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08 January 2013

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]

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01 January 2013

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.

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10 December 2012

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.

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09 December 2012

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.

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06 December 2012

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.

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04 December 2012

Hall passes for the fourth AIBE that will take place in five days (9 December) are now available for download via the official AIBE website, with an enrolment or application number.

AIBE website admit card download link.

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04 December 2012

The admit cards for the 9 December All India Bar Examination (AIBE) which were scheduled to be uploaded on the AIBE’s website yesterday, will now be uploaded tomorrow as per a modification in Sunday’s notification on the Bar Council of India’s (BCI) website.

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02 December 2012

Breaking: The Bar Council of India (BCI) has promised that identification cards allowing All India Bar Exam (AIBE) candidates to enter the exam hall will be uploaded on Monday (3 December), while also confirming that the exam would be a three-hour open book exam - half-an-hour shorter than the first three exams.

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30 November 2012

The Bar Council of India (BCI) has published sample questions for the upcoming 9 December All India Bar Exam (AIBE), which focuses heavily on general knowledge and history, while having changed the number of questions per topic.

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27 November 2012

Bar Council of India (BCI) chairman Manan Kumar Mishra revealed in an interview with legal website Bar & Bench today that its All India Bar Exam (AIBE) contractor ITES Horizon could get paid up to Rs 2.1 crore ($378,000) for assisting with the exam, while parts of BCI revenues from the exam would go to the welfare of lawyers.

He added that the BCI would not provide any study materials this time and would release model questions three or four days before the exam on 9 December.

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22 November 2012

Breaking: The Bar Council of India (BCI) released a statement on its website that candidates who have enrolled as an advocate between 17 and 24 November 2012, could still register for the All India Bar Exam (AIBE) until 24 November.

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20 November 2012

Exclusive: After a three-day outage, the allindiabarexamination.com website would be online again within hours, the Bar Council of India secretary told Legally India, while ITES Horizon Pvt Ltd, the company contracted by the BCI to assist on the All India Bar Exam (AIBE), has not been possible to contact.

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09 November 2012

Three persons of Indian origin holding foreign undergraduate degrees in law registered for this year’s Bar Council of India (BCI) qualifying exam to practice in India, but only one – an LLB degree holder from Cambridge University - passed.

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30 October 2012

Breaking: The Bar Council of India (BCI) has postponed the All India Bar Exam (AIBE) scheduled for 25 November 2012, to 9 December because of a religious event and candidates’ requests.

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09 October 2012

A Right to Information (RTI) request has revealed that the Bar Council of India (BCI) entered into a wide-ranging letter of intent (LOI) with legal industry services provider Rainmaker in 2010, not just to conduct the All India Bar Exam (AIBE) but also to cross-promote other products of the company. However, according to Rainmaker, the majority of that LOI was never implemented.

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05 October 2012

Breaking: The Bar Council of India’s (BCI) new contractor has launched a standalone website for All India Bar Exam (AIBE) takers to register for the next exam that is scheduled for 25 November, with fees for the exam having been hiked by around 50 per cent to Rs 1,950 for first time examinees.