The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) on Thursday, October 22 declared the results of the Chartered Accountants Intermediate Examination held in September 2026, putting an end to the wait for more than two lakh candidates who appeared across the two groups.

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Two candidates shared All India Rank 1: Neel Rajesh Shah from Mumbai and Chandak Sakshi from Nashik, each scoring 502 marks out of 600, or 83.67 per cent. Shruti V from Chennai took AIR 2 with 492 marks (82 per cent), and Prem Agarwal from Surat was AIR 3 with 490 marks (81.67 per cent), according to the ICAI merit list reported by education portals.

In Group I, 23,210 of the 1,00,301 candidates who appeared cleared the examination (23.14 per cent). In Group II, 12,938 of 68,400 passed (18.92 per cent). Among candidates who took both groups together, 5,066 of 38,339 passed, a pass percentage of 13.21 per cent. Education Bytes reported that the Group I papers were held on September 1, 3 and 6 and the Group II papers on September 8, 10 and 12.

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Candidates can check their scorecards on the ICAI result portal at caresults.icai.org and on icai.org using their roll number and registration number; the merit list is also available on the portal. Under the passing criteria, a candidate needs at least 40 per cent in each paper and 50 per cent in aggregate in a group.

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The CA course has three levels — Foundation, Intermediate and Final — and the examinations are held three times a year, in January, May and September. Candidates who have cleared the Intermediate stage now move towards the Final examination, the last step to qualifying as a chartered accountant.