01Milestone · When a state has vacancies
Notification
The commission or the High Court publishes vacancies, eligibility, fees and dates. Everything about the exam you will sit is in this document: read it twice, then start the clock.
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The judiciary journey
The road to the bench, drawn in full.
Three rounds, one merit list, usually a year or more from the first notification to the training academy. The whole road, the pattern of every state we cover, what its papers actually ask, and what we provide at each step.
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- State exams
- 46
- Prelims papers
- 10
- Mock tests
- 19
- Mains papers
- 829
- Subject notes
Chapter 01 · The road
Seven milestones, three of them rounds.
A state notifies when it has vacancies, so two exams can run in the same season and a state can go two years without one. The road itself is the same everywhere.
Milestone 01 / 07
Notification
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01 / 07
Notification
When a state has vacancies
02Milestone · Six to ten weeks after the notification
Prelims
Objective questions on substantive and procedural law, under the clock, with negative marking in several states. It decides who sits the mains and nothing else: the marks are never seen again.
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03Milestone · A few weeks later
Prelims result
A shortlist, typically several times the number of vacancies, sometimes with a qualifying percentage. Between this result and the mains there is rarely more than a season; the writing has to be ready already.
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04Milestone · Two to four months after prelims
Mains
Descriptive law papers by hand over several days, then the language papers: essays, translation, judgment writing where the state sets it. The rank is built here.
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05Milestone · Two to three months after mains
Mains result
Called for interview: usually two or three candidates for every post. The mains marks now carry into the final list, and the viva is the only thing left that can move them.
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06Milestone · Weeks after the mains result
Interview
A conversation with judges: the law, the cases behind it, the year’s developments, and how you think when challenged. Thirty-five to two hundred marks, added to the mains score.
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07Milestone · Then the academy
Final list
Mains plus interview, in merit order against the vacancies. Selected candidates train at the state judicial academy and are posted as Civil Judge (Junior Division) or Judicial Magistrate.
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Chapter 02 · Three rounds
Three rounds, three different skills.
The prelims screens, the mains scores, the interview weighs. Each round rewards a different skill, and the material for each is different too.
Round one
Prelims
Recall under the clock.
Objective questions on substantive and procedural law, answered fast and precisely. It decides who sits the mains, and nothing else.
- Format
- Multiple choice, one paper in most states; UP adds a general knowledge paper
- Asks
- Constitution, IPC / BNS, CrPC / BNSS, CPC, Evidence, Contract, property, limitation, local laws
- In the rank?
- No. Screening only, in every state we cover
- Wrong answers
- A quarter mark off in Delhi, Punjab and Haryana; none in Rajasthan and MP
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Practise prelimsRound two
Mains
Authority on paper.
Descriptive papers by hand over several days: civil law, criminal law, procedure and evidence, then the language papers. The rank is built here.
- Format
- Three to five law papers plus language papers; judgment writing in MP, essays in Rajasthan
- Asks
- The rule, the section and the case, structured, in about eight minutes a question
- In the rank?
- Yes. The bulk of the final merit
- Minimums
- A floor in each paper and in aggregate, set by the notification
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Open mains papersRound three
Interview
Composure before the bench.
A conversation with judges about the law, the cases behind it, the year’s developments and how you think. Added to the mains score.
- Format
- Viva voce before a board; 35 to 200 marks depending on the state
- Asks
- Precedent and principle, current legal questions, temperament
- In the rank?
- Yes. Mains plus interview is the final list
- Prelims marks
- Never seen again
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- Landmark judgments — issue, ratio, outcome
- Constitutional and procedural notes
- Track your readiness on the dashboard
In every state we cover, the final rank is mains plus interview. Prelims contributes nothing to it.
Chapter 03 · Your exam
Eight states, one pattern each.
Patterns as notified in the cycles we track. States revise them, so the notification you apply under is the only authority.
Rajasthan Judicial Service
RJS
Prelims · screening only
100marks · 100 MCQs
How the final rank is made · 335 marks
Interview 10%
100
100
50
50
- Law I (civil) 100
- Law II (criminal) 100
- Hindi essay 50
- English essay 50
- Interview 35
Law papers · Language papers
Delhi Judicial Service
DJS
Prelims · screening only
200marks
How the final rank is made · 1,000 marks
Interview 15%
250
200
200
200
150
- General Legal Knowledge & Language 250
- Civil Law I 200
- Civil Law II 200
- Criminal Law 200
- Interview 150
General knowledge · Law papers
Punjab Judicial Service
PJS
Prelims · screening only
500marks · 125 MCQs
How the final rank is made · 1,100 marks
Interview 18%
200
200
200
200
200
- Civil Law I 200
- Civil Law II 200
- Criminal Law 200
- English 200
- Punjabi 100
- Interview 200
Law papers · Language papers
Delhi Higher Judicial Service
DHJS
Advocates with at least 7 years of practice
Prelims · screening only
200marks
How the final rank is made · 1,000 marks
Interview 15%
250
200
200
200
150
- General Legal Knowledge & Language 250
- Civil Law I 200
- Civil Law II 200
- Criminal Law 200
- Interview 150
General knowledge · Law papers
UPPCS (Judicial)
UPPCS(J)
Prelims · screening only
450marks
General Knowledge 150 + Law 300
How the final rank is made · 1,100 marks
Interview 9%
200
200
200
200
200
- General Knowledge 200
- Language 200
- Law I (substantive) 200
- Law II (procedure & evidence) 200
- Law III (penal, revenue & local) 200
- Interview 100
General knowledge · Language papers · Law papers
Madhya Pradesh Civil Judge
MPCJ
Prelims · screening only
150marks · 150 MCQs
How the final rank is made · 450 marks
Interview 11%
100
100
100
100
- Civil law & procedure 100
- Writing & summary 100
- Current legal issues & translation 100
- Judgment writing 100
- Interview 50
Law papers · Writing & judgment
Haryana Judicial Service
HJS
Prelims · screening only
500marks · 125 MCQs
How the final rank is made · 1,100 marks
Interview 18%
200
200
200
200
200
- Civil Law I 200
- Civil Law II 200
- Criminal Law 200
- English 200
- Hindi 100
- Interview 200
Law papers · Language papers
Assam Civil Service (Judicial)
ACS(J)
Prelims · screening only
Objective screening test
Written papers on law and language, then a viva voce. Marks per the current notification.
Bar coloursLaw papersGeneral knowledgeLanguage papersWriting & judgmentInterview
Sitting two states?
Put two patterns side by side.
Most candidates prepare for more than one state on the same syllabus. Pick any two and see exactly where the second one differs: the papers, the marks, the interview weight, and what we hold for each.
Rajasthan Judicial Service
RJS
Prelims · screening only
100marks · 100 MCQs
How the final rank is made · 335 marks
Interview 10%
100
100
50
50
- Law I (civil) 100
- Law II (criminal) 100
- Hindi essay 50
- English essay 50
- Interview 35
Delhi Judicial Service
DJS
Prelims · screening only
200marks
How the final rank is made · 1,000 marks
Interview 15%
250
200
200
200
150
- General Legal Knowledge & Language 250
- Civil Law I 200
- Civil Law II 200
- Criminal Law 200
- Interview 150
Interview weight
RJS
10%
DJS
15%
Share of the final rank decided in the viva room.
Language marks in mains
RJS
33%
DJS
0%
How much of the mains is essay, translation or language.
Mains papers
RJS
4
DJS
4
Number of written papers, law and language together.
Prelims negative marking
RJSNone
DJS¼ off
Whether a guess can cost you marks.
Patterns as notified in the cycles we track; confirm in the current notification.
Chapter 04 · What the paper asks
What each prelims paper actually asks.
Not the syllabus PDF. The subject mix of every previous-year question in our catalog for that state, so you can see where a state leans and lean with it. Recomputed as papers are added.
DJS
Delhi Judicial Service
1,527 questions
CPC 14%
English 13%
BNSS 13%
BNS 13%
Constitution 12%
BSA 9%
other 26%
HJS
Haryana Judicial Service
898 questions
Constitution 16%
CPC 15%
BNS 14%
BSA 14%
BNSS 13%
6%
other 22%
MPCJ
Madhya Pradesh Civil Judge
765 questions
BNSS 14%
BNS 14%
CPC 14%
BSA 13%
Contract 9%
TPA 9%
other 27%
PJS
Punjab Judicial Service
437 questions
CPC 15%
BSA 14%
BNS 13%
Constitution 10%
Hindu Laws 9%
8%
other 31%
RJS
Rajasthan Judicial Service
269 questions
English 17%
Hindi 17%
BNS 14%
BNSS 11%
BSA 10%
6%
other 25%
UPPCS(J)
UPPCS (Judicial)
149 questions
BNS 13%
BSA 13%
CPC 13%
BNSS 13%
Contract 10%
TPA 9%
other 29%
- Civil Procedure Code
- Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS)
- Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS)
- Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam (BSA)
- Constitutional Law
- English
- Indian Contract Act
- Transfer of Property Act
- Hindi
- Other subjects
Shares are of the questions that bind to a syllabus subject; a few carry no subject tag. Exams with fewer than fifty classified questions are not shown.
Chapter 05 · Readiness check
Are you ready for the next round?
Seventeen honest checks, one round at a time. Each one points at the material that clears it. Your ticks stay in this browser.
0 of 17 checks cleared. Saved on this device only.
Prelims
0/6Tick what is true today, not what you plan.
Mains
0/6Writing is the skill; the law is the material.
Interview
0/5The board tests judgement, not memory.
Chapter 06 · The year
A year, month by month.
The full-cycle track for a notification about a year away, with what we provide in each phase. Compress it if you must; the order holds, only the pace changes.
M1
M2
M3
M4
M5
M6
M7
M8
M9
M10
M11
M12
Months 1–3
Foundation
Bare acts and the subject notes for the core: Constitution, IPC and the BNS, CrPC and the BNSS, CPC, Evidence, Contract, property, limitation. Read for recall: close the note, say the rule, say the section.
Months 4–7
Subject by subject
One subject a week. The notes first, then every previous-year question on it, thirty a day, every wrong answer reviewed. Your accuracy per subject on the dashboard decides the next week.
Months 8–10
The pen
One mains answer a day against a real question paper, by hand. A card for every landmark case. The language paper, timed, once a week. Prelims questions continue, at half the volume.
Months 11–12
Mock sprint
Two full-length mocks a week under your state’s timing and marking rule. Nothing new goes in. Every mock becomes a week of targeted revision from its wrong answers.
After the notification
Between prelims and mains
Two full mains papers a week. Judgment writing and translation where your state sets them. The minimum marks per paper in the notification, memorised.
After the notification
Before the interview
The landmark cases, two sentences each. The year’s constitutional and procedural developments. Your own application form, re-read: every claim in it is a question.
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