SEBI Grade A: Eligibility, Application Form, Exam Pattern, Syllabus, Admit Card & Result

SEBI Grade A Highlights

SEBI Grade A 2024 Exam Important Dates

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SEBI Grade A Eligibility

Educational Qualification

General

Master’s Degree in any discipline/Bachelors’ Degree in Law/Engineering from a recognized university, CA /CFA / CS / Cost Accountant

Legal

Bachelor’s Degree in Law from a recognized University/ Institute.

Information Technology

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering (Electrical /
Electronics / Electronics And Communication /IT/CS OR MCA OR
Bachelor’s Degree in any discipline with a postgraduate qualification (minimum 2 years duration in CS/IT)

Engineering (Civil)

Bachelor’s Degree in Civil
Engineering from a recognized University /Institute.

Engineering (Electrical)

Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from a recognized University /Institute.

Research

Master’s Degree in Statistics/ Economics / Commerce /
Business Administration (Finance) / Econometrics from a recognized University / Institute.

Official Language

Master’s Degree in Hindi with English as one of the subjects at Bachelor’s Degree level or Master’s Degree in Sanskrit / English /
Economics / Commerce with Hindi as a subject at
Bachelor’s Degree level from a recognized University / Institute

Age Limit For SEBI Grade A Officer

A candidate must not have exceeded the age of 30 years as of February 29, 2020, i.e., the candidate must have been born on or after March 01, 1990.

Age relaxation will be given as per govt. norms.

Application

The candidate will find the registration and application link for the SEBI Grade A exam on their official website. You need to register first and once you get the application ID and password, you must log in once more to complete the next parts of the application.

Application Fees of SEBI Grade A 2024:

• The payment can be made by using only Debit Cards (Rupay/ Visa/ Master Card/Maestro), Credit cards, Internet Banking, IMPS, Cash Cards/ Mobile Wallets
• The mode of paying the application fees is online.
• On successful completion of the transaction, an e-Receipt will be generated.
• Take a Print out if you feel required.
• Application fees vary from candidate to candidate as per the categories:

Exam pattern:

• SEBI Grade A Exam Pattern 2024
• For various posts, SEBI conducts 2 examinations: Phrase-I and Phase-II
• Phrase-I online screening examination consists of 2 papers, each paper of 100 marks.
• Phrase-II online examination also consists of 2 papers, each of 100 marks.
• Only the candidates who qualify for Phrase-I will be eligible to attempt Phrase-II of SEBI Grade A.
• The papers will be of multiple-choice questions.
• There will be negative marking for wrong answers.
• In the case of Phrase-I, ¼ of the marks assigned to each question will be dedicated to wrong answers.

Pattern For Phase I

Pattern For Phase II

SEBI Grade A Exam Syllabus

SEBI Grade A Syllabus Phase I For Paper I will be common for all the candidates. This will have MCQs of 100 marks. Paper, I will have four sections:

English Language

• Reasoning Ability
• Quantitative Aptitude
• General Awareness (including Financial Awareness)
• English Language
• Error Spotting
• Column based Fillers and Sentence Connectors
• Paragraph Completion
• Sentence Rearrangement
• Comprehension
• Fill in the Blanks
• Passages
• Synonyms and Antonyms
• Active and Passive Voice
• Direct and Indirect Speech
• Idioms & Phrases etc.

Reasoning Ability

• Puzzles
• Seating Arrangements
• Direction Sense
• Blood Relations
• Syllogisms
• Inequalities
• Order and Ranking
• Coding-Decoding
• Machine Input-Output
• Alpha-Numeric-Symbol Series
• Data Sufficiency
• Number System and Conversions
• Logical Reasoning etc

Quantitative Aptitude

• Data Interpretation
• Inequalities
• Number Series
• Approximation and Simplification
• Data Sufficiency
• HCF and LCM
• Inequality (Quadratic & Quantity based)
• Profit and Loss
• Time and work & Pipe and cistern
• Permutation, Combination & Probability
• Problem on Ages
• Work and Time
• Speed Distance and Time
• Mensuration
• Average, Ratio and Proportion, etc.

General Awareness:

The GA section will consist of contemporary events of national & international importance. The general awareness section of SEBI Grade A will revolve around the following aspects.

Current Affairs

• Financial Awareness
• Current Affairs – National & International
• Budget
• Awards and Honours
• Important Financial & Economic News
• Important Days
• International & National Organizations
• Sports
• Books and Authors
• Science – Inventions & Discoveries
• Countries & Capitals etc

Interview

The candidates who will be successful in Phase I and Phase II of SEBI Grade A Officer Recruitment will be called to appear for the Interview. Candidates equaling 3 times the number of vacancies shall be shortlisted, in order of merit, for Phase III i.e. the Interview.

The shortlisted candidate may opt for the interview either in Hindi or English. The weightage of marks obtained in Phase II will be 85%, while marks obtained in the interview shall be given a weightage of 15%.

Thus, the selection will be made on the marks secured in Phase II and Interview for the final selection for the candidates as a SEBI Grade A Officer

Job Profile

The candidates if selected in the SEBI Grade A as Assistant Managers will have to perform various job roles. The very reason why the board has kept a strict SEBI Grade A Eligibility Criteria to be followed. Though there are different departments in which a candidate will be placed after selection, some of the job responsibilities are discussed here. Below given are some of the key features of the job role performed by an Assistant Manager in SEBI.

• Approval of by-laws for stock markets.
• Amendments of Stock Market by-laws.
• Inspection of stock exchange accounts and separate players.
• Inside Financial Markets, detect and prosecute any malpractices.
• Take measures to improve the knowledge of investors in the capital markets.
• Protection Trade Suspension in a Stock Exchange.
• Granting and Withholding of Stock Market Recognition

SEBI Grade A 2020: Salary Structure

The pay scale of Grade A manager is INR28150-1550(4)-343501750(7)-46600-EB-1750(4) -53600- 2000(1)-55600 (17 years). Taking into account allowances, the gross emolument scale is approx. Rs. 1, 07,000/- per month without accommodation and INR 73,000/- per month with accommodation.

The salary structure can be a bit confusing. To clarify the confusion the candidates are facing related to the salary structure of an Assistant Manager (Grade A), the following paragraph, and the mist will be cleared:

• In the first year, the SEBI Grade A officer basic pay will be INR 28,150/-
• These would be 4 annual increments of INR 1550/-
• So After 5 years, your basic pay would be INR 34,450/-.
• From the 6th to 12th year of your service (7 years) you will get an annual increment of INR1, 750/-.
• EB stands for Efficiency Bar.
• Then the next 4 annual increments would be INR1, 750/-. Thus, taking the Basic pay to INR 53,600/-.
• The next annual increment would be INR 2,000/- Which means the basic pay would be ₹55,600 at the end of the 17th year.

SEBI Grade A Cutoff

The cutoff data from the official website

SEBI Grade A Exam Admit Card

The SEBI Grade A Phase II Admit Card Out! The phase 1 exam was conducted on 17th January 2024 and the result for the same was out on 28th January 2024. The successful candidates will now appear for the phase II exam. The SEBI Grade A Admit Card is released online by the IBPS. The candidates can download it between 5th to 27th February 2024.

• Admit Card is the most important document for any test, without which a candidate will simply be denied to appear in the examination. It proves to be important because it shows the identity of the applicant when appearing for the test.
• For authentication purposes, applicants have to carry their Aadhar Card or some other proof of identity which would validate the information on the Admit Card. In this post. In this article, the candidates can find a direct link to download the SEBI Grade A Phase II Admit Card.

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• Step 1: Click directly on the link provided above
• Step 2: Sign in with your credentials asked at the time of filling the application form like Mobile Number and DOB.
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• Step 4: Check for your Admit Card and download the SEBI Grade A, Admit Card.
• Step 5: You can also log on to the official website of SEBI.

Preparation

Quantitative Aptitude (Phase 1 Paper 1: around 20 marks)

• Revise the basic arithmetic lessons and data interpretation skills.
• Learn important formulae by heart and practice a lot of numerical questions based on them.
• Solve the maximum number of questions grading from easy to difficult questions.

Reasoning Ability (Phase 1 Paper 1: around 20 marks)

• Some of the topics needing thorough practice are inequality, blood relation, coding-decoding and other important topics. Focus your preparation on concepts from these topics.
• You need to solve puzzles regularly to develop your logical and analytical skills.

English Language
(Phase 1 Paper 1:around 20 marks) (Phase 2 Paper 1: descriptive test)

• Grammar - Practice rules of grammar and solve practice questions regularly Vocabulary – Read newspapers, articles, magazines, short stories, and books to build and enhance your vocabulary.
• Reading comprehension – Practice passages to understand the idea it conveys. This part of the paper carries high marks. Brushing your comprehension skills will help you increase your speed and efficiency.
• Practice essay writing and précis writing regularly to improve your writing skills.

General Awareness
(including questions related to the financial sector)
(around 40 marks)

• Read newspapers daily; it will not only update you with the current affairs but also will increase your vocabulary.
• Dig out the events that happened in the past six months around the banking sector and the country in general.
• Static general knowledge can be enhanced by referring to books and study materials.

SEBI Grade A Exam Results

The SEBI Grade A recruitment happens in two phases. The first phase is an Online Screening Test which is scheduled for 17th January 2024. The results of the Screening Test is released on 28th January 2024 The second phase, the Online Examination is scheduled for 27th February 2024 and the results will be given out after a few weeks.

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