The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) announced the results of the Chartered Accountants or CA Final and Foundation examination, and Common Proficiency Test (CPT) today, July 20th. The results were expected at 6 p.m., but were declared at around 2:30 p.m. All candidates who have appeared for the examination can check their ICAI results at the official website, icaiexam.icai.org. The ICAI CA and CPT results will also be available on caresults.icai.org and icai.nic.in.

The top rank in the CPT exam was bagged by Atul Agarwal from Jaipur, who scored 77.25%. The second and third rank were secured by Aagam Sandibhai Dalal (76.88%) from Ahmedabad and Anurag Bagaria (74.63%) from Surat, respectively. The overall pass percentage for the ICAI CPT 2018 exam for group I is 16.09%, group II is 13.59%, and group III is 9.09%, according to the Indian Express.

ICAI has also declared the all-India merit list, which will list the top 50 ranks for the Final and Foundation CA examinations. All the above exams were held in the month of May and June 2018.

A total of 121,850 candidates participated in the final exam under the old course and a total of 5,406 candidates participated under the new course.

Here is how to check the ICAI CA 2018 results

  1. Log on the ICAI Exam website.    
  2. Click on the result band on the website.    
  3. Click on the result (CPT/Foundation/Final (Old)/Final (New) link whichever is relevant.    
  4. Alternatively click on the direct link to check CPT, Foundation, Final (Old), or Final (New).    
  5. Enter the log in credentials and click on ‘Check Results’.    

Candidates can also check Merit list for Foundation, Final (Old), and Final (New) by clicking on the link and entering the log in credentials and clicking on ‘Check Result’.

The students for all three examinations will also get the result delivered on their registered email ID. Apart from that, candidates can also access the result via SMS, the details of which are as below.

For Final Examination (Old Course) CAFNLOLD (space) XXXXXX (Where XXXXXX is the six digit Final examination roll number of the candidate).

Final Examination (New Course) CAFNLNEW (space)XXXXXX (Where XXXXXX is the six digit Final examination roll number of the candidate).

For Foundation Examination result in the following: CAFND (Space)XXXXXX (where XXXXXX is the six digit Foundation Examination roll number of the candidate).

For Common Proficiency Test (CPT) result the following: CACPT(Space)XXXXXX (where XXXXXX is the six digit Common Proficiency Test roll number of the candidate.

Candidates must send the above text to 58888.