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At a glance
The facts most likely to change your decision.
- Vacancies
- Not announced Vacancies will be added only after an official notice publishes them. The previous cycle (Officer Grade A 2025) advertised 110 posts across seven streams — General 56, Legal 20, Information Technology 22, Research 4, Official Language 3, Engineering (Electrical) 2 and Engineering (Civil) 3.
- Education
- Graduate · Postgraduate · Professional degree In the previous cycle (Officer Grade A 2025), the General stream needed a Master's degree or a two-year postgraduate diploma in any discipline, an LLB, a BE, or CA/CFA/CS/Cost Accountant; Legal needed an LLB; Information Technology a BE in any branch or a two-year postgraduate computing qualification; Research a specified Master's in economics, finance or statistics; Official Language a Master's in Hindi or Hindi Translation; and the Engineering streams a Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Civil Engineering.
- Age
- Not more than 30 years as on 30 Sep 2025 in the previous cycle (Officer Grade A 2025 advertisement), with relaxation up to five years for SC/ST and three years for OBC-NCL candidates against reserved posts; the next cycle's notice will fix its own cut-off date. Relaxations and cut-off dates are category-specific.
- Application fee
- ₹1,000 application fee cum intimation charges plus 18% GST for unreserved, OBC and EWS candidates, and ₹100 intimation charges plus 18% GST for SC/ST/PwBD candidates, in the previous cycle (Officer Grade A 2025); the next cycle's fee is not published yet. Use the official payment instructions only.
- Pay
- Officers in Grade A are placed in the scale ₹62500-3600(4)-76900-4050(7)-105250-EB-4050(4)-121450-4650(1)-126100, with gross emoluments at Mumbai of about ₹1,84,000 a month without accommodation and ₹1,43,000 with it, per the previous cycle's advertisement; probation runs for two years. Gross and in-hand pay vary by posting and allowance.
- Recruitment cycle
- Next cycle Central · All India
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Vacancies & reservation
What is known, what overlaps and what remains unreported.
Current published countNot announced
Check source ↗Category table not available here
Check the latest official notice for the post- and category-wise distribution.
How to read reservation: UR, EWS, OBC, SC and ST are vertical categories. PwBD, women, ex-servicemen and similar horizontal reservations can overlap them and must not be added again to the total.
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Complete timeline
One record from notification to final outcome.
No current-cycle dates announced
This timeline will be dated only after the recruiting body publishes a schedule.
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Who can apply?
A readable first check—not a legal eligibility decision.
Basic eligibility paths
- In the previous cycle (Officer Grade A 2025) a candidate could apply for a maximum of two streams, with a separate application and fee for each.
- Candidates who have appeared or will appear for their final examinations could sit Phase I and Phase II, but had to produce the qualifying certificate before the interview.
- Two years' post-qualification experience as an advocate is a desirable — not mandatory — qualification for the Legal stream, and carries interview weightage alongside the Engineering streams.
- Confirm education, age, nationality and category rules in the official current-cycle notice when it is published.
Relaxations & certificates
- SC/ST, OBC-NCL, PwBD and ex-servicemen relaxations follow the applicable notification.
- Always check the certificate format and cut-off date in the official notice.
If your degree title, age, domicile or category certificate is unusual, mark yourself “check required” and read the official wording.
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Selection process & syllabus
Stage by stage, without mixing recruitment years.
Selection stages
- 1Phase I on-line screening examination — two papers of 100 marks each
- 2Phase II on-line examination — two papers of 100 marks each, including a descriptive English paper
- 3Phase III interview — Phase II carries 85% weight and the interview 15%, per the Officer Grade A 2025 advertisement
Syllabus snapshot
- Phase I Paper 1 (all streams) covers General Awareness including the financial sector, English Language, Quantitative Aptitude and Test of Reasoning — 100 marks in 60 minutes; Paper 2 is stream-specific, with Commerce, Accountancy, Management, Finance, Costing, Companies Act and Economics for the General stream.
- Phase II Paper 1 is a descriptive English test of drafting skills for all streams; Paper 2 is the stream's specialised subject, descriptive for the Research and Official Language streams.
- A quarter of the marks is deducted for each wrong multiple-choice answer, and Phase I marks count only for shortlisting, not for final selection.
- Use only the official current-cycle syllabus when it is published; the annexure to each advertisement carries the detailed subject list.
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Application document checklist
Prepare before the portal gets busy.
Recent passport-size photograph and scanned signature
Government photo ID with the same name used in the application
Education certificates and marksheets
Category, EWS, PwBD or ex-serviceman certificate, if claimed
Domicile or language proof where the notification requires it
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Official links & source record
Go straight to the recruiting body.
- Primary source
- SEBI careers page and the Officer Grade A 2025 detailed advertisement
- Published / changed
- Careers page checked 4 Aug 2026; previous-cycle advertisement opened applications 30 Oct 2025
- Last checked
- 4 Aug 2026, 18:40 IST
Official notices, corrigenda and recruiting-body pages have final authority. This page is a reading aid.