Where there is no vacancy reserved for OBC/SC/ST/EWS category candidates, such candidates can still apply.

However, they will not be eligible for any relaxations. SC/ ST candidates are exempt from payment of application
fee even in such case but will have to pay specified intimation charges.

II. MODE OF SELECTION: Mode of selection shall be a three stage process i.e. Phase I (on-line screening
examination consisting of two papers of 100 marks each), Phase II (on-line examination consisting of two
papers of 100 marks each) and Phase III (Interview).

a. Phase I On-Line Examination:

An online screening examination consisting of two papers (Multiple Choice questions of 100 marks each)
will be held on July 27, 2024. The exam will consist of:
Paper Streams/ Subjects Maximum Duration Cut off
Marks
Paper 1 All Streams: Multiple choice questions on the subjects 100 60 minutes 30%
viz. General Awareness (including some questions
related to Financial Sector of easy to moderate difficulty
level), English Language, Quantitative Aptitude and Test
of Reasoning.
General Stream: Multiple choice questions on subjects
Commerce, Accountancy, Management, Finance,
Costing, Companies Act and Economics. 100 40 minutes 40%
Legal Stream, Research Stream, Engineering
(Electrical) Stream, Official Language Stream and
Paper 2 Information Technology Stream: Multiple choice
questions on Specialized subject related to stream.
Aggregate Cut off 40%

i. There shall be negative marking (1/4th of marks assigned to the question) for the Paper 1 and Paper 2
in Phase I.
ii. 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.
iii. 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.
iv. Subject to the criteria mentioned at (iii) above, all the candidates who clear Phase I shall be shortlisted
for Phase II. List of candidates shortlisted for Phase II will be made available on SEBI website.

Syllabus for Paper 2 in Phase I is available in the Annexure to this advertisement.

b. Phase II On-Line Examination:

An on-line examination consisting of two papers of 100 marks each will be held on August 31, 2024 (except
Paper 2 of Information Technology Stream). Paper 2 of Information Technology Stream will be held on
September 14, 2024. The papers shall be as follows:

Paper Streams/ Subjects Maximum Duration Cut off Weigh

Marks tage
Paper 1 All streams: English (Descriptive Test) to test 100 60 30% 1/3rd
the drafting skills minutes
General Stream: Multiple choice questions on
subjects Commerce, Accountancy, 100 90 40% 2/3rd
Management, Finance, Costing, Companies minutes
Act and Economics.
Legal Stream:
Paper 2* 70 Multiple choice questions of one mark each 60
on Specialized subject related to stream. 100 minutes 40% 2/3rd
3 Descriptive Questions of 10 marks each on 60
Specialized subject related to stream minutes

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 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).

E. Companies Act

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

F. Economics

a) 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
b) Balance of Payments, Foreign Exchange Markets, Inflation, Monetary and Fiscal Policy, Non-banking
Financial Institutions.

Specialized Subject (Legal / Information Technology / Engineering (Electrical) / Research / Official

Language Streams):

Syllabus for Paper 2 of Phase I & Phase II in Legal Stream

Phase – I
Sl. No. Subject Weightage*
1. Constitution of India (Preamble, Part I, Part III, Part IV, Part IVA, Part V, Part VI, Part 20%
VIII, Part IXA, Part IXB, Part XI)
2. Contract Law – 25%
o Indian Contract Act, 1872;
o Sale of Goods Act, 1930;
o Indian Partnership Act, 1932;
o Specific Relief Act, 1963.
3. Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part VII, 25%
Schedule I)
4. Transfer of Property Act, 1882 (Chapter III, Chapter IV, Chapter V)
5. Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 (Part I)
6. The Limitation Act, 1963
7. Administrative Law 20%
8. Jurisprudence and Interpretation of Statutes
9. Important Latin terms and maxims
10. Law of Torts and Consumer Protection Act, 2019 10%
* Weightages are indicative only

Phase – II
Sl. No. Subject Weightage*
1. Criminal Law – 30%
o Indian Penal Code, 1860 (Chapter I, Chapter II, Chapter III, Chapter IV, Chapter
V, Chapter VA, Chapter VI, Chapter IX, Chapter XVII, Chapter XXI, Chapter XXII,
Chapter XXIII);
o Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.
2. Law of Evidence – Indian Evidence Act, 1872
3. Corporate Laws – 30%
o Companies Act, 2013;
o Limited Liability Partnership Act, 2008;
o Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (Part I, Part II).
4. Securities Laws – 40%
o Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1956;
o Securities and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992;
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 o Depositories Act, 1996;
o Securities and Exchange Board of India (Procedure for Holding Inquiry and
Imposing Penalties) Rules, 1995;
o Securities Appellate Tribunal (Procedure) Rules, 2000;
o Securities and Exchange Board of India (Prohibition of Fraudulent and Unfair
Trade Practices relating to Securities Market) Regulations, 2003;
o Securities and Exchange Board of India (Substantial Acquisition of Shares and
Takeovers) Regulations, 2011;
o Securities and Exchange Board of India (Prohibition of Insider Trading)
Regulations, 2015;
o Securities Contracts (Regulation) (Stock Exchanges and Clearing Corporations)
Regulations, 2018;
o Securities and Exchange Board of India (Depositories and Participants)
Regulations, 2018.
* Weightages are indicative only

Syllabus for Paper 2 of Phase I in Information Technology Stream

Phase I
Sr. No. Topic Details Weightage*
1. 1. Database ER‐model. Relational model: relational algebra, tuple 10
Concepts calculus, Integrity constraints, normal forms. File
organization, indexing (e.g., B and B+ trees),
Transactions and concurrency control.
2. 2. SQL Queries Select, view, truncate, delete, update, alter, Inner join, 10
different types of outer joins,, use of aggregate
functions, Union, intersection, except, in and exist
clauses, nested queries
3. 3. Programming Program control (iteration, recursion, Functions), 30
Concepts (Java Scope of variables, Binding of variables & functions,
/C C++ ) Parameter passing, Functional and Logic
Programming, OOPS Concepts, Inheritance, Class and
object, Constructors, Functions, Exception Handling
4. 4. Data Analytics Regex, Slicing, Data reshaping, Dataframes, 10
Languages Dictionaries and Sets, File Management, Classes and
(Python / R) Functions, Data Mining, Lists, Importing and exporting
data, charts and graphs
5. 5. Algorithms for Tree and graph traversals, Connected components, 10
problem Spanning trees, Shortest paths; hashing, Sorting,
solving Searching; Design techniques (Greedy, Dynamic
Programming, Divide-and-conquer)
6. 6. Networking ISO/OSI stack, LAN Technologies (Ethernet, Token 10
Concepts ring), TCP/UDP, IP, Basic concepts of switches,
gateways, and routers, Application layer protocols
(DNS, SMTP, POP, FTP, HTTP), Firewalls
7. 7. Information & Cyber Attacks, Software Development Security, 10
Cyber Security Network security, Authentication, CIA - Confidentiality,
Concepts Integrity and Availability, Network Audit, Systems Audit
8. 8. Data Data Extraction, Data Cleaning, Data Transformation, 5
warehousing Data Loading, Metadata, Data Cube, Data Mart, Data
Models,
9. 9. Shell Shell Scripting Basics, Shell Variables, Shell Script 5
Programming Arguments, If Statement, Loop, Return, Basic UNIX
commands
Total 100
* Weightages are indicative only

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