Just over 71 per cent of candidates passed the first All India Bar Exam (AIBE), according to a Bar Council of India (BCI) press release, which would mean roughly 6,300 graduates enrolled for the exam would have to retake it including Chennai graduates.
According to a BCI press release circulated today [PDF hosted on Legally India servers], BCI chairman Gopal Subramanium said: “The pass percentage for the first AIBE is just above 71%. The pass percentage amongst male and female candidates is nearly the same and I wish each passing candidate all the very best for their legal career ahead.
“Candidates who were unable to pass the AIBE should not lose heart as they will be allowed to take the next AIBE (details of which will be provided shortly) and I encourage them to study hard and take this up as a challenge.”
The release did not state how many candidates not counted in the 71 per cent pass rate did not pass due to non-attendance or failing to achieve the correct score.
The press release added:
The results of the first AIBE can be accessed online through the BCI website (www.barcouncilofindia.org) and candidates can find out their individual result by typing in their Roll No. for the AIBE. State Bar Councils across the country are also being sent a list of the results of the candidates who took the AIBE in their state.
Results can be accessed over the following link, but the BCI website currently appears to be experiencing heavy traffic and is very slow.
Note: For those needing to find out their roll number but unable to access the BCI site due to traffic, you can download the list of roll numbers from Legally India’s server here.
Update 15:27: Approximately 1,600 candidates did not manage to take the exam in Chennai first time around, according to the BCI convenor.
Update 15:59: The BCI convenor said that the final grading for pass marks was a flat 40%. The split of minimum 9 and 31 correction answers from part 1 and 2 respectively, was “subject to Expert Committee Approval” and was not final, said the convenor.
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Facing problem in opening the site. It seems due to heavy traffic BCI site is not opening, if possible why don't you transfer the results to your site also. Whichever the site opens we can view the results.
Thanks
LK Rao
My fellow advocates who could not clear BCI's Exam, please file an undertaking again and you will get provisional right to practise till clearing the next exam. This is how the system of BCI is?
Jai Ho!!
may be it will be declared after chennai test.
[You are right, meant to correct that earlier but did not get around to it. -Kian]
When I did step into the exam hall and looked at the paper, I have to admit i really had the worst words to say to GS in light of the entire day being wasted due to this exam. This was the case until one guy asked me " Under which article does Right to health fall under?". At that moment I was sure that for such characters this exam was most important.
But in conclusion and after having gone through the entire exercise, i still feel its a waste of time and instead the BCI should focus on improving the quality of education at colleges.
Thanks for your assistance and help. I myself and my friend Sreenvas Reddy we both passed the exam. Pls convey my thanks to Abhudaya.
Congratulations to all whoever passed the AIBE exam.
Regards,
LK Rao
The results and the happiness after that is short lived what is the larger question is why was justice denied to us , why dint the sc take any action earlier.
If we could not as advocates get justice for ourselves whom should the people of the country trust for justice
Even I want them to publish the answer key. I was expecting 96 but I got 90. Although close I still want to see where I went wrong.
Does this examination guarantee standards of this profession?
HAPPY HOLI TO ALL.
Democracy is about freedom and choice - and every lawyer on Legally India has the right to be on it (I of course will exercise mine and stop coming here after this). But I hope you remember that you are a part of a profession and all the decisions you make, and the things that you choose to believe in, will determine your career and have an impact on the profession as a whole. Good luck to everyone..
anoop
But still i oppose AIBE...its really ridiculous n shameful dat we giv such exm to say "yes we deserve to b d lawyers"..d question is, wat d hell den we did during law course?
Those 30% who failed AIBE must b OverDumb people...coz any person who has read the subjects in syllabus of AIBE evn once during law course is capable to pass it easily...
General observation, not directed at you.
As far as the Bar exam goes- I subscribe to the school of thought that there is need for one and it should be tougher in the future than in the current format. If you think lawyers in India become geniuses of law on passing the law degree think again.
Bar Exam is present in both the US as well as the UK which for your info have much higher standards of education vis a vis India (atleast in the legal edu sector).
When we're ready to copy their laws into our system (which is infact the case with most laws in this country) y not copy the bar exam condition as well?
" Last of all, it is sad to see the future generations of a great profession being led astray by such media - especially when they have no credentials to speak of".
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Go see a psychologist, you need help.
Mr. Ganz and his website have reported the Bar Exam, as it is.
He clapped when they deseved ovation and rapped when they went wrong.
Its Mr. Ganz's website which now is probably the most visited places, where lawyers in India can debate. A website where space is given to every opinion.
Mr. Ganz even published your comment! Does that not say something about his credentials?
And while being patriotic is good, I'll request you not to bring "you don't understand us" rhetoric. This is 2011 Sir.
did u ever heard "patriotism is the last resort of a scoundral"
so shutup and refrain from mkg allegations against legally india.
u saw a dream that I m overjoyed? whatever be my result it doesn't bother me..bcoz I cud hv & I will continue my practice even if I would not have appeared & passed in that exam..but what surprises me is that even in a open book exam of 3.30 hrs consisting of basic questions of law, a law graduate cud not score even 40!!!God knows whose negligence!!but I believe in what u hv sown so shall u reap.
this is not 1970, this is 2011..here quality matters..coz competition is real tough..and regarding real exam I must tell u that I am appearing in it every day when I joined practice soon after getting enrolment..and remember one thing that learning never goes wasted..
whatever I learnt while preparing for AIBE will help me for the rest of my career & also refreshed my memory..
definitely passing with good marks in aibe does not mean that one will definitely shine in future..but failure in this exam means something that one is definitely going to suffer if he joins the bar..
may be I am wrong.but still the question of failure in aibe remains.........
Dear Kian,
I dont know wat others have to say about you or this site. I am seriously thankful to you and this site. Appearing for this exam would not have been as exciting as it was, had it not been for this site or constant post and comments herein.
I have scored 80 marks... I dedicate my success to Legally India.
3 cheers to Legally India..
Hip Hip Hurrey!!
Today u leave them saying that they r rubbish ...tomorrow u see the in the shape of 'Rebels with arms'.
All r not born with the merit and may be it is also correct that in a open book exam like this they should hv made it....
But then ...just it is a open book exam and 100 marks multi opt question cant be the decisive factor of merit or who will shine in profession or not....
So i do not support the exhibition of marks which my fellow brothers r making here...when they know that what kind of atmosphere was there in the exam center .....
if the standards of the profession have come down then seniors like you are more responsible and it is people like you who need to take such exams and prove your worthiness for the profession not the batch of pass outs of 2010
In any case, #41 I am sorry that you feel this way. I do respectfully disagree and feel we have tried to be balanced in coverage, despite many AIBE hiccups, problems and setbacks. Any commentary (usually only in the newsletter and features) I feel has been a mix of positive and sometimes critical but please feel free to point out instances where you disagree. We have also published several articles in favour of legal reform.
On the headline, we had very quickly changed it to read "6,300 fail/to retake" so Chennai is included. That said, the number is not far off total fails to start with: at least 22,267 candidates registered, of those 1,600 will re-take in Chennai and 29% of the remainder is 5,993.
The reason the number was in the headline was because 6,000+ seems like a surprisingly large number of 2010 graduates for what was expected to be a fairly easy exam. We are still trying to find out how many of those 6,000 never sat the exam.
Best wishes
Kian
Lex is v right ..........i support u lex......
no sir..I have not learnt law too much..that's why I have appeared in the AIBE so that while preparing for itself I could learn many things & remove my ignorances..if this is your thinking I can't help..coz I have no control over one's thinking..but what I have learnt in the past few months that, to some extent the conducting of AIBE as per the vision statement of BCI was not wrong at all..LET THE LEGAL REFORM BEGIN FROM SOMEWHERE BROTHER..now if u think u can suggest BCI how to start the legal reform u r welcome to send them suggestions as u like..me & my some batchmates did this(sending suggestion for legal reform to BCI) while we left our college..we sent the suggestions through the state bar council secretary..there r many ways to redress your grievances..just take recourse of them & don't make lame defenses like "i think u hv learn t the law too much..."...this is not lawyer-hood.
i believe bar exam is a must considering some people claiming to be practicing advocates display an acute lack of logic and common sense
And if you do not subscribe to the views battle it out rather than quitting ..shame
While I do tend to sympathise with the lawyers who did not clear, for what so ever the reason maybe, it is a fact that we have disregarded an imperative part of the equation. The general public to whome justice could be denied because someone lawyers were not upto a mark.
I do belive that AIBE was not a litmus test for how competant or incompetant a lawyer is. However the important of have a basic filter is what I see now after noticing that around 29% people did not clear.
We do complain about those who lost their right to a livelihood. Fact does I can put myself in the shoes of a person who cannot afford a great lawyer. What if I end up briefing one that does not know the basics?
I may end up inviting a lot of flack for this, but the fact remains that this paper was pleasantly not that difficult to clear. Scoring high marks was not that straightforward either. There were a lot of questions that challenged your powers of reasoning as well as your powers of comprehension of the questions. Even so, 90+ of the answers were directly from the text.
I know it may not be fair. But it's not just the lawyers that are affected by this bar exam. It is the general public too. That being said personally I did not believe that this bar exam was difficult to clear. However for people who could not appear for genuine reasons, I believe that the BCI, in case the constitutional validity of this exam is upheld, should increase the frequency of this exam to a quarterly duration or so as not to waste the time of the students who graduate or fail the AIBE.
If you want the hardwork to not go waste,make sure that the bar exam is followed with strict enforcement of the no bar- no practice rule. Otherwise the purpose of the exam will be lost.
the BCI announced it to be of international standards.
In the UK or US, a candidate who clears the exam.. gets a TITLE! of a barrister or an attorney....
WHAT DID WE GET OUT OF THIS EXAM??
It was a big success for the BCI, for the Attorney General... and what abt the candidates who successfully cleared it.
this exam was supposedly for the young lawyers and to judge their intellectual standards!
My only question here is, we wr the ones who had to wait for 7 long months to ethically practice law, and in the end the credit is given to the BCI who conducted the exam without giving us any advantage of the same!
Thank You!
This is India after all. Where we have amazing schemes drawn up failing miserably just because of bad implementation.
- lawyers wanting titles as a result of clearing the exam
- lawyers wanting recognition and fame for passing what was essentially a mildly competitive exam (if competitive at all)
- lawyers blissfully content with scores of 90 and above, as though that in itself in an end
- those that clear it proclaiming it to be a feather in their caps while those that did not have to, playing down the importance.
My view is that after all the anticipation and the noise, the exam and the way it was conducted is a miserable reflection on the bar council and all those that were involved - whether it be Rainmaker, the judges, or even those sitting for it.
- The standard was notoriously low and even a 4th year law student should be expected to clear this
- The pass rate was too high for this to be genuinely competitive. All those who have been "eliminated" are complete laggards who should never have gotten admission to a law course in the first place
- Those that have passed the exam would do well to suspend all thoughts about it at once for it is doubtful whether they stand anything to gain from it
- The BCI should really focus on improving legal education in many lesser known colleges and universities where classes (and classrooms) don't exist, faculty is dismal and infrastructure missing. By not doing this, students are being driven into the arms of private courses (such as Jindal Law School), foreign varsities and even experiments by engineering colleges (such as the IITs).
Legallyindia and kiran
I wholeheartedly thank Legallyindia for all information that they gave about AIBE both before and after the exam. Legallyindia also helped me and guided me in my preparation. Good going Legallyindia.
I also personally thank Kiran for the authentic and timely information that he gave us.
Sandeep katti
2) U ssaid u have learnt many things while preparing for AIBE ..this means in ur 5/3 yrs law course u havent studied well.....so people lk u definitely need AIBE. and wot a way to gv exam....a open book+ group discussion....then u mk a exhibition of marks.....
3) though u hv rt to hold ur view and even to hold that AIBE was justified to some extent....
Regarding ur 1st point I have nothing to say.It is entirely your discretionary jurisdiction.but if u only can blame somebody for the whole day & do nothing by urself then may God help u.
Regarding 2nd point I would say that no one can say that I have learnt law.legal profession is a continuous process of learning.interpretations change everyday.whether I have studied well in last 5 yrs that time will say. but as far as I know I have learnt nothing.coz law is changing everyday.interpretations are changing everyday.even supreme court judges refer sections or articles which they might have read million times in their career.so no one can say I have learnt law.LAW IS DYNAMIC.and remember in every law book be it a student edition or practitioners edition or aibe modules you will learn at least something new which u did not know or might hv wrongly understood.
Regarding pattern of exam I would say that perhaps u r not accustomed to open book exam.u r expert in only close book,memory based & writing-oriented exams.in many foreign countries exams are held in open book format.many companies conduct their recruitment test through open book exams.the purpose is to test the application of mind to a given problem rather than to traditional "commit & vomit".though AIBE questions were fairly easy to be an open book exam.
Do you have any idea when are they (BCI) going to give the certificates for the passed candidates.
Exam episode is over, distribution of certificates also if they (BCI) complete as early as possible we will be happy.
Please place some news regarding certificates.
What about the failed candidates when are they going to announce the appl. date and exam date.
Thanks.
can u pls post this in ur site?? Hall Tickets are available for download to Lawyers who are taking their AIBE on 27th of this month.
Link:- http://www.barcouncilofindia.org/bci-admitcard-download/
They will have to enter their AIBE Roll number to downlaod the Hall Ticket. There is Change of venue this time...
to 392 brother plz get over this result chapter ....forget this marks and concentrate on practicing..... sorry for giving u advice without being asked.....
I m happy with score
brother, go & start practicing..AIBE is over..u must hv passed..use ur brain for some useful job.
this will be a deterrent for those who think AIBE is bogus & will appear in AIBE 2.
mr. saha, good thought..but who will put his hand into the hive of bees??
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