Graduates & Bar Exam

Around 273 candidates will sit for the latest Bombay solicitors exam on Monday – an increase of 40 per cent as against test takers 18 months ago.

August 2013 AIBE results now out.

Did you sit the fifth AIBE today (25 August 2013)? How was it for you? Did the questions make sense? Was there enough time? Did anyone cheat?

Majority of affected candidates from Hyderabad; BCI “regrets any inconvenience caused”.

Registrations for the next exam open this Sunday.

PIL wins to allow lawyers practice while waiting for the next AIBE.

The Gujarat High Court today issued notice to the Bar Council of India (BCI) over bar exam delays, reported TOI.

Exclusive: While the Bar Council of India (BCI) has not yet released the complete results of the fourth All India Bar Examination (AIBE) held on 9 December, the regulator has decided to consider the complaints of December’s AIBE’s examinees.

All India Bar Exam (AIBE) candidates’ results for more test centres would be uploaded within two or three days, though it will take longer to announce grades of candidates’ whose results have been withheld.

The Bar Council of India (BCI) has begun uploading results for the fourth All India Bar Exam (AIBE).

The 9 December AIBE, which was cancelled for all candidates appearing in Jaipur and some appearing in Bhopal, will now be held on 13 January at Jaipur and Jabalpur, respectively.

The exam on 9 December was cancelled due to shortage of question papers, after candidates without an admit card appeared at the centre. 1600 candidates had reached the Jaipur venue where 700 were expected, and 1200 reached Bhopal’s centre where 923 were expected.

For Sunday’s exam, the BCI has provided admit cards to 1,281 candidates at Jaipur and 1,059 at Bhopal. [Notification]

In last week’s Mint: Most non-lawyers will not have heard of AIBE, but one week this month, more people in India searched Google for the term than for Sonia Gandhi, according to Google Trends. As a pure exercise in branding, the less than two-year-old AIBE—or to use its full name, the All India Bar Examination—should be considered a huge success for the Bar Council of India (BCI). That can’t be said of the exam itself.

The All India Bar Exam (AIBE) was cancelled mid-way yesterday at the exam centre in Jaipur, Rajasthan due to a shortage of around 900 question papers and was conducted incompletely, but not cancelled, at Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh’s centre where there were 300 papers too little.

Breaking: The fourth All India Bar Examination (AIBE) in Delhi’s nearest test centre in Noida, saw 500 candidates turn up beyond the expected 3,200 candidates for whom seating was planned, while most candidates finished the exam early and reported a fairly low difficulty level.

The Bar Council of India (BCI) has published the full list of 59 All India Bar Exam (AIBE) test venues – increased from 44 venues in the first exam – and clarified that those examinees who have been unable to download their admit cards, could sit the exam after showing four documents.