Next Advocates-on-Record exam to be held at New Delhi from 16-21 June 2025

Next Advocates-on-Record examination to be held at New Delhi on 16th, 17th, 20th and 21st June, 2025.

Hon’ble Supreme Court of India has notified the dates for next AoR exams to be held in June 2025.

Eligibility
Advocates who have completed their training for a continuous period of one year commencing from the end of the fourth year of date of their enrolment ending with the 30th April, 2025, or would complete their training before the commencement of the said examination, shall be eligible to appear for the aforesaid examination.

The Advocates-on-Record Examination – 2025, shall be conducted through Pen & Paper

Submission of Application Form and Last Date
Duly filled applications in prescribed rorm may be submitted in AOR Examination Cell i.e. Room No. 307, 3rd Floor, B-Block, Administrative Buildings Complex, Supreme Court of India, New Delhi-110001 during office hours from 15th April to 30th April, 2025.

Physical copy of the Application Form may also be obtained from AOR Examination Cell on any working day during office hours. No application shall be accepted after the last date for receipt of applications i.e. 30th April, 2025 after 5.00 p.m

Acceptance of the application is subject to production of requisite certificate of completion of training from an Advocate-on-Record under Regulation 6 of the Regulations regarding Advocates-on-Record Examination.

Under Regulation 11(iii) of the Regulations regarding Advocates-on-Record Examination, a candidate who fails in all the papers of the examination shall not be permitted to appear in the next examination.

The candidates, who do not appear in all the papers and fail in any of the papers in which they have appeared, shall be treated to have failed in all the papers, including the papers they have not appeared.

Under Regulation 11(iv) of the Regulations regarding Advocates-on-Record Examination, a candidate shall not be allowed more than five chances to appear at the examination. Appearance, even in any one of the papers in an examination shall be deemed to be a chance. Those candidates who have already availed five chances are, therefore, not eligible to apply for AOR Examination-June, 2025. However, the Advocates-on-Record Examination held in December, 2021 shall not be reckoned as a chance while counting the permissible five chances. Accordingly, as one-time relaxation, one more chance is permissible to the eligible candidates on the basis of their result in the last examination they appeared at.

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