MP Civil Judge Exam Analysis 2025: Previous Year Paper Analysis

Overview: Preparing for the Madhya Pradesh Civil Judge (MPCJ) Examination requires a comprehensive understanding of the exam pattern, question types, and topics frequently covered. One of the most effective ways to enhance your preparation strategy is by analyzing previous years’ exams.

This article delves into the detailed analysis of past MPCJ exams, offering key takeaways and insights to guide aspirants preparing for the 2025 examination.

In this Article you can read about the:

1. Analysis of the MPCJ 2025 examination.
2. Answer key of the MPCJ 2025 examination
3. Analysis of the MPCJ 2024 examination.
4. Answer key of the MPCJ 2024 examination
5. Analysis of the MPCJ 2022 examination.
6. Weightage and important sections of all the subjects.
7. Preparation tips for upcoming MPCJ Judiciary examination

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Analysis of MPCJ 2025 examination:

This article will be updated with a detailed analysis of the 2025 MP Judiciary Exam as soon as the examination is conducted. Bookmark this page and check back for a complete breakdown of the question paper, subject-wise trends, and preparation takeaways.

How Will the 2025 Analysis Help Aspirants?

• Future Exam Preparation: Understand areas that require more focus based on trends from 2025.
• Mock Tests and Strategy Building: Tailor mock tests to mirror the latest patterns and difficulty levels.
• Confidence Building: Gain insights into examiners' preferences, enhancing your readiness.

Analysis of MPCJ Prelims 2024 examination:

The MP Civil Judge exam conducted on 14 January 2023 was moderate. Overall, the law section was tricky and had a lot of conceptual questions. The law section demanded a thorough reading of bare acts. Any aspirant not versed with bare provisions would have found the questions very difficult. The questions from minor acts were direct. The case laws asked were a little unpredictable and were as old as the year 2013. The General Knowledge and Current Legal Knowledge section was tough and tricky, with questions mostly focusing on national-level news. Depending upon the paper's difficulty, the general category's cut-off can be expected to be around 124+.

Also Read: MP Judiciary Category wise Cut off 2025 Prelims

Key highlights of the MPCJ Prelims 2024 Exam paper:

Overall difficulty level: moderate (Not too easy, not too difficult)

Case Laws: There are too many case laws, and 16- 17 case laws are based on questions. Questions were from a mix of both landmark and recent case laws. 

Type of Questions: conceptual questions

G.K. Question: G.K. questions were tough and static. GK had many geography-based questions

New Laws: POCSO, JJ and IT act were added this year to the syllabus, and the questions asked from the same were easy

Criminal Laws: No questions from new criminal laws

Previous Year Papers: Questions from PYPs were decent in numbers (30-40% PYQ topics)

Language section: English was moderate, but overall tricky

CrPC: on the Difficult high-level (application-based questions)

Evidence: Conceptual questions

Computer: Easy with repeated questions from previous years

CPC: Easy, bare act based

Constitution: easy (PYQ centric)

Minor Laws: Simple questions PYQ centric, direct questions

State Specific: Direct index-based questions

IPC: Illustration-based questions, hypothetical questions ( Mains centric questions with conceptual knowledge)

Other: Overall, moderate paper with case-based questions and bare act-based questions

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Question Paper Analysis: Mains 2024 Examination

Here are some brief pointers about the Mains 2024 Question Paper:

Paper 1:

• The question paper was leaning towards the difficult end.
• The answers were not direct.
• The questions were not bare act centric.
• One aspirant with conceptual clarity will be able to write proper answers.
• Difficulty level was Difficult.
• The paper was lengthy.
• Questions were unexpected, and there were a lot of elements of surprise.

Paper 2:

• The question paper was easy and predictable.
• Difficulty level: Easy to moderate.
• The translations were a little technical; however, the summary and the article were easy to understand.
• Aspirants who had practiced sufficienlty will score easily in this.

Paper 3:

• Questions from unexpected areas.
• Difficult level: Difficult.
• The questions were very conceptual.
• There were some easy questions too, but overall, it was a difficult paper.
• It was a lenghtly question paper.

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Question Paper for MPCJ Mains 2024

Answer key MPCJ Prelims 2024 Examination

The High Court of Madhya Pradesh has published the proposed Model Answer Key for the Question Paper (Objective Type) of the Online Preliminary Exam, Civil Judge, Junior Division (Entry Level), Exam2022, held on 14 January 2024. You can calculate your score basis the Model Answer Key. The aspirants can raise objections regarding any Model Answer Key. The aspirants may submit objection(s) in writing & signed by them to the Examination Section of the High Court of M.P., Jabalpur, by registered post or through e-mail within 07 days from the date of uploading / publication of the proposed Model Answers Keys.

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MPCJ Prelims 2022 Exam Analysis

Watch the analysis video to understand the pattern of MPCJ 2022 Examination in depth while understanding all the important focus areas of the exam. 

Key highlights of the MPCJ Prelims 2022 Exam paper

• As per MPCJ 2022 Exam Analysis, the exam had moderate difficulty overall.
• There were some surprise elements in the exams.
• The computer and English Sections had direct questions.

Read through the detailed post to learn more about the MP Judiciary Prelims 2022 Exam Analysis, the type of questions asked, MP Judiciary's previous year's exam analysis, and a few previous years questions asked in the examination.

Analysis of MPCJ 2022 Major Laws:

• There were direct questions from the bare act, based on section numbers and illustrations.
• The paper was not lengthy, and concept-based questions were comparatively less in number.
• Case Laws gained a relatively high weightage in the MPCJ 2022 exam, and these were from the following subjects:

1. Negotiable instrument
2. Evidence
3. CPC
4. DPA
5. Gosh landmark 

MPCJ 2022 Minor and Local Laws

• Conceptual knowledge of local laws played a significant role in answering indirect questions.
• Questions were direct from the Minor Laws sections, and hence, a thorough study of one-liners was enough to answer these questions.
• There were so many questions that were asked directly from the base act on section numbers and illustrations.

MPCJ 2022 General Knowledge section

• Current affairs came with the highest weightage, which is very new as per MPCJ Exam pattern history. 
• Questions were asked around: dogecoin SpaceX mission, Wimbledon, etc.
• There were only 2-3 questions from MP GK.
• While 1-2 questions from Static GK.

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MPCJ 2022 English Section & Computer Section

A large number of questions were asked from the MPCJ previous year's question papers from the year 2010-to 2018.

Key Takeaway: 

The MPCJ 2022 cut-off is expected to exceed last year's. Check out the detailed article on MP Judiciary Cut-Off Marks

Overview of MPCJ Mains 2022 Exam

• Firstly, students expected that the main session would be tough as the preliminary examination was tough.
• Most of the questions in the prelims exam were out of the box. Well, it was actually true that mains were difficult and lengthy.
• Overall, the paper was difficult, and students were worried about completing the entire question paper in 3 hours. It was found that most students lacked time management. 

New Changes Introduced in MPCJ Mains

• A few changes were observed in the main session paper pattern. There were 20 questions asked in Paper 1 and 3.
• Limitation Act and NIA - minors were asked for 8 marks each.
• Every year main session was written on landscape paper; however, this year, the paper was in portrait style.

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Paper 1

• There were a total of 20 questions which was time-consuming. 
• Students whose writing speed was low faced issues while finishing the paper.
• 2 questions were asked from Limitation Act. 

Paper 2

• The second paper is generally essay writing which was lengthy. 
• Essay topics were: "Social and Economic impact of Covid 19 lockdown in India" and "Empowerment of Women."
• Hindi to English translation was easy, while English to Hindi translation was difficult. 

Paper 3

• Questions based on criminal law were unexpected. Students expected questions from maintenance or provisional investigation. 
• The level of difficulty was moderate.

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Paper 4

Judgment writing paper was a moderate level of difficulty. 

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The table below has topics and corresponding questions asked in each of them. 

Subject	No. of Questions
MP Accommodation Control Act	3
MP Land Revenue Code	3
Indian Evidence Act	3
Indian Penal Code	3
Criminal Law	3
Negotiable Instruments Act	2
Mixed Questions	2

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MP Judiciary Prelims Exam Analysis 2021

Check out the major highlights of today's MP Civil Judge Prelims Exam 2021. 

• Law included a total of 110 questions. The level of difficulty was moderate in topics like CPC, while others were easy. 
• There were a few unexpected questions asked in the exam. Out of 110, 92-97 is considered a good attempt. 
• General Knowledge included 9 static GK, 4 Current Affairs, and the remaining were MP GK. 
• Some questions were based on famous personalities. 
• Computer Knowledge included questions from basic concepts. There were questions based on abbreviations and the latest trends.
• This is the first time, in English, there were questions from One Word substitution a new pattern was followed. The level of difficulty was easy to moderate. 

Over the previous years, the preliminary exam has been moderate to difficulty level.

You shall be shortlisted for the Mains exam upon qualifying prelims above the MP Judiciary Cut Off. 

There are three stages included in the MP Judiciary Recruitment: Prelims, Mains, and Interview. You need to clear each stage with a minimum cut-off score to be eligible for further selection. 

Previous Year MP Civil Judge Exam Analysis

To help you understand the MP Judiciary exam better, we have explained the analysis of the previous year's exam here.

By going through this analysis, you can

• Understand the difficulty level of questions
• Know which type of questions can be asked
• Know which topics are repeated many times
• Focus on highly important topics
• Estimate the time required for attempting these questions.

Let us understand the MP Judiciary Trend Analysis to know about the difficulty level below:

• Over the years, by comparing previous year's papers, we observe that the difficulty level of Procedural law subjects is high. Hence, you must ensure to prepare in-depth for these subjects. 
• There are more practical questions asked in the exam. The MP Judiciary Exam difficulty level is high compared to other state Judicial exams.
• Less weightage of local laws in prelims and mains exam. 
• Every year there are more registrations, and hence the difficulty level is high. Thus, you must prepare in such a way that you can answer any tricky question asked in the exam. 

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Level of Difficulty

As we observe the comparison of cut offs below, the cut-off marks have decreased over the years.

As the difficulty level increased, the cut-off marks decreased. 

Year	Cut Off
2017	131 out of 150
2018	121 out of 150
2019	118 out of 150

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