High Court of Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad

Name of Post: District Judge (Entry Level)

No. of Posts: 02

Mode of Selection: By Direct Recruitment

Last Date: 30.04.2013

For further details, visit the link below-

http://hc.ap.nic.in/aphc/hc2013/djdirectnotification20042013.pdf 

The Selection/ Recruitment process shall be completed in three Stages:
A. Screening Test
B. Main Written Exam
C. Interview

The High Court shall hold screening test with a view to shortlist candidates and may prescribe minimum qualifying cut-off marks for appearing in the Written Test. The marks obtained in the screening test will be relevant for determining eligibility to appear at the written test and not for any other purpose.

The full marks for screening test shall be 300 and it shall be of 100 questions and each question will carry 03 marks but each wrong answer will incur 01 negative mark. It shall be of objective type. In the screening test, the questions will be in the subjects of Law, English Language, General and Computer Knowledge.
 

The questions in the subject of law, for screening test, would be in respect of provisions contained in the following enactments :

(1) The Constitution of India
(2) The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908
(3) The Limitation Act, 1963
(4) The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973
(5) The Indian Evidence Act, 1872
(6) The Transfer of Property Act, 1882
(7) The Indian Contract Act, 1872
(8) The Specific Relief Act, 1963
(9) The Sale of Goods Act, 1930
(10) The Indian Partnership Act, 1932
(11) The Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881
(12) The Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996
(13) The personal Laws (Hindu, Muslim and Christian)
(14) Indian Penal Cod

In the Main (Written) Examination, there may be as many papers with marks for each paper, as may be decided by the High Court, for the said examination on the subjects hereinafter provided :-
 

(1) The Constitution of India
(2) The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908
(3) The Limitation Act, 1963
(4) The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973
(5) The Indian Evidence Act, 1872
(6) The Indian Contract Act, 1872
(7) The Sale of Goods Act, 1930
(8) The Indian Partnership Act, 1932
(9) The Specific Relief Act, 1963
(10) The Transfer of Property Act, 1882
(11) The Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881
(12) The Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996
(13) The Personal Laws (Hindu, Muslim and Christian)
(14) The Motor Vehicles Act, 1988
(15) The Family Courts Act, 1984
(16) The Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988
(17) The Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989
(18) Indian Penal Code, 1860

A candidate will be called for viva voce provided he secures atleast 45% in each theory paper. 

The ratio of marks of theory papers and viva voce will be 80% and 20%.
 

Disclaimer: Author has tried his best to provide syllabus that is true and accurate as of the date of writing; however, all the syllabii on the the present blog should be double checked for their accuracy and current applicability. For details click here.  

[Updated on 18.02.2020]  

It shall be a two-stage process-
(A) Written Examination
(B) Viva-Voce


There will be 5 papers of 100 marks each to be answered within 3 hours. here will be objective pattern questions with negative marking for paper II to paper V as mentioned below in addition to subjective/ conventional pattern questions. Answer-scripts shall be evaluated by adopting evaluation method. The pass mark on each subject will be 40 and in addition to that, the candidates must obtain 50% on aggregate in order to be successful in the written test and further 100 marks are reserved for viva voce and personality test. Total 300 marks in aggregate, i.e. 50% of the total marks (600), will be the qualifying marks for being empanelled in the panel for being appointed to the post of District Judge (Entry Level) by way of Direct Recruitment from amongst the members of the Bar.


Paper-I (English Language):

• Translation from Bengali to English
• Precis writing
• Essay writing

Paper-II:

• Code of Civil Procedure
• Arbitration and Conciliation Act
• Limitation Act
• Specific Relief Act
• Law relating to Intellectual property
• Law relating to easement
• Law relating to Contract and Sale of Goods
• Registration Act

Paper-III:

• Code of Criminal Procedure
• Indian Panel Code
• Negotiable Instrument Act (Sections 138 to 147)
• N.D.P.S. Act
• Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act
• Arms Act
• Forest Act (Sections 52-70)

Paper-IV:

• Evidence Act
• Transfer of Property Act
• Motor Vehicles Act
• Workmen’s Compensation Act
• Industrial Disputes Act
• Constitution of India (Articles 12-51, 214-237)
• Indian Trusts Act
• Hindu Law relating to Marriage, Succession, Adoption, Maintenance, Minority and Guardianship
• Muslim Law relating to Marriage, Succession, Pre-emption, Maintenance, Minority and Guardianship
• Indian Succession Act
• Guardian And Wards Act

Paper-V:

• West Bengal Premises Tenancy Act
• West Bengal Land Reforms Act
• West Bengal Estate Acquisition Act
• Bengal Public Demand Recovery Act
• Bengal Money Lenders Act
• West Bengal Thika Tenancy (Acquisition and Registration) Act
• Kolkata Municipal Corporation Act
• West Bengal Municipal Act  
• West Bengal Panchayat Act

It will be of 100 marks.
The Selection Board shall call such number of successful candidates in the written test for viva voce/ personality test as it thinks fit strictly according to merit list prepared on the basis of aggregate marks obtained by those candidates. The final merit list will be published on the basis of the total marks obtained by the successful candidates on the written and the viva voce/ personality tests.

Disclaimer: Author has tried his best to provide syllabus that is true and accurate as of the date of writing; however, all the syllabii on the the present blog should be double checked for their accuracy and current applicability. For details click here.