AIBE 20 (XX) 2025: Registration (OPEN), Exam Date (Nov 30), Syllabus, Pattern, Preparation & Books

Check out the table below to know the key highlights for AIBE (20) 2025 exam.

Features	Details
Exam name	All India Bar Examination (AIBE)
AIBE 20 Exam date	November 30, 2025
Conducting body	Bar Council of India (BCI)
Exam Level	National
Exam frequency	Once in a year
Exam fees	INR 3,560 (General/ OBC category) and INR 2,560 (reserved category)
Eligibility	3-year or 5-year LLB from a recognized law institute/ university
Exam purpose	The AIBE is a certification exam to earn the Certificate of Practice (COP)  The COP is mandatory for practicising law in India.
Mode of exam	Pen-and-paper exam
Exam timings	10 am to 1 pm
Question type	The question paper will include 100 objective-type questions.
No. of test cities	53 exam cities all over India
Exam helpdesk	Phone: +91 -  6263178414 , 6352601288, 9555089314, 9555076241, 9555092448, Email: bci.helpdesk@cbtexams.in
Exam website	allindiabarexamination.com

 

The AIBE is a national-level exam conducted by the Bar Council of India (BCI) in offline mode. It is held for law graduates who wants to practice law in the country. Both 3-year and 5-year LLB graduates are eligible to appear for the AIBE 20 Exam. Candidates who do not clear the exam will not receive the Certificate of Practice (COP). It must be noted that the BCI has already issued the CoP to those who have qualified the AIBE 19 Exam. 

Also Read: How to enroll with State Bar Councils for AIBE exam? Fees, Documents Required, Eligibility

AIBE 20 Notification 2025

The All India Bar Examination Notification is an official announcement released by the BCI that provides all the important details about the upcoming AIBE exam. This notification is published on the official AIBE website. Candidates can check the notification below:

 

What Does the AIBE Notification Carry?

The AIBE Notification will carry important information like:

• AIBE Exam Schedule
• Eligibility Criteria
• AIBE Application Process

• AIBE Pattern and Syllabus
• Helpdesk info

 

The BCI has begun the AIBE 20 Application Process 2025 on September 29, 2025. The AIBE XX Application Form 2025 is now available on the official website. Once the AIBE registration process is over, the BCI will open the AIBE 20 Application Correction Window 2025. 

The candidates need to fill following details in their application form for AIBE 20: 

• Personal details
• Academic qualification details 
• State Bar Council Enrollment details 
• Preferred test cities for taking AIBE exam
• Preferred test medium from 22 vernacular languages 

Thereafter, they needed to pay the application fee as mentioned below. 

AIBE XX (20) 2025-26 Application Fee 

Candidates filling up the application forms for AIBE XX (20) have to pay the AIBE 2025 Exam Fee for their respective categories as under: 

Category	Application Fee (in INR)
General/OBC	INR 3,500 (plus transaction charges)
Gen-PWD/ OBC-PWD	INR 3,500 (plus transaction charges)
SC/ST/	INR 2,500 (plus transaction charges)
SC-PWD/ST-PWD categories	INR 2,500 (plus transaction charges)
EWS/ Women	INR 3,500 (plus transaction charges)

What's New in AIBE 20 Eligibility Criteria  2025 

On September 20, 2024, the Supreme Court of India ruled that final-year law students are now eligible to register and appear for the AIBE. However, their results will only be valid if they successfully pass all subjects in their law programme. Check the revised AIBE 20 eligibility criteria:

• Final year law students can apply for AIBE Exam. However, they should not have any backlogs.
• Candidates who have completed their law degree and are awaiting graduation degree certificate

• Candidates who have not enrolled with State Bar Council but have applied for the same

Note: Eligible candidates will be required to submit an undertaking and upload self-attested scanned documents during the AIBE 20 registration process.

AIBE 20 Exam Process 2025

The Bar Council of India conducts the All India Bar Examination as per the process below:

Candidates first have to apply for the AIBE exam in online mode on the official website of BCI. The AIBE application process includes three stages - registration, application form filling and application fee payment. AIBE application fee is INR 3,560 for General, OBC, Gen-PWD and OBC-PwD categories and INR 2,560 for SC, ST, SC-PWD and ST-PWD categories. The fee payment can be done in two modes - online (using Net Banking, Debit Card, Credit Card) and offline (using bank challan). 

Step 2: Download AIBE 20 (XX) admit card

All applicants who have successfully submitted their AIBE 20 (XX) application form will be issued an AIBE admit card to appear for the examination. They can download the admit card from the official website of BCI by using their registration ID and password. AIBE XX admit card contains all important details about the exam, such as test date, time, centre address, etc.

Step 3: Appear for AIBE (XX) exam

Candidates can appear for the examination at the allotted AIBE test centre. Earlier, AIBE was an open-book examination so candidates could carry their study material, including books, notes, etc., inside the exam hall. However, from 2021 onwards, AIBE is no longer an open-book exam. Candidates will be allowed to carry only Bare Acts without short notes.

Step 4: Check AIBE answer key

The BCI will release the AIBE answer key on its official website for candidates to check their answers. The Council will first release the provisional and then final answer key for the exam. Through AIBE answer key, candidates can have the correct estimation of the score that they can secure in the exam. 

Step 5: Check AIBE result

Once the final answer key is out, BCI will announce the AIBE result. Candidates can check their results by visiting the official website.

Step 6: Get AIBE COP

Candidates who will clear the bar examination will be given with the Certificate of Practice. BCI notifies the availability ofthe  COP to the qualified candidates in due time after which they can obtain it from their state bar councils. 

The AIBE exam is aimed at judging candidates' understanding of law subjects and whether they are fit enough to practice in a court of law. It may be noted that questions in the AIBE 20 exam will be asked from 19 topics, but each of these topics will carry a different weightage. For example, only two questions will be asked about Company Law, but there will be 10 questions about Constitutional Law. These will be aspects you need to be aware of to ace the AIBE exam.

AIBE XX (20) syllabus 2025-26 

BCI released the AIBE Syllabus for AIBE 20 Exam. Candidates can do their preparation by referring to the syllabus as mentioned in the table below:

AIBE Subjects/Syllabus	No. of Questions
Constitutional Law	10 marks
Cr. P. C. (Criminal Procedure Code) & (New) Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita	10 marks
Code of Civil Procedure (CPC)	10 marks
I. P. C. (Indian Penal Code) & (New) Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita	8 marks
Law of Contract, Specific Relief, Property Laws, Negotiable Instrument Act	8 marks
Family Law	8 marks
Evidence Act & (New) Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam	8 marks
Law of Tort, including Motor Vehicles Act and Consumer Protection Law	5 marks
Labour and Industrial Laws	4 marks
Alternate Dispute Redressal Including Arbitration Act	4 marks
Law Related to Taxation	4 marks
Public Interest Litigation (PIL)	4 marks
Professional Ethics and Cases of Professional Misconduct under BCI Rules	4 marks
Administrative Law	3 marks
Company Law	2 marks
Environmental Law	2 marks
Cyber Law	2 marks
Land Acquisition Act	2 marks
Intellectual Property Laws	2 marks
Total	100 marks

AIBE 20 Exam Pattern 2025

If you are conversant with AIBE exam pattern 2025-26, you can cut down on silly mistakes not only during exam preparation but even during the exam. So, take some time out to go through the AIBE exam pattern described below:

AIBE Exam Features	Details
Exam mode	Offline mode
Exam type	AIBE is no longer an open-book exam.  Not allowed: you are not allowed to carry books, notes and written material inside the exam hall Allowed: Bare acts without notes are allowed.
Exam duration	3 hours
Test medium	22 vernacular languages other than English i.e. 1) Assamese, (2) Bengali, (3) Gujarati, (4) Hindi, (5) Kannada, (6) Kashmiri (F) Konkani, (8) Malayalam, (9) Manipuri, (10) Marathi, (11) Nepali (12 Oriya, (13) Punjabi, (14) Sanskrit, (15) Sindhi, (16) Tamil, (17) Telugu, 18) Urdu (19) Bodo, (20) Santhali, (21) Maithili and (22) Dogri
Total questions	100 questions
Type of questions	MCQs
Marking Scheme	One mark per question (negative marking to be introduced this year onwards)

 

AIBE 20 question papers and sample papers form an important aspect of exam preparation. Candidates must practise as many AIBE sample papers as possible to have a good grasp on the exam. Solving AIBE question papers will help you in the following ways:

• Understand the AIBE syllabus and pattern more effectively
• Understand the type of questions asked in the exam 
• Get to know the important topics for AIBE
• Improve accuracy and time management skills

AIBE 20 Preparation Tips 2025

To effectively prepare for the AIBE exam, it was not enough to simply slog and pile up the study hours. After all, it was not about how much you study, but also about what and how you study. Here are few AIBE preparation tips suggested for AIBE XX to help candidates crack the AIBE 2025:

AIBE syllabus and exam pattern - While it may seem a bit obvious, many of us tend to overlook the syllabus and keep reading just about whatever is in front of us. But this strategy may prove to be counterproductive as you will entangle the mind and brain with a lot of irrelevant stuff. Therefore, preparing important topics from AIBE syllabus, and knowing the exam pattern beforehand will help you score well in the exam. 

Making a study timetable - The ideal strategy to score well in AIBE examination begins with a correct preparation schedule. So, draw up a study plan, including daily study hours, topics to be covered, weekly, and monthly targets. This way you won't lose track of your preparation and be focused on your goal.

Readying the study material - As BCI is planning to make testing parameters stricter this year, it would be wise to get AIBE reference material for better preparation. The reference material for AIBE should be precise, and as per the exam pattern. Candidates should avoid mugging up Bare Acts, but understand fundamentals in detail. The reference books for AIBE should be from a recommended author, preferably an exam expert. 

Reading newspapers - For AIBE exam preparation, one should read in detail about the groundbreaking case laws of all times. Moreover, Newspapers carry details of legal importance in every news. Therefore, candidates should read that news piece, article, or opinion pieces of legal importance. Also, keep a tab on what is happening at the national and international levels, around the law domain.   

Timely Revision: Revise all the topics as it will help solidify what you have already read. Revise each chapter, especially the nagging topics.  

• Practice as many previous years' AIBE question papers and sample papers as possible
• If you have maintained short notes of key points, do revisit them so that they stay fresh.
• Go through recent law cases and judgments

BCI will release the AIBE XX Admit Card on November 15, 2025. Candidates must note that AIBE 20 Hall Ticket 2025 will be released online only and no candidate will receive the admit card for AIBE 20 through post.

AIBE XX admit card 2025 is an important document for candidates as without it they will not be allowed to take the exam. It will carry information like roll number, date and time of the AIBE exam, and reporting time. 

Check the quick steps to download the AIBE admit card below:

• Visit the official website of AIBE XIX - allindiabarexamination.com
• Click on the AIBE 19 admit card 2024 download link
• Login by entering registration number and date of birth
• Download the admit card

AIBE 20 Exam Centres 2025

AIBE 20 (XX) 2025 exam will be conducted in around 54 cities across India. Candidates can select their preferred AIBE exam cities at the time of filling the application form. Candidates were allotted the nearest AIBE exam centres 2025 as selected by them. Here is the list of exam cities for AIBE XX (20) 2025-26:

States	AIBE Exam Cities 2024-25
AIBE exam centres in Andhra Pradesh	Tirupati
	Vishakhapatnam
AIBE exam centres in Assam	Guwahati
AIBE exam centres in Bihar	Patna
AIBE exam centres in Chhattisgarh	Bilaspur
	Raipur
AIBE exam centres in Gujarat	Ahmedabad
	Rajkot
	Surat
AIBE exam centres in Himachal Pradesh	Shimla
AIBE exam centres in Jammu	Jammu
AIBE exam centres in Kashmir	Srinagar
AIBE exam centres in Jharkhand	Bokaro
	Ranchi
AIBE exam centres in Karnataka	Bengaluru
	Dharwad
AIBE exam centres in Kerala	Ernakulam
	Thiruvananthapura m
AIBE exam centres in Madhya Pradesh	Bhopal
	Gwalior
	Indore
	Jabalpur
AIBE exam centres in Maharashtra & Goa	Aurangabad
	Mumbai
	Nagpur
	Nanded
	Panaji
	Pune
AIBE exam centres in Manipur	Imphal
AIBE exam centres in Meghalaya	Shillong
AIBE exam centres in New Delhi	New Delhi (NCR)
AIBE exam centres in Odisha	Bhubaneshwar
AIBE exam centres in Punjab & Haryana	Amritsar
	Chandigarh
	Gurugram
	Hisar
AIBE exam centres in Rajasthan	Jodhpur
	Jaipur
AIBE exam centres in Tamil Nadu	Chennai
	Coimbatore
	Trichy
AIBE exam centres in Telangana	Hyderabad
AIBE exam centres in Tripura	Agartala
AIBE exam centres in Uttar Pradesh	Allahabad
	Ghaziabad
	Gorakhpur
	Lucknow
	Meerut
	Noida
	Varanasi
AIBE exam centres in Uttarakhand	Dehradun
	Rudrapur
AIBE exam centres in Mizoram	Aizawl
AIBE exam centres in West Bengal	Kolkata

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AIBE XX (20) Exam Day Guidelines

To ensure there are no untoward incidents on exam day that may derail the chances of qualifying the AIBE XX (20) 2025, take some time to learn the exam-day guidelines, which are described below. Note that candidates can find these guidelines mentioned on their AIBE 2025 admit card too.  

1. Last-minute exam tips - Candidates are advised to do a quick revision of important points. Not to read any new topics as it will create undue pressure and eat into valuable revision time. 
2. Reporting time - Report at the allotted AIBE exam center at least an hour before the commencement of exams.
3. Carry these items with you - Two black (or blue) ballpoint pens to mark answers on OMR sheet, admit card, photo ID, and Bare Acts
4. Avoid taking these items to the exam centre - Electronic items like smartphones, smartwatches, and tablets; Jewellery or any other valuables
5. Before exam-starts - Follow the instructions given by the invigilator and carefully read the instructions given in the question booklet.
6. Taking the exam - Candidates are advised to start with the easy questions first; to ensure they do not miss out on sure-shot marks. Also, if they are not able to solve a question, they do not get stuck and panic. Once they are done with the rest of the questions, come back and give it a second shot. 
7. How to do time management - Time seems to fly when aspirants are taking an exam! But if they want to slow it down and ensure they can attempt all the 100 questions, they are advised to declutter their mind and stay focused. Don't let the mind linger; also, get rid of the negativity. Keep saying to yourself I can do it. Once the exam paper is in front of you, take one question at a time; don't look or think too far ahead. Stay in the moment. Remember the composure you show now is going to reap rich rewards. Follow the tips mentioned in the earlier point: start with the easy questions and then move on to the rest; don't waste time on difficult questions (especially at the start). 

 

AIBE 20 Student Reaction will be released here once the exam is over. Candidates can meanwhile check the AIBE 19 Student Reaction and Exam analysis below to get a fair idea about AIBE Exam. Candidates can check the AIBE Analysis to get better insights for AIBE, and understand how the test takers perceive the paper on various parameters:

1. Difficulty level
2. Types of questions asked
3. Whether there were incorrect questions asked.
4. Whether the paper was lengthy or easily manageable in the given time duration.

As per the candidates who appeared for the AIBE 19 Exam 2024, in AIBE 19 Question Paper some questions were straightforward, some questions required a deeper understanding of legal principles and the ability to apply them practically. A few candidates mentioned that Family Law and Criminal Law were relatively more challenging than other sections.

Candidates can check the AIBE 19 Student Reaction and paper analysis below:

 To read AIBE exam analysis from previous years - Click Here