CA Final May 2025: Examination Guidance
NOTES FOR INFORMATION AND GUIDANCE OF APPLICANTS OF CA FINAL EXAMINATION, MAY 2025
KEY POINTS AT A GLANCE
1) Detailed instructions for filling up the exam form online are enclosed. Candidates are advised to read, understand and follow the instructions carefully while filling up the form.
2) As a part of automation and platform consolidation, all candidates in respect of Final Examinations will be required to apply online at https://eservices.icai.org (Self Service Portal – SSP) for MAY 2025 Exam and also pay the requisite examination fee online. These forms are based on your eligibility of your course based on announcements and regulations. These forms will be available on SSP, and you are requested to login with your credentials (Username and password).
Kindly Note: In case you are an existing student and never registered as a user in SSP, Kindly open the following URL: https://eservices.icai.org/EForms/configuredHtml/1666/57499/Registration.html?action=existing Please use forgot password option in case you have forgotten or lost your password. Students are also requested to Create User Name, Register Course, Convert Course, Update Photo, Signature and Address on SSP only.
Before proceeding to fill up the exam form online, candidates must ensure the following:
DO NOT OPEN MORE THAN ONE SESSION AT THE SAME TIME ON THE SAME COMPUTER WHILE FILLING THE ONLINE FORM. i.e. do not fill more than one form the same time on the same computer even if you are filling the two applications using different browsers or different tabs of the same browser.
Clear the temporary internet files and cookies before filling up each form.
Fill up the form at a suitable time and from a location where you have a good bandwidth available. Do NOT fill the form using mobile phones.
a. Candidates are required to have valid login credentials on SSP. If not, please visit https://eservices.icai.org/EForms/configuredHtml/1666/57499/Registration.html?action=existing to create the login.
b. Candidates are required to have valid course registration. In case of lapsed course registration, please make sure to convert on SSP.
Conversion: Candidate whose course code in their dashboard is neither NEWFIN23 nor CONFIN23 need to convert to new course before making application for MAY 2025. No feesis required to be paid. For Conversion, use your login credentials of SSP and Go to Student Functions- -> Student Module –>Course
Registration–> Apply for Conversion Convert Old to New Course.
Candidates whose latest photograph and signature are not available or are not of acceptable quality to be printed on marksheets are required to upload/ change the same on the Self Service Portal before filling up the exam form. The photograph/signatures must be as per the prescribed format given at the
https://www.icai.org/post/exam-may-2025 under the title Requirements for Applying for MAY 2025 Exams.
c. Candidates whose articleship status (Final) is in pending mode i.e. other than Registered (Registered_inactive, Requested, Terminated, Requested for Termination, Approved by Member, Submitted, Asked for Correction, Saved, On Hold, Awaiting Competent Authority Approval, Rejected, Rejected by Member, Rejected by RO) for want of documentation are required to get their Articleship Training Deed status updated on SSP as “Registered‟). For Articleship Status, use your login credentials
of SSP and Go to Article Functions–> Articleship/Audit–> Articleship–> Articleship Application (Form
102/103). For any clarification, contact at e mail ids/phone nos. at https://resource.cdn.icai.org/29576contact-sro19221.pdf
For any other correction required please raise a ticket in SSP or send mail to [email protected]
d. The list of Cities where the exam will be conducted for MAY 2025 provided sufficient number of candidates offer themselves to appear from each of the cities is given at https://www.icai.org/post/exam-may-2025 under the title City Master – May 2025. Kindly ensure that you pick the correct city and correct city code is displayed in the exam form.
The valid exemption as per papers in New Scheme will be auto displayed in the exam form filling area in SSP.
However, Candidates are required to verify the same and give details of exemptions that they feel are not covered. You may write to [email protected], in case of any doubt.
e. Payment is to be made online only.
After filling up the form, check the same to see if all the details, (more particularly the fields relating to, medium, centre, Group applied and Exemption), have been filled in correctly before proceeding to make online payment.
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