Hummingbird News Desk
NEW DELHI, 12 SEP: A 19-year-old Nandini Agrawal from MP’s Morena district has emerged as the topper of the most prestigious CA final examination today. Her 21-year-old brother Sachin Agrawal achieved All India Rank-18.
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) today announced the results of Chartered Accountants Final (Old Course and New Course) and Foundation Examination held in July, 2021.
Of the 83,606 candidates registered for Chartered Accountants final examination (new course), Nandini emerged as the topper with 614/800 marks.
Students of the Victor Convent School in Madhya Pradesh’s Morena district, Sachin and Nandini cleared class 12 in 2017. Nandini had skipped two classes early in childhood and hence, she has been in the same class as her elder brother since class 2.
“My brother and I have been studying together since school. We also prepared for IPCC and CA final together. Our strategy has been simple — we support each other but we critique even more. When we solve a question paper, he checks my answers and I check his. There have been moments when I was losing hope but my brother’s support got me on track,” says Nandini, who is currently pursuing her articleship from PwC. She had also got an AIR 31 in the IPCC exam.
While pandemic hampered the preparations of most of the aspirants, it actually worked in the favour of this brother-sister duo. It allowed them more time to study and revise the topics.
“There were times when we fought like crazy but that only lasted for some time and we got back to normal. I would have been happy with even 70 per cent marks as I did not have high expectations but I knew that Nandini will do great. She’s brilliant and deserves all the success. In many ways, she is my mentor,” says Sachin, who is pursuing his articleship from Gurugram-based firm, One Point Advisors.
Their father, Naresh Chandra Gupta is a tax practitioner while their mother Dimple Gupta is a housewife. Nandini and Sachin both advise aspirants to follow the ICAI study material for acing the exam as “it has worked really well for them”.
Nandini and Sachin both had opted for the CA new course because in 2018, when they were registering for IPCC, the old course was already out of the picture. So, the new course was their default choice.
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