Syllabus
Punjab judicial services preliminary & mains examination
Age limit: 1. Not below 21 years and above 37 years of age on the last date of submission of an online application form.
2. Upper age limit for SC/ST of all states and Backward classes only of Punjab shall be upto 42 years.
3. For all the States/ Central Govt. Employees the upper age limit is relaxed upto 45 years of age.
4. Ex- serviceman of the Punjab Domicile shall be allowed to deduct the period of his service in the armed forces of the Union from his actual age and if the resultant age does not exceed the maximum age limit prescribed for the direct appointment to such vacancy in the Service Rules concerned by more than three years, they shall be deemed satisfy the condition regarding age limit.
5. For widows, Divorced women, and certain other categories of women the upper age limit is 42 years.
6. For the Physically handicapped persons who have domicile of the Punjab the Upper age limit is 47 years.
Qualification:
1. Candidates must possess a Degree of Bachelor of Law of any university incorporated Law in India or a Degree of bachelor of Law of Punjab University, The Deccan university. Nepal. The Sindh University or of the Rangoon or Mandalay University in Burma, or should be a barrister of the faculty of Advocates of Scotland.
2. Punjabi Language skills of matric or its equivalent standard. (reading, writing, spoken)
PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION SYLLABUS
- 2 hours duration
- 125 objective type questions
- 4 marks for each correct Answer
- 500 marks in total (Pre. Examination)
Note: For each wrong answered question, applicants have to give a penalty of 0.20% i.e. 1/5th marks from the correct answer.
There is no deduction for any unanswered question.
The objective type questions with multiple-choice answers for the Preliminary exam syllabus shall be from the syllabus for the Main Examination along with the below mentioned Topics.
Topics to be covered: Questions will be asked from:- CURRENT EVENTS OF NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL IMPORTANCE; INDIAN LEGAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY AND GOVERNANCE, The candidates shall also be tested for their analytical skills, reasoning and aptitude, And Acts mentioned under Civil Law 1, Civil Law II, and Criminal Law of the Mains Exam Syllabus.
- The standard of questions shall be of graduate level.
INDIAN LEGAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY
AND GOVERNANCE
1. International law and Municipal law
2. Subjects, State Territory, air, Sea, and Outer
Space.
3. Nationality and Statelessness.
4. Law in changing society.
5. contemporary Issues and Prospects
6. State Jurisdiction
7. United Nations
8. Company and Financial market Regulation I
9. Law Relating to prevention and Punishment of
Corruption.
10. Comparative constitution.
2️⃣ QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE
1. Problems on the train.
2. Problems on numbers.
3. Pipes and cisterns.
4. Permutation and combination.
5. Volumes.
6. Problems on LCM and HCF.
7. Odd man out.
8. Mixtures and allegations.
9. Ratio and Proportion.
10. Time and distance.
11. Simple equations.
12. Logarithms.
13. Simple Interest.
14. Percentage.
15. Number and ages.
16. Indices and surds.
17. Probability.
18. Progressions.
19. Compound Interest.
20. Races and games.
21. Time and work partnership.
22. Averages.
23. Areas.
24. Data sufficiency.
25. Quadratic equations.
26. Profit and loss.
27. Boat and stream.
28. Geometry and Mensurations
29. Simplification and Approximation.
3️⃣ REASONING
1. Number series.
2. Statements and assumptions.
3. Seating arrangements.
4. Inferences.
5. Direction Sense Test.
6. Evaluating course of action.
7. Grouping and selection.
8. Classification.
9. Binary Logic.
10. Venn Diagrams.
11. Situation reaction Test.
12. Verification of the truth of the statement.
13. Statements and conclusion.
14. Mirror Images.
15. Blood Relation.
16. Clocks and Calendars.
17. Problem Solving.
18. Decision Making.
19. Logical sequence of words.
20. Mathematical and Computer operations.
21. Grouping identical Images.
22. Coding Decoding.
23. Cubes and dice.
24. Coded inequalities.
25. Symbols and Notations.
26. Double line up.
27. Critical Reasoning.
28. Figure matrix questions.
29. Analogies.
30. Letter series.
31. Puzzles and Syllogisms.
32. Assertion and Reason.
33. Logical deduction.
34. Routes and networks.
35. Non-verbal series.
4️⃣ CURRENT EVENTS OF NATIONAL AND
INTERNATIONAL IMPORTANCE
1. Invention and Discoveries.
2. Important date and days.
3. Government Schemes.
4. Tourism
5. Banking
6. Awards.
7. Indian Financial System.
8. Sports and General
9. Important books and Authors.
10. Current events.
11. Countries, Capitals, and Currencies.
12. Science and technology.
13. International affairs.
14. Festivity.
15. Indian History.
16. Indian Politics.
17. Rivers, lakes and Seas.
18. Artists.
19. Environment.
20. Current ministers and Governors.
21. Summits and conferences.
22. Indian parliament.
23. Education.
24. Famous places in India.
25. Obituary.
26. Economy.
27. Business.
28. Abbreviations and Economic Terminologies.
NOTE: This is not an exhaustive list of sub-topics, please refer to the previous year question papers for more details.
PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION SYLLABUS
1. Code of Civil Procedure, 1908
2. Punjab courts Act.
3. Indian Contract Act, 1872.
4. Indian Sales of Goods Act.
5. Indian Partnership Act
6. Specific Relief Act, 1963
7. Transfer of property Act, 1882
8. East Punjab Urban Rent Restriction Act, 1949
9. Indian Evidence Act, 1872
1. Hindu Law
2. Mohammedan law
3. Customary Law
4. Law of Registration
5. Law of limitation
1. Indian Evidence Act, 1872
2. code of Criminal Procedure, 1973
3. Criminal Rules of Practice.
1. Fill in the blanks
2. Joining of Sentences
3. Spelling test
4. Idioms and phrases
5. Substitution
6. Sentence Arrangement
7. Completion
8. Homophones
9. Suffix and Prefix
10. Transformation
11. Sentence Pattern
12. Sentence Improvement
13. Antonyms
14. Error Correction
15. Spotting Errors
16. Para Completion
17. Synonyms
18. Passage Completion
19. Active and Passive Voice
20. Adjectives
21. Tag questions
1. Origin of Punjabi language
2. Punjabi Morphology
3. Punjabi Literature
4. Punjabi grammar
5. language and dialect
6. Modern Trends
7. Vocabulary
8. Passage writing
- Note: It is a descriptive (written Exam)
The least qualifying scores in the language paper of Punjabi (Gurumukhi Script) will be 33%.
INTERVIEW – {100 marks}
- Personality Test, Academic knowledge, Communication skills etc.
NOTE: No Candidate shall be called for viva-voce unless he obtains at least 50 % qualifying marks in the aggregate of all the written papers and qualifies in the language paper i.e Punjabi. (SC/ST/backward classes of Punjab and Physically handicapped, Punjab shall be called for interview if they secure 45% marks in aggregate)
