One of my students who had just started preparing for the SEBI Grade A Exam called me for guidance last week.
She was looking for some direction and inputs. The exam was still a few months down the line.
On call, she asked how she could know that she had a sureshot plan to succeed.
After all, weren’t there thousands of candidates who were likely to attempt the exam for merely a handful of vacancies, about 25-30, and even fewer in the general category?
Of course, she would work hard, attempt the mocks, etc., but how could she be sure that she was positioned to win?
Was there a sureshot plan? How could she know that her plan was sureshot?
How is she going to stand out amongst thousands of other candidates?
These are very valid questions.
Thousands of aspirants who prepare for the SEBI Exam have these questions. Not getting the answers to these questions prevents them from going all out for their preparation.
When our counsellors answer these questions, they immediately notice a massive difference in the motivation levels of our students.
Hence, we decided to provide some clarity to all of you about the most popular question that government job aspirants have when they are preparing for the SEBI Grade A Exam.
- The competition is very low compared to other exams like UPSC or judiciary, where lakhs of candidates attempt the exam. Number of candidates attempting UPSC has now crossed 9 lakhs and it increases every year. In contrast, the number of candidates attempting SEBI Grade A Exam has not increased since 2020 and hover around 6.5 – 7.5k. Many good candidates are not aware of this exam. For law the number would be a small fraction of this!
- Even though the seats are few, most candidates do not prepare seriously or separately for this exam. Unlike judiciary or UPSC, most people appear in this exam without any specific prep at all. Which means if you prepare specifically for this exam, you will be miles ahead of your competition!
- The notification is itself issued one month before the exam. Most people start studying at that time! That is too late to start to even cover the syllabus. Most candidates are apprehensive of vacancies being notified and defer preparation until the last moment.
- There are almost no coaching classes. Most online coaching for this exam is absolutely fake, with zero track record of their students cracking the exam. They just give you some recorded videos and pdf in the name of a course. Answer writing practice is very critical to crack the exam, but they provide no support for this!
- A lot of people are not comfortable with all the corporate law and company law they have to learn to crack this exam. This makes a lot of people very uncomfortable about preparing for this exam, even though it is easy to learn corporate and securities law subjects.
Have you ever heard of anyone who dedicatedly prepared for this exam? Which means if you prepare in a dedicated manner, you can absolutely crush it.
Other people’s inefficiency and fear is your opportunity.
What makes your success in this exam a certainty?
- Good news is that you have started preparing early, approx. 5-6 months before the exam. Even though the syllabus is limited, you still need approx. 500 total hours of preparation, so it is important that you start 5-6 months before. You have started preparation early, and if you continue to invest 3-4 hours per day, you will be in a good place.
- The exam paper format has recently been modified, and SEBI has introduced subjective-type questions in Phase 2. Rote learning is no longer sufficient to clear the exam. You can use this change to your advantage, by practising writing descriptive answers and obtaining feedback over the entire duration of your preparation. Remember that if you can write descriptive answers accurately for the syllabus, you can answer the other types of questions easily. Hardly anyone will practise in this manner, especially not until they have cleared Phase 1. After that there is not enough time. I am repeating: practising answer writing will be a clincher in this exam this year, and almost nobody is practising this!
- What if for some reason I still don’t clear the exam despite extensive preparation? What if I fall sick on the day of the exam? Will I have alternatives available to me?
Since the SEBI Grade A Exam requires you to develop extensive knowledge of corporate and securities laws, you can easily crack interviews at law firms, banks, financial institutions, large companies and fintech startups even if you fail to become a SEBI law officer. So all your hard work and preparation will not go to waste if you miss the opportunity somehow.
You will have much superior knowledge compared to anyone else who is applying for these jobs thanks to your hardcore SEBI law officer exam prep.
If you are interested in public sector jobs, you could also leverage your SEBI Grade A preparation to attempt other banking sector exams such as IBPS SO Exam which leads to jobs in PSU banks, or RBI Grade B Officers Exam, etc. with some additional study, as these exams have a very similar syllabus. Your fate is not dependent on one exam.
- What if you want to re-attempt the exam? Is it a good idea?
Definitely. In case you want to re-attempt the exam, we will support you in that as well. Anyone who does a 2nd attempt has a higher likelihood of cracking it. However, you do not need to sacrifice one year or more to exclusively prepare for the exam in your gap year, as you can work at very good jobs while preparing on the side. This will help you to be financially independent and secure, build confidence and even acquire practical experience that could be used in the interview!
- If you want to succeed at anything in life, you must have a strong support system in place. Very few people succeed on the basis of your personal willpower and hard work in isolation. Willpower can fall short from time to time over a long journey, and hard work in the wrong direction will not lead to results. Although willpower and hard work are both critical for your success, you are 10x more likely to get the fruits of your effort if you have the right systems in place to support your hard work and determination.
- The good news is that you have already taken some steps to put in a system that supports you. That is how we are in touch in the first place. Clarity is the key to staying motivated.
You can benefit from our support system and community even further.
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And much more…