Bihar Judiciary — Previous-Year Papers

Every Bihar Judiciary paper we have, free to read and download. 4 prelims and 5 mains papers — each one also available as a clean, branded PDF.

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Bihar Judiciary · Prelims

What the Bihar prelims actually tests

Bihar runs a two-paper prelims — a 100-mark General Studies paper with no law, plus a 150-mark Law paper (250 marks, a pure screen). Bars below show each subject's share of both papers combined — 695 questions across 4 papers (2009–2021) — and the line tracks it over those years. The 2021 source file is merged/partial, so its column and the trend lines are softer than the clean 2009/2013/2016 papers.

General Studies · its own 100-mark paper 47%

A whole separate paper with zero law — Indian history, geography, general science, current affairs. Nearly half of everything asked across both papers.

Constitution 11.5%

The #1 law subject — ~22% of the law pool. Fundamental Rights, basic structure, federalism, writs, emergency. Make it the backbone.

Personal law · Hindu + Muslim 7.9%

One syllabus paper, and rising hard (4 → 20). Muslim Law in every paper; Hindu Law jumped to double figures from 2016. Now core, not residual.

Commercial law · Company, SoGA, Partnership, NI 5.8%

All-or-nothing — tidy blocks of ~5 each in 2009 and 2021, absent in between. Predictable when it appears; not guaranteed every year.

Contract 5.5%

Steady and very predictable — consideration, *Mohori Bibee*, coercion, frustration, bailment, guarantee. A reliable bank of marks.

Torts 4.9%

Maxim- and case-driven — *Rylands v. Fletcher*, *damnum sine injuria*, vicarious/strict liability. High return for memorising the canon.

Transfer of Property 4.7%

Stable section-recall — ostensible owner (s.41), *lis pendens* (s.52), perpetuity (s.14), part performance (s.53A), mortgages.

Procedural · CPC + CrPC + Evidence + Arbitration + PSCC 4.6%

Surprisingly thin in prelims despite dominating the Mains — mostly section-spotting. Cannot be skipped, but low prelims yield.

Trust + Equity + Specific Relief 4.3%

Each tiny, together a steady cluster. Narrow, repetitive pool — cheap to revise for a few near-guaranteed marks.

Administrative Law 4.2%

Spiky, not steady — 24 of its 29 questions landed in 2016 alone, bundled into the Constitution paper. Rule of law, natural justice, delegated legislation.

General Studies is half the exam — and the most common way to miss the cut. It is an entire 100-mark paper of history, geography, general science and current affairs, carrying no law at all, yet it is ~47% of everything asked. The prelims marks never count toward the merit list, so strong lawyers under-prepare GS — and screen out before the Mains. Prepare it as a serious subject in its own right.

Study the new codes, and brace for a long Mains. All four papers here (2009–2021) predate the 2023 overhaul — they test IPC, CrPC and the Evidence Act, but the live syllabus is now BNS, BNSS and BSA; re-map the old section numbers, the concepts still recur. And the screen is the easy part: the Bihar Mains is 10 descriptive papers totalling 1,450 marks (six 150-mark law papers plus Hindi, English, GK and Elementary General Science).