ICSI Exam Centre Change December 2026: Last Date, Fee and Exam-Day Rules

You can change your CS December 2026 exam centre on ICSI's SMASH portal until 21 November 2026 at 4 pm. Each change costs Rs 250, and you cannot move between centres inside the same city. The Executive and Professional exams run from 21 to 28 December, 2:00 to 5:15 pm. From 13 November, that leaves 8 days.

Once 21 November passes, the centre on your admit card is the centre you write in, so check it this week.

TL;DR

• The window runs from 20 October to 21 November 2026, 4 pm.
• Rs 250 per change; a move to Dubai adds a US$100 surcharge (Rs 9,568).
• No change between zones of one city, and no adding or dropping a group.
• Check the centre and zone on your e-admit card; ICSI did not post physical admit cards in June 2026.

What is the last date to change the CS exam centre for December 2026?

21 November 2026, up to 16:00 hours. ICSI's important-dates notice for the December 2026 exams opened the window on 20 October.

What else can you change in the same window?

The same notice lists these requests and what each one allows:

• Exam centre: allowed, Rs 250.
• Interchange of group (ICSI calls it module): allowed, Rs 250.
• Medium of the exam: allowed, Rs 250.
• Optional subject (the Professional elective): allowed, Rs 250.
• Cancellation of a paper exemption: allowed (the notice lists the Rs 250 fee only for the four changes above).
• Re-submission of exemption documents: allowed.
• Adding or deleting a group: not allowed.
• Moving to another centre in the same city: not allowed.

Every request closes on 21 November 2026 at 4 pm, and ICSI rejects late ones without further notice.

How do you change your exam centre on SMASH?

For a centre, group or medium change:

1. Log in to the ICSI SMASH portal with your student login.
2. Open Module, then Enrolment.
3. Choose Examination Enrollment Request, then Apply for Enrolment Services.
4. Select the centre change service and the new centre.
5. Tick the disclaimer.
6. Pay Rs 250 online and submit.
7. Save the payment receipt and a screenshot of the submitted request.

Two requests sit on other menus. An optional subject change is under Module, Student Services, Change Optional Subject. Cancelling an exemption is under Module, Subject Exemption, Exempted Subjects, Cancel Exemption. Raise problems on support.icsi.edu days before the 21st.

Seven steps on SMASH, one Rs 250 payment, and a receipt you keep until the admit card shows the new centre.

Can you move to another centre in the same city?

No. ICSI does not allow a change of centre within a city that has more than one centre. I counted ICSI's region-wise list for December 2026 onwards: 12 cities are split into zones, with 53 of the 190 Indian centres between them.

• Delhi: 8 zones.
• Mumbai: 8 zones.
• Chennai: 7 zones.
• Ahmedabad: 4 zones.
• Bengaluru: 4 zones.
• Jaipur: 4 zones.
• Kolkata: 4 zones.
• Pune: 4 zones.
• Hyderabad: 3 zones.
• Thane: 3 zones.
• Bhubaneswar: 2 zones.
• Navi Mumbai: 2 zones.

Source: ICSI region-wise list of CS examination centres, December 2026 session onwards, Gradehunt count.

ICSI's zone-wise note adds that if a zone runs short of space, some candidates may be shifted to another zone. Your final zone shows only on the admit card.

What if you have moved within Delhi or Mumbai?

SMASH cannot fix it. Plan travel to the zone on your admit card, with a trial run at 2 pm if the commute is long. If the address looks wrong, raise a ticket on support.icsi.edu. I cannot promise ICSI will move you; the notice does not provide for it.

In the 12 zoned cities, your zone stays as allotted; only a move to a different city is possible before 21 November.

Which cities have CS exam centres in December 2026?

ICSI's list of examination centres for December 2026 onwards has 190 centres in India and one overseas. By region, in our count:

• East: 24 centres.
• North: 65 centres.
• South: 42 centres.
• West: 59 centres.
• Overseas: 1 centre, Dubai.

New centres from December 2026

ICSI's announcement of 3 September 2026 opened seven centres on an ad hoc basis. The number in brackets is the centre code:

• Begusarai, Bihar (129).
• Darbhanga, Bihar (130).
• Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh (268).
• Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh (270).
• Haridwar, Uttarakhand (269).
• Ratnagiri, Maharashtra (492).
• Rewa, Madhya Pradesh (493).

If one is nearer home, the Rs 250 change is open to you. A move to Dubai adds a US$100 surcharge (Rs 9,568): Rs 9,818 in all by my sum.

190 centres in India, seven of them new, plus Dubai.

Should you cancel an exemption before 21 November?

Only if you want to write that paper. If you hold a paper-wise exemption (on a qualification, switchover or 60% marks) and would rather sit the paper this December, cancel it online by 21 November 2026, 4 pm. If you are happy to keep it, do nothing.

Cancel an exemption only for a paper you mean to write, and only before the same 4 pm deadline.

What exam-day rules has ICSI fixed for December 2026 so far?

From ICSI's December 2026 time table and exam FAQs:

• Exam time is 2:00 to 5:15 pm, with 15 minutes of reading time from 2:00 to 2:15 pm.
• There is no exam on Friday 25 December.
• Only two papers are open book: Professional Elective 2 on 27 December and Elective 1 on 28 December.
• The time table marks no paper as OMR-based.
• Candidates with at least 40% permanent disability get 20 minutes extra per hour. They had to apply at least 45 days before the exams, which by my calculation was about 6 November 2026.
• ICSI posts local member CSs as General Observers at centres from 21 to 28 December.

What do the admit card instructions settle?

The rest of exam day. ICSI attaches the Instructions to Examinees to the e-admit card, and in June 2026 it asked students to check every detail on the card, from the centre address to the medium and paper times. For reporting time, entry rules and the calculator, go by the December 2026 instructions, not by an older session. For what to carry, see our CS admit card December 2026 post.

For paper-wise dates, use our CS Executive December 2026 time table and CS Professional December 2026 exam dates posts.

Timing, reading time and the open-book papers are fixed; the full exam-day instructions arrive with the admit card.

Checklist for the next eight days

• Log in to SMASH and check your centre, medium, group and elective.
• Make any change by 21 November, 4 pm, and save the receipt.
• Read the Instructions to Examinees when the e-admit card comes.
• Book travel to the zone on the card.

Papers start at 2 pm, so write a few full papers in that slot before 21 December. The Gradehunt CS Executive test series has papers set on the ICSI pattern: you write by hand and upload, and ex-examiners check the copy within 48 hours of upload. Your first paper is checked free, and Full Syllabus Mock Tests start at Rs 199 per subject.