CS ProfessionalDrafting, Pleadings and Appearances
Drafting, Pleadings and Appearances for CS Professional
Paper 2 · Group 1 · Section A Drafting · Section B Pleadings & Appearances.
📊 Wholly descriptive · 100 marks · 3 hours✍️
How toppers play this section
A practical-skill paper, marked on format as much as content — a drafting answer is graded on whether it includes the clauses a real instrument of that kind would need, in something close to the right order, not on legal analysis alone. Build a mental checklist per instrument (a JV agreement's clause list looks nothing like a sale deed's) rather than one generic template stretched across every question.
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Built to the CS Professional blueprint — notes, shortcuts, solved PYQ-style examples and practice in every chapter.
Topic-wise weightage in CS Professional
Expected question counts from previous-year paper analyses. Topics with an arrow already have a full chapter.
| Topic | Seven papers in two groups, 700 marks (two papers are open-book electives) Q | Passing both groups, plus completed training, admits a candidate to ICSI membership Q | Priority |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drafting of Deeds, Commercial Agreements and Corporate Documents | ~58 | Very high | |
| Pleadings and Appearances before the NCLT, NCLAT and Other Tribunals | ~42 | Very high |
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