Exam Weightage
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CA Inter chapter-wise weightage: where the marks sat in all 6 papers.

Every question in the 7 New Scheme CA Inter attempts, May 2024 – May 2026, read, mapped to the chapter or standard it tests, and counted. Below is the top of each paper, and each links to its free extract with the A/B/C bands.

All 6 papers at a glance

PaperUnitsHalf the marksEvery attemptMost marks, avg per 100
Advanced Accounting3364AS 14 Accounting for Amalgamations 12.4
Law15511The Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999 12.8
Taxation: Income-tax Law923Income Tax Liability - Computation and Optimisation 35.9
Taxation: Goods and Services Tax1542Input Tax Credit 20.1
Costing15610Budgets and Budgetary Control 10.7
Audit52122SA 300 Planning an Audit of Financial Statements 9.6
FM & SM: Financial Management947Management of Working Capital 19
FM & SM: Strategic Management535Strategic Choices 24.6

Units: chapters or standards ranked in that paper. Half the marks: how many of the top units carried half of them. Every attempt: units set in all 7 attempts.

Taxation: ICAI has announced that CA Inter Income-tax is examined under the Income-tax Act, 2025 from the May 2027 attempt; every Income-tax question counted here was set under the Income-tax Act, 1961. Chapter weights are a record of those papers.

P2 Corporate and Other Laws

5 of 15 chapters carried half the marks (51.6 per 100). Top three by average marks per 100:

  1. The Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999 12.8 · set in 7 of 7 attempts
  2. The Limited Liability Partnership Act, 2008 11.6 · set in 7 of 7 attempts
  3. The General Clauses Act, 1897 10.2 · set in 7 of 7 attempts

Free CA Inter Law extract, top 7 with bands →

P3 Taxation

Income-tax Law

2 of 9 chapters carried half the marks (58.8 per 100). Top three by average marks per 100:

  1. Income Tax Liability - Computation and Optimisation 35.9 · set in 7 of 7 attempts
  2. Heads of Income (Salaries, House Property, PGBP, Capital Gains, Other Sources) 22.9 · set in 7 of 7 attempts
  3. Advance Tax, Tax Deduction at Source and Tax Collection at Source 10.9 · set in 7 of 7 attempts

Goods and Services Tax

4 of 15 chapters carried half the marks (51.3 per 100). Top three by average marks per 100:

  1. Input Tax Credit 20.1 · set in 7 of 7 attempts
  2. Charge of GST 12.3 · set in 5 of 7 attempts
  3. Exemptions from GST 9.7 · set in 6 of 7 attempts

Free CA Inter Taxation extract, top 4 with bands →

P5 Auditing and Ethics

12 of 52 standards and topics carried half the marks (51.4 per 100). Top three by average marks per 100:

  1. SA 300 Planning an Audit of Financial Statements 9.6 · set in 7 of 7 attempts
  2. Bank Audit (RBI norms / LFAR) 5.3 · set in 7 of 7 attempts
  3. SA 315 Identifying and Assessing the Risks of Material Misstatement 5.1 · set in 6 of 7 attempts

Free CA Inter Audit extract, top 10 with bands →

P6 Financial Management and Strategic Management

Financial Management

4 of 9 chapters carried half the marks (59.1 per 100). Top three by average marks per 100:

  1. Management of Working Capital 19 · set in 7 of 7 attempts
  2. Financial Analysis and Planning - Ratio Analysis 13.8 · set in 7 of 7 attempts
  3. Investment Decisions 13.4 · set in 7 of 7 attempts

Strategic Management

3 of 5 chapters carried half the marks (65.4 per 100). Top three by average marks per 100:

  1. Strategic Choices 24.6 · set in 7 of 7 attempts
  2. Strategic Analysis: External Environment 20.4 · set in 7 of 7 attempts
  3. Strategy Implementation and Evaluation 20.4 · set in 7 of 7 attempts

Free CA Inter FM & SM extract, top 4 with bands →

Quick answers

Is this ICAI's official CA Inter weightage?
No. ICAI's syllabus gives a percentage range for each section of a paper. This page counts the marks actually set in each of the last 7 papers, question by question.
How many attempts is it based on?
All 7 New Scheme attempts so far, May 2024 – May 2026. Every paper and suggested answer is on the free ICAI resources page.
Does it tell me what will come in my paper?
No. It records where the marks sat. In our back-test, no model that leaned on recent papers beat the plain long-run average by a margin worth acting on.

What this does not tell you

It is not a prediction. We back-tested three ways of ranking these units against the actual results: a plain long-run average, a recency-weighted model, and one weighted by how often a topic recurs. None of the clever ones beat the plain average by a margin worth acting on. 7 attempts is not enough data for "trending chapters" to mean anything, so we do not sell that idea. What you are looking at is where the marks have sat, which is a far better basis for planning than a guess, and still not a forecast. Read the disclaimer.

Every unit, every paper

The free pages show the top half of each ranking at most. The CA Inter reports rank every unit in every paper, band them A-must / B-should / C-skim, map each one to the study-material headings ICAI set questions on, and list every RTP and MTP question with whether it came in a later exam.

See the CA Inter Group 1 report Group 2 report

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CA Final chapter-wise weightage · RTP and MTP questions that came in the exam · Free ICAI papers, RTPs and MTPs