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SEBI Grade A 2022: Check Syllabus Subject-wise & Latest Exam Pattern for 120 Officer Grade A (Assistant Manager) Vacancies

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SEBI Grade A 2022 Syllabus: The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), a statutory body established by an Act of Parliament, will be conducting the SEBI Grade A 2022 Exam for the eligible Indian citizens for 120 vacancies for the post of Officer Grade A (Assistant Manager) for General Stream, Legal Stream, Information Technology Stream, Research Stream, and Official Language Stream. Interested candidates who meet the eligibility criteria for SEBI Grade A 2022 will undergo a three-stage process that includes Phase I and Phase II online exams and Phase III Interview. SEBI Grade A 2022 Phase I online exam will be held on 20th February 2022. SEBI Grade A 2022 Admit Card is yet to be released. In this article, we have shared the SEBI Grade A 2022 Detailed Syllabus Subject-wise and Latest Exam Pattern for Phase I & Phase II online exams.

SEBI Grade A 2022 Important Dates

SEBI Grade A 2022 Important Events

Important Dates

SEBI Grade A 2022 Registration Start Date

5th January 2022

SEBI Grade A 2022 Registration Last Date

24th January 2022

Online Application and Payment of Fee

5th January 2022 to 24th January 2022

SEBI Grade A 2022 Admit Card

Will be intimated by email/SMS

SEBI Grade A 2022 Phase I Online Exam

20th February 2022

SEBI Grade A 2022 Phase II Online Exam (except Paper 2 of Information Technology Stream)

20th March 2022

SEBI Grade A 2022 Phase II Online Exam (Only Paper 2 of Information Technology Stream)

3rd April 2022

SEBI Grade A 2022 Phase III Interview

To Be Notified

SEBI Grade A 2022 Exam Pattern

The SEBI Grade A (Assistant Manager) 2022 is a three-stage process that includes Phase I and Phase II online exams and Phase III Interview. The Phase I online screening exam consists of two papers of 100 marks each and the Phase II online exam consists of two papers of 100 marks each. Candidates who clear the Phase II exam are shortlisted for the Phase III Interview. The Phase I online screening exam will be held on 20th February 2022 and the Phase II online exam (except Paper 2 of Information Technology Stream) will be held on 20th March 2022 while the Paper 2 of Information Technology Stream will be held on 3rd April 2022. The dates for the SEBI Grade A 2022 Phase III Interview are yet to be announced.

NOTE: All question papers (in both the Phases except the test of English) will be set bilingually in Hindi and English.

SEBI Grade A 2022 Phase I Online Exam

Papers

Streams/ Subjects

Maximum

Marks

Duration

Cut off

Paper 1

All Streams: Multiple choice questions on the subjects viz. General Awareness (including some questions related to Financial Sector of easy to moderate difficulty level), English Language, Quantitative Aptitude, and Test of Reasoning.

100

60 minutes

30%

Paper 2

GeneralStream:Multiple choice questions on subjects Commerce, Accountancy, Management, Finance, Costing, Companies Act, and Economics.

100

40 minutes

40%

Legal, InformationTechnology & Official Language stream: Multiple choice questions on Specialized subject related to stream.

100

40 minutes

40%

Research Stream: Multiple choice questions on subjects Economics, Econometrics, Statistics, Finance, and Commerce.

Aggregate Cut off

40%

NOTE:

  1. There shall be negative marking (1/4th of marks assigned to the question) for the Paper 1 and Paper 2 in Phase I.
  2. There shall be a cut-off of minimum 30% for Paper 1 (no sectional cut-off shall be there) and a cut-off of minimum 40% for Paper 2 in Phase I.
  3. Candidates would need to secure separate cut-off in each paper as mentioned at (ii) above as well as aggregate cut-off marks of 40% in Phase I exam to be shortlisted for Phase II. Marks obtained in Phase I shall be used only for shortlisting the candidates for Phase II examination process and will not be counted for final selection of the candidates.
  4. Subject to the criteria mentioned at (iii) above, all the candidates who clear Phase I shall be shortlisted for Phase II.

SEBI Grade A 2022 Phase II Online Exam

Papers

Streams/ Subjects

Maximum

Marks

Duration

Cut off

Weightage

Paper 1

All streams: English (Descriptive Test) to test the drafting skills

100

60 minutes

30%

1/3rd

Paper 2*

General Stream: Multiple choice questions on subjects Commerce, Accountancy, Finance, Management, Costing, Companies Act, and Economics.

100

40 minutes

40%

2/3rd

Legal, and Official Language stream: Multiple choice questions on Specialized subjects related to stream.

100

40 minutes

40%

2/3rd

Research Stream: Multiple choice questions on subjects Economics, Econometrics, Statistics, Finance and Commerce.

SEBI Grade A 2022: Check Syllabus Subject-wise & Latest Exam Pattern for 120 Officer Grade A (Assistant Manager) Vacancies

Information Technology Stream: Coding Test (Languages: C++/JAVA/Python)

100

180 minutes

40%

2/3rd

Aggregate Cut off

50%

* Paper 2 of Phase II of Information Technology Stream shall be held separately on April 03, 2022 for which separate call letters shall be issued to candidates.

NOTE:

  1. Candidates shortlisted for Phase II will be issued new Hall Tickets.
  2. For candidates who have applied in multiple streams, Paper 2 will be conducted in various shifts, the timings of which will be intimated in the Hall Ticket. Paper 2 of IT stream shall be held separately on April 03, 2022.
  3. There shall be negative marking (1/4th of marks assigned to the question) for Paper 2 in Phase II (except IT stream).
  4. There shall be a cut-off of minimum 30% for Paper 1 and a cut-off of minimum 40% for Paper 2 in Phase II.
  5. Candidates would need to secure separate cut-off in each paper as mentioned at (iv) above as well as aggregate cut-off marks of 50% in Phase II exam (weightage of 1/3rd for Paper 1 and 2/3rd for Paper 2) to be shortlisted for Phase III.
  6. Subject to the criteria mentioned at (v) above, candidates equaling 3 times the number of vacancies shall be shortlisted, in order of merit, for Phase III i.e. the Interview.

SEBI Grade A 2022 Phase III Interview

Only the shortlisted candidates will be called for Phase III Interview. Candidate may opt for interview either in Hindi or English. Weightage of marks obtained in Phase II will be 85 per cent while marks obtained in interview shall be given a weightage of 15 per cent.

NOTE: Application fee shall not be refunded to the candidates not shortlisted for Phase II and Interview.

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SEBI Grade A 2022 Syllabus

Candidates can check below the SEBI Grade A 2022 Syllabus for:

(i) English Writing Skills (Descriptive Test) (For All Streams) Syllabus for Paper 1 of Phase II,

(ii) General Stream (Commerce, Accountancy, Finance, Management, Costing, Companies Act and Economics) Syllabus for Paper 2 of Phase I & Phase II,

(iii) Legal Stream Syllabus for Paper 2 of Phase I and Phase II,

(iv) Information Technology Stream Syllabus for Paper 2 of Phase I and Phase II,

(v) Official Language Stream Syllabus for Paper 2 of Phase I and Phase II

(vI) Research stream Syllabus for Paper 2 of Phase I and Phase II.

English Writing Skills (For All Streams) Syllabus for Paper 1 of Phase II

The paper on English shall be framed in a manner to assess the writing skills including expression and understanding of the topic including precis writing/ essay writing/ comprehension.

General Stream Syllabus for Paper 2 of Phase I & Phase II

Paper 2 of Phase I and Phase II (Common Syllabus for both Phases)

Commerce & Accountancy

a)Accounting as a financial information system,

b)Accounting Standards with specific reference to Accounting for Depreciation, Inventories, Revenue Recognition, Fixed Assets, Foreign Exchange Transactions, Investments.

c) Cash Flow Statement, Fund flow statement, Financial statement analysis; Ratio analysis,

d)Accounting for Share Capital Transactions including Bonus Shares, Right Shares.

e)Employees Stock Option and Buy-Back of Securities.

f)Preparation and Presentation of Company Final Accounts.

Management

a)Management: its nature and scope; The Management Processes; Planning, Organization, Staffing, Directing and Controlling;

b)The Role of a Manager in an Organization. Leadership: The Tasks of a Leader;

c) Leadership Styles; Leadership Theories; A successful Leader versus an effective Leader.

d)Human Resource Development: Concept of HRD; Goals of HRD;

e)Motivation, Morale and Incentives: Theories of Motivation; How Managers Motivate; Concept of Morale; Factors determining morale; Role of Incentives in Building up Morale.

f)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.

Finance

1. Financial System

a) Role and Functions of Regulatory bodies in the Financial Sector.

2. Financial Markets

a) Primary and Secondary Markets (Forex, Money, Bond, Equity, etc.), functions, instruments, recent developments.

3. General Topics

a) Basics of Derivatives: Forward, Futures and Swap

b) Recent Developments in the Financial Sector

c) Financial Inclusion- use of technology

d) Alternate source of finance, private and social cost-benefit, Public-Private Partnership

e) Direct and Indirect taxes; Non-tax sources of Revenue, GST, Finance Commission, Fiscal Policy, Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act (FRBM),

f) Inflation: Definition, trends, estimates, consequences, and remedies (control): WPI, CPI - components and trends.

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 - (i) Standard Costing, (ii) Marginal Costing, (iii) Budget and Budgetary Control.

4. Lean System and Innovation:

a)Introduction to Lean System

b)Just-in-Time (JIT)

c) Kaizen Costing

d)5 Ss

e)Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)

f)Cellular Manufacturing/ One-Piece Flow Production Systems

g)Six Sigma (SS)

h)Introduction to Process Innovation and Business Process Re-engineering (BPR).

Companies Act

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

Economics

1. Demand and Supply, Market Structures, National Income: Concepts and Measurement, Classical & 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.

Legal, Information Technology & Official Language stream (Phase I and Phase II)

Legal Stream Syllabus for Paper 2 of Phase I and Phase II

Paper 2 of Phase I

Sl.

No.

Subject

Weightage*

1.

Constitution of India – Preamble, Part I, Part III, Part IV, Part IVA, Part V, Part VI, Part VIII, Part IXA, Part IXB, Part XI.

10%

2.

Law of Contracts – Indian Contract Act, 1872 (Chapters I to VI), Specific Relief Act, 1963.

10%

3.

Criminal Law – Indian Penal Code, 1860 (Chapters I, II, III, IV, V, VA, VI, IX, XVII); Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.

15%

4.

Law of Evidence – Indian Evidence Act, 1872.

5.

Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 – Part I, Part II.

6.

Administrative Law and Principles of Natural Justice

10%

7.

Jurisprudence and Interpretation of Statutes

10%

8.

Important Latin terms and maxims

9.

Law of Torts and Consumer Protection Act, 2019

5%

10.

Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 – Part I

5%

11.

Transfer of Property Act, 1882 – Chapter III, Chapter IV, Chapter V.

5%

12.

Companies Act, 2013 – Chapter I, Chapter II, Chapter III, Chapter IV, Chapter V, Chapter VII, Chapter VIII, Chapter IX, Chapter X, Chapter XI, Chapter XII, Chapter XIII, Chapter XV, Chapter XVI.

15%

13.

Securities Laws – SEBI Act, 1992, SC(R) Act, 1956, Depositories Act, 1996

15%

Paper 2 of Phase II

Sl.

No.

Subject

Weightage*

1.

Constitution of India – Preamble, Part I, Part III, Part IV, Part IVA, Part V, Part VI, Part VIII, Part IXA, Part IXB, Part XI, Part XII, Part XIII, Part XIV,

Part XIVA, Part XX.

10%

2.

Law of Contracts – Indian Contract Act, 1872 (Chapters VIII to X), Indian Partnership Act, 1932, Specific Relief Act, 1963

10%

3.

Criminal Law – Indian Penal Code, 1860 (Chapters I, II, III, IV, V, VA, VI, IX, XVII, XXI, XXII, XXIII); Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.

10%

4.

Law of Evidence – Indian Evidence Act, 1872.

5.

Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 – Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part VII, Schedule I.

6.

Administrative Law and Principles of Natural Justice

10%

7.

Jurisprudence and Interpretation of Statutes

8.

Important Latin terms and maxims

9.

Law of Torts and Consumer Protection Act, 2019

15%

10.

Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 – Part I, Part III, Part IV.

11.

Transfer of Property Act, 1882 – Chapter III, Chapter IV, Chapter V.

11.

Law of Trusts – Parties to a Trust Deed and Duties of Trustees.

12.

Corporate Law – Companies Act, 2013 (Chapter I, Chapter II, Chapter III, Chapter IV, Chapter V, Chapter VII, Chapter VIII, Chapter IX, Chapter X, Chapter XI, Chapter XII, Chapter XIII, Chapter XV, Chapter XVI, Chapter XXVII, Chapter XXVIII, Chapter XXIX);

Limited Liability Partnership Act, 2008; Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (Part I, Part II)

20%

13.

Taxation – General principles, Capital Gains Tax, Securities Transaction Tax

5%

14.

Securities Laws – SEBI Act, 1992, SC(R) Act, 1956, Depositories Act, 1996

20%

Information Technology Stream Syllabus for Paper 2 of Phase I & Phase II

Paper 2 of Phase I

Sr. No.

Topic

Details

Weightage*

1.

Database Concepts

ER‐model. Relational model: relational algebra, tuple calculus, Integrity constraints, normal forms. File organization, indexing (e.g., B and B+ trees),

Transactions and concurrency control.

10

2.

SQL Queries

Select, view, truncate, delete, update, alter, Inner join, different types of outer joins,, use of aggregate

functions, Union, intersection, except, in and exist clauses, nested queries

10

3.

Programming Concepts (Java

/C C++ )

Program control (iteration, recursion, Functions), Scope of variables, Binding of variables & functions, Parameter passing, Functional and Logic Programming, OOPS Concepts, Inheritance, Class and object, Constructors, Functions, Exception Handling

30

4.

Data Analytics Languages (Python / R)

Regex, Slicing, Data reshaping, Dataframes, Dictionaries and Sets, File Management, Classes and Functions, Data Mining, Lists, Importing and exporting

data, charts and graphs

10

5.

Algorithms for problem solving

Tree and graph traversals, Connected components, Spanning trees, Shortest paths; hashing, Sorting, Searching; Design techniques (Greedy, Dynamic Programming, Divide-and-conquer)

10

6.

Networking Concepts

ISO/OSI stack, LAN Technologies (Ethernet, Token ring), TCP/UDP, IP, Basic concepts of switches, gateways, and routers, Application layer protocols

(DNS, SMTP, POP, FTP, HTTP), Firewalls

10

7.

Information& Cyber Security

Concepts

CyberAttacks, SoftwareDevelopment Security, Network security, Authentication, CIA - Confidentiality,

Integrity and Availability, Network Audit, Systems Audit

10

8.

Data warehousing

Data Extraction, Data Cleaning, Data Transformation,

Data Loading, Metadata, Data Cube, Data Mart, Data Models,

5

9.

Shell Programming

Shell Scripting Basics, Shell Variables, Shell Script Arguments, If Statement, Loop, Return, Basic UNIX commands

5

Total

100

Paper 2 of Phase II

SN

Topic

Concept

Language used to test the concepts

Weightage*

1

Algorithms

Sorting,Searching, Greedy Algorithms, Dynamic Programming,

Backtracking, Divide and Conquer, Pattern Searching

C++/JAVA/Python

40

2

Data Structure

Array, Linked List, Stack, Queue,

Binary Tree, Indexing, Binary Search Tree, Heap, Hashing, Matrix

C++/JAVA/Python

40

3

String Manipulation

Length, Substring, Regex, Search

C++/JAVA/Python

20

Total

100

Official Language stream Syllabus for Paper 2 of Phase I and Phase II

Research stream Syllabus for Paper 2 of Phase I and Phase II

Paper 2 of Phase I and Phase II (Common Syllabus for both Phases)

Economics

Demand and Supply, Market Structures, National Income, Determination of output and employment, Investment Function, Multiplier and Accelerator, Demand and Supply for Money, IS – LM, Inflation and Phillips Curve, Business Cycles, Inflation, Monetary and Fiscal Policy, Non-banking Financial Institutions.

Public Economics

Public Goods, Tax & Non-Tax Revenue, Direct & Indirect Taxes, Progressive and non- Progressive Taxation, Incidence and Effects of Taxation, Public expenditure , Public Debt, Public Budget and Budget Multiplier.

Statistics and Econometrics

Measures of Central tendency & dispersions, Correlation, Sampling methods, Sampling Distribution, Statistical Inferences, Hypothesis testing, Regression Analysis.

International Economics

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

Financial Markets

Asymmetric Information, Market Model, Market Efficiency, Primary Market, Secondary Market, Commodity Markets, Mutual Funds, Stock Exchanges, Depositories, Clearing Corporations, Credit Rating Agencies, Corporate Debt Market. Forwards, Futures, Options, Hedging, Speculation and Arbitrage.

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