Series VI
Depository Operations
50 questionsPass mark 60%Negative marking 25% / wrong answer
NISM Series VI: Depository Operations
This paper covers depository operations. It explains the capital market and how depositories work. It covers how a depository participant signs up clients and handles their holdings. Topics include transmission, nomination, dematerialisation, trading and settlement. They also include pledges, corporate actions, debt and government securities. Foreign portfolio investors and investor services are covered too.
Questions1001 mark each
Duration120 min2 hours
Pass mark60%60 of 100 marks
Negative marking25%0.25 marks off per wrong answer
NISM Series VI Depository Operations
Exam rules read on NISM's site on 3 October 2026. Check the current rules on NISM's site (opens in a new tab)
The NISM-Series-VI: Depository Operations Certification Examination is 100 questions worth 100 marks in 120 minutes, and 60% is the pass mark. A wrong answer costs 0.25 marks and a blank costs nothing, so the two are not the same choice. The certificate is valid 3 years from the date of the examination. Every figure here was read from NISM's own published pages on 3 October 2026.
What the Series VI certification is for
This paper covers depository operations. It explains the capital market and how depositories work. It covers how a depository participant signs up clients and handles their holdings. Topics include transmission, nomination, dematerialisation, trading and settlement. They also include pledges, corporate actions, debt and government securities. Foreign portfolio investors and investor services are covered too.
Who takes it
Staff at depository participants who register clients and handle their demat holdings.
Why it is on this site
The paper about where shares are held. Every trade ends with the settlement that depositories carry out, the same settlement the site's lessons describe.
Exam format at a glance
Questions1001 mark each
Total marks100100 × 1
Duration120 min2 hours
Pass mark60%60 of 100 marks
Negative marking25%0.25 marks off per wrong answer
Certificate validity3 yearsfrom the date of the examination
100 multiple-choice questions of 1 mark each in 120 minutes. 60% to pass. A wrong answer loses a quarter of a mark.
The examination fee is deliberately not printed here. NISM publishes it per certification and revises it from time to time, and a fee is the one figure on a page like this that somebody acts on with money — read the current one on nism.ac.in.
How the marking works — and what the quiz here does with it
Each question carries 1 mark, so the paper is scored out of 100 and 60 marks are needed to pass. A wrong answer deducts 25% of the marks assigned to the question — 0.25 marks here. A question left unanswered scores nothing and deducts nothing, so a wrong answer and a blank are not equivalent, and deciding between them is part of what the paper tests.
The practice quiz here uses these same figures. Timed practice applies this pass mark and this deduction. Its clock runs at this paper's pace (120 minutes for 100 questions), scaled to the size of your set.
Syllabus units, and what each is worth
13 practice topics, in the order our questions are written. Each row links to the topic's full questions and answers. Each answer explains why the other options are wrong. No unit weightage was found in the official exam material, so this table has no marks column.
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It is marked with the pass mark and negative marking shown above.
150 Series VI practice questions
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Sources & review date. The question count, total marks, duration, pass mark, negative marking and certificate validity above come from NISM's own pages for the NISM-Series-VI: Depository Operations Certification Examination, last read on 3 October 2026. Marks per question, marks needed to pass and marks lost per wrong answer are worked out from those figures. We found no published marks for each unit of this exam, so none are shown here. Other weightage tables are estimates. The unit headings follow the order of these practice questions. Compare them with NISM's published unit list.
NISM Series VI: common questions
How many questions are in the NISM Series VI exam?
The NISM-Series-VI: Depository Operations Certification Examination has 100 questions worth 100 marks in total, to be completed in 120 minutes (2 hours).
What is the passing score for NISM Series VI?
60%, which on a 100-mark paper means 60 marks, calculated after negative marking has been applied to wrong answers. Checked against NISM's own published page for this examination on 3 October 2026.
Is there negative marking in NISM Series VI?
Yes — 25% of the marks assigned to a question. Each question here carries 1 mark, so a wrong answer costs 0.25 marks. A question left unanswered neither earns nor deducts anything, so a wrong answer and a blank are not the same thing.
How long is the NISM Series VI certificate valid?
3 years from the date of the examination. NISM also runs a Continuing Professional Education programme for its certifications. Confirm the current revalidation route on nism.ac.in before your certificate expires.
Are the practice questions on this page from the NISM Series VI exam?
No. LearnNifty wrote all 150 of them from NISM's public syllabus for this certification. NISM does not publish its question bank. The questions help you practise the syllabus. They cannot predict the paper.
What does the NISM Series VI syllabus cover?
Our practice questions for this certification are sorted into 13 topics: Introduction to the Indian Capital Market, Introduction to Depository, Depository and its Business Partners, Functions of Depository Participant – Account Opening, Functions of Depository Participant – Account Operations, Functions of Depository Participant – Transmission and Nomination, Functions of Depository Participant – Dematerialisation, Functions of Depository Participant – Trading and Settlement, Special Services – Pledge & Hypothecation, Special Services – Public Offering / Corporate Actions, Special Services – Debt Instruments & Government Securities, Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPI), Investor Services. That is the structure the practice set follows. NISM publishes its own curriculum and test objectives for the examination on nism.ac.in, and the workbook current for your sitting is the only examinable material.
Where does LearnNifty get these NISM Series VI exam figures from?
The question count, time, pass mark, negative marking and certificate validity come from NISM's own exam pages, last read on 3 October 2026. The quiz here marks with the same figures. NISM changes them from time to time, so confirm them on nism.ac.in before you register.
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