When we choose a career path in our life, we should pass through the different stages to accomplish their goal as most of the aspirants tend to become a Company Secretary. It has three levels CSEET, CS Executive and CS Professional. If we come to the question, how difficult these stages are, it depends upon the learners capability. 

In this article, we’ll discuss the differences between CS Professional and CS Executive and determine which is more difficult.

CS Executive and CS Professional Overview

The CS Executive and CS Professional exams are imperative stages in the journey of becoming a company secretary with differ stages of complexities and challenges. Understand their differences for effective preparation.

CS Executive exam

It is the second stage of the CS course and the exams are held in offline mode at their exam centers. In this course 20% of the questions are objective type and 80% of the questions are descriptive type. It introduces the pupils about the technical and procedural aspects of company law, tax laws and other related laws.

CS Professional exam

It is the final and most advanced stage of the CS course and these exams are conducted by ICSI. In this course most of the syllabus is theoretical that is difficult to memorize. Also it demands a comprehensive understanding of the various laws, practices and processes involved in corporate governance and compliances.

Why is CS Professional tough?

Aspirants can see the comparative analysis and challenges faced by the each student in between the two in the following table:

How does a CS articleship make a tough CS Professional? 

After clearing the CS executive exams students should do the 21 months practical training on a full time basis that is required to be completed as per the ICSI rules. Students have the choice of doing articleship after clearing the CS executive exams or after clearing CS professional exams. Students who opt to do Training after clearing CS Executive exams, it makes the CS professional exams more difficult because it is difficult to handle the study pressure and training pressure at a time. Apart from that, it helps the students to learn the practical applications of the theoretical education scheme and it also provides an opportunity of job-work experience.

Key aspects

Here are the some key aspects of the CS Executive and Professional exam that every student should be aware of:

1. Subject overview: All of the aspirants should be aware about the subjects as in the executive level includes company law, tax law, securities law and economic law whereas the professional level covers insolvency law, secretarial audit, due diligence and so on.
2. Exam format: In the executive level exam questions are in objective and descriptive type, and in the professional level exam is primarily descriptive type with an open book format for some papers, both require theoretical, depth understanding of concepts and practical application of knowledge.
3. Preparation: It is the most important part of the exams. Study material provided by ICSI is sufficient for the executive stage but for the professional stage it is not enough, candidates need to refer to additional books, case studies and so on.
4. Time management: Most of the pupils are unable to clear the CS exams because they are not able to manage the time in the exam, so students should be aware about the time management.

Conclusion

To recapitulate, while both exams are difficult in their own path but CS Professional is definitely considered as more challenging due to its advanced content, complexity etcetera. The CS Executive exam is less challenging as compared to the Professional exam because you only need to understand the basic concepts and laws whereas in the professional exam you have to understand each and every concept deeply, and also you have the ability to apply that knowledge in the real world situations.

Finally, I want to say that difficulty varies from person to person’s mind, preparation, capability, understanding and so on. So, all things depend upon you.

How to tackle problems with the help of mentors?

Bhagya Achievers Mentors helps you in many ways that are written as the following:

• Mentors will provide the customized study plans according to the candidates’ requirement and they tell candidates how they make accurate study strategies to clear the CS exams in the first attempt.

• Most of the students face a major issue that is how they manage time in the exams so they can learn the time management skills with the help of the mentors.

• Mentors give guidance to candidates to concentrate on their studies along with the articleship and also they give motivational boost up sessions that help you to focus on your goal.

• Most of the aspirants are uncertain about how to begin courses and study topics in order to receive appropriate guidance about their classes and subjects from the mentors.

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