SEBI Grade A Mock Tests, Syllabus & Complete Exam Guide

SEBI Grade A is the recruitment examination conducted by the Securities and Exchange Board of India to select Officers of Grade A, designated Assistant Managers. SEBI — the Securities and Exchange Board of India — was established in 1988 and became a statutory body under the SEBI Act, 1992; it is the regulator responsible for protecting investors and developing and regulating India's securities market. Grade A officers form the entry-level officer cadre that carries out this regulatory and developmental work across several specialised streams.

Recruitment is across streams — General, Legal, Information Technology, Research and Official Language — and the selection has three parts: Phase I, an online objective screening test with a general Paper 1 and a stream-specific Paper 2; Phase II, a main examination with objective and descriptive papers; and an Interview. The objective papers carry one-fourth (0.25) negative marking, so accuracy under time matters, and final merit is based on the Phase II and interview performance.

Phase I Paper 1 rewards breadth across four areas: general awareness with a strong securities-market and financial-sector focus, English, quantitative aptitude and reasoning. Because SEBI regulates the securities market, invest early in understanding the market's building blocks — shares, bonds, mutual funds, IPOs, stock exchanges and the roles of regulators like SEBI and the RBI — alongside banking and economy basics and durable static GK.

Quantitative aptitude and reasoning are the most scoreable with practice: drill percentage, interest, ratio, averages, data interpretation, series, coding-decoding and syllogism until they are quick and accurate. English rewards grammar, vocabulary and comprehension. Since every wrong objective answer costs a quarter mark, attempt with discipline. For Phase II, build depth in your chosen stream and practise the descriptive paper, and use full-length timed mocks to master pacing under the real clock.