CSEET Result October 2026 on 15 November at 2 PM; February 2027 Enrolment From 16 November

The CSEET result October 2026 will be declared on Sunday, 15 November 2026 at 2:00 PM, the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) has said in a result announcement issued by its Directorate of Examinations on 11 November 2026. The result covers the Company Secretary Executive Entrance Test (CSEET) October 2026 session held from 1 October to 6 October 2026, and it will show each candidate's subject-wise break-up of marks on www.icsi.edu.

That notice also fixes the next session. CSEET February 2027 will be held from Monday, 1 February to Thursday, 4 February 2027, and online enrolment with the examination fee opens on 16 November 2026, the day after the results. On 12 November ICSI added two student announcements for the October session: verification of marks can be sought from 16 November to 6 December 2026, and inspection or certified copies of answer books from 16 November to 15 December 2026.

How to check the CSEET October 2026 result and download the e-marksheet

Results go live on the ICSI website at 2:00 PM on 15 November. ICSI has already set up a result page for the CSEET October 2026 session with two entries, one for the result and one for a centre-wise provisional merit list. Both entries were still inactive on 12 November.

The formal e-Result-cum-Marks Statement will be uploaded on www.icsi.edu immediately after the declaration, for candidates to download for their reference, use and records. ICSI will not issue a physical copy of the statement, so candidates should download and keep the file on the day. For the June 2026 session, ICSI's CSEET page carried a "Click here to view Result and Download E-Mark Sheet" link next to the list of top three rank holders and an all-India merit list.

CSEET pass marks: 40% in each paper and 50% in aggregate

October 2026 was the second session of the restructured CSEET, which ICSI brought in from the June 2026 session through its announcement on restructuring of CSEET dated 10 April 2026. The test has four papers of 100 marks each, a total of 400. A candidate passes only by securing, in one sitting, at least 40% marks in each paper and 50% marks in the aggregate of all papers. There is no provision for exemption or carry forward of marks, so a candidate who falls short in one paper has to take all four again.

The two conditions apply separately, and a healthy total does not rescue a weak paper. As an illustration, consider two candidates:

• Candidate A scores 72 in Business Communication, 38 in Fundamentals of Accounting, 65 in Economic and Business Environment and 58 in Business Laws and Management. The aggregate is 233 out of 400, or 58.25%, comfortably above the 200 needed, but 38 is below the 40-mark floor in one paper. Result: not passed.
• Candidate B scores 45, 48, 52 and 50 in the same four papers. Each paper clears 40, but the aggregate is 195, five marks short of 200 (50% of 400). Result: not passed.

Candidates in Candidate B's position, close to the line on aggregate, are the ones most likely to apply for verification, and that is where the dates below start to matter.

CSEET October 2026 verification of marks, inspection and certified copies: fees and last dates

Under Regulation 42(2) of the Company Secretaries Regulations, 1982, a candidate may apply for verification of marks in any subject within 21 days from the declaration of the result. ICSI's announcement on verification of marks for the CSEET October 2026 session keeps the online facility open from 00:01 hrs on Monday, 16 November 2026 to 24:00 hrs on Sunday, 6 December 2026. The fee is ₹250 per subject and is non-refundable. Applications go only through the candidate's own account on the ICSI SMASH portal.

A separate announcement on inspection and certified copies of CSEET October 2026 answer books allows applications within 30 days of the result, from 00:01 hrs on 16 November to 24:00 hrs on Tuesday, 15 December 2026. Inspection costs ₹450 per subject and a certified copy ₹500 per subject. Inspection is not an online service: the candidate has to visit the ICSI Noida office at C-37, Sector 62, Institutional Area, Gautam Budh Nagar, Noida 201309 in person, at their own expense. Fees paid for either service are not refunded under any circumstances.

The verification window runs alongside enrolment for February 2027, and the two calendars do not fit together neatly. The restructuring announcement gives ICSI 30 days from receipt of a verification application to process it. A candidate who applies on 20 November 2026 could therefore get the outcome as late as 20 December 2026, after normal-fee enrolment closes on 15 December and on the last day of the late-fee window. Even an application on the first day, 16 November, carries an outer processing date of 16 December, one day past the normal-fee deadline. ICSI does not refund fees once paid, except for double payment, so a candidate who enrols for February while waiting on verification cannot recover the ₹1,500 examination fee if the verified marks turn into a pass. The choice is between that fee and the risk of missing the February session altogether.

CSEET February 2027 enrolment: dates, fee and the SIP condition

Candidates who do not clear the October session enrol for February 2027 from 16 November 2026. Under the enrolment schedule in the restructuring announcement, the February session takes enrolment with the normal fee of ₹1,500 from 16 November to 15 December of the previous year, and with an additional late fee of ₹250 from 16 December to 20 December. SC/ST and physically handicapped candidates get a 50% concession on the examination fee. Registration under the revised structure is valid for three years from the month of registration, so October candidates do not register again; they simply enrol for the new session.

Fresh registration for the February 2027 session closed on 31 October 2026, according to the February 2027 flyer on ICSI's Restructured CSEET page, which now shows registration open for the June 2027 session with 28 February 2027 as the last date. The flyer lists eligibility as Class 10 passed (provisional registration), Class 12 passed or appearing, or undergraduate students, and provisionally registered students may appear only after they furnish a Class 12 admit card, marksheet or equivalent. This is the wider entry route the ICSI Council approved in August, covered in CA Samaaj's report on the Council's decision to widen CSEET entry.

Enrolment also depends on the induction programme. Students registered in the restructured CSEET with effect from 16 December 2025 must complete a one-day Student Induction Programme (SIP) within one month of registration, and completion of SIP is a pre-requisite for enrolling in the CSEET examination, as ICSI's announcement introducing the Student Induction Programme states. Regional and chapter offices run the SIP batches; the helpdesk is 0120-4522000 and the email is training@icsi.edu. The same condition applied to the October session, as set out in the earlier report on the CSEET October 2026 late-fee enrolment deadline.

The February 2027 papers follow the restructured pattern, and ICSI's CSEET February 2027 time table fixes the dates. Every paper starts at 2:00 PM, and the first 15 minutes, from 2:00 PM to 2:15 PM, are reading time for the question paper.

No negative marking applies in the OMR paper. The test is held at designated examination centres in major cities, and the February 2027 flyer describes the mode as centre based, with pen and paper.

CS Executive registration after passing CSEET October 2026

A CSEET result is valid for one year from the date of its declaration, and students who pass must register for the CS Executive Programme within that year. For the October 2026 session, declared on 15 November 2026, the window runs into November 2027. Registration is done through the SMASH registration form for CSEET-passed students in the Executive Programme, which asks for soft copies of the candidate's photograph and signature, a date-of-birth document (the Class 10 pass certificate), a qualification certificate (Class 12 marksheet or certificate, or the CSEET pass certificate), a category certificate for candidates outside the general category, and an identity proof such as Aadhaar card, passport, voter ID, PAN card, driving licence or ration card. Files must be in jpg, jpeg, png, gif, bmp or pdf format and no larger than 2 MB; the photograph must be between 20 KB and 50 KB and the signature between 10 KB and 20 KB.

For some candidates who miss in October, another CSEET attempt is not the only route. The restructuring announcement exempts several categories from CSEET and lets them register directly in the CS Executive Programme, including graduates and post-graduates, CA Intermediate pass students, CMA Final pass students, and students appearing in the final year or final semester of a three-year undergraduate programme, who get provisional registration. A student now in the final year of a three-year degree can therefore skip the February 2027 CSEET and seek provisional registration in the Executive Programme directly.

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