CSEET November 2023 Syllabus – Download ICSI Company Secretaries Executive Entrance Test Pattern/ Scheme!!!!

B – Logical Reasoning (20 Marks)

B – Business Environment (25 Mark)

B – Quantitative Aptitude (20 Marks)

·        Enriching Vocabulary-Choice of words, Synonyms and Antonyms

·        Common errors in English

·        Words with multiple meaning

·        One word substitution

·        Words frequently mis-spelt

·        Homophones

·        Idioms and phrases

·        Proverbs

·        Abbreviations

·        Para jumbles

·        Sentence completion

·        Sentence arrangement

·        Sentence correction

·        Foreign words and phrases commonly used

·        Comprehension of passage and art of Summarizing

·        Business Communication- Principles and Process

·        Means of Communication- Written, Oral, Visual, Audiovisual

·        Choice of Modes of Communication

·        Communication Networks- Vertical, Circuit, Chain, Wheel, Star

·        Commonly used Mediums of Digital Communication- Email, SMS, Voice mail, Multimedia, Teleconferencing, Mobile Phone Conversation, Video Conferencing etc

·        Listening Skills-Types, Purpose, Steps to Effective Listening, Barriers to Effective Listening and Ways to overcome the Barriers

·        Barriers to Effective Communication and Ways to overcome the Barriers

·        Positive Messages, Negative Messages and Persuasive Messages

·        Business Reports, Inter and Intra-departmental Communication- Office Orders, Office Circulars, Memorandum, Office Notes, Management Information System (MIS)

·        Concept of Web, Internet and E-correspondence

·        Intranet- Benefit and Purpose

·        Email – Features, Procedure to Write a Formal Email, Email Etiquettes

·        Essential Elements of Email- Subject line, Formal Greeting, Target Audience (Reader), Clarity and Conciseness, Formal Closing, Proof reading, Feedback

·        Advantages and Disadvantages of Email

·        Citizenship

·        Fundamental Rights and Fundamental Duties

·        Directive Principles of State Policy

·        State under Constitution

·        President and Governors

·        Council of Ministers and Prime Minister

·        Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha and Legislative Assembly, Legislative Council

·        Supreme Court and High Courts

·        Landmark Amendment in Constitution

·        List of subjects-Centre, State and Concurrent

·        Offer, Acceptance, Consideration and Competency to Contract.

·        Agreement

·        Types of Contract: Void, Voidable, Unenforceable

·        Performance of Contract

·        Frustration of Contract

·        Quasi Contract

·        Breach of Contract and Remedies

Law of Torts

·        Basics of Torts

·        Specific Defenses

·        Nuisance and Negligence

·        Strict, Absolute and Vicarious Liability

·        Trespass

·        Malicious Prosecution

·        Vision, Mission, Motto and Core Values of the Institute

·        Company Secretary under Company Secretaries Act, 1980.

·        Functions of Company Secretary under the Companies Act, 2013

·        Role of Company Secretary in Employment

·        Role of Company Secretary in Practice

·        Types of Companies

·        Incorporation of a Company

·        Types of capital

·        Board of Directors -(Concept, Appointment and Removal of Directors)

·        Board Meetings & Shareholders Meetings

·        Corporate Social Responsibility

·        Business Ethics

·        Ethical Dilemma

·        Legal Problems – Reading and understanding a case

·        Legal Terminology and Maxims

·        Legal Reasoning – (Reasoning by Analogy & Inductive and Deductive Reasoning)

·        Questions of Fact (or factual issues)

·        Questions of Law (or legal issues)

·        Landmark Judgments of Supreme Court and High Court

·        Reading Comprehension

·        Cause and Effect Reasoning

·        Clocks

·        Coding and Decoding

·        Deriving Conclusion from Passages

·        Drawing Inference

·        Number Test

·        Sequence and Series

·        Statement and Assumptions

·        Alpha Numeric Sequence Puzzle

·        Analogy

·        Assertion and Reason

·        Blood Relations

·        Decision Making

·        Inserting Missing Characters

·        Logical Sequence Test

·        Logical Venn Diagram

·        Number, Ranking and Time Sequence Test

·        Syllogism

·        Truth Tellers and Liars

·        Classification

·        Completion of Incomplete Pattern

·        Figure Matrix

·        Grouping of Identical Figures

·        Mirror Image

·        Rule Detection

·        Numeric and Alphabet Series

·        Equilibrium Price

·        Elasticity of Demand and Supply and other related

·        Concepts

·        Increase and Decrease in Demand and Expansion

·        and Contraction of Demand

·        Forms of Market Competition- Monopoly, Duopoly,

·        Oligopoly, Perfect Competition and Monopolistic

·        Competition

·        Key variables of National Income (GNP, GDP, NNP, NDP etc.)

·        Revenue and Capital Budget

·        Major components of Revenue and Capital Budget

·        Meaning of Fiscal Deficit

·        Components/ Variables covered under Fiscal Deficit

·        Key facets of Indian financial system

·        Growth of Financial Institutions

·        Public and private sector banks

·        Industrial Finance Corporation of India, Small Industries Development Bank of India

·        Regional Rural Banks

·        Cooperative Banks

·        Non-Banking Finance Companies

·        Basics of Capital Market: Types of Shares and Debentures

·        Financial assistance scenario for Small and Medium Enterprises and Start-Ups

·        Secondary (Manufacturing)

·        Tertiary (Services):

·        Current scenario of agriculture and allied activities            in India

·        Agricultural and Industrial Policies of India

·        Current scenario of services sector in India

·        Balance of Payments

·        Components of Balance of Payments

·        Favorable and Unfavorable Balance of Trade

·        Foreign Investments in India- Types and Flows

·        Need for entrepreneurship in India

·        Bottlenecks in entrepreneurial growth

·        Features and factors influencing business

·        environment

·        Types of environment: Economic environment,

·        Socio-cultural environment, Political environment,

·        Legal and Technological environment

·        Ease of Doing Business Index by World Bank for

·        India and Department for Promotion of Industry and

·        Internal Trade (DPIIT) for States

·        International bodies (ASEAN, BRICS, SAARC, G-20, BIMSTEC, etc.)

·        Organizations like, RBI, NABARD, CCI, IBBI, IMF,OECD, ADB, World Bank, etc.

·        Summits and conferences

·        Current development in Banking and Finance (digital banking, govt. initiatives, financial inclusion, etc.)

·        Current development in stock markets

·        Recent important judgments passed by Supreme Court and High Courts of India, Tribunals

·        Current affairs related to CS Institute/Profession and regulatory bodies

·        Current updates on environment, bio-diversity, climate change and sustainable development

·        Latest developments in science and technology, IT, Computers and Space science

·        Business personalities and leaders

·        Committees and appointments

·        Art and culture

·        Books and their authors

·        Awards and honours

·        Sports

·        Current political scenario

·        Initiatives/ schemes of the government

·        Language and national symbols

·        Governance and ethics

·        International diplomacy