Graduates & Bar Exam

AIBE postponed by month to 30 April 2021 [UPDATE: BCI withdraws, no date fixed]

AIBE new dates: 30 May 2021 Following its unsurprising announcement earlier this week that the 25 April 2021 All India Bar Exam (AIBE) 16 would be postponed indefinitely, the Bar Council of India (BCI) has now announced that the next bar exam would happen on 30 May (see notification above). The dead...

No surprises please: Next AIBE (16) postponed to unspecified date as results are out for 15th

Postponed AIBE 16 The next All India Bar Exam (AIBE) 16 that was optimistically scheduled for 25 April, has been postponed indefinitely. The replacement date would be “intimated soon” according to a notification on the official website. As we had predicted only last month, the revised AIBE XVI sched...

Ambitiously scheduled AIBE pushed to 25 April 2021 • Exam shouldn’t be too tough, even as closed book [DOWNLOAD OLD PAPERS]

The All India Bar Exam (AIBE) has been postponed from 21 March 2021 to 25 April 2021, according to a notification on its website (see above).

BCI to make up for lost Covid time: Two AIBEs by March 2021 + vows Jan 2021 will definitely happen

The Bar Council of India (BCI) has announced a second All India Bar Exam (AIBE) date to be held in 2021 and confirmed that the previously announced upcoming bar exam on 24 January 2021 will be happening on time.

BCI’s All India Bar Exam date pushed by another 2+ months to 2021 (obviously)

All India Bar Exam 15 has yet another new timetable The 15th All India Bar Exam (AIBE) has been postponed yet again, this time to early 2021. Online registrations for AIBE XV, which is held in physical test centres, have been extended to 3 December 2020, with the exam slated for 24 January 2021, acc...

BCI pushes new potential All India Bar Exam date to 8 November 2020

The Bar Council of India (BCI) has announced a new date for the postponed All India Bar Exam (AIBE), setting it a conservative date for the exam to be physically held in exam centres, on 8 November 2020, more than two months away.

NLS 2018 grad Jeydev CS scores tough 5th rank in UPSC exam, plus top ranks from NLU-D, NLU-J [UPDATING]

N LSIU Bangalore law graduate Jeydev CS has come fifth place in the prestigious and notoriously competitive Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) Civil Services Examination 2019, according to Bar & Bench on Twitter . The strong showing from at least one lawyer (though there are likely to be mo...

All India Bar Exam: AIBE 15 postponed from 16 August indefinitely

T he All India Bar Exam (AIBE) scheduled for 16 August 2020 has been postponed indefinitely, with the application date extended to 31 August 2020, reported LiveLaw . That is not a surprise: even in May when the Bar Council of India (BCI) had announced 16 August as a date, we had predicted that exam ...

BCI schedules AIBE XV very very tentatively for 16 August (no refunds if not)

The Bar Council of India (BCI) has announced 16 August 2020 as the date for the next All India Bar Exam (AIBE).

BCI marks AIBE XIV papers in record 9 weeks • Cryptic ‘complaints’ delay results in 9 centres

Record 2 months T he Bar Council of India (BCI) had yesterday announced the results for the All India Bar Exam (AIBE) held on 15 September after just over two months in something of a record for the much-delayed exams and results; however, less promisingly, nine exam centre results have not been ann...

BCI opens All India Bar Exam XIV registrations for 25 August (subject to change at unfettered discretion, no refunds, natch)

For all budding lawyers who can’t wait to be real lawyers, the Bar Council of India (BCI) has opened online registrations for the next All India Bar Exam (AIBE), which will probably be held on 25 August 2019.

BCI manages to beat delayed timetable, publishes results for All India Bar Exam 13

The Bar Council of India (BCI) has notified the results for the 13th All India Bar Exam (AIBE), after its third postponement on 12 March 2019 had predicted that the results would tentatively be out by March end.

BCI postpones All India Bar Exam results for 3rd time, now ‘tentatively’ by March-end

The Bar Council of India (BCI) has postponed the announcement of the results for the 13th All India Bar Exam (AIBE), held on 23 December 2018, for the third time, pushing candidates’ wait for the grading of OMR-answer sheets to three months.

Better late than never: BCI makes 9 previous bar exam question papers available [DOWNLOAD AIBE paper COPIES]

The Bar Council of India (BCI) has published the question papers of 9 out of the 13 bar exams that it has held since the inception of the All India Bar Examination (AIBE).

A bar exam first: AIBE 13 may meet twice-per-year schedule with December date (if no delays)

The next and thirteenth All India Bar Exam (AIBE) is scheduled to be conducted next on 23 December 2018, announced the Bar Council of India (BCI).

Next bar exam (probably tentatively) scheduled for 10 June 2018, registrations open

The next All India Bar Exam (AIBE) is scheduled for 10 June 2018 and registrations are technically open, according to the website. 5th May, 2018 – Last date for Online Registrations. at 5:00 PM 29th May 2018 – Release of Admit Card Online. 10th June 2018* – All India Bar Examination-XII in various c...

AIBE 11 results now out after 3 months of sitting on OMR sheets

The Bar Council of India (BCI) has released the results of the 11th All India Bar Examination (AIBE), a little over 3 months after the exam was conducted. The results of the 3 December 2017 exam can be accessed by entering roll number and date of birth, according to a notification on the official we...

BCI challenged for vagueness, fees ‘in nature of punishment’ for foreign LLB degree holders by Mumbai Uni graduate

The Bar Council of India (BCI) has been in court for over one year now, defending its decision to debar one candidate from appearing for its lesser known Qualifying Examination for Indian National Holding Foreign Law Degree (qualifier) but the lawyer acting for the BCI in court is allegedly still not familiar with the qualifier exam.

Tareekh pe tareekh: 9 months after 10th bar exam, certificates of practice now available in some states (but not in Maha or Karnataka)

The Bar Council of India (BCI) announced yesterday (see below) that the long-awaited certificates of practice for those who passed the 10th All India Bar Exam (AIBE) held on 26 March 2017 are now available, but only for 19 states.

Check here if you’d pass the bar exam • 3 bad questions in last weekend's AIBE • 10 days to find other errors

In a welcome move at transparency, the Bar Council of India (BCI) has (perhaps for the first time ever) released the English language questions and answer keys to the 11th All India Bar Exam (AIBE) that took place last weekend, on 3 December.