By Rahul Choudhary · Founder, IndiaSchool AI Pvt Ltd
ICAI's results were reported out on 6 November 2026. Here is what the numbers say, how to check your scorecard, and how to use the weeks before the January 2027 exam.
ICAI's announcement of 1 November said the CA Foundation September 2026 result was likely to be declared by the evening of 6 November. Careers360, Physics Wallah and Dainik Jagran all report it as declared that day, and their figures match each other exactly.
| Sitting / group | Appeared | Passed | Pass % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sept 2026, all candidates | 1,04,240 | 19,736 | 18.93% |
| Sept 2026, male | 53,398 | 10,931 | 20.47% |
| Sept 2026, female | 50,842 | 8,805 | 17.32% |
| May 2026 | 90,217 | 18,124 | 20.09% |
| Jan 2026 | 1,09,694 | 21,099 | 19.23% |
The September rate is slightly below May and January 2026, and in the same band as most recent sittings: roughly four in five Foundation candidates do not clear it in a given attempt. If you missed, you were in the large majority. We found no paper-wise statistics in any report, so we do not quote any.
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If you passed, the passing rule is 40 out of 100 in every paper and 50% (200 of 400) in aggregate. Your next step is the Intermediate course; check ICAI's registration conditions on icai.org rather than relying on a forum summary.
If you missed by a few marks, read the passing criteria and exemption rules first. Whether ICAI opens a verification or certified-copy window for this sitting has not been announced in anything we verified, so watch icai.org.
If you are re-attempting in January, the dates are close. ICAI's January 2027 schedule puts the Foundation papers on 3, 5, 7 and 9 January, and the exam form was reported to close on 16 November without late fee; see our exam form guide. That is ten days away, so confirm the deadline on eservices.icai.org today. To use the weeks well, our guide to which CA papers are MCQ and which are descriptive shows where practice pays off most.
Sources: the expected declaration date comes from ICAI's announcement of 1 November 2026 (icai.org). The pass-rate figures were cross-checked across Careers360, Physics Wallah and Dainik Jagran, and the earlier-sitting comparison across Careers360 and Physics Wallah. We could not open ICAI's result portal, so these are media transcriptions, not an ICAI press release. The January 2027 dates and form deadline come from ICAI's announcements listing and secondary reports, not from ICAI's schedule PDF, which we could not open. CA Grader is not affiliated with ICAI. Verify against icai.org and caresults.icai.org before relying on any of this for an exam-day or form decision.
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