Supreme Court Notifies Advocate On Record Exams; To Be held Between 16-21 June 2025
The Supreme Court has notified the dates for the upcoming Advocate-on-Record Examination for 2025.
Advocates who have completed their training for a continuous period of one year commencing from the end of the fourth year of the date of their enrolment and ending with April 30, 2025, or who would complete their training before the commencement of the said examination, shall be eligible to appear for the aforesaid examination.
The notification dated April 9, 2025, reads thus, “1. Under Rules 5 (i) and (ii) of Order IV, Supreme Court Rules, 2013 and Regulation 2 of the Regulations regarding Advocates-on-Record Examination made thereunder governing the examination for Advocates-on-Record, it is hereby notified for the information of all concerned that the next examination for the Advocates-on-Record will be held at New Delhi on 16th, 17th, 20th and 21st June, 2025.”
The notification clarified that under Regulation 11(iv) of the Regulations regarding Advocate-on-Record Examination, a candidate shall not be allowed more than five chances to appear for the examination, and that, appearance, even in any one of the papers in an examination, shall be deemed to be a chance. The notification further clarified that those candidates who have already availed five chances were, therefore, not eligible to apply for AOR Examination - June 2025.
However, it has been clarified vide Circular F. No. 17/AOR Exam. dated May 7, 2024, that the Advocates-on-Record Examination held in December 2021 shall not be reckoned as a chance while counting the permissible five chances. Accordingly, as a one-time relaxation, one more chance is permissible to the eligible candidates on the basis of their result in the last examination they appeared for.
