadratic Equations | Monetary and Credit Policies |
| Simple and Compound Interest | Concepts like BASEL |
| Simplification & Approximation | Micro Finance |
| Base Rate | |
| Negotiable Instruments | |
| Credit Rating Agencies | |
| Financial Inclusions | |
| Teaser Rates | |
| GAAR | |
| Priority Sector Lending | |
| Abbreviations | |
| Important Dates | |
| Current Bank Rates | |
| UNO | |
| Marketing | |
| Awards & Honours Sports | |
| Sports personalities |
SEBI Grade A Paper II Syllabus (For General Stream)
| Commerce & Accountancy: | Management: |
| Accounting as a financial information system; | Management: its nature and scope; The Management Processes; Planning, Organization, Staffing, Directing and controlling; The Role of a Manager in an Organization. |
| Accounting Standards with specific reference to Accounting for Depreciation, Inventories, Revenue Recognition, Fixed Assets, Foreign Exchange Transactions, Investments. | Leadership: The Tasks of a Leader; Leadership Styles; Leadership Theories; A successful Leader versus an effective Leader. |
| Cash Flow Statement, Fund flow statement, Financial statement analysis; Ratio analysis; | Human Resource Development: Concept of HRD; Goals of HRD; Performance Appraisal – Potential appraisal and development – Feedback and Performance Counselling – Career Planning – Training and Development – Rewards – Employee Welfare. Motivation, Morale, and Incentives: Theories of Motivation; How Managers Motivate; Concept of Morale; Factors determining morale; Role of Incentives in Building up Morale. |
| Accounting for Share Capital Transactions including Bonus Shares, Right Shares. | 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. |
| Employees Stock Option and Buy-Back of Securities. | Corporate Governance: Factors affecting Corporate Governance; Mechanisms of Corporate Governance. |
| Preparation and Presentation of Company Final Accounts. |
| Finance and Management | Costing |
| (a) Financial System: | Overview of Cost and Management Accounting – Introduction to Cost and Management Accounting, Objectives and Scope of Cost and Management Accounting. |
| Money Market, Capital Market | Methods of Costing – Single Output/ Unit Costing, Job Costing, Batch Costing, Contract Costing, Process/ Operation Costing, Costing of Service Sectors. |
| Reserve Bank of India- functions and conduct of monetary policy, Banking System in India, Financial Institutions – SIDBI, EXIM, NABARD, NHB, etc. | Basics of Cost Control and Analysis – (i) Standard Costing, (ii) Marginal Costing, (iii) Budget and Budgetary Control. |
| SEBI – functions and role | Lean System and Innovation:- |
| Prevention of Money Laundering | a) Introduction to Lean System |
| Know Your Client Framework | b) Just-in-Time (JIT) |
| b) Financial Markets: | c) Kaizen Costing |
| Primary and Secondary Markets (Forex, Money, Bond, Equity, etc.), functions, instruments, recent developments. | d) 5 Ss |
| (c) General Topics: | e) Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) |
| Risk Management in Financial Sector Page 21 of 25 | f) Cellular Manufacturing/ One-Piece Flow Production Systems |
| Basics of Derivatives: Forward, Futures, and Swap | g) Six Sigma (SS) |
| Changing Landscape of Financial sector | h) Introduction to Process Innovation and Business Process Re-engineering (BPR). |
| Recent Developments in the Financial Sector, Portfolio Investment, Public Sector Reforms, Disinvestments | |
| Financial Inclusion- use of technology | |
| Alternate source of finance, private and social cost-benefit, Public-Private Partnership | |
| Corporate Governance in the Financial Sector, the role of e-governance in addressing the issues of corruption and inefficiency in the government sector | |
| The Union Budget – Direct and Indirect taxes; Non-tax sources of Revenue, GST, Thirteenth Finance Commission and 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. |
| Companies Act | Economics |
| The Companies Act, 2013 – Specific reference to Chapter III, Chapter IV, Chapter VIII, Chapter X, Chapter XI, Chapter XII and Chapter XXVII. | 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 Institutions. |
SEBI Grade A Paper II Syllabus (For Legal, Information Technology, Official Language Stream)
Legal Stream
| Constitution of India – Preamble, Part I, Part III, Part IV, Part IVA, Part V, Part VI, Part VIII, Part IXA, Part IXB, Part XI. |
| Law of Contracts – Indian Contract Act, 1872 (Chapters I to VI), Specific Relief Act, 1963. |
| Criminal Law – Indian Penal Code, 1860 (Chapters I, II, III, IV, V, VA, VI, IX, XVII); Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973. |
| Law of Evidence – Indian Evidence Act, 1872. |
| Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 – Part I, Part II. |
| Administrative Law and Principles of Natural Justice. |
| Jurisprudence and Interpretation of Statutes |
| Important Latin terms and maxims |
| Law of Torts and Consumer Protection Act, 2019 |
| Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 – Part I |
| Transfer of Property Act, 1882 – Chapter III, Chapter IV, Chapter V. |
| 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. |
| Securities Laws – SEBI Act, 1992, SC(R) Act, 1956, Depositories Act, 1996. |
Information Technology Stream
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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). |
| 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. |
| Information & Cyber Security Concepts |
| Cyber Attacks, Software Development Security, Network Security, Authentication, CIA – Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability, Network Audit, Systems Audit. |
| Data warehousing |
| Data Extraction, Data Cleaning, Data Transformation, Data Loading, Metadata, Data Cube, Data Mart, Data Models. |
| Shell Programming |
| Shell Scripting Basics, Shell Variables, Shell Script Arguments, If Statement, Loop, Return, Basic UNIX commands |
Official Language Stream
| 1. भारत सरकार की राजभाषा नीति (Official Language Policy of the Govt. of India) से सम्बंधित प्रश्न |
| 2. हिन्दी से अंग्रेजी अनुवाद [शब्द / वाक्यांश / वाक्य / Terms / Phrases / Sentences] |
| 3. अंग्रेजी से हिन्दी अनुवाद [शब्द / वाक्यांश / वाक्य / Terms / Phrases / Sentences] |
| 4. हिन्दी से अंग्रेजी – विधिक शब्दावली (Legal Terminology) |
| 5. अंग्रेजी से हिन्दी – विधिक शब्दावली (Legal Terminology) 6. हिन्दी से अंग्रेजी – प्रशासनिक / बैंकिंग / पूंजी बाजार संबंधित शब्दावली (Administrative / Banking / Capital Market Terminology) 7. अंग्रेजी से हिन्दी – प्रशासनिक / बैंकिंग / पूंजी बाजार संबंधित शब्दावली (Administrative / Banking / Capital Market Terminology) |
SEBI Grade A Paper II Syllabus (For Research Stream)
| 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 Analysis. |
| International Economics: |
| Balance of Payments, Foreign Exchange Markets, Role of International Financial Institutions: BIS, IOSCO, IMF & World Bank. |
| 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, and Arbitrage. |
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