Assam Judiciary — Previous-Year Papers

Every Assam Judiciary paper we have, free to read and download. 5 prelims and 2 mains papers — each one also available as a clean, branded PDF.

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Assam Judiciary · Prelims

What the Assam prelims actually tests

Prelims is a 100-mark screening test — 90 marks on the subjects below plus a 10-mark Assamese paper — and only a 1:10 filter into the Mains. Based on 450 questions across 5 papers (2013–2023); bars show share of the paper and the line tracks each subject over those years. The Assamese 10-mark portion isn’t shown — it’s absent from the source papers.

General Knowledge 18%

The single biggest variable — swings 4 to 45 questions. Recent papers lean Assam-specific (Ahom history, geography, APSC).

Procedural trio · CPC + CrPC + IPC 16%

Named in the syllabus and the backbone of the paper — climbs to 26 questions in a law-heavy year.

Allied Acts · Limitation, Arbitration, Registration…not in syllabus 16%

Small individually, decisive together — present every year since 2015 though the notification never names them.

English 10%

Steady ~10 a year. The safest, lowest-effort scoring zone.

Constitution of India 9%

Steady 5–10 a year. High-yield — master first.

Personal law · Hindu + Muslimnot in syllabus 8%

Quiet most years, then erupts — 28% of the 2022 paper. Nowhere in the notification.

Contract + Evidence 8%

Both named; mid-weight and trending up — section- and illustration-based.

Aptitude, TPA & legal-GK 15%

The remainder — light but recurring (the 2015 spike was a one-off legal-GK paper).

The syllabus is not the exam. Assam’s notification names about 14 prelims subjects — the papers test at least 24. The ones it leaves out — Limitation, Arbitration, Registration, Specific Relief and personal law — are up to 30–40% of a paper. Prepare only the named list and you’re sitting a different exam than the one Gauhati High Court sets.

The new codes are coming, but the papers can’t show them yet. Assam’s syllabus already lists BNS, BNSS and BSA beside the old IPC, CrPC and Evidence Act — yet every paper here predates them (all ≤ 2023). Use the PYQs for concepts and question style, then re-map each section onto its new-code equivalent.