Bihar Judicial Service Examination 2026 - Application form, Admit card, Exam Dates, Syllabus

Candidates appearing for the Bihar Judicial Services exam must check the minimum eligibility criteria to be eligible to appear for the exam.

The Bihar Judiciary Mains application form 2023 was released from October 5 to November 8, 2024. The application form will be filled in 3 parts. Candidates first had to register for the Bihar Judicial Services exam after which the link for online payment of the application fee was available the next day after 11 am. The application fee for the general category was Rs. 600 and for the ST/SC PWD/Women category (Bihar) was Rs.150. 

Steps to fill Bihar Judicial Services Examination Application form

The application form of Bihar Judicial Services Examination is filled in three stages -registration, payment of application fee and filling the application form. Candidates can check the steps given below to fill the application form for reference purposes.

Stage 1 - Registration

• Click on the link to fill the application form of Bihar Judicial Services.
• Click on ‘Online Registration’ and  ‘Apply Online’.
• Fill all details required like name, father's name, date of birth etc.
• Click on the ‘Submit’ button.
• After the successful registration, the username and password were sent to the candidates’ registered email ID.

Stage 2 – Fee Payment

To pay the application fee, the link will be available next day after registration after 11 a.m. Candidates have to pay the registration fee online by clicking on the link available.

Stage 3 – Filling of the application form

To proceed to the third stage of filling application form the link will be activated the next day of fee payment after 11 am.

• Candidates have to upload photographs and signatures.
• After providing all the details, candidates must check the details entered by clicking on ‘Preview’.
• Click ‘Submit’ and download the application form by clicking on ‘Download filled application.

Application Fee

Bihar Judicial Services Examination Application form for Mains Exam

The candidates who  qualify in the preliminary exam have to fill the application form to appear for the mains exam. Bihar Judicial Services application form for mains exam can be filled out online mode. After filling the application form candidates have to send their documents along with the offline application form and will have to send the same through speed post to the BPSC office.

The Bihar Judicial Services Exam is conducted in three stages - preliminary, mains and personality test. As per BPSC, the exam pattern of the preliminary exam will have two papers - General knowledge and Law.  Paper 1 will consist of General Knowledge including Current Affairs and Elementary General Science. The total marks of Paper 1 will be 100. 

Paper 2 will be conducted for 150 marks and will constitute of Law of Evidence and Procedure, Constitutional and administrative Law of India, Hindu Law and Muhammadan Law, Law of Transfer of Property, Principles of Equity, Law of Trusts and Specific Relief, Law of Contracts and Torts and Commercial Law. All the questions asked in papers 1 and 2 exam will be objective multiple-type questions.

Structure of Exam pattern of Bihar Judicial Services Examination - Preliminary exam

The main exam of Bihar Judicial Services comprises of compulsory and optional papers. As per the exam pattern, the main exam will have 5 compulsory papers - General Knowledge including Current Affairs, Elementary General Science, General Hindi, General English and Law of Evidence and Procedure.  General English and General Hindi will be qualifying in nature and candidates have to score 30 marks out of 100 to get their other papers evaluated. 

There will be 5 optional papers where candidates will have to select any 3 papers. The option papers are Constitutional and administrative Law of India, Hindu law and Muhammadan law, Law of Transfer of Property, Principles of Equity, Law of Trusts and Specific Relief, Law of Contracts and Torts and Commercial Law.

Structure of Exam pattern of Bihar Judicial Services Examination - Compulsory paper

Structure of Exam pattern of Bihar Judicial Services Examination  - Optional Paper

The Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) issued the Bihar Judicial Service admit card 2023 for Mains from November 18 to 20, 2023 on the official website. The admit card for the mains exam had been issued to the candidates who have successfully filled the application form. To download the admit card candidates have to login with their username and password. 

Bihar Judicial Services admit card will carry details like roll number, name, category, date of birth, gender, date and time of exam, details of exam centre. Candidates must check the details printed on the BJSE admit card carefully. In case candidates find any mistake in the details printed on the Bihar Judiciary 2023 admit card, they can immediately inform the examination officials for required correction.

The mains admit card of Bihar Judicial Services was issued from November 18 to 20, 2023 only to those candidates who qualified the prelims exam on their official website. Candidates can enter the registration id/ login id and password to download the admit card. The admit card has details like roll number, name, gender, exam centres etc mentioned in the admit card. Candidates have to carry the admit card on the day of examination.

The result of prelims exam was declared online on September 26, 2023. The result was released published in pdf format. The roll number of candidates qualifying the exam is available in the result file. To prepare the result of preliminary exam, BPSC has used the normalisation process where a total of 10 percent of appeared candidates has been selected. The selection of the candidates for mains exam will be done on the basis of marks scored by last recommended candidates.

The BJSE Mains exam result is yet to be announced. The result of mains exam will be released for the candidates who qualify the BJSE exam. Candidates appearing for the mains exam have to qualify General Hindi and General English papers and score 30  percent of marks in both papers to be qualify the exam. However, the marks of General Hindi and English will not be added in preparing the merit list. 

Final Merit list 

Candidates who qualify interview will be eligible for the preparation of final result. The final result of the qualified candidates of Bihar Judicial Services will be prepared on the basis of marks obtained in mains exam and interview. 

The cut off of Bihar Judicial Services exam for prelims, mains exam and final cut off separately. The cut off of prelims exam will be fixed by the commission. As per notification the cut off of Bihar Judicial Services for the reserved category will be 5 percent less than the unreserved. Candidates have to score equal or above the cut off released by the commission. Exam conducting authorities will release the cut off for all the categories separately in pdf file on their official website.