To be a successful lawyer or a legal professional, the "Bare Act is the foundation stone".

Most of the students can be facing difficulties remembering bare acts as the language used, is often a bit harder and more confusing.

Bare Acts is the exact wording of legislation passed by the legislature that has been published in the official gazette and is subject to interpretation. It is essential to read the bare act multiple times to understand the law and enhance analytical abilities. Since the language in bare acts is hard,  it is necessary to read it several times to comprehend the content thoroughly.

This article will walk you through some of the most Important Bare Acts, short tricks to read Bare Acts, strategies to master in Bare Acts for Judiciary Exams, and more.

Type of Questions asked from Bare Acts in Judiciary Exams 2022

Bare Act is one such topic seen in the Preliminary, Mains, and Interview round of the Judicial Services exam.

We have compiled a list of the kind of questions asked in the Judiciary Prelims exam from the bare Act.

• Enforcement/Amendment based
• Authority based
• Index-based
• Doctrine based
• Illustration based
• Negation based
• Term/ Duration based

We have curated the easy tricks provided by our experts at Judiciary Gold (a pioneer in providing the best online guidance for judiciary exams) in this post. Following these tips would help you memorize all the sections of the bare acts and therefore perform well in the exam. For the main exam mention the provision and write commentary and landmark, and prepare simultaneously commentary book. Finally stage confident during the interview round.

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Short Tricks to Read Bare Acts for Judiciary Exams

Every bare act contains hundreds of sections. Memorizing all of them can be taxing. Therefore, here are instructions to help you learn how to memorize Bare Acts for Judiciary Exams. 

• Go through the content or the index page of the Bare Act daily in the morning. 
• Make sure to learn at least 10 sections a day. 
• Also, make a habit of revising at least 15 sections each day.  
• If you want, you can just learn 5 new sections a day, but make sure to increase the revision number to 20.
• Solve as many questions as possible from the previous year's Question papers for Judiciary Exams as this will help you get an idea about the important sections.
• Write the section and article names in a notebook. Practice it multiple times during your law course. 
• Read the sections repeatedly to remember.
• Prepare mnemonics of sections to remember them for the long term. 

How to Master in Bare Acts for Judiciary Exams?

Bare acts are the primary source of almost all law questions asked in the state-level judiciary exams. Every multiple-choice question, short answer question, long answer questions have its roots in bare acts in the judiciary exam.

To help you understand how to prepare for bare acts, we have shared some tips and strategies.

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1. Know the Purpose of the Act

• Purpose and object of the act: Understand why a particular act was enabled by the legislature? 
• Relation: Relate every section, clause, and illustration with their purposes as it will help you get a clear understanding of the law.

If you are clear with the purpose of an act, you are halfway through!

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2. Choose the Edition of the Bare Act

• Preference in material: You should decide whether you prefer the diglot edition of the bare act or the English version. In diglot bare act, on one side sections are written in Hindi, and on the other side, sections are written in English. 
• Be comfortable with the language: If could not understand some particular phrase in English you could refer to it in Hindi.

The language used in bare acts is difficult, so you should read it multiple times to understand the authenticity of the subject.

3. Break Sentence into Parts and Read

• Strategize: Many enactment's contents are lengthy and complicated sentences that are very difficult to understand. In that case, you have to break the sentences into small parts and read slowly.
• Also, make sure to take pauses when you see the use of the comma and any special character.

You can not read bare act too fast as it is not easy like reading novels. You need to read bare act slowly and have a clear understanding of the law.

4. Understand the Purpose of the Enactment

• Purpose: For understanding the law deeply, you should understand the purpose of the law that has been passed.
• Remember, it is very important to read the preamble and interpretation clause of the base act as this will help you know the basic objective of that act and understand the act more clearly.
• The basic definitions of the act are generally provided in section 2 of the bare act, so you must go through that initially to get more clarity on a particular act.

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5. Give Special Attention to Special Words

• Look out for words: While reading bare acts, you should give special attention to some words like "shall", "may", "should", "and", "thereto", etc. 

The whole meaning of the section is changed if you understood these words wrongly. So, you should focus more on these words.

What are the Most Important Bare Acts?

As we all know there are many bare acts, but there are some portions of acts that are not asked about frequently.

The following are the most important and extremely useful bare acts if you are aspiring to become a Civil Judge. 

• Constitution of India
• Indian Penal Code
• Civil Procedure Code
• Criminal Procedure Code
• Indian Evidence Act
• Family Law
• Indian Contract Act
• Indian Partnership Act

Other Important Bare Acts are as follows:

• Indian Contract Act
• Transfer of Property Act
• Sale of Goods Act
• Specific Relief Act
• Indian Partnership Act
• G.S.T. Act
• Insolvency and Bankruptcy Act
• Information Technology Act

How to make notes for Bare Acts for Judiciary Exams?

Each one of your Preparation Plans for the Judicial Services Exam can vary. Therefore, here are a few points to keep in mind while making notes for Bare Acts:

• Firstly, list out the topics to be covered in the subject. 
• You can mark important terms in the topics that you have to study with high priority.
• For prelims, it is possible to study each topic present in the index. Hence, note down important topics to be studied or to be focused on in the index itself. 
• Use different color pens for easy recognition of terminologies. 
• You can also use abbreviations while preparing any topic.
• Use sticky notes or bookmark for noting down any important definitions, meanings, or terminology. This will help in studying topics easily and concentrating more on the important concepts. 

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