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SEBI Grade A Exam 2024 Highlights:

• Exam Conducting Body: Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI)
• Exam Name: SEBI Grade A 2024
• Mode of Exam: Online
• Selection Process:
  • Phase-I: Online Examination
  • Phase II: Online Examination
  • Phase-III: Interview Round
• Official Website: SEBI Official Website
• Total Vacancies: 95 Assistant Manager Posts

SEBI Grade A Exam Pattern 2024:

Phase 1:

• Papers: Two papers of 100 marks each
• Duration:
  • Paper 1: 60 minutes
  • Paper 2: 40 minutes for each section
• Sections Covered:
  • Paper 1: General Awareness, English Language, Quantitative Aptitude, Test of Reasoning
  • Paper 2: Subject-specific for different streams
• Aggregate Cut-off: 40%
• Negative Marking: 1/4th mark deduction

Phase 2:

• Papers: Two papers of 100 marks each
• Duration:
  • Paper 1: 60 minutes
  • Paper 2: 40 minutes for each section
• Sections Covered:
  • Paper 1: English (Descriptive Test)
  • Paper 2: Subject-specific for different streams
• Aggregate Cut-off: 50%
• Negative Marking: 1/4th mark deduction for Paper 2

Subject-wise Breakdown for the Phase 1 and 2:

1. Paper 1:
   • Streams: All Streams
   • Subjects: General Awareness, English Language, Quantitative Aptitude, Test of Reasoning
2. Paper 2:
   • General Stream:
     • Subjects: Commerce, Accountancy, Management, Finance, Costing, Companies Act, Economics
   • Legal, Information Technology & Official Language Stream:
     • Subjects: Specialized subjects related to the stream
   • Research Stream:
     • Subjects: Economics, Econometrics, Statistics, Finance, Commerce
   • Information Technology (Phase 2 only):
     • Subjects: Coding Test (Languages: C++/JAVA/Python)

Candidates are advised to refer to the official SEBI website for any updates or changes in the syllabus or exam pattern.

SEBI Grade A Syllabus 2024 for Phase-1

SEBI Grade A Syllabus Phase I for Paper I will be common for all the candidates and to get shortlisted for Phase-2 & interview round, the candidate must have to qualify the 1st stage for which the SEBI Grade A Syllabus has been discussed in the below section of this article. 

SEBI Grade A Syllabus for Paper-1

Paper, I will have four sections: English Language, Reasoning Ability, Quantitative Aptitude, and General Awareness (including Financial Awareness). Go through the topics to be covered for SEBI Grade A Syllabus for Phase-1 as mentioned below. 

English Language

The topics to be prepared for the English language are as follows-

1. Error Spotting
2. Column-based Fillers and Sentence Connectors
3. Paragraph Completion
4. Sentence Rearrangement
5. Comprehension
6. Fill in the Blanks
7. Passages
8. Synonyms and Antonyms
9. Active and Passive Voice
10. Direct and Indirect Speech
11. Idioms & Phrases etc.

Reasoning Ability

To analyse the candidates’ knowledge for reasoning topics, the questions will be as per the topics listed below. 

1. Puzzles
2. Seating Arrangements
3. Direction Sense
4. Blood Relations
5. Syllogisms
6. Inequalities
7. Order and Ranking
8. Coding-Decoding
9. Machine Input-Output
10. Alpha-Numeric-Symbol Series
11. Data Sufficiency
12. Number System and Conversions
13. Logical Reasoning etc.

Quantitative Aptitude

The candidates must go through the complete list of topics that are to be covered for the mathematical section. 

1. Data Interpretation
2. Inequalities
3. Number Series
4. Approximation and Simplification
5. Data Sufficiency
6. HCF and LCM
7. Inequality (Quadratic & Quantity based)
8. Profit and Loss
9. Time and work & Pipe and cistern
10. Permutation, Combination & Probability
11. Problem on Ages
12. Work and Time
13. Speed Distance and Time
14. Mensuration
15. Average, Ratio and Proportion, etc.

General Awareness

The candidates must be aware of the general knowledge and current issues happening around them as there will be questions in Paper-1 from this section. 

1. Current Affairs
2. Financial Awareness
3. Current Affairs – National & International
4. Budget
5. Awards and Honours
6. Important Financial & Economic News
7. Important Days
8. International & National Organizations
9. Sports
10. Books and Authors
11. Science – Inventions & Discoveries
12. Countries & Capitals etc

SEBI Grade A Syllabus- Subject-wise

Check the subject-wise topics to be prepared for the SEBI Grade A 2024 Exam from the below section and boost up by revising each topic till the time you are confident about your preparation. 

SEBI Grade A Syllabus for Commerce & Accountancy

1. Accounting as a financial information system
2. Accounting Standards with specific reference to Accounting for Depreciation, Inventories, Revenue Recognition, Fixed Assets, Foreign Exchange Transactions, and Investments.
3. Cash Flow Statement, Fund flow statement, Financial statement analysis; Ratio analysis
4. Accounting for Share Capital Transactions including Bonus Shares, and Right Shares.
5. Employees Stock Option and Buy-Back of Securities.
6. Preparation and Presentation of Company Final Accounts.

SEBI Grade A Syllabus for Management

1. Management:-its nature and scope; The Management Processes. Planning, Organization, Staffing, Directing, and Controlling.
2. The Role of a Manager in an Organization. Leadership: The Tasks of a Leader.
3. Leadership Styles;-Leadership Theories; A successful Leader versus an effective Leader.
4. Human Resource Development:-Concept of HRD; Goals of HRD
5. Motivation, Morale, and Incentives:-Theories of Motivation; How Managers Motivate; Concept of Morale; Factors determining morale; Role of Incentives in Building up Morale.
6. 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.

SEBI Grade A Syllabus for Finance

Financial System:- Role and Functions of Regulatory bodies in the Financial Sector.
Financial Markets:- Primary and Secondary Markets (Forex, Money, Bond, Equity, etc.), functions, instruments, recent developments.
General topics:-

1. Basics of Derivatives: Forward, Futures, and Swap
2. Recent Developments in the Financial Sector
3. Financial Inclusion- use of technology
4. Alternate source of finance, private and social cost-benefit, Public-Private Partnership
5. Direct and Indirect taxes;-Non-tax sources of Revenue, GST, Finance Commission, Fiscal Policy, Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act(FRBM),
6. Inflation:-Definition, trends, estimates, consequences, and remedies (control): WPI, CPI-components, and trends

SEBI Grade A Syllabus for Costing

1. Overview of Cost and Management Accounting- Introduction to Cost and Management Accounting, Objectives and Scope of Cost and Management Accounting.
2. Methods of Costing- Single Output/ Unit Costing, Job Costing, Batch Costing, Contract Costing, Process/ Operation Costing, Costing of Service Sectors.
3. Basics of Cost Control and Analysis- (a) Standard Costing, (b) Marginal Costing, (c) Budget, and Budgetary Control.
4. Lean System and Innovation – Introduction to Lean System, Just-in-Time (JIT), Kaizen Costing, 5 Ss, Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), Cellular Manufacturing/ One-Piece Flow Production Systems, Six Sigma (SS), Introduction to Process Innovation and Business Process Re-engineering(BPR)

SEBI Grade A Syllabus for Companies Act

The Companies Act, 2013- Specific reference to Chapter III, Chapter IV, Chapter VIII, Chapter X, Chapter XI, Chapter XII, and Chapter XXVII.

SEBI Grade A Syllabus for Economics

1. Demand and Supply, Market Structures, National Income:- Concepts and Measurement, Classical Vs 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
2. Balance of Payments, Foreign Exchange Markets, Inflation, Monetary and Fiscal Policy, Non-banking Financial Institutions.

SEBI Grade A Syllabus- Stream Wise

The syllabus for each of the specialized streams – Legal, Information Technology, Engineering: Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Research Streams, the Official Language Stream is given below. Choose the stream you have applied for and begin with your preparation. 

SEBI Grade A Syllabus for Legal Stream

The candidates preparing for SEBI Grade A in Legal Stream must know the complete Phase-I & Phase-II Syllabus that has been mentioned below- 

Phase I

Phase II

Constitution of India Law of Contracts Criminal Law Law of Evidence Code of Civil Procedure Administrative Law and Principles of Natural Justice Jurisprudence and Interpretation of Statutes Important Latin terms and maxims Law of Torts and Consumer Protection Act Arbitration and Conciliation Act Transfer of Property Act Companies Act, 2013 Securities Laws – SEBI Act

Constotution of India – Law of Contracts Criminal Law Law of Evidence Code of Civil Procedure Administrative Law and Principles of Natural Justice Jurisprudence and Interpretation of Statutes Important Latin terms and maxims Law of Torts and Consumer Protection Act Arbitration and Conciliation Act Transfer of Property Act,1882 Corporate Law- Companies Act, 2013, Ltd. Liability Partnership Act 2008, Insolvency & Bankruptcy code Securities Laws – SEBI Act Taxation

SEBI Grade A Syllabus for Information Technology

To know the complete SEBI Grade A Syllabus 2024 for Information Technology subject refer to the Phase-1 & Phase-2 syllabus depicted below. 

Phase 1 IT Stream

1. Database Concepts
2. SQL Queries
3. Programming Concepts (Java/C C++ )
4. Data Analytics Languages (Python / R)
5. Algorithms for problem-solving
6. Networking Concepts
7. Information & Cyber Security Concepts
8. Data warehousing
9. Shell Programming

Phase 2 IT Stream

Topic	Concept	Language to test concepts	Weightage
Algorithms	Sorting, Searching, Greedy Algorithms, Dynamic Programming, Backtracking, Divide and Conquer, Pattern Searching	C++/JAVA/Python	40
Data Structure	Array, Linked List, Stack, Queue, Binary Tree, Indexing, Binary Search Tree, Heap, Hashing, Matrix	C++/JAVA/Python	40
String Manipulation	Length, Substring, Regex, Search	C++/JAVA/Python	20
Total			100

SEBI Grade A Syllabus for Research Stream

The candidates preparing for the SEBI Grade A Officer post for Research Stream must be prepared as per the syllabus released by SEBI officially. The topics to be covered as mentioned below.

Economics: 

1. Demand and Supply
2. Market Structures
3. National Income
4. Determination of output and employment
5. Investment Function
6. Multiplier and Accelerator
7. Demand and Supply for Money
8. IS-LM, Inflation and Phillips Curve
9. Business Cycles
10. Inflation
11. Monetary and Fiscal Policy
12. Non-banking Financial Institutions

Public Economics: 

1. Public Goods
2. Tax & Non-Tax Revenue
3. Direct & Indirect Taxes
4. Progressive and Non-Progressive Taxation
5. Incidence and Effects of Taxation
6. Public expenditure
7. Public Debt
8. Public Budget
9. Budget Multiplier

Statistics and Econometrics: 

1. Measures of Central tendency & dispersions
2. Correlation
3. Sampling methods
4. Sampling Distribution
5. Statistical Inferences
6. Hypothesis testing
7. Regression Analysis

International Economics: 

1. Balance of Payments
2. Foreign Exchange Markets
3. Role of International Financial Institutions: BIS, IOSCO, IMF & World Bank

Financial Markets: 

1. Asymmetric Information
2. Market Model
3. Market Efficiency
4. Primary Market
5. Secondary Market
6. Commodity Markets
7. Mutual Funds
8. Stock Exchanges
9. Depositories
10. Clearing Corporations
11. Credit Rating Agencies
12. Corporate Debt Market
13. Forwards, Futures, Options, Hedging,
14. Speculation and Arbitrage