Board of Studies Knowledge Portal

ICAI BOS Portal What it is, and how to use it

ICAI's Board of Studies (BOS) runs a separate knowledge portal — boslive.icai.org — that hosts RTPs, MTPs, question papers, and suggested answers by level. Here's what's on it for each level, plus a better way to actually practice once you've read it.

RTPs and MTPs, in plain language

ICAI's Board of Studies runs boslive.icai.org as a dedicated portal, separate from the main icai.org site. It's the single place the Board of Studies (Academic) publishes live and recorded lectures, syllabus, study material, and — most useful for last-mile prep — two specific resources it releases fresh every exam session: RTPs and MTPs.

  • RTP (Revision Test Paper) is a revision aid, not a mock exam. ICAI publishes one per subject, per level, a few months ahead of each session — three a year for Foundation and Intermediate (January, May, September) and two a year for Final (May and November), since ICAI moved the Final to twice-yearly with effect from the May 2026 exam. It bundles important and recently-amended questions with ICAI's own suggested answers. It's meant as a bridge between the study material and the exam, checking whether you've absorbed the concepts and updates — ICAI itself notes RTP questions don't mirror the actual exam's question pattern.
  • MTP (Mock Test Paper) does the opposite: it's a full exam simulation. ICAI releases MTPs (usually two series per session) matching the real paper's format, mark distribution, and time limit, so you can practice writing a complete answer sheet under exam conditions before the actual day. ICAI publishes the dates well ahead — we track each cycle's schedule for CA Final (Nov 2026) and for Foundation and Intermediate (Sept 2026), including how to register on the MTP portal.

Both are different from real past papers. RTPs and MTPs are ICAI's own practice constructs — no batch of students has ever actually sat them as their final exam. The genuine papers students previously wrote, with ICAI's official suggested answers, are what our /pyq section covers.

BOS Portal links by level

CA Foundation

Question Papers New Scheme Suggested Answers

CA Intermediate

Question Papers New Scheme Suggested Answers

CA Final

Question Papers New Scheme Suggested Answers

Portal-wide sections

RTPs and MTPs aren't split by level in the portal's own navigation — these two links go straight to the sections themselves.

Revision Test Papers (RTPs)

ICAI's own page; pick your level there.

Mock Test Papers (MTPs)

One announcement table covering all three levels.

Looking for study material?

Not on the BOS portal. Its Study Material section still lists the Old Scheme papers — "Principles and Practice of Accounting", "Business Mathematics and Logical Reasoning & Statistics" — which no longer exist under the New Scheme. For the current material, use our study-material index, which links ICAI's own New Scheme files on icai.org, paper by paper.

CA Grader is not affiliated with ICAI. Links point to boslive.icai.org, ICAI's own portal. Checked 26 August 2026 — ICAI reorganises this portal from time to time; if a link lands somewhere unexpected, icai.org is the authority.

Downloaded the RTPs. Now what?

Write your attempt in our evaluator instead of just reading the solution — get ICAI step-marked AI feedback so you know exactly where you'd have lost marks.