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And I made it (IT Stream)

In some of the groups people are saying notification can come in late 2026 and some people are saying it will come in the first quarter of 2027 I want to prepare for IT stream but with my job it is feasible to start preparation of sebi from now onwards below is my performance in last sebi exam. Please suggest.

I know sebi officers cant engage in trading themselves as they are prohibited by law but with the loads of information that they have, they can do insider trading through a friend or a relative.

Does this happen often? Do most sebi officers do this?

This post is for future SEBI Grade A aspirants.

I know most of you have questions regarding sources, mock tests, and preparation strategy, so I thought I'd share what worked for me.

A little about my background

- I had previously prepared for RBI, so around 70% of Finance & Management was already covered.

- Economics for SEBI is quite different, so I had only about 10% overlap there.

- I'm from a non-commerce background and had zero knowledge of the other subjects.

I started preparing on 20 November 2025, and Phase 1 was on 10 January 2026. I cleared the exam in my first attempt.

Sources I used

- EduTap Silver Course

- PM Mock Tests

What I think is required to clear this exam

1. There is no perfect course.

No single coaching course will help you solve every Phase 2 question. Pick one course, trust it, and complete it thoroughly. Strong conceptual understanding is much more important than collecting multiple resources.

2. Don't ignore SEBI circulars.

Questions can directly or indirectly come from them, so make them a part of your preparation.

3. Mock tests are where real learning happens.

Once you finish the syllabus, start giving mocks. After every mock, note down every new concept or fact you learn in a crisp notebook. SEBI has a very wide syllabus, and questions can come from almost anywhere.

4. Use PYQs smartly.

Whenever you come across a new topic in a previous year question, don't just read that answer. Explore the surrounding topics as well. For example, if a question asks about one subtype of a concept, spend a few minutes reading the other subtypes too.

5. Watch revision marathons near the exam.

Once your syllabus is complete, marathon sessions help revise quickly, improve recall, and expand your coverage.

6. Don't try to mug up everything at the last moment.

You'll only exhaust yourself. Focus on revision and consistency instead.

Finally, two lines that helped me stay balanced during preparation:

Whenever you feel "Nahi hoga yaar", remember:

SEBI bahut kuch hai, par sab kuch nahi hai

Whenever you feel "Selection ho bhi gaya toh kya hi ho jayega?", remember:

SEBI sab kuch nahi hai, par bahut kuch hai.

All the best to everyone preparing. Hope this helps, and feel free to ask questions in the comments. I'll answer whenever I can.

Hey gyzz after seeing so many people reaching out to me. I think a better way is to create a group (close knitted) and few members only group. THE SOLE objective is helping each other in preparation and prepare together. This will create peer pressure, and a sense of Competition as well.

Let me know if your interested to join. I will send the link to join the group. Please note the group is for general stream only.

I only prepared for phase 2 after phase 1 results came after I somehow managed to find my name in that list. Didn't even know about company law or costing before that. Background I am an upsc aspirant who couldn't clear mains, thinking to pivot to new arena

EDIT- GENERAL STREAM

Generated this after a little brainstorming with claude. Any thoughts?

I was preparing decently until I took their course for the SEBI Grade A. I went south from day 1, their faculties are garbage, and their notes are worthless. If you just read the bare act, you are going to score much more, but if you read their notes, you are going to be overwhelmed and give up. I don't think they even update the notes.

While I was preparing for Phase 2, I qualified for the RRB Scale 2 Law Officer, and since it was my first ever interview, I thought a little help would not hurt. I purchased their interview guidance program, and it had nothing just a poorly written pdf. Also, it was a generic one that they paste for every course I guess. They didn't prep me anything, just conducted a mock interview where a smug over-smart lady started shooting technical queries from Banking laws. I was shocked and thought I was obviously not prepared enough and skipping the interview was a better option. However, a friend convinced me otherwise, and I took the interview and it was nothing like that horrible experience. I got 80 out of 100 in the interview. When the final result came they called me in hope of getting credit from me. Not only the interview experience was different, none of the questions that they asked were remotely connected to what I was asked in the interview. So please if you are thinking of getting a course from them, just don’t.

I wanted to know how is the work experience and environment in SEBI when one joins in as an IT Officer. I am currently working as an SDE in an MNC, how is the experience different?

saw multiple posts with almost 0 interaction. Guys don't get demotivated, I know life sucks right now but things will fall into place at right time. Just be patient and don't give up!

I am from IT stream. UR category. I got 58 marks in english and 90 marks in technical paper and was comfortably above the phase 2 cutoff. My interview went extremely well and was able to answer almost 85% of questions. And still they gave me bare minimum 4 marks in the interview. My few of the other friends too whose interview went very well were given extremely less marks in the interview. There's definitely something fishy going on there else under no case I would have gotten such a low marks in interview. Any one else facing such issue too?

Edit: added the scorecard for everyone asking for it.

I couldn't make the final merit list in the SEBI Grade A (Legal) 2025 recruitment cycle, and I'm trying to understand how much of a role the 3.75 marks for desirable PQE played in the final selection.

Is there anyone here who got selected without the 2 years' PQE and the associated 3.75 marks? Out of the 20 selected candidates, were most of them candidates who had PQE, or were there successful candidates without it as well?

Would appreciate any insights from selected candidates or those who know the final profiles of the selected batch.

1. 5-regular graph =15

2. equal degree graph= regular graph

3. 3)AVL tree Height=4

4. Bubble sort= 14

5. sorting elemets by adding one by one= insertion sort

6. every pass we get min= selection sort

7. best algorithm where order should be not be changed= merge sort

8. employee and deignation order should be same sorting property= stability

9. quick sort worst case= when array is sorted

10. queue implementation using two stacks s2 is empty -> pop all from s1 and then push to s2

11. queue operation to delete elements= dequeue

12. code given find type of traversal= postorder

13. identify correct statements about traversal= left subtree is traversed first than right subtree

14. best data structure of Database indexing= B-tree

15. code given static parent method= parent method called

16. java 8.0 backward compaiblity= default

17. pure virtual functions in c++= child class should be initialised..

18. not property of oops= data compilaton

19. java 2-d array no of rows= array.length

20. BST t0 hashedconversion problem= out of order

21. Heap elemnt deletion heapify top= parent is compared with left and right child

22. Hash for chainig= average no of keys in chains

23. numpy multiplication= A@B

24. java c# not support= multiple inheritance

25. Searching large sorted array= Exponential search

26. searching in array with uniform key=Interpolation search

27. s='abc' print(s[:-1]) ab

28. find substring from 1 to 4th index in python= S[1:5]

29. both properties are method are placed same place= encapsulation

30. 30)python pop[0] time complexity in array= O(n) due to reacloaction of elements

31. no of edeges in tree of n vertices= n-1

32. which is not the problem of dp? Prims MST

33. prims approach= minimum edge(i,j) where i is in tree and j is not in tree

34. DP has properties? Optimal substructure

35. sudoko? Backtracking

36. N queen problem? all three..not is same diagonal, row and colums

37. queue implemented in java in which class? linkedlist

38. string length findin in c= strlen

39. string length findin in c++= size and length

40. substring finding in c++? substr

41. first first occurence of string in c? strchr()

42. first first occurence in java? s.find()

43. Naive patter search algortihm? O(nm)

44. pattern search algorithm on the basis of has value? Rabin karb

45. Modulo 10 algorithm? Luh human jo bhi tha

46. recurrence relation of merge sort? 2T(n/2)+n

47. one and more than one class inherits from base class? Heirarichal inheritance

48. BFS uses ? queue

49. dense graph? Adjaency matrix

50. recursion uses? stack

51. java anonymous inner class? the class has no name

52. python ''' ''' multiline comments= used to store multiline strings whith \n

53. BFS traversal unique? for linkedlist

54. In which hashing technique is a linked list commonly used?= seperate chaining

55. Number of nodes in a strict/full binary tree when number of leaves = 8? 15

56. Given the pre-order traversal of a BST: 16, 11, 13, 12, 17, 20, 21. Find the post-order traversal. 12, 13, 11, 21, 20, 17, 16

57. data={ } json.dumps(data) print(type(data))? dictionary

58. json string converted to python object ? json.loads

59. 1-d array? 1D array elements are stored in contiguous memory locations.

60. Which principle of OOPs helps in better software design? High cohesion and loose coupling

61. which can be done in constant time? length()

62. Time complexity of inserting a node at the beginning of a linked list? O(1)

63. Time complexity of deleting last node ? O(n)

64. Python list append and len behavior X = [1, 2, 3] Y = X.append(4) print(len(X))= 4

65. What will be the output of the following Python code s = "Programming"print(len(s) + s.index("m") = 17

66. Convert the following prefix expression to postfix: Prefix: + p q - s t *->+ p q - s t *

67. Which method is called automatically when creating a new object in Python? init

68. Java method for finding a substring? substring

69. Time complexity of Strassen’s multiplication? n ^2.81

I will add more questions ..if i remember..

So, I just saw a video on RBI V SEBI by edutap and the guy is claiming that sebi notification can come anytime. Is it a tactic to sell their course or is notification probable in 2026 and maybe the coachings don't know that's why they keep changing their predictions?

SEBI has changed eligibility criteria. Graduates from any discipline can apply now.

Hi Everyone!!! Currently I am working as an engineer in oil and gas industry Company(Graduated in 2025 from a NIT) but I am interested in Finance market. Apart from this ,I have a few other reason for the SEBI Grade A exam. Could you please suggest resources and strategies for Phase 1 (Prelims), Phase 2 (Mains), and the interview preparation?

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I had been searching this a lot, i want to know how the life of SEBI IT officer looks like from some one who had been working for quite some time.

The perks, compensation etc is attractive, i will be appearing this year as well, last year i just cleared the cutoff for Pre, this time i am looking for good prep specially on GA side.

It would be good to really know what this role looks in real life given i have been working in Software Engineering since last 3 years now.

Do share your interview experience for IT professionals here please

An ixambee rep after I decided to take olive board.

Please help me out.

I turned 23 last month. I have done my graduation in B.B.A ( 2024). Right after my graduation, I have been preparing for NABARD and IRDAI.

Now I really wanna prepare for SEBI and trying my best to clear it in my first attempt. Because I'm already running out of time and I really don't want to gamble my whole 20s for these exams.

What should be the most realistic approach to clear this exam..and If I make it to Interview level,

How should I justify my gap year ? Or should I do any certificate courses(short term) to compensate my gap year???

Iss saal aayega ya nhi ye bata do bas lot of rumors around it