AIBE 19 exam postponed to December 1; registration last date extended to October 28

NEW DELHI: The Bar Council of India (BCI) has postponed the All India Bar Examination (AIBE 19) exam to December 1. AIBE registration and payment deadlines have also been extended to October 28 and October 29, respectively. The revised AIBE 19 exam schedule has been hosted on the official website, allindiabarexamination.com.

Earlier, the AIBE 19 exam date was November 24. The BCI has not given any reason for the postponement of the AIBE 19 exam. Candidates currently in their final semester of a 3-year or 5-year LLB degree course, studying at a BCI-recognised university or a college will be eligible to register for AIBE. “These candidates must have no backlogs from previous semesters to qualify,” the council added.

While filling the AIBE 19 application form, candidates will have to upload all the required documents in specified format and make the registration fee payment before the deadline. The council has not changed the pass percentage criteria. Those belonging to general and OBC category will have to score 45% and the pass percentage for SC, ST and PwD candidates has been fixed at 40%.

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BCI AIBE 19 revised schedule

Here’s the revised schedule for the upcoming All India Bar Examination -19.

A total of 1,44,014 students appeared for the AIBE 18 exam held on December 10. Of which 69,646 were declared pass by recording an overall pass percentage of 51.63%. An RTI reply by the BCI also revealed that a total of 74,368 candidates failed the Bar exam, while over 4,700 were marked absent.