Rajasthan Judiciary — Previous-Year Papers

Every Rajasthan Judiciary paper we have, free to read and download. 2 prelims and 3 mains papers — each one also available as a clean, branded PDF.

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Rajasthan Judiciary · Prelims

What the Rajasthan prelims actually tests

One 200-mark / 200-question objective screen (2 hours, OMR, no negative marking), qualifying only — the marks never reach the final merit list. By rule it is split 70% law / 30% Hindi + English (the language block is in the note below). Only two papers survive (2015 & 2017), both partial samples — so the bars show the mix within the law portion and are indicative, not exact, and each sparkline is a single 2-point slope (read it as steady/up/down, not a trend).

Criminal core · CrPC + IPC + Evidence 26%

The procedural/penal backbone — the heaviest law block. CrPC leads (S.82/83, S.167(2), S.313, FIR case-law); IPC is illustration-based; Evidence covers relevancy, burden of proof, dying declarations, S.65-B.

Special criminal Acts · JJ + NDPS + NI + IT + POCSO + Probation + SC/ST 21%

Small heads, decisive together — dead-steady across both papers. A deliberate Rajasthan examiner focus, routinely underestimated; each is 1–4 questions but skipping the cluster is fatal.

Core civil law · CPC + TPA + Limitation + Contract + SRA + Registration 18%

Tested broad but shallow — no single civil subject tops ~4 questions a year. CPC leads; the rest are 1–4 each. Width of coverage beats depth on any one Act.

Other allied & local Acts · Rent Control + Arbitration + DV + Easements + General Rules 13%

The long tail — Rent Control, Arbitration, DV, Easements, Partnership, Sale of Goods, plus General Civil/Criminal Rules & legal maxims. Individually tiny, collectively meaningful. Arbitration recurs though it is not named in the 2025 syllabus.

Rajasthan state Acts · Tenancy + Land Revenue + Court Fees + Stamp + Agri-Creditstate acts 11%

Rajasthan's signature — the 2015 paper literally opens on them (Q1–Q3). Reliable, scorable, found in no other state's exam. The 2025 syllabus keeps Rent Control, Land Revenue and Court Fees & Suits Valuation as named heads.

Hindu + Muslim personal law 7%

Steady personal-law block — Hindu Law clearly outweighs Muslim Law across the two papers. Marriage, succession, maintenance, adoption recur.

Constitution of India 4%

A light but dependable head — fundamental rights, writs, basic structure. High return-per-question; cheap to lock in.

A third of the Rajasthan prelims is language — by rule, before any law. The Rules fix the split at 70% law / 30% Hindi + English (≈60 of 200 marks): Hindi sandhi-samas, prefixes/suffixes, idioms, administrative & legal terminology, plus English tenses, articles, voice, indirect speech and modals. On top of that, the law itself is examined in a Hindi / Devanagari and Rajasthani-customs frame. The partial PYQ files reproduce no Hindi questions at all, so the real language load is invisible in the sample — prepare grammar as a guaranteed ~60-mark block, not an afterthought.

The syllabus narrowed, and the codes switched — neither shows in these papers. The 2015/2017 papers were set under a broader, old-codes syllabus; the current 2025 notification drops several allied Acts (Succession, Torts, Easements, Motor Vehicles, Electricity, assorted Rajasthan revenue Acts) while keeping Rent Control, Land Revenue and Court Fees as named state heads. It also now pairs IPC, CrPC and Evidence with the new BNS, BNSS and BSA — yet every question here is on the old codes (no sanhita appears in either paper). Use the PYQs for style and concepts, then map each section onto its new-code equivalent.