About The Exam
The Public Service Commission, West Bengal conducts the West Bengal Judicial Service Examination, 2021 in accordance with the existing rules for recruitment to the posts in West Bengal Judicial Service.
Name of the Examination: West Bengal Judicial Service Examination, 2021
Name of the Service: West Bengal Judicial Service Name of the Post: Civil Judge (Jr. Divn.)
In this article, YLCC brings to you the information relating to the Eligibility, Pattern and Syllabus of the exam. Read on!
Eligibility
In order to sit for this exam, the eligibility requires as follows:
- Applicant must be a citizen of India.
- He must have accomplished a bachelor degree in law from a recognized institute or university.
- The age of the applicants must not exceed 21 years.
- The maximum age of the candidates must not be more than 32 years.
- The candidates of the reserved category will be given suitable relaxation in their upper age.
- The upper age relaxation for the candidates of the SC and ST category will be 5 years.
- Candidates of the OBC category will be offered the upper age relaxation of 3 years.
Format, Pattern And Syllabus
There will be three stages of the West Bengal Civil Services (Judicial) Exam, the pre-exam, Main exam, and the interview.
PRE-EXAMINATION
The details of the pre-examination have been given in the following table.
| S.No. | General Study (Subjects) | Total questions | Total marks |
| 1. | English Composition | 30 | 30 marks |
| 2. | General Knowledge, CurrentAffairs and Test of Reasoning | 40 | 40 marks |
| 3. | Indian Constitution | 20 | 20 marks |
| 4. | Law of Contracts and Torts | 20 | 20 marks |
| 5. | Laws of Evidence | 20 | 20 marks |
| 6. | Civil Procedure Code | 20 | 20 marks |
| 7. | Criminal Procedure Code and | 20 | 20 marks |
| 8. | Indian Penal Code | 10 | 10 marks |
| 9. | Personal Law | 10 | 10 marks |
| 10. | Law of Limitation | 10 | 10 marks |
| Total (time duration will be 2 &1/2 hours | 200 Questions | 200 marks |
MAIN EXAM
The West Bengal Civil Services (Judicial) Main examination will consist of 8 compulsory papers. In addition to that, candidates will have to choose 3 optional subjects from the list given below. Each compulsory and Optional paper will carry 100 marks and will be of three hours’ duration.
Compulsory Papers:
- English Composition, Essay and Précis writing
- Bengali / Hindi / Urdu / Nepali Composition, Essay and Translation from English into Bengali / Hindi / Urdu / Nepali
- General Knowledge and Current Affairs
- Civil Procedure Code
- Criminal Procedure Code and Indian Penal Code
- Indian Evidence Act
- Law of Contracts and Torts
- Transfer of Property Act
Optional Papers
- Hindu Law
- Muhammadan Law
- Jurisprudence and Principles of Legislation
- Indian Law relating to Companies and Insurance
- Principles of Equity including the Law of Trusts and Specific Relief
- Partnership Act
- Law of Limitation and Law of Prescription
- The Indian Constitution and Constitutional Law
INTERVIEW
The last part of the examination process will be an interview. Candidates will be eligible to appear for the interview only if they succeed the pre and main examination.
YLCC would like to thank Sachet Labroo for his efforts in drafting this article.
