How do I read 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 from bare acts in the judiciary exam. You must have sufficient knowledge of the law from the bare act before opening any book.

But every bare act contains hundreds of sections and memorizing all of them is a big challenge for many of us. Therefore, to help you know how to memorize Bare Acts for Judiciary Exams, I would suggest you to follow these things:

First of all you are a law graduate and hence you know basics of all the subjects so don't fret. First thing you should do is make a list of the subjects. The list will be in three categories- civil, criminal and minor. After this pick up a category and try to complete the subjects together and then pick pick other category. In this way your flow will be maintained and things will be easier to interconnect.

Now coming to how to read bare act, ideally you should do these things-

1. The first thing you should do is go through the index of the bare act. Try to make a chart, remember the name of the chapters and section numbers in each chapter. Try to memorize this index and paste it in the wall.
2. Second thing you should do is go through previous years papers of prelims and mains of the state you are appearing in. When you do that keep the index in front of you try to locate the sections in the index and mark them. This way you will come to know what are the important sections.
3. Now when dealing with sections you have two options- either pick up the chapter you find interesting and complete them or start from the first section of you want to. Let your interest and instinct guide you. But always complete a chapter before moving to another chapter. For example, you are studying IPC. Now you can start from section 1 to the end or you can pick up the chapter 4 of IPC, general exceptions, first but if you do this complete chapter 4 before moving to anything else.
4. Set small targets. Take not more than 10 sections in a day, at least in the beginning. You can increase it if you have time and your brains allows it. But small targets are easy to achieve and easy to revise.
5. You have to study everyday and not just once or twice a week. So when you begin your studies for the day always revise the sections you have already read. A quick revision everyday of everything you have studied in the subject will reduce your time when you will finally revise it and you will remember each and every section clearly. If you forget or have doubts in what you have already studied then study it again and then move forward.
6. Again to point 2. The important sections that you have marked are the sections you should refer textbooks for. So first read the section from the bare act then the textbook and write the name of the principle and case in the bare act near the section. This way you will revise it everyday and it will be in one place.
7. Once you are done with the first reading of the bare act and the textbook start your first revision. After that solve mock test papers for pre and mains.
8. Take up another subject and do the same thing. Reserve sometime, at least once a week to revise the subjects you have already studied else you will forget what you have studied.

 Tips 

Make a circle on ( MAY/SHALL/MUST)in section and sub-sections as it plays a very important role because it helps you in preliminary examination of judicial services if you focus from the beginning.

Never ignore exceptions given in the section.

Focus on illustrations mentioned in the section as most of the questions are from illustrations(mandatory)....

Try to revise as much as you can.