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CA Inter Law study plan

CA Inter Law · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

Corporate and Other Laws

  • Map the Companies Act, 2013 chapter structure against the CA Inter syllabus weighting and rank the top five heaviest chapters to attack first

  • Define and distinguish the corporate forms (private, public, OPC, small company, section 8) by writing the exact statutory thresholds and exemptions from memory

  • Draft a one-page flowchart of incorporation steps from name reservation through certificate of incorporation, including SPICe+ touchpoints

  • List the doctrine of lifting the corporate veil with at least five judicial triggers and one statutory instance

Your checkpoint

A handwritten or typed 4-page chapter map plus a 20-term definitions glossary covering corporate forms and incorporation, self-tested without notes

Week 2

Corporate and Other Laws

  • Reproduce the share capital and debenture provisions: kinds of capital, alteration of capital clause, and reduction of capital routes with their approval thresholds

  • Outline the doctrine of capital maintenance and its statutory exceptions

  • Solve ten past-exam style problems on issue of shares at premium, discount, and sweat equity, showing the working for each

  • Tabulate the rules on further issue of capital including rights issue, preferential allotment, and private placement with their timelines

Your checkpoint

A solved problem set of ten capital-related numerical and legal problems, each with a one-line statement of the governing section

Week 3

Corporate and Other Laws

  • Compare the four charge-creation and registration timelines under the Companies Act and note the consequences of non-registration

  • Explain the duties, disqualifications, and vacation-of-office grounds for directors with the exact statutory triggers

  • Distinguish related-party transactions and the board vs. shareholder approval thresholds for each category

  • Build a one-page comparison of board meeting, committee meeting, and general meeting notice periods and quorum requirements

Your checkpoint

A comparison grid covering charges, directors, and meeting rules, checked line by line against the bare Act with corrections marked in red

Week 4

Corporate and Other Laws

  • Analyze the dividend declaration and payment waterfall, including the unpaid dividend account and transfer to the Investor Education and Protection Fund

  • Explain audit and auditor rotation, disqualification, and the powers of the National Financial Reporting Authority at a high level

  • Work through the winding-up and oppression-and-mismanagement remedies, naming the grounds and the reliefs a tribunal may grant

  • Attempt one full-length timed mock on the Companies Act chapters covered so far

Your checkpoint

A timed mock score report with an error log listing every wrong answer, the correct rule, and the chapter it came from

Week 5

Corporate and Other Laws

  • Consolidate the Companies Act by re-reading only the error log and the chapter map from weeks 1 to 4

  • Write short-answer outlines for the ten most frequently tested sections, capped at five bullet points each

  • Practice two case-study style questions on director liability and related-party approvals under exam time limits

Your checkpoint

Ten one-page answer skeletons and two timed case-study answers, all reviewed against the bare Act

Week 6

Corporate and Other Laws

  • Cover the Limited Liability Partnership Act: incorporation, partner duties, and the circumstances of winding up

  • Outline the General Clauses Act rules of interpretation that the syllabus expects, including definitions of person, document, and commencement

  • Summarize the Interpretation of Statutes principles used in corporate problem questions, such as literal rule and mischief rule

  • Compare LLP and company liability structures in a table

Your checkpoint

A two-page LLP and General Clauses summary sheet plus a ten-question self-quiz with answers written underneath

Week 7

Corporate and Other Laws

  • Revise the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act and the Depositories Act essentials that appear in the other-laws portion

  • Cover the Foreign Exchange Management Act basics: current vs. capital account transactions and the adjudication and appeal ladder

  • Cover the Prevention of Money Laundering Act essentials: offence, attachment, and the appellate tribunal chain

  • Solve fifteen rapid-fire objective questions across these other laws

Your checkpoint

An other-laws cheat sheet of one page per statute and a scored 15-question objective set with explanations for each miss

Week 8

Corporate and Other Laws

  • Run two full-length timed mock papers under exam conditions and mark them strictly

  • Rework every error from both mocks into a final one-page revision sheet of traps and thresholds

  • Recite from memory the key numerical thresholds across the whole syllabus, such as capital limits, notice periods, and approval majorities

  • Rehearse answer presentation: section citation first, then rule, then application

Your checkpoint

Two marked mock papers with a consolidated one-page trap sheet and a verified threshold list, all completed before exam week

Milestones

Week 2: Can state the capital alteration and reduction routes and their approval thresholds without notes, scoring at least 8 of 10 on a self-made recall quiz

Week 4: Mock score of at least 50 percent with the error log complete for every wrong answer

Week 6: LLP and General Clauses self-quiz at 7 of 10 or better, with every miss converted into a flashcard

Week 8: Both final mocks at 60 percent or better, and the consolidated threshold sheet recited from memory with no more than two misses