Which bare acts are allowed in AIBE 22?

Any printed bare act may be carried, provided it is unmarked. Notes, commentaries, guides and photocopied material are not permitted. Blank index tabs are generally accepted but anything written on them is not.

Can I highlight or write in my bare act for AIBE?

No. Handwritten annotations, section numbers written on page edges and writing on sticky tabs are all grounds for confiscation at the gate. Highlighting is treated strictly at some centres. Carry a clean copy.

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Bare acts allowed in AIBE 22, and what gets confiscated at the gate

Since AIBE XVI the rule has been simple and strictly enforced: unmarked bare acts only. Every year candidates lose books at the entrance because of something they thought was harmless.

Allowed

Bare acts, in printed form, clean
Blank index tabs or flags, with nothing written on them
Bare acts with the publisher's own printed section index

Not allowed — these get the book taken

Handwriting anywhere in the book, including a name in the margin
Section numbers or keywords written on the page edges
Anything written on the sticky tabs
Highlighting or underlining, in some centres
Commentaries, guides, digests, or a bare act with commentary printed alongside
Photocopied notes, printouts, question banks
Loose paper of any kind

Enforcement varies slightly by centre, and the safest assumption is the strictest reading. Confirm against the official Bar Council of India instructions on your admit card.

Which bare acts to carry

Ranked by the marks each one covers. You do not need all of them — the top five cover 53 of 100 marks.

#	Bare act	Marks covered
1	Constitution of India	17
2	BNSS 2023	10
3	CPC 1908	10
4	BNS 2023	8
5	BSA 2023	8
6	Contract Act 1872	8
7	Hindu Marriage Act 1955	8
8	Consumer Protection Act 2019	5
9	Arbitration Act 1996	4
10	Advocates Act 1961	4
11	Industrial Disputes Act 1947	4
12	Income Tax Act 1961	4
13	Companies Act 2013	2
14	Environment Protection Act 1986	2
15	IT Act 2000	2
16	RFCTLARR Act 2013	2
17	Copyright Act 1957	2

Torts, Administrative Law and Professional Ethics have no single bare act. Carry a clean copy of the Advocates Act, 1961 for ethics; for torts and administrative law you are relying on principles and case law, so learn those rather than planning to look them up.

How to tab without getting your book confiscated

Use blank tabs only. Buy plain coloured index flags. Write nothing on them.
Colour-code by chapter, not by section. One colour per chapter of the act means you can find the right region in a second without any writing.
Keep a mental key, not a written one. Blue is bail. Red is evidence. You memorise the key; the book stays clean.
Tab from your own wrong answers. Practise, note which provisions you were slow to find, and tab exactly those. Section 45 generates this list for you after every session.
Practise with the tabbed book. Tabs you have never used under time pressure are decoration.

Generate your own plan

Practise a subject, get the sections you were slowest on, and print a tabbing plan built from your own mistakes rather than a generic list.

Practise free My tabbing plan

Exam-day items

Admit card, printed
Original photo ID matching the admit card
Your bare acts, clean
Blue or black ballpoint pens, at least two
Analogue watch, if permitted at your centre

Reach the centre roughly two hours early. Books are inspected at the entrance and the queue is the part people underestimate.

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