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Judicial Service Preliminary Exam Practice Test
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Judicial Service Examination is held in three successive stages namely Preliminary Examination, Mains and Viva-Voce/Interview. Preliminary Examination– The preliminary examination serves as a screening for the mains exam. It comprises objective type questions.

Law topics covered in the exam are:
Constitutional law
Contract Law and Tort Law
General Knowledge and Current Affairs
IPC, CPC, CrPC, and The Indian Evidence Act
Proficiency in English Language and Aptitude
Transfer of Property law

Questions are also asked from the general knowledge section.

Judicial Service Preliminary Exam Practice Test
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25 Questions

1. Which one of the following sections of the Indian Evidence Act has been substituted for the old section by the Information Technology Act, 2000:
2. The concept of Secular State is that the State will not make any discrimination on the ground of religion, caste or community against any person professing any particular form of religious faith. The Secularism is embodied in:
3. One Nautical mile is equal to:
4. Point out incorrect response:
The period of limitation for taking cognizance of an offence shall be:
5. Which one of the following combinations is correctly matched: (1) Responsibility of finder Sec. 71 of goods (2) Surety’s liability Sec. 128 (3) Sub-agent Sec. 191 (4) Bailee’s particular lien Sec.
Select the correct answer using the codes given below:
6. The satellite passes over the same spot on Earth every _____________:
7. Save in exceptional circumstances, no woman shall be arrested after Sunset and before Sunrise, and where such exceptional circumstances to arrest exist, the woman police officer shall obtain the prior permission of the following:
8. Which one of the following is not included in the expression ‘Court’ under the Indian Evidence Act:
9. The maximum percentage in the atmosphere is of:
10. When the High Court or any Sessions Judge calls for to examine the record of any proceeding before any inferior criminal court, it is known as:
11. The concept of “Living Law” was expounded by which jurist:
12. Which one of the following is correctly matched:
13. Which of the following is true about s. 15, Specific Relief Act, 1963?
14. Which one of the following is not suspected to be a cause of decline of Indus Valley civilization:
15. The Preamble to the Indian Constitution is:
16. Austin was the first Professor of Jurisprudence in the:
17. The power of the Supreme Court to transfer cases and appeals from one High Court to another High Court can be exercised on an application by which one of the following:
18. Which of the following property will be considered as self-acquired property of a Hindu?
I. Property granted by government to a member of a joint family is normally self-acquired property of done
II. All acquisitions made by means of learning are self-acquired property
III. Ancestral property lost to a family, and recovered by a member without assistance of joint family property
19. Who said that “Ownership is a plenary control over an object”:
20. Who among the following is not entitled to claim maintenance under Section 125, Cr.P.C.:
21. The principal jurist of the Philosophical School was:
22. In which case has the Supreme Court held that Section 125, Cr.P.C. was applicable to all irrespective of their religion:
23. Which of the following are principles of mutuality admitted of exceptions?
24. Indian Remote Sensing (IRS) system was commissioned with the launch of IRS – 1A in the year:
25. Who defined law as the “de psychologised command”: