Chartered Accountancy -Common Proficiency Test (CA-CPT) June 2013 was held in the State capital on Sunday. Students who have passed twelfth standard and aspire to be chartered accountants appeared in the examination while Commerce graduate are eligible for direct admission in CA.
The examination was held in five cities of State including Bhopal, Indore, Gwalior, Jabalpur and Ujjain and in over 140 cities in the country. The examination was also organised in five overseas cities also.
Thousands of students from State-capital appeared in the objective type examination. Students clearing the examination will be admitted to Intermediate Course (IPC) of Institute of Chartered Accountancy of India (ICAI).
Sharma’s CA coaching institute Coordinator Monika Sharma said that the examination is organised in two sessions- in the morning session paper 60 questions are asked on accounting and 40 questions on law total marks of the morning session is 100 marks.
Sharma further said that according to the students, the Accountancy section questions were tough as several tricky questions were asked but the law section questions were very easy. Questions of law section were straight and simple due to which students are expecting the cut-off may go high.
She further said that in the afternoon session of the examination questions were asked from two sections with equal weightage of 50 marks each, the sections were General Economics and Quantitative Aptitude. Students found the Economics section tough while the questions based on mathematics were of average standard. The examination overall was slightly tough than the previous papers.
It is worth mentioning that students need to qualify in the each section specifically for clearing the entrance examination failing in any section will lead to failing. The cut-off marks for accounting, law, economics and aptitude had been fixed at 18, 12, 15 and 15 marks respectively.