AIBE Exam Preparation Tips

The All India Bar Examination (AIBE) is conducted around September every year. After clearing this exam, one will be able to practice in court. But the AIBE exam is different from the other exam. It is an open book exam meaning students can take class 10 biology notes & books in the examination hall and refer them to solve questions. What this exam testsis the ability to understand law and application of knowledge.

But many are not able to clear this even though it’s an open book exam. The main reason is that students don’t have the correct preparation strategy. The AIBE doesn’t need a student to learn volumes of information but wants the ability to reason and decipher the answer using legal knowledge and aptitude. To help with your preparation, here is a detailed step by step preparation guide along with exam overview.

Exam Overview

Exam Mode	Offline
Exam Level	National
Exam Difficulty	Moderate to High
Question Type	MCQs
Number of hours	3 hour 30 mins
Total number of Questions	100
Per question time or question solving rate	Approx 3 mins per question

Step by step guide

This guide has distributed various strategies in a step by step form so that it becomes easier to prepare for the exam. This is a step by step guide to preparing for the upcoming examination. As each step is completed successfully, one comes closer to cracking the exam. Let’s discuss each step in detail.

Always know about the update in the syllabus

We often overlook the syllabus relying on books,but syllabus keeps changing every year. So we miss something and end up wasting time on topics which not even in the syllabus. So it is important to check up on the latest syllabus. Here are the important topics for AIBE:-

Administrative Law

Code of Civil Procedure
Alternative Dispute Redressal including Arbitration Act
Company Law
Criminal Procedure Code
Constitutional Law
Cyber Law
Evidence Act
Environmental Law
Family Law
Intellectual Property Laws
Indian Penal Code
Land Acquisition Act
Labour and Industrial Laws
Law related to Taxation
Specific Relief,Law of Contract, Negotiable Instrument Act, Property Laws
Law of Tort –inclusive of Motor Vehicle Act & Consumer Protection Law
Public Interest Litigation
Professional Ethics and Cases of Professional Misconduct under BCI rules

ImportantTopics

Topics	Questions Expected
Constitutional Law	10
Code of Civil Procedure	10
Criminal Procedure Code	10
Family Law	08
Evidence Act	08
Indian Penal Code	08
Specific Relief, Law of Contract, Negotiable Instrument Act Property Laws,	08
Total Questions	62

Studying past year papers thoroughly

The main aim is to go through the questions properly from past year and study which topics are given most importance. The intention is not to solve the question but just going through it for analysis. Going through several question papers will help you find various topics and will help you create material papers for the exam.

Materialising your notes

Since All India Bar Exam is an open book exam, the notes must be prepared properly. The time is very limited,and answers require high accuracy. So taking several books and searching from them reduces time efficiency. Instead, short notes will come handy.

Notes Preparation

Study from as many books as you can. From each book, make a heading and write whatever info you find important. Then condense each topic using all reference books. If you choose the right study material and the rightmaterial, then you can clear the exam in a single attempt.

Take a printout of important topics or notes which you have written. The topics and subheadings must be underlined.

Mock tests

Take mock tests with the help of the notes prepared. It will help you find the shortcomings of your notes. Don’t use the Internetto answer questions. Give the mock exams like AIBE final one.