Modification in the Scheme for Providing Inspection/Certified Copies of Evaluated Answer Books to the Concerned Examinees

Announcement dated 1^st August 2013

Modification in the Scheme for providing inspection/certified copies of evaluated answer books to the concerned examinees

The Council, at its 326th meeting held on 27-29th July 2013 decided that the following modifications be made in the existing scheme for providing certified copies/inspection of evaluated answer books to the examinees:

1. The time limit for preferring an application by an examinee for inspection and/or certified copy (ies) of his/her evaluated answer book(s), shall henceforth, be one month from the date of declaration of result of the respective examination;

2. The fees for seeking certified copies/inspection of evaluated answer books shall remain at the existing level, i.e. Rs 500/- per paper. However, the existing provision for submission of the said application with late fee, be discontinued;

3. Before providing certified copies/inspection of evaluated answer books to the examinees, verification of answer books, within the scope of Regulation 39(4), will be carried out, by the office, suo motu, in respect of all applications for inspection and/or certified copy of evaluated answer book(s).

Verification under Regulation 39(4) covers the following aspects:

·         Whether any question or part thereof has remained unvalued

·         Whether there is any totaling error in any question or total marks on the cover page

·         Whether there is any discrepancy between the stepwise marks, total marks for each question indicated on the cover page

4. Consequent upon supply of certified copies/inspection of evaluated answer books, discrepancy if any, within the scope of verification as envisaged in Regulation 39(4) is noticed by the examinees, the examinees shall have the option to bring it to the notice of the office, within one month from the date of dispatch of certified copies/inspection of evaluated answer books.

The above decision will be applicable with effect from the results of Intermediate (IPC) examination held in May 2013 onwards.

Since the results of Final Examination, CPT and ISA(AT) held in May/June 2013 have already been declared , the above decision shall apply to these exams from November/December 2013 and onwards.

Click here to download the complete text of the above Announcement in PDF Format.

Source: The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.