CMA Foundation Result: When ICMAI Declares It and What to Do Next

The CMA Foundation result for the December 2026 session is due by 7 January 2027, 25 days after the exam on 13 December 2026. That is the latest date ICMAI has set, so treat it as a deadline, not a promised day. Our CMA exam date calendar holds the full timetable.

We counted calendar days from exam day to the result date for each session. The December 2025 date is the date on ICMAI's pass list, and some outlets report 7 January. ICMAI does not announce a time of day; Careers360 reports that June 2026 scorecards went live around 6:30 AM, so check early.

Our recommendation: expect the scorecards in the first week of January and open the ICMAI listing that week rather than on exam day plus one.

Sources for the table: ICMAI's result listing for the session entries, the dates on ICMAI's pass lists for December 2025 and June 2026, June 2026 exam and result dates, and our exam calendar for the December 2026 dates.

Open ICMAI's result listing at icmai.in/ClntStudents/Result, choose the December 2026 Foundation entry, follow its link to check the result, and enter the registration or identification number on your admit card. Save a copy of the scorecard when it loads.

1. Go to the CMA Foundation result link on ICMAI's listing. Entries are named by session, such as "Result for December 2025 Foundation Examination", newest first.
2. Open the entry for December 2026. The scorecard page sits on ICMAI's student portal, eicmai.in, and is reached from that entry.
3. Enter the registration or identification number on your CMA admit card.
4. Read your paper-wise marks, total and pass status, then save a copy.

Run these three checks before you trust what you see:

ICMAI's pass rule has two tests: at least 40 marks in each of the four papers, and at least 200 out of 400 overall, as reported for the December 2025 result by Business Standard and Outlook India. Missing either test means you have not qualified.

Three illustrative cases (made-up marks, to show how the rule works):

Case B clears the total by 48 marks and still fails on Paper 1. Case C has no paper under 40 and fails because the total is 8 short. For the full rules, see our CMA Foundation passing criteria and marking scheme.

Match your scorecard to the table. A pass leads to CMA Intermediate, a near miss needs a targeted re-attempt plan, and a result well short needs a rebuild from the syllabus. The bands for near miss and well short are our recommendation, not ICMAI's.

You passed: what comes next?

Passing Class 12 and ICMAI's Foundation course makes you eligible for the Intermediate course, as set out on ICMAI's eligibility page. Do these four things:

1. Read the eligibility page, keep your downloaded scorecard, and look for the Intermediate application on ICMAI's student portal, listed on ICMAI's student pages as Apply for CMA Courses. Check its dates before you pay any fee.
2. Read the CMA Intermediate syllabus, which explains the eight papers and how Group 1 and Group 2 split them, so you can choose where to start.
3. Add up ICMAI's charges on our CMA India course fees page.
4. Compare with our CMA Intermediate coaching in Bangalore; our fee is in the section on how we help, below.

You missed by a few marks or one paper

Foundation is assessed as one four-paper sitting, so the plan prepares all four papers. The paper that cost you gets the first weeks and the strongest mock target, but the other three still need revision, because a slip in any of them repeats Case B.

A paper under 40 usually means a gap in method, not a lack of effort. Our recommendation is to rework that paper chapter by chapter from the syllabus, not to reread notes.

You were well short

A total under 175 is a signal to change the method, not just the effort. Start from the syllabus and treat every paper as new, with tests built into each week. Our recommendation is to aim for at least 50 in every paper in mocks, a ten-mark cushion above the 40 line. The plan below is built for exactly this case.

Read the scorecard by paper, choose the next sitting, find the form window, run a 12-week plan, and cost the attempt. The checklist gives each step a pass test, so you know when it is done.

The 12-week plan (our recommendation). The four papers are Fundamentals of Business Laws and Business Communication, Fundamentals of Financial and Cost Accounting, Fundamentals of Business Mathematics and Statistics, and Fundamentals of Business Economics and Management.

On timing, if June 2027 follows the June 2026 pattern, when the paper fell on 14 June 2026, a start on 7 January leaves 158 days, about 22 weeks (158 ÷ 7 = 22.6), so a 12-week plan leaves roughly 10 weeks to spare. That is our arithmetic, and the exam date is ICMAI's to set.

ICMAI publishes a merit list of top-ranked candidates, such as the merit list PDF on its June 2026 Foundation result page. It does not publish a Foundation pass percentage alongside the result. For any figure it does release, such as the number of candidates who passed, check its press releases and its Updates and Announcements page.

ICMAI's own pass lists show how many candidates cleared recent sittings. The complete pass list for the June 2026 Foundation exam carries 14,340 registration numbers, up from 9,036 on the June 2025 list, and the December 2025 list carries 16,604. ICMAI does not publish how many candidates appeared on these pages, so a pass percentage cannot be worked out from them.

Treat any percentage on a result-day page as the publisher's own calculation unless it cites ICMAI's press release. For more on pass percentages, see our CMA pass percentage page. Do not let a quoted figure set your expectations: the only numbers that matter on your scorecard are your four paper marks and your total.

We coach CMA Foundation and CMA Intermediate in blended, live online and onsite formats, with centres in Jayanagar and Malleshwaram, Bengaluru. Our coaching fees as of October 2026 are ₹22,000 for Foundation and ₹50,000 for Intermediate. These are iProledge fees, separate from ICMAI's.

How we work with a result:

• Passers: we start the Intermediate plan with you, covering the Group 1 and Group 2 choice. See CMA Intermediate coaching.
• Re-sitters: we read your scorecard paper by paper with you and build the study plan around the weakest paper, as in the table above, with doubt clearing and mentoring through the term. See CMA Foundation coaching.
• Practice: our published course resources include study materials, practice questions, mock tests and recordings.

Across CSEET and CMA Foundation, our results over the last three years are beyond 95%.

Our free demo class and a talk with our Career Advisors come before you join. Fees once paid are not refunded, so attend the free demo class and speak to a Career Advisor before you pay. If you want to compare options, see our ranked list of CMA coaching centres in Bangalore.

Call Us Now on +91 90198 10080 or +91 87925 71811, and a career counsellor will go through your scorecard with you, whether you passed, missed by a paper or fell short. Then book a free demo class at our Jayanagar or Malleshwaram centre. In the class you can see how we teach, how we read marks paper by paper, and how Intermediate or a Foundation re-attempt would run for you. Bring your scorecard once it is out, and your parents if they want to ask about fees and formats. A Career Advisor will cover the Intermediate Group 1 and Group 2 choice if you passed, or the re-attempt plan if you did not. You can also reach us through our contact page.

Keep reading: our CMA Intermediate result guide covers the Intermediate declaration, and our CMA Final result guide covers the last stage.