SEBI Grade A Previous Year Question Paper & Analysis

There’s a famous quote by Albert Einstein that says, “True knowledge comes with deep understanding of the topic and its inner workings.” This quote is very important when you are preparing for an exam like SEBI Grade A. 

Like many other exams, SEBI Grade A often includes questions that were asked in previous years. 

By solving previous years’ papers, you can understand the type of questions asked, important topics, and the overall level of the exam. This helps you prepare in a better and more focused way. 

But just going through the papers is not enough. You should also analyse them properly to understand the difficulty level and check your preparation.

On this page, we have covered previous year question papers, exam analysis, and the benefits of solving these papers to help you prepare better. 

Latest SEBI Grade A Previous Year Question Papers

The practice of getting familiar with the type of questions asked in the exam can be extremely helpful for students who are aiming to clear the SEBI Grade A Exam 2026.  

• When you are starting your preparation, then try solving as many previous year question papers as possible. This will help you understand the pattern and improve your speed & accuracy over time.  
• The time and effort you put into solving these papers will not go to waste. 
• As you go deeper into your preparation, you will clearly see how much of a difference this practice makes in boosting your overall performance. 
• You may find that some of the questions asked in the SEBI Grade A exam are exactly the same to those that appeared in previous exams. 

This gives you an extra advantage and can help you score better. So, give enough time and importance to solving past year papers as part of your SEBI study plan,it’s a step that can bring real results in your SEBI Grade A journey.  

Download SEBI Grade A 2024 Previous Year Question Papers

Download SEBI Grade A 2022 Previous Year Question Papers

It is not enough to simply go through the previous year papers provided in the table above; you must solve each paper by treating it like the actual SEBI Grade A exam. 

This practice will give you an extra edge with some of the advantages that were discussed earlier. 

Before you get to know about the benefits of solving PYPs, you can check out how giving SEBI Grade A mock tests can help you in this preparation journey. 

Benefits of Solving SEBI Grade A Previous Year Papers

While I briefly mentioned the importance of the previous year papers in exam preparation, it is important to know the benefits that come along with solving these papers.  

So, to help you with that, I mentioned below the following advantages that you can reap by practicing SEBI Grade A previous year papers:  

• Better understanding of the exam pattern: The more you’d practice the SEBI previous year papers, the stronger will be the impression of the exam pattern in your mind which includes time limit, weightage, distribution of marks, etc.’ 
• Increased familiarity with difficulty level of the exam:  Solving the past year papers will familiarize you with the varying levels of difficulty in the questions when you switch from Paper 1 to Paper 2, and vice versa and in turn increase your preparedness level.  
• Identification of key topics of the syllabus: With more practice on previous year’s papers, you’ll find some key topics from which questions are often asked in the real exam.
  These topics are, therefore, very important to cover during your preparation. This shall help you save a lot of time when you prioritize and revise these topics as opposed to covering the entire syllabus at once.  
• Assessment of your strengths and weaknesses: The practice of solving papers will also help you to identify your strong and weak points in terms of your preparation. You can then accordingly improve upon the topics you are weak at and sharpen the ones you are already strong at.  
• Better Time Management during real exam: Solving past year SEBI Grade A question papers within the time limit will help you masterfully manage the time during the actual exam.   
• Enhance accuracy in the questions attempted: More and more practice on past year questions papers will render you with the superior ability to instinctively comprehend and mark the right answers to the questions that you know.  

Now that I’ve familiarized you with the benefits of solving past year papers, I think we have covered everything you’d ever need to know about the SEBI Grade A previous year papers.  

Let’s proceed to the next topic for SEBI Grade A exam analysis.  

SEBI Grade A Exam Analysis 2024-2022

If you are planning to prepare for the SEBI Grade A 2026 exam, then you must go through the exam analysis. 

By doing this, you’ll get a clear idea about the difficulty level of questions asked in SEBI exams, and you’ll also know what to expect in the upcoming exam. 

So, without wasting any more time, let’s get straight to it. 

The SEBI Grade A exam 2025 consists of three stages — Phase 1 (Prelims), Phase 2 (Mains), and finally, the Interview round. 

In this SEBI Grade A exam analysis, we will focus only on the first two stages — the Prelims and the Mains. 

So let’s begin with the exam analysis of the first round of the SEBI Grade A 2024 Prelims: 

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SEBI Grade A Exam Analysis of Phase I 2024

Now, before I get to mentioning the details about the difficulty level of the Phase 1 paper, let us take a look at SEBI Phase 1 exam pattern once. 

So, the SEBI Grade A Prelims consists of 2 papers. The first one or Paper 1 is an objective type paper with questions according to the sections that I have listed below: 

• Quantitative Aptitude 
• General Awareness 
• Reasoning Ability 
• English Language 

And Paper 2 is also an objective type paper with questions based on the various subjects and topics like:  

• Accountancy  
• Commerce 
• Management  
• Finance  
• Costing  
• Companies Act  
• Economics 

You should also note that the Paper 2 that we are concerned with is that of the General stream only.  

So, starting with the analysis of Paper 1. 

1. The Quantitative aptitude section was of moderate to difficult level. There were some questions of elementary difficulty, and there were some challenging ones as well. 

2. The Reasoning Ability section was of moderate level to difficult. 

3. The General Awareness section was of the easy to moderate level. 

4. And Lastly the English Language section was moderate. 

As far as the Analysis of Paper 2 goes, the section was a blend of easy, moderate, and difficult questions.

And if one were to summarize the overall level of paper 2, then it could be said that it was tougher compared with the previous edition. However, it was still doable.

Moreover, I had made a video on my experience of the SEBI Grade A Phase 01 2024 exam (Paper 1 & 2). I have shared the video with you, click on the link below to check it out. 

Having said that said if we analyse the difficulty level of questions, then the overall Phase 1 exam would be of moderate level. 

SEBI Grade A Exam Analysis of Mains 2024

Let’s take a look at the analysis of the Mains paper of the 2024 SEBI Grade A exam. Now, the Mains paper of the SEBI Grade A exam consists of 2 papers: 

• The Paper 1 is that of English and is descriptive in nature, and common for all streams. 
• The Paper 2, is exclusive to the general stream and is objective in nature, and the subjects are: 
• Accountancy 
• Commerce 
• Management 
• Finance 
• Costing 
• Companies Act & Economics. 

On that note, let’s quickly analyse both the paper. 

Paper 1 which comprises of English descriptive, was of moderate level. 

And in the 2nd Paper, all the subjects were of moderate level expect finance, which was moderate to difficulty level.  

With both papers being of “Moderate” level, the overall difficulty of the Phase 2 exam was moderate. Further, I have given below a video that you can watch to further understand the Phase 2 of the 2024 SEBI Grade A Mains: 

SEBI Grade A Exam Analysis of Phase I 2022

Now, before I get to mentioning the details about the difficulty level of the Phase 1 paper, let us take a look at SEBI Phase 1 exam pattern once.

So, the SEBI Grade A Prelims consists of 2 papers. The first one or Paper 1 is an objective type paper with questions according to the sections that I have listed below:

• Quantitative Aptitude
• General Awareness
• Reasoning Ability
• English Language

That said, the second paper or Paper 2 is also an objective type paper with questions based on the various subjects and topics like: Accountancy, Commerce, Management, Finance, Costing, Companies Act & Economics.

You should also note that the Paper 2 that we are concerned with is that of the General stream only.

So, starting with the analysis of Paper 1.

• The Quantitative aptitude section was of the Easy to moderate level. There were some questions of elementary difficulty, and there were some challenging ones as well.
• The General Awareness section was of the easy to moderate level of difficulty.
• The Reasoning Ability section was of moderate level.
• And Lastly the English Language section was easy but questions were of considerable size, thus, the section could be remarked as easy to moderate.

That said, I had made a video on my experience of the 2022 SEBI Grade A Phase 1 Paper 1 exam. I have shared the video with you down below.

As far as the Analysis of Paper 2 goes, the section was a blend of easy, moderate, and difficult questions. And if one were to summarize the overall level of paper 2, then it could be said that it was tougher compared with the previous edition. However, it was still doable. Given below is a video that you can watch to better understand Paper 2 of the 2022 SEBI Grade A Prelims:

Having said that said if we were to analyse the difficulty level of questions taking the Prelims papers as a whole, then the overall Phase 1 exam difficulty would have to be taken as moderate.

SEBI Grade A Exam Analysis of Mains 2022

Coming to the analysis of the Mains papers of the 2022 SEBI Grade A exam, let us first take a look at the exam pattern of the same.

Now, the Mains paper of the SEBI Grade A exam consists of 2 papers, The first one of Paper 1 is that of English and is descriptive in nature, and is common for all streams.

Whereas the second paper of Phase 2, is exclusive to the general stream and is objective in nature. Talking about the questions asked in paper 2, they are asked from the same subjects and topics as that of the Phase 1 Paper 2, i.e., Accountancy, Commerce, Management, Finance, Costing, Companies Act & Economics.

With that being the case, let me quickly take you to the analysis of SEBI Grade A Phase 2 exam.

Paper 1 which comprises of English descriptive, was a degree up from last year. All three sections i.e., Essay writing, Precis writing, and Reading comprehension carried questions that required careful contemplation. However, if the preparation was good, then it was doable in every sense. All in all, according to me and the general mandate, Paper-1 was of the “Moderate” level.

Coming to the 2nd Paper, the difficulty of the questions asked in it was of moderate level too. It was lengthy and according to me, anything beyond 30 attempts with perfect accuracy can be considered as a good attempt.

With both papers being of “Moderate” level, the overall difficulty of the Phase 2 exam was moderate.

Further, I have given below a video that you can watch to further understand the Phase 2 of the 2022 SEBI Grade A Mains: