CA Exam: Plea Filed In Supreme Court Seeks Opt-Out Option For These Students

New Delhi: A student of Chartered Accountancy (CA) has knocked on the doors of the Supreme Court via a plea seeking various directions to the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI). The orders sought are regarding the December 2021 cycle of CA Foundation, Intermediate and Final exams.

The petitioner has urged alternative arrangements in isolation rooms for students who are COVID symptomatic to take the exam.

According to the petitioner, Sanjeev K Arora, request has also been made to not make the RT PCR reports mandatory for COVID symptomatic students. Instead, he pleaded to consider medical certificates sufficient for opting out of the December cycle and making the attempt in the next cycle of CA exam.

“Insistence on an RTPCR report (within 72 hours) for the examination scheduled to be held from 05.12.2021 to 19.12.2021, is impracticable and unfeasible for the students preparing to write the exams as the examination cycle lasts for 15 days and not a single day stint and it is impracticable to get the RTPCR report after every 2nd exam,” the plea urged as reported by Careers360.

In a previous hearing, the top court had ordered the ICAI to tweak the rules to provide students with the opt-out facility.

The exams are slated to be held from December 5 to 20.

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