Patna Civil Court Clerk Important Dates, Cut Off

1. Preliminary test (OMR). Held on 22 December 2024. 42,397 candidates qualified for the next stage; 2,374 OMR sheets were declared invalid.
2. Written test (descriptive answer booklets). Held on 18 May 2025. About three times the vacancies in each category were called to interview. 15,084 booklets were cancelled because candidates wrote their name, address, phone number or another identifying mark in them.
3. Interview, from September 2025, with document verification.

The final merit adds the written test and interview marks. The preliminary test only screens.

Posting is to the civil courts of every judgeship in Bihar. The October 2025 list assigns each selected candidate to a district, so where you are posted depends on your merit position and the vacancies in each judgeship. You do not apply to one district.

There is no fixed yearly calendar. The previous clerk recruitment before this one was Employment Notice 01/2016.

Each stage result is a PDF on the Civil Courts, Patna recruitment page, with roll numbers and category-wise cut-offs. The final list of 2,608 names, with each person's place of posting, was approved on 16 October 2025. Individual scorecards were opened on the recruitment portal in November 2025.

The preliminary cut-offs were set against the original 3,325 vacancies. Women, disabled candidates and wards of freedom fighters had their own, lower cut-offs in each category; for example the final UR (female) cut-off was 51.50. Every notice prints the full breakdown.

• Civil Courts, Patna: current recruitment notices
• Past recruitment notices
• Recruitment portal (applications, admit cards, scorecards)
• Preliminary test result and cut-offs, 10 April 2025
• Corrigendum: post renamed and vacancies revised, 3 May 2025
• Written test result, 3 September 2025
• Final selection list with postings

Is this recruitment only for Patna district?

No. It fills clerk posts in civil courts across Bihar. The committee that runs it sits in Patna.

What is the post called now?

Upper Divisional Clerk (Court Assistant and Office Assistant Grade-III), from May 2025. Earlier notices call it Clerk.

How many people were finally selected?

2,608 against 2,639 revised vacancies.

Was the written test objective?

The preliminary was OMR based. The main written test used answer booklets, and booklets carrying any identifying mark were cancelled, so write nothing about yourself inside them.

When is the next clerk recruitment?

Not announced. Watch the Civil Courts, Patna recruitment page; the last two notices were in 2016 and 2022.