·   Enriching Vocabulary-Choice of words, Synonyms, and Antonyms

·   Common errors in English

·   Words with multiple meaning

·   One word substitution

·   Words frequently misspelled

·   Homophones

·   Idioms and phrases

·   Proverbs

·   Abbreviations

·   Para jumbles

·   Sentence completion

·   Sentence arrangement

·   Sentence correction

·   Foreign    words    and    phrases    commonly used

·   Comprehension     of   passage    and    art    of

Summarizing

·   Business Communication- Principles  and Process

·   Means of Communication- Written, Oral,Visual, Audiovisual

Choice of Modes of Communication

·   Communication Networks- Vertical, Circuit, Chain, Wheel, Star

·   Commonly used Mediums of Digital Communication- Email, SMS, Voice mail, Multimedia, Teleconferencing, Mobile Phone Conversation, Video Conferencing, etc.

·   Listening Skills-Types, Purpose,  Steps to Effective Listening, Barriers to Effective Listening and Ways to Overcome the Barriers

·   Barriers to Effective  Communication and Ways to Overcome the Barriers

·   Positive Messages, Negative Messages, and Persuasive Messages

·   Business Reports, Inter, and Intra- departmental Communication- Office Orders, Office Circulars, Memorandum, Office Notes, Management Information System (MIS)

·   Concept of Web, Internet, and E- correspondence

·   Intranet- Benefit and Purpose

·   Email- Features,  Procedure  to Write a Formal Email, Email Etiquettes

·   Essential Elements of Email- Subject line, Formal Greeting, Target Audience (Reader), Clarity and Conciseness, Formal Closing, Proofreading, Feedback

·   Advantages and Disadvantages of Email

Legal Aptitude and Logical Reasoning

Legal Aptitude (25 marks)

·   Citizenship

·   Fundamental     Rights     and    Fundamental Duties

·   Directive Principles of State Policy

·   State under the Constitution

·   President and Governors

·   Council of Ministers and Prime Minister

·   Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha, and Legislative Assembly, Legislative Council

·   Supreme Court and High Courts

·   Landmark Amendment in Constitution

·   List      of      subjects-Centre,        State       and Concurrent

·   Offer,     Acceptance,      Consideration, and Competency to Contract.

·   Agreement

·   Types      of     Contract:       Void,      Voidable, Unenforceable

·   Performance of Contract

·   Frustration of Contract

·   Quasi Contract

·   Breach of Contract and Remedies

·   Basics of Torts

·   Specific Defenses

·   Nuisance and Negligence

·   Strict, Absolute and Vicarious Liability

·   Trespass

·   Malicious Prosecution

·   Vision, Mission, Motto and Core Value of the Institute

·   Company Secretary under Company Secretaries Act, 1980.

·   Functions of Company Secretary under the Companies Act, 2013

·   Role of Company Secretary in Employment

·   Role of Company Secretary in Practice

·   Types of Companies

·   Incorporation of a Company

·   Types of capital

·   Board          of         Directors          -(Concept, Appointment, and Removal of Directors)

·   Board Meetings & Shareholders Meetings

·   Corporate Social Responsibility

·   Business Ethics

·   Ethical Dilemma

·   Legal       Problems        –       Reading        and understanding a case

·   Legal Terminology and Maxims

·   Legal Reasoning-

(a)   Reasoning by Analogy

(b)   Inductive and Deductive Reasoning

·   Questions of Fact (or factual issues)

·   Questions of Law (or legal issues)

·   Landmark Judgments of Supreme  Court and High Court

·   Reading Comprehension

Logical Reasoning (25 marks)

·   Cause and Effect Reasoning

·   Clocks

·   Coding and Decoding

·   Deriving Conclusion from Passages

·   Drawing Inference

·   Number Test

·   Sequence and Series

·   Statement and Assumptions

·   Alpha Numeric Sequence Puzzle

·   Analogy

·   Assertion and Reason

·   Blood Relations

·   Decision Making

·   Inserting Missing Characters

·   Logical Sequence Test

·   Logical Venn Diagram

·   Number, Ranking and Time Sequence Test

·   Syllogism

·   Truth Tellers and Liars

·   Classification

·   Completion of Incomplete Pattern

·   Figure Matrix

·   Grouping of Identical Figures

·   Mirror Image

·   Rule Detection

·   Numeric and Alphabet Series

Economic & Business Environment

·         Equilibrium Price

·         Elasticity of Demand and Supply and other related concepts

·         Increase and Decrease in Demand and Expansion and Contraction of Demand

·         Forms of Market Competition- Monopoly, Duopoly, Oligopoly, Perfect Competition and Monopolistic Competition

·         Key variables of National Income (GNP, GDP, NNP, NDP, etc.)

·         Revenue and Capital Budget

·         Major components of Revenue and Capital Budget

·         Meaning of Fiscal Deficit

·         Components/ Variables covered under Fiscal Deficit

·         Key facets of the Indian financial system

·         Growth of Financial Institutions

·         Public and private sector banks

·         Industrial Finance Corporation of India Small Industries Development Bank of India

·         Regional Rural Banks

·         Cooperative Banks

·         Non-Banking Finance Companies

·         Basics of Capital Market: Types of Shares and Debentures

Financial assistance scenario for Small and Medium Enterprises and Start-Ups.

·         Secondary (Manufacturing)

·         Tertiary (Services):

·         Current scenario of agriculture and allied activities in India

·         Agricultural and Industrial Policies of India

·         Current scenario of the services sector in India

·         Balance of Payments

·         Components of Balance of Payments

·           Favorable and Unfavorable Balance of Trade

·         Foreign Investments in India- Types and Flows

·         Need for entrepreneurship in India

·         Bottlenecks in entrepreneurial growth

·         Features and factors influencing the business environment

·         Types of the environment: Economic environment, Socio-cultural environment,

Political environment, Legal and Technological environment

· Ease of Doing Business Index by World Bank for India and Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) for States

Current Affairs, Presentation & Communication Skills

·        International bodies (ASEAN, BRICS, SAARC, G-20, BIMSTEC, etc.)

·        Organizations like RBI, NABARD, CCI, IBBI, IMF, OECD, ADB, World Bank, etc.

·        Summits and conferences

·        Current development in Banking and Finance (digital banking, govt. initiatives, financial inclusion, etc.)

·        Current development in stock markets

·        Recent important judgments passed by Supreme Court and High Courts of India, Tribunals

·        Current affairs related to CS Institute/Profession and regulatory bodies

·        Current updates on the environment, biodiversity, climate change, and sustainable development

·        latest developments in science and technology, IT, Computers and Space science

·        Business personalities and leaders

·        Committees and appointments

·        Art and culture

·        Books and their authors

·        Awards and honours

·        Sports

·        Current political scenario

·        Initiatives/ schemes of the government

·        Language and national symbols

·        Governance and ethics

·         International diplomacy

Part B – Presentation & Communication Skills (Viva)(25 marks)

–        Monologue

–        Dialogue

·   Grammar Test

·   Vocabulary Test

Communication Skills

Correcting a given paragraph

·           Short Note writing

Essay writing

Precis Writing

–        Answer a question

–        Speak on a given topic

–        Explain the given term