The Bar Council of India (BCI) has published sample questions for the upcoming 9 December All India Bar Exam (AIBE). The sample question paper is now available on the official bar exam website, via a link at the top of the page. [click here to download PDF]
Some excerpts from the sample paper (BCI’s suggested answers in bold):
1. The structure of Indian Constitution is?
A) Federal in form and unitary in spirit.
B) Unitary.
C) Unitary in form and federal in spirit.
D) Purely federal.
2. “The Constitution establishes a system of government, which is almost Quasi-federal” , This statement relates to?
A) Sir Jennings.
B) Dr. B.R. Ambedkar.
C) Prof. K. C. Wheare.
D) Dr. Rajendra Prasad.
3. In whose time period, the Panchayats were given the Constitutional status?
A) Rajiv Ghandhi.
B) Chandrashekhar.
C) V.P. Singh.
D) P.V. Narsimha Rao.
4. Which one of the following statement correctly describes the Fourth Schedule of the Constitution of India?
A) It lists the distribution of powers between the union and the states.
B) It contains the language listed in the Constitution.
C) It contains the provisions regarding the administration of tribal areas.
D) It allocates seats in the Council of States.
5. Who described the Part III of the Indian Constitution as “most criticized part of the Constitution”?
A) Jawahar Lal Nehru.
B) B.R. Ambedkar.
C) Dr. Rajendra Prasad.
D) B.N.Rau.
6. When an Enactment is of such a nature that no separation is possible between inconsistent and consistent part?
A) Whole Act will be operative.
B) Whole Act will be inoperative.
C) The Act will neither be operative nor inoperative.
D) None of these.
7. For which of the following, special provisions can be made under Article 15 of the Constitution of India?
A) Women and Children.
B) Scheduled and Tribes.
C) Economically Backward Classes.
D) Socially Backward Classes.
8. Under which law the ‘untouchability’ has been declared abolished in India?
A) Protection of Civil Rights Act.
B) Schedule Castes and Schedule Tribes Act, 1989.
C) Constitution of India.
D) All of the above.
9. The Supreme Court has held in a case that Mrs. Sonia Gandhi,the President of Congress(I) is not an Italian citizen,
but is an Indian citizen under:
A) Article 10.
B) Article11.
C) The citizenship Act, 1955.
D) None of the above.
10. Constitution is generally defined as?
A) Law of the land.
B) Fundamental law of the land.
C) Administrative law of the land.
D) Constitutional law of the land.