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    How Many Candidates Fail in AIBE? Check Details Here

    How Many Candidates Fail in AIBE? Check Details Here

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    Sumeet SudarshanUpdated on 14 Apr 2025, 09:17 AM IST
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    An RTI query on AIBE 19 result statistics has revealed interesting facts. The number of candidates who failed in AIBE 19 has drastically decreased. The failure rate has come down to around 23% from around 50% a year earlier. The All India Bar Examination often sees the highest number of candidates among the exams conducted in the legal field. However, clearing the All India Bar Exam is not easy and many candidates often do not obtain the AIBE cut-off. In this article, let’s look at the failure rate in AIBE and see how many candidates fail to clear the bar exam.

    How Many Candidates Fail in AIBE? Check Details Here
    How Many Candidates Fail in AIBE? Check Details Here

    AIBE is the gateway to becoming a practising lawyer in India, as successful candidates are awarded a Certificate of Practice to represent clients in court.

    AIBE 19 Result Statistics

    The table provided contains the result statistics for AIBE 19, including the number of candidates who appeared, passed, and failed.

    Number of Candidates Failed in AIBE

    CategoryRegisteredAppearedPassedFailedPercentage
    Overall2364032298431775925225177.27%
    General/OBC1948681894391465424289777.35%
    SC/ST415354040431050935476.84%

    AIBE Pass Percentage Trends

    As per the trends observed last year in the AIBE pass percentage, less than half of the total candidates cleared the exam. In the previous session of AIBE, the pass percentage stood at 48.30%. The trends suggest that 52% of the candidates who appear in AIBE fail to clear the exam. Around 1.48 lakh candidates had registered for the previous session of AIBE, making it one of the top law exams in the country.

    Failure Rate in AIBE 18

    ParticularsDetails
    No. of candidates registered1,48,781
    No. of candidates appeared1,44,014
    No. of candidates absent4767
    No. of candidates passed69646
    No. of candidates failed74368
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    What are the Revised AIBE 19 Passing Marks?

    BCI has stipulated that candidates from general/OBC categories must secure 45% marks and candidates from SC/ST categories must secure 40% marks to clear the bar exam. The total marks in AIBE 19 are now 93 marks due to the withdrawal of 7 questions in the AIBE final answer key.

    Revised Passing Marks in AIBE 19

    Category

    Passing Marks

    General and OBC Categories

    41 marks out of 93 marks

    SC and ST Categories

    37 marks out of 93 marks

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    Questions related to AIBE

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    Have a question related to AIBE ?

    Hi,
    You can download the AIBE exam paper by following these steps:

    • Visit the Official Website of AIBE.
    • Click on the section titled "Question Paper".
    • Select the Year/Set and choose the specific AIBE exam session (e.g., AIBE-XVIII) and download the PDF
    • Click the download icon to save the file for

    Hello Student,

    You can download the question papers and the solutions for AIBE 18 from the following link -

    E-Book Link - AIBE 18 Question Paper with Solutions PDF

    Hope this was helpful!

    The required documents for the AIBE 21 (2026) exam for the final year law students are:

    • Marksheets (Self-Attested & Scanned): All previous semester marksheets (Semester I to V for 3-year LLB; Semester I to IX for 5-year Integrated LLB).

    • Undertaking Form: A signed, scanned undertaking form indicating you are in