In the last three years, five major states in India were not able to successfully fill all the judiciary seats that were advertised. 

For three of the five states, more than 60% of the seats lay vacant!

This was despite the fact that the number of students who appeared were more than 50 times the number of seats available. 

Let us look at the data:

Do you know why so many seats lay vacant in each state, year after year? 

One of the reasons is because the students in these states weren’t able to score the minimum required marks to qualify, indicating that the questions in the examinations were tough to crack. 

For instance, the Delhi Judicial Services (DJS) examination is said to be the toughest because  only 30% of the seats are filled although the number of candidates are almost 84 times the number of vacancies advertised. 

The minimum qualifying marks differ from state to state. 

For instance, the UP judicial examination 2021 requires a candidate to attain a minimum of 40% of the total marks (30% of the total marks for SC/ST) to qualify. 

Delhi on the other hand is a particularly difficult exam. 

Several toppers of other state judiciary examinations, who have already become sitting judges in those states, have attempted the Delhi Judicial Services Examination after a year or so, but have not been able to clear it. 

In 2015, Delhi judicial Services’ results, answer papers and recruitment process were analysed and it was found that 64 judges who had passed or topped judicial services exams in other states, failed in the  DJS exam outright. Details of thee analysis are in the image below:

Only in some states there is no minimum pass criteria specified – which eliminates likelihood of vacant seats. The practice there is to shortlist a certain number of candidates, say, 5 or 10 times the number of seats available, across each stage, so that finally they are able to shortlist all the candidates necessary to fill the vacancies, irrespective of how much they scored. 

Here is a list of some of the most highly sought-after states where all the advertised seats were filled through judiciary examination:

Undoubtedly, judicial services exams are amongst the most difficult competitive exams in the country.

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