Eligibility criteria for CS FOUNDATION COURSE

Registration as a student
Registration is open throughout the year.


Foundation course examination
Candidates registered up to and including the month of March are eligible to take Foundation examination earliest in December in the same year and those registered up to and including September can take up the examination in June next year subject to satisfactory completion of coaching.

Last Date For Receipt Of Response Sheets
Last date for receipt of response sheets including resubmission in the Institute from the candidates who wish to be considered for enrolment for the examination to be held in June is 28 February & in December is 31st August . These dates have been fixed keeping in view the enrolment dates of the examinations and thus no request for extension of time beyond the stipulated dates will be entertained.

Months of examination
The examinations are conducted twice a year in June and December.

• Eligibility for CS Foundatiuon
• Candidates who have passed Senior Secondary (10+2) examination of a Board/University constituted by law in India or any examination recognised by the Central Government as equivalent thereto are eligible. 
• Provisional admission is allowed to a candidate who has appeared or enrolled for appearing in Senior Secondary (10+2 or equivalent) examination , provided proof of passing the examination is produced within 6 months of making the application.
• Admission is open throughout the year by making an application in the prescribed Form FC-1 together with documentary evidence in support of date of birth and educational qualification.
• Duration of Foundation Programme is 8 months, excluding the months of admission and the examination.
• Foundation Programme students are required to pass the Foundation examination within 3 years from the date of their admission

Subjects:
English and Business Communication
Economics and Statistics
Financial Accounting
 Elements of Business Laws and Management



Exemption From Foundation Examination

 A candidate possessing any of the following qualifications or any other qualifications recognised by the Council of the ICSI with the approval of the Central Government as equivalent thereto, is exempted from passing the Foundation examination

• A Degree or master's degree in Corporate Secretaryship
  or Commerce
• Pass in the Final examination of the Institute of Cost and Works Accounts of India(ICWAI) or the Institute of Chartered Accountants(ICAI) of India or any other Accountancy Institution in India or abroad recognised as equivalent thereto by the Council: or
• A degree or master's degree in any discipline other than Fine Arts.

A candidate who is eligible for exemption from the Foundation examination under clause (iii) stated above can seek registration as student. Such a candidate before becoming eligible for undergoing coaching for the Intermediate examination is required to undergo satisfactorily a course of postal or oral tuition for those subjects of the Foundation examination which he had not studied at the graduate or post graduate level, after registration as a studen

Regards,
Azam - WIRC