One of the most important news coming all your way in; if you are an aspiring CA student. ICAI (Institute of Chartered Accountants of India) has planned to cancel all the CA May 2020 exams amid the COVID-19 outbreak.
Also, not just this, a combined exam will take place in November for the session of May and November. A notice has also been published by the institute in light of this on their official website as well as they have tweeted about it too.
A glimpse of the same is given below:
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT FOR MAY 2020 EXAMINATIONS
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For any queries pls email at may2020exam@icai.in.@atulguptagst @JambusariaNihar pic.twitter.com/EcFr01CNUO— Institute of Chartered Accountants of India – ICAI (@theicai) July 3, 2020
Official Statement by ICAI
Not just this, the official statement also reads: “On a review of above developments and in order to ensure the interest of its students and their well-being, the Institute has decided to cancel May 2020 Examinations and merge the May 2020 attempt with November 2020 Examinations, with a due carryover of all benefits already available to students including the fee paid and exemptions.”
“The students who have made an application for CA May Exams will have an option to change the group(s) of their appearance and center of Examinations at the time of making a fresh application for November 2020 Examinations, which, subject to conditions prevailing at the relevant time, will start from 1st November 2020.
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It is again clarified that in this schema, the students will be free to exercise the options afresh for the groups that they intend to appear in the November 2020 examinations.”
S.K Garg, Secretary said that this move has been taken to ensure the safety and well being of the students. Thus, the exams have been cancelled; and the step of merging the May 2020 exam is merged with November 2020 exams
. Also, the students who have already applied for CA May Exams will be having a choice or option to change the group with respect to their appearance. Institute is currently busy making fresh applications for the students who wish to appear for November 2020 exams.
For more updates and information, students are required to visit the official website regularly
In case, you have any queries about the exam you can mail out may2020exam@icai.in