Andhra Pradesh Judiciary — Previous-Year Papers

Every Andhra Pradesh Judiciary paper we have, free to read and download. 5 prelims and 1 mains papers — each one also available as a clean, branded PDF.

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Andhra Pradesh Judiciary · Prelims

What the Andhra Pradesh prelims actually tests

The first stage is a Computer-Based Screening Test — 100 objective questions / 100 marks / 2 hours — that is qualifying only: clear 40%, get short-listed 1:10 into the Written exam, and the screening marks never reach the merit list. Built on 500 questions across five complete papers (2011-2019); bars show share of the whole screening paper, sorted by weight, and the line tracks each subject across those five years.

Code of Civil Procedure 19.4%

The single biggest head in every paper — swings 13 → 29. Decrees vs orders, Order 9 / ex-parte decrees, execution, amendment of pleadings (O.6 R.17), jurisdiction, LR substitution. Highest prep priority.

Code of Criminal Procedure 13.4%

The most stable heavyweight — 9 to 16 every year. Cognizance, FIR / s.173, s.161/164 statements, s.167 remand, s.125 maintenance, and the A.P. Criminal Rules of Practice (strong in 2019).

Indian Penal Code 10.8%

Consistently present but the widest band (5 → 19); 2016 was an IPC-heavy outlier. Offences against property, culpable homicide vs murder, common intention, abetment, general exceptions.

Indian Evidence Act 9.8%

Steady mid-weight (7-9 most years, a 17-spike in 2016), tested through both the civil and criminal lens — admissions, expert opinion, burden of proof, presumptions, public vs private documents.

Hindu Law · HMA + HSA 7.4%

Reliable 5-10 a year. HMA: valid marriage, divorce grounds, s.13-B, RCR, custody. HSA: Class I/II heirs, s.15 female succession, post-2005 coparcenary, notional partition. Never skip.

Indian Contract Act 7%

In every paper (5-12); 2012 ran Contract-heavy. Offer/acceptance, free consent (coercion/fraud/misrepresentation), void vs voidable, contingent contracts, agency, bailment.

Transfer of Property Act 6.6%

A flat 5 most years, then a 13-question spike in 2015. Lis pendens (s.52), part performance (s.53-A), gifts, vested vs contingent interest, fraudulent transfers.

Specific Relief Act 5.4%

The most predictable head — 4-7 in every single paper. Specific performance and its bars, s.6 possession suits, rescission, rectification, declaratory decrees, injunctions. Reliable marks.

Allied central Acts · Limitation, Reg+Stamp, NI, Easements, DV 16.2%

Small individually, decisive together. Several vanished in 2016 then returned strongly in 2019 (NI, Registration); Easements is the steadiest. A wide bank of cheap, high-return marks.

A.P. special & local Actsstate-specific 4%

Near-dormant for four papers, then 2019 fired an 11-question A.P. block — Land Encroachment, A.P. Excise, A.P. Gaming, JJ Act, all notified A.P. laws. The wake-up is the panel's standout signal.

One quartet is half the exam — and the A.P. state Acts are now live. CPC, CrPC, IPC and Evidence together are 53.4% of the screen, with CPC the biggest head in every paper. But do not write off the state-specific laws: after sitting near-dormant through 2011-2016, the 2019 paper fired an 11-question A.P. block at once — the Land Encroachment Act, A.P. Excise Act, A.P. Gaming Act, the JJ Act and the A.P. Criminal Rules of Practice — testing the full notified A.P. list for the first time. Treat them as confirmed, not optional.

Telugu is downstream, and the codes have changed. The screen carries no Telugu (the source papers contain none) — the language surfaces only later, in Written Paper III, as a 25-mark English↔Telugu translation test alongside a 75-mark legal essay. On substance, all five papers (2011-2019) pre-date the 2023 overhaul, so they test IPC, CrPC and the Evidence Act; the live law is now BNS, BNSS and BSA — concepts and question-style carry over, but re-map every old section number.