AIBE Admit Card 2026 – Release Date, Download Steps and What to Carry

Updated 23 September 2026

The AIBE XXII admit card goes live on 14 November 2026, fifteen days before the examination on 29 November 2026. Download it from the official AIBE portal by logging in with the User ID and password you used for your application. Print it. You will not be allowed into the examination centre without a printed admit card and a valid government photo ID.

This page covers the release date, the download steps, what the admit card actually tells you, and what to do when the login fails.

Table of Contents

1. AIBE admit card release date
2. How to download the AIBE admit card
3. What the admit card tells you
4. Check these five things the day you download it
5. If you cannot download it
6. What to carry to the centre
7. Frequently asked questions

1. AIBE admit card release date

The Bar Council of India announced the AIBE XXII schedule in its press release dated 18 July 2026, signed by the Chairman.

Note the gap between the correction window closing on 30 October and the admit card appearing on 14 November. Anything wrong on your application has to be fixed before the correction window shuts. After that the details are locked and they carry through to the admit card.

2. How to download the AIBE admit card

1. Go to the official AIBE portal.
2. Log in with the User ID and password from your application. These are the same credentials. Do not create a new account; a new one will not be linked to your form.
3. Open the admit card section for AIBE XXII.
4. Download the PDF and check every field against section 4 below.
5. Print two copies. Keep one in your bag and one separately. Printers fail on the morning of examinations.

Download it on the day it releases rather than the night before the paper. If something is wrong, you want two weeks to sort it out, not twelve hours.

3. What the admit card tells you

The admit card is not just a pass. It carries the only authoritative version of several things you cannot find anywhere else:

• Your roll number, which you will fill on the OMR sheet
• The examination centre, with its full address
• Reporting time and gate-closing time. Late entry after the stated time is not permitted
• Examination timing, start and end
• Your photograph and signature as uploaded
• The printed instructions on permitted material

Where anything on this page differs from your admit card, the admit card governs. Timings in particular are set per cycle and are printed there.

4. Check these five things the day you download it

Errors on an admit card are rare but they are not zero, and the time to catch one is the day it appears.

1. Name spelling, matched exactly against the photo ID you intend to carry. A mismatch between the two is the most common reason for a hold-up at verification.
2. Photograph and signature, both visible and not blank or corrupted in the PDF.
3. Category, since it determines your qualifying mark: 45% for General and OBC, 40% for SC, ST and PwD.
4. Centre address. Look it up on a map the same day. Candidates lose the paper by reaching the wrong branch of a similarly named college.
5. PwD provisions, if applicable, including the extra time entitlement of 20 minutes per hour and any scribe arrangement.

The examination centre cannot be changed once the application has been submitted, so a centre you find inconvenient is a travel problem to solve, not an error to report.

5. If you cannot download it

• Forgotten password. Use the recovery option on the portal. Do not register again.
• Login works but no admit card appears. Check that your payment was completed and confirmed. An application with an incomplete payment does not generate an admit card.
• Portal is slow or unresponsive. Expect this on release day. Try outside peak hours rather than repeatedly refreshing.
• Details are wrong. Contact the AIBE helpdesk listed on the portal immediately, and keep a record of the correspondence.

6. What to carry to the centre

Mandatory. The printed admit card, and a valid government-issued photo ID such as Aadhaar, Passport, Voter ID or Driving Licence. Entry is refused without both.

Permitted. The AIBE is an open-book examination, but the permission is narrow. The instruction printed on the question paper reads: “Bare Acts without notes are allowed. In case of unavailability of Bare Acts without notes, Bare Acts with least short Notes will be allowed subject to the discretion of the Examiner/Invigilator.”

Bare Acts without notes are allowed as of right. Anything carrying notes is at the invigilator’s discretion, which is not something to plan around, and copies marked with pen or highlighter are frequently rejected at the centre. Taxmann’s Bare Acts for the AIBE are published without comments for exactly this reason.

Not permitted. Guides, textbooks, commentaries, annotated editions, handwritten notes, loose paper, mobile phones, smart or digital watches, calculators and electronic devices.

Also bring. Two or three blue or black ball-point pens, since pencil is not allowed on the OMR sheet, a simple analogue watch, and a transparent water bottle.

The full exam-day rules, including the OMR instructions and the PwD and scribe provisions, are in our AIBE exam day guidelines.

7. Frequently asked questions