SEBI Grade A Syllabus 2022: Download free syllabus PDF here!

Security Exchange Board of India conducts SEBI Grade A Recruitment Exam. The notification for SEBI Grade A Exam 2022 has been released on January 5, 2022. Candidates who are aspiring to appear for the exam should know all the details about the exam such as eligibility criteria, exam pattern, syllabus and so on. SEBI Grade A syllabus comprises of the important list of topics from which questions are asked in the exam. Knowing the syllabus is important to score well in the exam.

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Along with the syllabus, candidates should also know about the exam pattern in detail. Read this article to know everything about SEBI Grade A syllabus and so on. If you are preparing for competitive exams and are looking for expert guidance, you can check out our monthly FREE Current Affairs Ebook- Download Now.

SEBI Grade A Syllabus 2022

SEBI Grade A Syllabus: Paper I

• Puzzles
• Seating Arrangements
• Direction Sense
• Blood Relations
• Syllogisms
• Inequalities
• Order and Ranking
• Coding-Decoding
• Machine Input-Output
• Alpha-Numeric-Symbol Series
• Data Sufficiency
• Number System and Conversions
• Logical Reasoning etc.

• Error Spotting
• Column based Fillers and Sentence Connectors
• Paragraph Completion
• Sentence Rearrangement
• Comprehension
• Fill in the Blanks
• Passages
• Synonyms and Antonyms
• Active and Passive Voice
• Direct and Indirect Speech
• Idioms & Phrases etc.

• Data Interpretation
• Inequalities
• Number Series
• Approximation and Simplification
• Data Sufficiency
• HCF and LCM
• Inequality (Quadratic & Quantity based)
• Profit and Loss
• Time and work & Pipe and cistern
• Permutation, Combination & Probability
• Problem on Ages
• Work and Time
• Speed Distance and Time
• Mensuration
• Average, Ratio and Proportion, etc.

• Current Affairs
• Financial Awareness
• Current Affairs – National & International
• Budget
• Awards and Honours
• Important Financial & Economic News
• Important Days
• International & National Organizations
• Sports
• Books and Authors
• Science – Inventions & Discoveries
• Countries & Capitals etc

SEBI Grade A Syllabus: Paper II

• Management:-its nature and scope; The Management Processes. Planning, Organization, Staffing, Directing, and Controlling.
• The Role of a Manager in an Organization. Leadership: The Tasks of a Leader.
• Leadership Styles;-Leadership Theories;A successful Leader versus an effective Leader.
• Human Resource Development:-Concept of HRD; Goals of HRD
• Motivation, Morale, and Incentives:-Theories of Motivation; How Managers Motivate; Concept of Morale; Factors determining morale; Role of Incentives in Building up Morale.
• Communication: Steps in the Communication Process; Communication Channels; Oral versus Written Communication; Verbal versus non-verbal Communication; upward, downward and lateral communication; Barriers to Communication, Role of Information Technology.

• Accounting as a financial information system
• Accounting Standards with specific reference to Accounting for Depreciation, Inventories, Revenue Recognition, Fixed Assets, Foreign Exchange Transactions, Investments.
• Cash Flow Statement, Fund flow statement, Financial statement analysis; Ratio analysis
• Accounting for Share Capital Transactions including Bonus Shares, Right Shares.
• Employees Stock Option and Buy-Back of Securities.
• Preparation and Presentation of Company Final Accounts.

Financial Markets:- Primary and Secondary Markets (Forex, Money, Bond, Equity, etc.), functions, instruments, recent developments.

General topics:-

• Basics of Derivatives: Forward, Futures, and Swap
• Recent Developments in the Financial Sector
• Financial Inclusion- use of technology
• Alternate source of finance, private and social cost-benefit, Public-Private Partnership
• Direct and Indirect taxes;-Non-tax sources of Revenue, GST, Finance Commission, Fiscal Policy, Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act(FRBM),
• Inflation:-Definition, trends, estimates, consequences, and remedies (control): WPI, CPI-components, and trends

• Overview of Cost and Management Accounting- Introduction to Cost and Management Accounting, Objectives and Scope of Cost and Management Accounting.
• Methods of Costing- Single Output/ Unit Costing, Job Costing, Batch Costing, Contract Costing, Process/ Operation Costing, Costing of Service Sectors.
• Basics of Cost Control and Analysis- (a) Standard Costing, (b) Marginal Costing, (c) Budget, and Budgetary Control.
• Lean System and Innovation - Introduction to Lean System, Just-in-Time (JIT), Kaizen Costing, 5 Ss, Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), Cellular Manufacturing/ One-Piece Flow Production Systems, Six Sigma (SS), Introduction to Process Innovation and Business Process Re-engineering(BPR)

• Demand and Supply, Market Structures, National Income:-Concepts and Measurement, Classical Vs Keynesian Approach Determination of output and employment, Consumption Function, Investment Function, Multiplier and Accelerator, Demand and Supply for Money, IS-LM, Inflation and Phillips Curve, Business Cycles
• Balance of Payments, Foreign Exchange Markets, Inflation, Monetary and Fiscal Policy, Non-banking Financial Institutions.

SEBI Grade A Syllabus: Stream-wise

Legal Stream

Information Technology

Phase 1 

• Database Concepts
• SQL Queries
• Programming Concepts (Java/C C++ )
• Data Analytics Languages (Python / R)
• Algorithms for problem-solving
• Networking Concepts
• Information & Cyber Security Concepts
• Data warehousing
• Shell Programming

Phase 2 

Research

Economics: 

• Demand and Supply
• Market Structures
• National Income
• Determination of output and employment
• Investment Function
• Multiplier and Accelerator
• Demand and Supply for Money
• IS-LM, Inflation and Phillips Curve
• Business Cycles
• Inflation
• Monetary and Fiscal Policy
• Non-banking Financial Institutions

Public Economics: 

• Public Goods
• Tax & Non-Tax Revenue
• Direct & Indirect Taxes
• Progressive and Non-Progressive Taxation
• Incidence and Effects of Taxation
• Public expenditure
• Public Debt
• Public Budget
• Budget Multiplier

Statistics and Econometrics: 

• Measures of Central tendency & dispersions
• Correlation
• Sampling methods
• Sampling Distribution
• Statistical Inferences
• Hypothesis testing
• Regression Analysis

International Economics: 

• Balance of Payments
• Foreign Exchange Markets
• Role of International Financial Institutions: BIS, IOSCO, IMF & World Bank

Financial Markets: 

• Asymmetric Information
• Market Model
• Market Efficiency
• Primary Market
• Secondary Market
• Commodity Markets
• Mutual Funds
• Stock Exchanges
• Depositories
• Clearing Corporations
• Credit Rating Agencies
• Corpo
• rate Debt Market
• Forwards, Futures, Options, Hedging,
• Speculation and Arbitrage

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