The Advocates on Record (AOR) exam pass rate has marginally bettered to set a three-year record. 22 per cent aspirants of the AOR designation have succeeded in their June 2013 attempt, according to results announced today.
107 out of 488 appearing candidates have cleared the exam for the prestigious designation for exclusive rights to appear, act and plead before the Supreme Court.
The exam was held on 3, 4, 5 and 6 June 2013, for the second time with new syllabus. 73 candidates are also eligible to re-appear, according to today’s result.
The 21.92 pass percentage is an improvement over the June 2012 figure of 14 per cent and the 2011 figure of 18 per cent. The total number of candidates writing the exam has increased marginally over the years, with 400 appearing in 2011 and 466 appearing in 2012.
A total of 22 out of the 107 who passed - around 21 per cent - were women this year.
New AoRs
Ms. Pooja Dhar
Shri Satyakam
Ms. Archana Pathak Dave
Ms. Priya Aristotle
Shri Manish Vashishtha
Ms. Sneha Kalita
Shri Pashupati Nath Razdan
Shri Zulfiker Ali P.S.
Shri Shantanu Krishna
Shri Siddharth Rajkumar Murarka
Shri Abdul Azeem Kalebudde
Shri Shantanu Sagar
Shri Neeraj Kumar
Shri Ajit Sharma
Shri Abhishek Sharma
Shri Anupam Raina
Shri Gautam Talukdar
Shri P.V. Saravana Raja
Shri Anantha Narayana M.G.
Shri Suvendu Suvasis Dash
Shri Jose Abraham
Shri Anup Jain
Shri Abhinav Malhotra
Ms. Neha Vijayvargiya
Ms. Lakshmi N. Kaimal
Shri Sumit Gupta
Shri Akshat Goel
Shri Viplav Sharma
Shri Sunny Choudhary
Ms. Vemika Tomar
Shri Aditya Singh
Ms. Pritha Srikumar
Shri T.V.S. Raghavendra Sreyas
Shri Vikram Singh
Shri Raj Kamal
Ms. Mihira Sood
Ms. Preetika Dwivedi
Shri Santhosh Krishnan
Shri Vikas Kumar
Ms. Anushree Prashit Kapadia
Shri V. Shyamohan
Shri Ankur Sood
Shri Ashwarya Sinha
Shri Anup Kumar
Md. Rashid Saeed
Ms. Anindita Pujari
Shri Sachin Patil
Ms. Reshmi Rea Sinha
Ms. AltafFathima
Shri Bipin Bihari Singh
Shri L. Roshmani Kh.
Shri Avinash Sharma
Shri Samar Vijay Singh
Shri Sarvesh Singh
Ms. Pakala Ratnamala
Shri Gopal Verma
Shri Neeraj Kumar Gupta
Shri Atul Babasaheb Dakh
Shri Danish Zubair Khan
Ms. Jasmine Damkewala
Shri Dilip Annasaheb Taur
Shri Debojit Borkakati
Shri Narender Kumar Verma
Shri Rakesh Mishra
Shri Zangpo Sherpa
Shri Anupam Mishra
Shri Sadineni Ravi Kumar
Shri Abhishek Agarwal
Shri Mohan Kumar
Ms. Pinky Behera
Shri Nar Hari Singh
Shri Sarvam Ritam Khare
Shri Arvind S. Avhad
Shri K. Krishna Kumar
Shri Suhaas Ratna Joshi
Shri Amol B. Karande
Shri Gaurav Goel
Shri Kumar Mihir
Shri Prahlad Kumar
Ms. Madhu Tyagi
Shri Sachin Gupta
Ms. Vaishnavi Krishnamani
Shri Satish Kumar
Shri Sanjeeb Kumar Panigrahi
Shri Rajiv Yadav
Shri Amit Kumar Singh
Shri Ashish Rana
Shri Akshat Kumar
Shri Amit K. Nain
Shri Prakash Ranjan Nayak
Shri Harshad V. Hameed
Shri Sanjay Rastogi
Shri Subhasish Mohanty
Shri Jayesh K.Unnikrishnan
Shri Ram Naresh Yadav
Shri Atul Kumar
Ms. Rashmi Singh
Shri Sanjeev Kumar
Ms. Shashi Kiran
Shri Neeraj Kumar Sharma
Shri Ramendra Mohan Patnaik
Shri D. Ashok Rajagopalan
Ms. Arti Gupta
Shri Pradeep Kumar Mathur
Shri Avadh Bihari Kaushik
Shri Roopansh Purohit
Shri Anil Antil
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-Proud Nalsarite
Do persons filing vakalats in the SC need to possess a "higher" degree of legal knowledge than lawyers generally? If so, it is a shameful affront to all other lawyers as well as the courts before whom they appear.
If not, is it an exam for the sake of having an exam? It seems to me the supreme Court has invented a synthetic 'elite' by the creation of the AOR system. By definition 'elite' means 'above average'.
But above average in what ??
Surely AORs cannot be more knowledgeable than lawyers as a whole simply because a vast number of lawyers don't give the exam. Then again many lawyers cannot give the exam because of the odd eligibility criteria (practice in Delhi, chamber in Delhi, etc. etc.)
At best AORs are a little more knowledgeable than the AOR-candidates who did not make it.
But even assuming there is some advantage by having more 'knowledgeable' lawyers file vakalats before the highest court of the land, the biggest mystery is why they are so selective about not letting more candidates pass the exam. It is my impression that they flunk a bunch of people not because their knowledge is inadequate but that most who flunked were arbitrarily flunked just so the remaining AORs can brag about how hard it is to be an AOR. It’s like banging your head against a wall for days just so you can later brag that you banged your head against a wall for days.
There is no such arbitrary flunking out at law school or the NY bar exam. At some graduate schools like the Harvard MBA program or in some law firms, they do flunk out (or sack) the bottom 10% every year. That is an arbitrary quota. But their reason is to motivate all the students (or associates) and eliminate the notion that once you are admitted to the course of the firm, you can just loaf. Loafing is not a problem for AOR applicants. Neither are AOR applicants being trained at taxpayer expense. So the question of why there is a need to 'weed out' a whole bunch of them is one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of the 20 and 21st centuries.
It's pretty much insane. A guy busts his ass to get into law school. Then he busts his ass for five years to graduate that. Next comes the belatedly introduced Bar Exam where who knows what might happen on a bad day. And then starts the highly dangerous business of practising before any court for a number of years in return for peanuts. After all of that you need to test that poor guy and bar him from signing a vakalat because he was not in the top 5% no matter how well he scored ??? WTF
No wonder than that most law school graduates don't give a rat's ass about practicing. Sado-masochism isn't for everyone.
I'm still trying to figure it out.
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