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 WHY JUDICIARY This blog is dedicated to upcoming Judges of India who are presently at the preparation stage or are about to start their pre...

 WHY JUDICIARY

This blog is dedicated to upcoming Judges of India who are presently at the preparation stage or are about to start their preparation to become a part of this prestigious institution of this country. Before reading this blog, just take a pause and decide or analyse that why you have opened this blog, why you want to join this institution, what's your plan, and what's your ambition. The answers of all these Why and What will assure that after reading this blog there will be only one way in front of you, that is, to achieve this feat and to never back down, until achieved.

CHOOSE YOUR DESTINATION

The next step for you is to choose your State(s) of which you want to crack this exam. Now, the question comes that, should we focus only on one state or we may give exam of any state? Well, just assume that you want to go on a trip to Kashmir, before leaving you will surely keep some warm clothes with you, because that is an essential thing required for that place, but you cannot keep the same warm clothes if you are going on a trip to Rajasthan in the month of May/june, would you?

The crux is that, each State has its own essentials to crack its exam, you cannot go to each state with the same ingredients, so you have to focus on one state. But yes, on the way to the exam of that state you may attempt exams of other states too, just to test your preparation.

PRELIMS

This is considered as the most competitive part of this exam, as there is fight for one marks or even .25 marks, and the best and only way to clear  this part is to master the bare Acts of the subjects which are to be asked in your state, along with it, if there is some additional portion, like, language, GK, which is included in your state's syllabus, then never ever ignore that, because this is the part which will help you to increase your rank. To score the best in legal part, just revise and revise the Acts as much as you can, don't make assumptions on your side that this portion of this law is not so important or will not be asked in prelims. They never specify to you that what will be asked, the only thing you can do is to analyse PYQs of the state and prepare your strategy accordingly.

The second important thing for this is to make proper notes and to solve as many mock tests as you can, this will surely give you an edge in the exam, as by giving mocks you'll be able to analyse yourself and will focus on improving yourself, you'll be able to know your weak parts and will make it your strength.

So in one line what is the best way to crack prelims: It is infinite times revision and as many mock tests as possible.

MAINS

This part of the exam the score of which will lead to become a Judge as its score is counted for the merit list and a candidate should pay special attention to this one. The preparation for mains is not a rocket science method for which you need special time and place, the exam is all about your concept clarity of law. So when you study for prelims, keep in mind that your ultimate focus is to fight for the Mains exam and start making notes accordingly. After the result of your prelims exam you'll not get enough time to study for the mains, that time is only for your revision and also to practice answer writing, so don't be in a delusion that you can complete the syllabus of mains after your prelims.

The paper pattern of mains differ from state to state, if I talk about Rajasthan, then we have 4 papers, Civil Law, Criminal Law, Hindi essay, English essay.

So besides studying law you also have to pay equal attention on the other papers, as these are the papers which may raise your rank or may put you out of the game. In some states  you'll also find GK part in mains, so analyse your state and start your preparation accordingly.

HOW MUCH TO WRITE IN MAINS

This is the most asked question, and the answer is the simplest one, "Write what is asked"

Just assume that you are giving your college semester exam and the question asked is "Whether Dying Declaration is the sole basis of conviction, explain" We all will start writing unstoppably unless we fill at least 5 pages of the sheet. But, if we are giving mains, then you have to stick  to the portion asked and answer according to it, writing something extra will not fetch you extra marks but will surely lead to miss your paper.

WHETHER TO WRITE AS IT IS LANGUAGE OF THE BARE ACT?

The simple answer to this is that, write as much as you can recall, and it is humanly not possible to remember the exact wordings and language of the bare acts, the only important thing is to mention all the essential ingredients of that section, you cannot compromise with the essentials of the section.

So it is not at all mandatory to write as it is language, the exam is to check your understanding of law and to check your rote learning capacity.

HOW MANY CASE LAWS?

It is always a good impact if you  mention case laws with your answer, whether asked or not, but it not at all mandatory to cite case law in each and every answer. This depends on the marking of the question. A 3 marker question is not required to cite a case law, whereas it becomes important to cite in a 6marker or 8 marker question. 

You don't have to cite 4-5 case laws in every answer, citing 1 or 2 is enough, that too landmark cases and if you are updated with the recent developments then do cite recent case laws.

INTERVIEW

This is the stage the preparation of which you have to do on yourself, there is no specific strategy to it. The more you know about yourself, the more you will ace the interview, that's the only tip.

SOURCES

For procedural laws it is good to read books for once

CRPC- RV Kelkar

CPC- CK Takwani

Evidence- Batuklal

Contract- Avtar singh

IPC - PS PILLAI

For other Acts bare Acts are enough.

For Judgment writing- Robinjit singh book

For english essay- Have an eye on recent issues and read editorial pages and legal developments

For Hindi essay- you'll find many books online, the one which I preferred for RJS was a book by Manmohan Joshi sir(founder of kautilya Academy)

MOST IMPORTANT

Revision and consistency are the two main factors to crack this exam.

For any questions, you may leave a comment, which will be answered duly.

NIKHIL TAK (RJS) 2021-22