Common Proficiency Test (CPT) - Revised passing requirements

Revised passing requirements for Common Proficiency Test (CPT) effective from June, 2013

In terms of the decision of the Council taken at its 317th meeting in pursuance of Notification

No. 1-CA(7)/145/2012 dated 1st August, 2012, it is notified for general information that the passing

requirements of CPT effective from June, 2013 shall be as under:-

“A candidate for the Common Proficiency Test shall ordinarily be declared to have passed the test if he

obtains at one sitting a minimum of thirty per cent marks in each section and a minimum of fifty per cent marks in the aggregate of all the sections, subject to the principle of negative marking, in such manner as may be determined by the Council, from time to time.”¼ (one fourth) mark shall continue to be deducted for each wrong answer and multiple darkened circles for a question will also be treated as wrong answer.

Accordingly, the minimum marks required in each section and in the aggregate in all sections of CPT as per

the revised passing requirements will be as under:-

*A candidate is required to secure a minimum of 30 per cent marks in each Section and a minimum of 50 percent marks in aggregate in all the four Sections to pass the Common Proficiency Test.

Complete text of the said Notification is hosted on www.icai.org under the link “Notifications” on home page.