ICSI Guideline Answers and Question Papers: June 2026, December 2025 and Earlier (CS Executive and Professional)

Students search for them as "suggested answers" or "question papers with solutions". ICSI calls them Guideline Answers, and each PDF prints the full question before ICSI's answer, so one file gives you both. The plain question papers sit on a separate ICSI page.

Where to download ICSI guideline answers for June 2026 and December 2025

1. Open the Guideline Answers page on icsi.edu. No login or fee is needed.
2. Click the session: June 2026, December 2025, June 2025 and so on.
3. Pick Executive Programme (Syllabus 2022) or Professional Programme (Syllabus 2022). The December 2023 to June 2025 sessions also have Syllabus 2017 tabs; skip those.
4. Download Group 1 or Group 2. One PDF covers every paper in that group.

For the bare papers, go to Previous Sessions QPs on icsi.edu and open the session. The June 2026 page lists 29 papers with their codes: four CSEET papers, seven Executive papers plus EH versions of 525 and 526, and 16 Professional papers counting every elective. The December 2025 page lists 24. The archive now runs from June 2009 to an October 2026 session, which so far holds only the four CSEET papers.

How many Syllabus 2022 papers with ICSI answers exist for each subject?

Here is the count of Syllabus 2022 question papers ICSI has posted for each subject, taken from every session tab on its Previous Sessions QPs page. Each of these sessions also has a guideline answer set on the Guideline Answers page:

• CS Executive, all seven papers: 6 sessions each, December 2023 to June 2026. That is 42 past papers.
• CS Professional, the five compulsory papers: 5 sessions each, June 2024 to June 2026. Syllabus 2022 Professional papers first appear in June 2024.
• Elective 1, CSR, Internal and Forensic Audit, IPR, and AI, Data Analytics and Cyber Security (541 to 544): 5 sessions each.
• Elective 1, Advanced Direct Tax Laws and Practice (545): 2 sessions, December 2025 and June 2026.
• Elective 1, IFSCA - Regulations, Listing and Compliances (546): 1 session, June 2026.
• Elective 2, all five options (551 to 555): 5 sessions each.

Source: ICSI Guideline Answers and Previous Sessions QPs pages, checked 6 November 2026, Gradehunt analysis. The June 2026 Professional answer PDFs cover every elective; older sets were not opened paper by paper.

Two things follow. If you chose Advanced Direct Tax or IFSCA as Elective 1, you have one or two ICSI papers to learn the question style from, against five for everyone else, so ICSI's study material questions and mock papers have to do more of the work. And Executive students have more papers than time. Writing all 42 under exam conditions would take more than 136 hours at 3 hours 15 minutes each (the exam slot, reading time included), while 21 December is 45 days away.

What is inside an ICSI guideline answers PDF

• A contents page with page numbers for each paper. The June 2026 Professional Group 1 file runs to 261 pages and Group 2 to 197.
• The open-book electives are included. Group 1 has all six Elective 1 subjects and Group 2 all five Elective 2 subjects, each with its own answers.
• Each paper's header: 3 hours, 100 marks, six questions, "Answer ALL Questions".
• The amendment rule: for a December session, amendments up to 31 May of that year apply. For December 2026 that date is 31 May 2026.
• A note that the answers reflect the law when they were prepared and are indicative, not exhaustive.

To see how ICSI words its law answers, read our word count of the June 2026 JIGL and SBIL answers. For Tax Laws, see marks counted lesson by lesson from six ICSI papers.

When will ICSI release the December 2026 guideline answers?

ICSI has not announced a date. Here is the June 2026 timeline as a guide. The last paper was on 7 June, the result came on 25 August (79 days later) and the guideline answers were uploaded on 9 September, 94 days after the exam ended.

The December 2026 exams end on 28 December 2026. If ICSI keeps the same gap, the December 2026 set is expected around the start of April 2027. That estimate rests on a single session, because ICSI's page shows the same date, 31 July 2026, on every older set, so their original upload dates cannot be seen.

Using ICSI past papers in the 45 days before 21 December

The December 2026 papers run from 21 to 28 December, 2:00 to 5:15 PM, with no paper on 25 December. That is an afternoon slot. The June 2026 papers were held from 9:00 AM. The full date-wise schedule is in our time table guide.

• Write the two latest papers, June 2026 and December 2025, in full and timed, in the 2:00 PM slot. Seven subjects make 14 papers, roughly one every three days.
• Use December 2023 to June 2025 question by question, chapter by chapter, instead of as full papers.
• Before you learn an older answer, check it against the law as on 31 May 2026.
• Professional students on the thin electives: practise finding provisions in the open book against the clock. Our elective guide compares the options.

Matching your own answer to ICSI's is the hard part, because it is easy to mark yourself too kindly. With Gradehunt's CS past paper evaluation, you write the ICSI paper by hand, upload it, and ex-examiners check it within 48 hours of upload, with marks and comments on each answer.