That is why smart people will never take the exams. Why pay so much for the exam fees and enrolment classes to get CA when it was given free to local uni grads/ACCA/CPA Australia/ICPAS via 5 day workshop?

Now do half u-turn somemore just to get more CA members on board. At this juncture, the best scenario for all is to have accelerated path for those who took the exams to become CA faster and another non-exam path for people to clock CPE and working exp to obtain CA (longer route).