Odisha Judiciary — Previous-Year Papers
Every Odisha Judiciary paper we have, free to read and download. 9 prelims and 8 mains papers — each one also available as a clean, branded PDF.
Odisha Judiciary · Prelims
What the Odisha prelims actually tests
One 100-question, 100-mark objective screen — 1½ hours, with 25% negative marking (0.25 per wrong answer) — qualifying only (clear 40% / 35% reserved; the marks never reach the merit list). Built on the site's deepest archive — 900 questions across nine papers (2012-2021). Its defining feature: ten core law subjects sit at almost exactly 10% each, year after year. Bars show share of the whole paper, sorted by total weight; the line tracks each subject across those nine years.
This is the most perfectly balanced prelims anywhere — until 2021 broke the pattern. For eight straight papers (2012-2019) the examiner ran a near-exact 10-question block on each of the ten subjects above, every paper summing to 100; there is no dominant head and no non-law filler, so near-equal preparation across all ten is the winning strategy. Then 2021 shifted: the Specific Relief block was halved (10 → 5) and a brand-new 5-question Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 block appeared (Q96-Q100 of that paper) — the notification subject that had sat untested since 2012. Treat the DV Act as confirmed live and expect Specific Relief to stay reduced.
The Odia gate is upstream, the maths punishes guessing, and the codes are changing. The Odia-language requirement is an eligibility gate — you must have passed a Class-VII-standard Odia exam to apply — and it produces no questions in the prelims (the source papers contain none), so it earns no bar here. With ten subjects this evenly spread there is no high-yield head to gamble on, and a wrong answer costs 0.25 on a screen whose marks don't even count — attempt only stems you can narrow to two. On substance, all nine papers test the IPC, CrPC and Evidence Act; the BNS, BNSS and BSA (in force since 1 July 2024) will carry those ~30 marks forward, so learn the concepts here and re-map every section to its new-code equivalent.