CAIIB Exam Dates: Paper-wise and Elective-wise Schedule, Registration

The papers, in order

The two papers that are hardest to separate in revision, Bank Financial Management and Advanced Business & Financial Management, are on consecutive days, 12 and 13 December. After that you get a week for BRBL and a week for the elective. All papers are online, about 100 questions for 100 marks, and last 2 hours; IIBF’s rules add that CAIIB papers include case studies and caselets, and that some papers may have numerical questions with no options, where the answer is typed in.

This table is the static alternative to the countdown. Its day counts are fixed to 7 October 2026; the tool updates from the current calendar date in India. The 10-to-15-day range comes from the rules booklet, while the one-week column reflects the different timing on IIBF’s membership page and the JAIIB centre-change notice. These are our calculations, not announced release dates. The centre-change notice applies to JAIIB only. For either exam, the candidate profile and the actual admit letter decide the venue and time slot.

The elective schedule: one day for all five

That is the whole “elective-wise schedule”: IIBF’s schedule lists every elective on 27 December. Two things follow. You cannot sit two electives on the same day, so choosing between them is not a timing choice; choosing the one that fits your work is, and our elective chooser exists for that. And the same date carries the separate certificate exam for CAIIB holders, listed in the schedule as “CAIIB-Elective as separate cert exam”, one elective per sitting under IIBF’s Elective rules. Registration for both ran in the same windows.

Registration: how the window moved

Fees: CAIIB is Rs 5,000 for the first attempt and Rs 1,300 for each later attempt, plus convenience charges and taxes; the separate certificate exam for CAIIB holders is Rs 1,100 per attempt. The late fee on this cycle’s last slab, 27 September to 8 October, is Rs 200 more, as IIBF’s CAIIB page prints it. Each attempt is counted when you apply, even if you do not sit, which is why the closing date matters: see our attempts guide for the five-attempt, three-year rule.

The last cycle, for comparison

Two patterns show up. In the May/June sitting the papers ran over three weeks and the elective closed the sitting a week after the last compulsory paper, as it does in December. And in both sittings the registration window opened roughly two and a half months before the first paper, though this cycle opened later than IIBF’s own schedule said. The December window is therefore short against the exam: the extended close of 8 October leaves about two months to 6 December (our arithmetic). If you register at the end of the window, the studying has to start before the registration.

Planning around the dates

The dates create a sequence, and the gaps decide what you can revise in each. After Advanced Bank Management on 6 December you have six days to Bank Financial Management on 12 December, which is followed by Advanced Business & Financial Management the next day. That is the one stretch with no breathing room. Then BRBL is a week later on 20 December and the elective a week after that on 27 December. A sensible order of revision, which is our suggestion and not IIBF’s, is to treat 12 and 13 December as one two-paper block, finish the financial-management material for both together, and use the 20 and 27 December gaps for the law and elective papers, which depend most on current developments up to IIBF’s cut-off.

For the elective, the choice itself is free of any date constraint because all five are on 27 December, and IIBF’s Elective rules note that, with all electives in one day, a candidate can apply for only one elective paper at a time. CAIIB candidates may also change their elective in any attempt, according to IIBF’s CAIIB rules, so a choice you regret after a failed attempt is not locked in.

What is not published

IIBF has published no CAIIB date after the December 2026 sitting. In 2026 it ran CAIIB at the end of May and in June, with March registration, and then in December; that is the published 2026 pattern, not a 2027 date. The admit letter, centre and time slot for December are also unpublished. IIBF’s CAIIB rules say admit letters are available 10 to 15 days before the exam; by that rule the first paper’s letter would appear between 21 and 26 November 2026 (our arithmetic). On changing the centre, IIBF’s CAIIB rules say there is no provision to change it in the system after a successful application and that no request for a change of centre will be entertained for any reason. The 30 September 2026 centre-change window (bank transfers only) is for JAIIB November 2026; we found no notice extending it to CAIIB. Any CAIIB exception would need its own IIBF notice, so watch the homepage. IIBF’s membership page and its 30 September notice give shorter admit-letter timings (10 days by e-mail, one week on the website, which would be 26 and 29 November for the 6 December paper, our arithmetic), so do not treat 21 November as a promised date.

Registration, admit letter, result and certificate tracker

Registration eligibility and fees in one place

Official: the CAIIB rules require completion of JAIIB or Part I of the Associate Examination, with membership subscription not in arrears. The standalone CAIIB Elective certificate has a different entry gate: it is for candidates who have completed CAIIB or Part II, with membership not in arrears. Selecting an elective date in a planning tool does not establish eligibility for either route.

The subtotals are not checkout prices. Applicable charges and taxes are additional; the IIBF portal displays the amount payable. Confirm that you selected the right route before paying and retain the application acknowledgement. A completed payment is also relevant to attempt counting, so do not treat registration as a harmless reservation that can be ignored later.

If you miss a paper: attempt counting and credit retention

Official: applying for the exam uses an attempt whether or not you attend. Credits for passed subjects remain available within the permitted completion window. IIBF limits completion to five attempts or three years from first registration, whichever expires earlier; after that, fresh enrolment does not carry forward earlier subject credits. Missing one paper therefore does not automatically erase every passed paper, but it uses time and may leave a paper outstanding. Check your recorded credits and remaining validity in the candidate profile before planning another sitting.

If an emergency prevents attendance, do not assume an individual makeup date or a refund. The rules say paid fees are not refunded or adjusted, and the reviewed pages do not offer a candidate-selected rescheduling route. A new IIBF notice could change arrangements for a specific sitting; follow that notice if one is issued. A historic re-examination elsewhere is not evidence that your missed paper will be rescheduled. For a disputed record or a portal problem, use IIBF’s official support route with your acknowledgement privately rather than posting personal identifiers online.