SEBI Grade A Syllabus 2022
Detail Information about SEBI Grade A has published notification 2022 for the recruitment of Assistant Manager vacancies. Those Candidates who are Interested to the following vacancy and completed all Eligibility Criteria can read the Notification & Apply Online. In this page we provide the Complete Syllabus of this Recruitment with Latest Update Exam Pattern and the Exam Date also.
General Awareness :
1. Indian Parliament
2. Geography
3. Countries and Capitals
4. Literature
5. Rivers
6. Lakes and
7. Seas
8. Civics
9. Heritage
10. Indian History
11. Sports
12. Famous Days & Dates
13. Tourism
14. Indian Economy
15. Artists
16. Famous Books & Authors
17. Inventions and Discoveries
18. Environmental Issues
19. Indian Politics
20. Famous Places in India
21. General Science
22. Biology
23. Current Affairs.
English Language :
1. Vocabulary
2. Error Spotting
3. Grammar
4. Cloze Test
5. Fill in the Blanks
6. Reading Comprehension
7. Idioms & Phrases
8. Para Jumbles
9. Synonyms & Antonyms
10. Passage Replacement
11. Sentence Rearrangement.
Reasoning :
1. Arithmetical Reasoning
2. Embedded Figures
3. Clocks & Calendars
4. Alphabet Series
5. Blood Relations
6. Directions
7. Data Interpretation
8. Statements & Arguments
9. Decision Making
10. Non-Verbal Series
11. Number Series
12. Cubes and Dice
13. Coding-Decoding
14. Analogy
15. Statements & Conclusions
16. Number Ranking
17. Syllogism
18. Mirror Images
19. Verbal Reasoning.
Quantitative Aptitude :
1. Mensuration
2. Numbers
3. Ratio and Proportion
4. Permutation and Combination
5. Speed
6. Time and Distance
7. Problems on H.C.F and L.C.M
8. Allegation or Mixture
9. Probability
10. Pipes and Cistern
11. Average
12. Chain Rule
13. Partnership
14. Surds and Indices
15. Simplification
16. Boats and Streams
17. Logarithm
18. Square Root and Cube Root
19. Stocks and Share
20. Compound Interest
21. Height and Distance
22. Banker’s Discount
23. Time and Work
24. Decimal Fraction
25. Problems on Ages.
Awareness About Securities Market :
1. Securities Market
2. Indian Financial System
3. Capital Markets
4. Bond Market
5. Foreign Exchange Market
6. Commodity Market
7. International Capital Market
8. Securities Law
9. Relationship between Company Law and Securities Law
10. Basic concepts of Securities Law
11. Historical background of Securities Law
12. SEBI as Market regulator
13. Rights and Duties of Depositary
14. Unpublished Price Sensitive Information
15. Mergers
16. Amalgamation and Take overs
17. Public offer and disclosure requirements
18. Unfair Trade practices in the securitties market
19. SEBI ICDR Regulations
20. Public Offer Requirements
21. Securities Appellate Tribunal
22. Role of Courts in enforcing securities regulations.
General Stream
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
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.
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
b) Balance of Payments, Foreign Exchange Markets, Inflation, Monetary and Fiscal Policy, Non-banking Financial Institutions.
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
Civil Engineering
Building Materials: Stone, Lime, Glass, Plastics, Steel, FRP, Ceramics, Aluminium, Fly Ash, Basic Admixtures, Timber, Bricks, and Aggregates: Classification, properties, and selection criteria; Cement: Types, Composition, Properties, Uses, Specifications, and various Tests; Lime & Cement Mortars and Concrete: Properties and various Tests; Design of Concrete Mixes: Proportioning of aggregates and methods of mix design.
Solid Mechanics: Elastic constants, Stress, plane stress, Strains, plane strain, Mohr’s circle of stress and strain, Elastic theories of failure, Principal Stresses, Bending, Shear and Torsion.Page 23 of 26
Structural Analysis: Basics of strength of materials, Types of stresses and strains, Bending moments and shear force, concept of bending and shear stresses; Analysis of determinate and indeterminate structures; Trusses, beams, plane frames; Rolling loads, Influence Lines, Unit load method & other methods; Free and Forced vibrations of single degree and multi-degree freedom system; Suspended Cables; Concepts and use of Computer-Aided Design.
Design of Steel Structures: Principles of Working Stress methods, Design of tension and compression members, Design of beams and beam column connections, built-up sections, Girders, Industrial roofs, Principles of Ultimate load design.
Design of Concrete and Masonry structures: Limit state design for bending, shear, axial compression and combined forces; Design of beams, Slabs, Lintels, Foundations, Retaining walls, Tanks, Staircases; Principles of prestressed concrete design including materials and methods; Earthquake resistant design of structures; Design of Masonry Structure.
Construction Practice, Planning and Management: Construction - Planning, Equipment, Site investigation and Management including Estimation with latest project management tools and network analysis for different Types of works; Analysis of Rates of various types of works; Tendering Process and Contract Management, Quality Control, Productivity, Operation Cost; Land acquisition; Labour safety and welfare.
Flow of Fluids, Hydraulic Machines and Hydro Power:
(a) Fluid Mechanics, Open Channel Flow, Pipe Flow: Fluid properties; Dimensional Analysis and Modelling; Fluid dynamics including flow kinematics and measurements; Flow net; Viscosity, Boundary layer and control, Drag, Lift, Principles in open channel flow, Flow controls. Hydraulic jump; Surges; Pipe networks.
(b) Hydraulic Machines and Hydro power: Various pumps, Air vessels, Hydraulic turbines – types, classifications & performance parameters; Power house – classification and layout, storage, pondage, control of supply.
Hydrology and Water Resources Engineering: Hydrological cycle, Ground water hydrology, Well hydrology and related data analysis; Streams and their gauging; River morphology; Flood, drought and their management; Capacity of Reservoirs. Water Resources Engineering : Multipurpose uses of Water, River basins and their potential; Irrigation systems, water demand assessment; Resources - storages and their yields; Water logging, canal and drainage design, Gravity dams, falls, weirs, Energy dissipaters, barrage Distribution works, Cross drainage works and head-works and their design; Concepts in canal design, construction & maintenance; River training, measurement and analysis of rainfall. 9. Environmental Engineering:
(a) Water Supply Engineering: Sources, Estimation, quality standards and testing of water and their treatment; Rural, Institutional and industrial water supply; Physical, chemical and biological characteristics and sources of water, Pollutants in water and its effects, Estimation of water demand; Drinking water Standards, Water Treatment Plants, Water distribution networks.
(b) Waste Water Engineering: Planning & design of domestic waste water, sewage collection and disposal; Plumbing Systems. Components and layout of sewerage system; Planning & design of Domestic Waste-water disposal system; Sludge management including treatment, disposal and re-use of treated effluents; Industrial waste waters and Effluent Treatment Plants including institutional and industrial sewage management.
(c) Solid Waste Management: Sources & classification of solid wastes along with planning & design of its management system; Disposal system, Beneficial aspects of wastes and Utilization by Civil Engineers.
(d) Air, Noise pollution and Ecology: Concepts & general methodology. Page 24 of 26 Geo-technical Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Electrical Materials: Electrical Engineering Materials, crystal structures and defects, ceramic materials, insulating materials, magnetic materials – basics, properties and applications; ferrities, ferro-magnetic materials and components; basics of solid state physics, conductors; Photo-conductivity; Basics of Nano materials and Superconductors.
Electric Circuits and Fields: Circuit elements, network graph, KCL, KVL, Node and Mesh analysis, ideal current and voltage sources, Thevenin’s, Norton’s, Superposition and Maximum Power Transfer theorems, transient response of DC and AC networks, Sinusoidal steady state analysis, basic filter concepts, two-port networks, three phase circuits, Magnetically coupled circuits, Gauss Theorem, electric field and potential due to point, line, plane and spherical charge distributions, Ampere’s and Biot-Savart’s laws; inductance, dielectrics, capacitance; Maxwell’s equations.
Electrical and Electronic Measurements: Principles of measurement, accuracy, precision and standards; Bridges and potentiometers; moving coil, moving iron, dynamometer and induction type instruments, measurement of voltage, current, power, energy and power factor, instrument transformers, digital voltmeters and multimeters, phase, time and frequency measurement, Q-meters, oscilloscopes, potentiometric recorders, error analysis, Basics of sensors, Transducers, basics of data acquisition systems.
Computer Fundamentals: Number systems, Boolean algebra, arithmetic functions, Basic Architecture, Central Processing Unit, I/O and Memory Organisation; peripheral devices, data representation and programming, basics of Operating system and networking, virtual memory, file systems; Elements of programming languages, typical examples.
Basic Electronics Engineering: Basics of Semiconductor diodes and transistors and characteristics, Junction and field effect transistors (BJT, FET and MOSFETS), different types of transistor amplifiers, equivalent circuits and frequency response; oscillators and other circuits, feedback amplifiers.
Analog and Digital Electronics: Operational amplifiers – characteristics and applications, combinational and sequential logic circuits, multiplexers, multi-vibrators, sample and hold circuits, A/D and D/A converters, basics of filter circuits and applications, simple active filters; Microprocessor basics- interfaces and applications, basics of linear integrated circuits; Analog communication basics, Modulation and de-modulation, noise and Page 25 of 26 bandwidth, transmitters and receivers, signal to noise ratio, digital communication basics, sampling, quantizing, coding, frequency and time domain multiplexing, power line carrier communication systems.
Systems and Signal Processing: Representation of continuous and discrete-time signals, shifting and scaling operations, linear, time-invariant and causal systems, Fourier series representation of continuous periodic signals, sampling theorem, Fourier and Laplace transforms, Z transforms, Discrete Fourier transform, FFT, linear convolution, discrete cosine transform, FIR filter, IIR filter, bilinear transformation.
Control Systems: Principles of feedback, transfer function, block diagrams and signal flow graphs, steady-state errors, transforms and their applications; Routh-hurwitz criterion, Nyquist techniques, Bode plots, root loci, lag, lead and lead-lag compensation, stability analysis, transient and frequency response analysis, state space model, state transition matrix, controllability and observability, linear state variable feedback, PID and industrial controllers.
Electrical Machines: Single phase transformers, three phase transformers - connections, parallel operation, auto-transformer, energy conversion principles, DC machines - types, windings, generator characteristics, armature reaction and commutation, starting and speed control of motors, Induction motors - principles, types, performance characteristics, starting and speed control, Synchronous machines - performance, regulation, parallel operation of generators, motor starting, characteristics and applications, servo and stepper motors.
Power Systems: Basic power generation concepts, steam, gas and water turbines, transmission line models and performance, cable performance, insulation, corona and radio interference, power factor correction, symmetrical components, fault analysis, principles of protection systems, basics of solid state relays and digital protection; Circuit breakers, Radial and ring-main distribution systems, Matrix representation of power systems, load flow analysis, voltage control and economic operation, System stability concepts, Swing curves and equal area criterion. HVDC transmission and FACTS concepts, Concepts of power system dynamics, distributed generation, solar and wind power, smart grid concepts, environmental implications, fundamentals of power economics.
Power Electronics and Drives: Semiconductor power diodes, transistors, thyristors, triacs, GTOs, MOSFETs and IGBTs - static characteristics and principles of operation, triggering circuits, phase control rectifiers, bridge converters - fully controlled and half controlled, principles of choppers and inverters, basis concepts of adjustable speed dc and ac drives, DC-DC switched mode converters, DC-AC switched mode converters, resonant converters, high frequency inductors and transformers, power supplies.
Official Language
1. Questions related to Official Language Policy of the Government of India
2. Hindi to English translation [Word / Phrase / Speech / Terms / Phrases / Sentences]
3. English to Hindi translation [Word / Phrase / Sentences] / Terms / Phrases / Sentences]
4. Hindi to English - Legal Terminology
5. English to Hindi - Legal Terminology
6. Hindi to English - Administrative / Banking / Capital Market Terminology (Administrative / Banking) / Capital Market Terminology
7. English to Hindi - Administrative / Banking / Capital Market Terminology (Administrative / Banking / Capital Market Terminology)
SEBI Grade A Exam Pattern 2022
SEBI Grade A Phase I Exam Pattern
1. An online examination consisting of two papers of 100 marks each.
2. Paper-1 will be of 60 minutes (1 hour) duration and common for all streams.
3. Paper-2 will consist of Multiple-Choice Questions, the duration of each section is 40 minutes.
4. The Aggregate Cut-off to be scored is 40%.
5. There shall be a negative marking of ¼th mark for both Paper-1 & 2.
| S.No. | Subject | No.of Question | Marks | Duration |
| Paper 1 | General Awareness (including some questions related to Financial Sector of easy to moderate difficulty level), English Language, Quantitative Aptitude, Test of Reasoning. | 100 | 100 | 60 Minutes |
| Paper 2 | Commerce, Accountancy, Management, Finance, Costing, Companies Act and Economics. | 100 | 100 | 40 Minutes |
| Legal, Information Technology, Engineering Stream (Civil & Electrical), Official Language stream: Multiple choice questions on Specializedsubject related to the stream. | 100 | 100 | 40 Minutes | |
| Research Stream:- Multiple choice questions on subjects Economics, Econometrics, Statistics, Finance, and Commerce. |
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| Total | 300 | 300 | 140 Minutes |
SEBI Grade A Phase II Exam Pattern
1. An online examination consisting of two papers of 100 marks each.
2. Paper-1 will be descriptive in nature and the duration will be 60 minutes (1 hour)
3. Paper-2 will consist of Multiple-Choice Questions, the duration of each section is 40 minutes.
4. The Aggregate Cut-off to be scored is 50%.
5. There shall be negative marking (1/4th of marks assigned to the question) for Paper 2 in Phase II
| S.No | Subject | Cut Off | Marks | Duration |
| Paper 1 | All streams:-English (Descriptive Test) to test the drafting skills | 30% | 100 | 60 Minutes |
| Paper 2 | General Stream:-Commerce, Accountancy, Management, Finance, Costing, Companies Act, and Economics. | 40 | 100 | 40 Minutes |
| Legal, Engineering Stream (Civil & Electrical) and Official Language stream: Specialized subject-related to stream | 40 % | 100 | 40 Minutes | |
| Research Stream:-Economics, Econometrics, Statistics, Finance, and Commerce | ||||
| Information Technology Stream: Coding Test (Languages: C++/JAVA/Python) | 40% | 100 | 180 Minutes |
SEBI Grade A Phase III Exam : Interview Based
SEBI Grade A Exam Date 2022
SEBI Grade A Phase 1 Exam Date 2022 : 20th February 2022
SEBI Grade A Phase 2 Exam Date 2022 : 20th March 2022 & 03rd April 2022 (IT)
Starting Date of Application Form : 05th January 2022
Last Date of Application Form : 24th January 2022
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