AILET Exam Pattern and Detailed Syllabus

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AILET Exam Pattern and Syllabus

NLU Delhi’s AILET
exam is nearing and this article contains AILET
exam pattern and syllabus details. NLU Delhi is one such national law school that is not
affiliated to CLAT and does not take into account CLAT scores to offer
admission to its BA.LLB course. Instead this college conducts its own law entrance exam which is called AILET
or all India law entrance test.

Important nuggets
of information on the AILET exam pattern
and syllabus 2018 are as follows:

Offline law entrance exam also means that you will have to be present at the venue which has been assigned to you on the date and at the time specified on the admit card.
The AILET exam pattern and syllabus 2018 is such that it will be conducted in English language only
AILET exam 2018 will last for 1.5 hours which means 90 minutes.
During this time you will have to solve 150 multiple choice questions.
There is one mark for every correct answer and there is no negative marking. The maximum marks are 150.

Below table
illustrates in brief the above information

S.No.	Features of the exam	Details
1	Mode of the AILET exam 2018	Offline
2	Language of the exam paper	English only
3	Duration of the exam	90 minutes i.e. 1.5 hours
4	Question type	Entirely objective with four options and one correct answer.
5	Total questions	150
6	Maximum marks	150
7	Marks per question	1 mark
8	Negative marking	None

There are five
subjects in the AILET exam 2018 on
which your knowledge will be tested. These are

·
English
·
General knowledge
·
Basic Maths
·
Logical reasoning
·
Legal aptitude

Below table illustrates total
questions and marks per section as per the rules of AILET exam pattern and syllabus

S.No.	Subject	Total questions per section and total marks per section
1	English	35
2	General Knowledge	35
3	Basic Maths	10
4	Logical reasoning	35
5	Legal aptitude	35
6	Total marks	150

Now let’s look at
the section wise or subject wise
syllabus of the AILET exam 2018.

AILET Syllabus – English

Reading comprehension that checks one’s speed of reading, and checks one’s ability to promptly answer questions that are based on the passage
Synonyms and antonyms and fill in the blanks- These test your vocabulary.
Idioms and phrases- Test of your in depth knowledge of the language.
Jumble words and sentences- Test your in depth knowledge of the language and ease of maneuvering different questions aimed at exploring your knowledge of the language
Grammar- Finding errors, and correcting grammar mistakes.
The toughness level of these questions will be upto the level of grade X

AILET Syllabus – General Knowledge

·
All current affairs of the entire year
preceding the exam happening at both national and international level.
·
Static GK topics are history,
geography, general science, economics, and civics of the nation.
·
Focus on UN bodies, their
Headquarters, functioning, aim, membership and more, eminent personalities, environment
related news and pacts, and awards and awardees.

AILET Syllabus – Basic Maths

Profit and loss, Speed and distance, Time and work, Algebra, Average, Permutation and combination, and venn diagrams.
The level of the questions will be upto what one studies till grade X.

AILET Syllabus – Legal aptitude

Most questions in this section will check your legal aptitude and there will be principles given which you have to apply to facts to arrive at the correct option or answer.

The principles might not be actual legal principles and you have to assume they are true and then apply the same.

Basic knowledge of torts- vicarious liability and strict liability, Indian penal code- definitions of offences, and contracts, constitutional basics, principles of international law, latest legal case laws and their decisions and their judgments.