AIBE XIX – 2024

Important Updates

• The Honourable Bar Council of India has added a new examination center in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, for the All India Bar Examination – XIX and onward. We are pleased to inform you that Vijayawada is now on the list of existing examination centers. You can now select “Vijayawada” as your preferred test city when applying for the All India Bar Examination – XIX.

• Notification with regard to schedule of All India Bar Examination-XIX

• Notification regarding COP of AIBE-XVIII Examination

• Important notification regarding re-checking of results/OMR sheets

• Click here to apply for Re-checking

Application Form(Available), Exam Dates, Eligibility, Pattern and Result

The All India Bar Examination were considered and approved by the Bar Council of India at its meeting held on 30th April 2010, wherein it was decided by the Council that the examination shall be mandatory for all law students graduating from the academic year 2009-2010 onwards, and that candidates may apply to appear in the examination only after enrolling as advocates under Section 24 of the Advocates Act, 1961.

That the Sole intention of the AIBE examination was to improve the standard of legal profession; therefore, AIBE examination is not relevant for those who are not interested to enter into the legal profession. Therefore, those candidates, who are not interested in practicing the law, cannot be exempted from obtaining enrolment before State Bar Council for appearing in the AIBE.

The candidate will be awarded certificate of practice after clearing the examination and is eligible to practice in any court in India. The exam is conducted in 40 cities of India in national and regional languages.

All India Bar Examination is certification exam conducted twice a year by Bar Council of India for law graduates willing to start practice of profession as Lawyer. The exam is conducted in 50 cities having 140 centres as an open book exam. The exam is conducted to assess basic level knowledge of a member and lay down minimum benchmark for entering into practice of law in addition to assessing candidate’s analytical skills.

After clearing All India Bar Examination, the candidate is awarded certificate of practice by Bar Council of India. Qualified member in the exam can attend court hearings in any tribunals courts and administrative bodies.

The exam is in multi-choice model and conducted offline in 3 and half hours duration. the All India Bar Examination is a post-enrolment examination where persons are initially said to be provisionally enrolled on an undertaking that they will pass the exam within 2 years of said enrolment.

The concept of provisional enrolment and the undertaking was brought in through the BCI Resolution dated 12.04.2013 [Annexed herewith as Annexure – AN/1].

However, as a result of BCI Resolution dated 31.01.2017, it has been clarified that while the right to practice would only be for two years under a provisional enrolment, the said person can continue to take the Bar Examination as many times as is possible. The result therefore is that any person who is provisionally enrolled is allowed to practice for two years, but is allowed to take the exam not just for two years but for any number of times till he passes the exam while the date of reckoning seniority is from the date of the provisional enrolment.

AIBE XIX 2024 Eligibility Criteria

• Candidate should be an Indian national.
• Candidates must either have passed 3 years or 5 years LL.B. degree from a BCI recognized law school.
• No minimum percentage is required in the qualifying examination in order to apply for AIBE 2024.
• In order to appear in All India Bar Examination, it is must for the aspirant/law graduate to be enrolled with his/her respective State Bar Council.
• Candidate must possess the advocate enrollment card issued by State Bar Council.
• There is no prescribed age limit for writing AIBE 2024 Exam.
• There is no limit in attempts for AIBE. Candidates can appear this examination any number of times.

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AIBE XIX 2024 Exam Pattern

• The question paper will contain total 100 questions of the objective type from 19 subjects.

Here is the syllabus for All India Bar Exam-XIX:

Sl. No.	Topic/Subject	Number of Questions
1	Constitutional Law	10
2	I.P.C. (Indian Penal Code) & (New) Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita	8
3	Cr.P.C. (Criminal Procedure Code) & (New) Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita	10
4	C.P.C. (Code of Civil Procedure)	10
5	Evidence Act & (New) Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam	8
6	Alternative Dispute Redressal including Arbitration Act	4
7	Family Law	8
8	Public Interest Litigation	4
9	Administration Law	3
10	Professional Ethics & Cases of Professional Misconduct under Bar Council of India Rules	4
11	Company Law	2
12	Environmental Law	2
13	Cyber Law	2
14	Labour & Industrial Law	4
15	Law of Tort, including Motor Vehicle Act and Consumer Protection Law	5
16	Law related to Taxation	4
17	Law of Contract, Specific Relief, Property Laws, Negotiable Instrument Act	8
18	Land Acquisition Act	2
19	Intellectual Property Laws	2
Total		100