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Judicial services prelims sample paper

A full-length objective paper in the typical prelims format, with an answer key and worked explanations for the legal and procedural sections.

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Monthly current-affairs compendium

Every month's legal and general developments rewritten as short passages with questions — built for judicial GK papers and UPSC ORA alike, not a list of headlines to memorise.

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100 landmark judgments

One-page briefs — facts, issue, holding, ratio and why it still matters — from Kesavananda Bharati to the most recent constitution bench.

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Legal maxims & terms

The Latin and legal vocabulary that recurs in judicial and UPSC ORA papers and in everyday practice, each with an illustration from an Indian case.

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BNS ↔ IPC section map

A side-by-side table mapping the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita and the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam onto the codes they replaced.

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Judiciary answer-writing guide

How a mains answer is marked: structure, statutory citation, use of authority, and four fully written specimen answers with the examiner's notes.

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Reading list

What we ask our students to read

The single strongest predictor of a strong prelims and mains score is reading habit. Start here, twenty minutes a day.

Daily

  • One national daily, read for the editorial and opinion pages rather than the front page
  • One long-form legal report or judgment summary from a legal news portal
  • Our one-page current-affairs brief, which takes about six minutes

Weekly

  • One full judgment, read slowly — start with a short criminal appeal before attempting a constitution bench
  • One essay from a magazine of ideas, for tone and argument rather than information
  • A chapter from a standard textbook in the subject you are weakest in

Foundational books for the prelims

  • An introduction to the Constitution of India, for the scheme rather than the detail
  • A general studies manual, used as a reference and not read cover to cover
  • Any well-edited book of critical-reasoning practice, worked slowly with the explanations

For LL.B. graduates

  • The bare act first, always — commentary only after you have read the section yourself
  • One standard commentary per subject, chosen with your teacher and then stayed with
  • The law reports for the leading cases on your syllabus, not their digest summaries
From the desk

Notes from our faculty

Short pieces on how to prepare, and on what is currently moving in the law.

Legal Reasoning

Applying a principle you disagree with

The commonest error in legal reasoning is answering with your own moral intuition instead of the principle on the page. A method for keeping the two apart under time pressure.

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Comprehension

How to read a judgment for the first time

Headnote, facts, issues, holding, ratio, obiter. A repeatable order of reading that turns forty pages into a page of usable notes.

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Strategy

Negative marking is a pacing problem

Why the answer to −0.25 is not "attempt less" but "decide faster", and how to build the instinct for when to leave a question alone.

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Criminal Law

Reading the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita against the IPC

What genuinely changed, what was only renumbered, and how to answer a question when your examiner still cites the old sections.

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Law school

Writing an answer that earns full marks

Issue, rule, application, conclusion — and the three things Indian university examiners reward that the IRAC formula leaves out.

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Careers

After law school: litigation, judiciary, PSU or private practice

An honest map of what each path asks of you in the first five years, written for a graduate weighing where to specialise.

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