Jamia Millia Islamia Law Entrance Exam Syllabus

The faculty of law, Jamia Millia University conducts an entrance exam annually for admission into its BA.LLB program. Although the entir…

The faculty of
law, Jamia Millia University conducts an entrance exam annually for admission
into its BA.LLB program. Although the entire application procedure is conducted
online but the exam is offline i.e. the exam is in conducted in pen paper mode.
The total number of seats are 120. Out of these 120 seats there are 60 seats
which are self financed. The difference between these two category of seats is
that the fee for self financed seats is a lot more.

One is eligible
to apply for the BA.LLB course if one has obtained a minimum of 50% marks in
10+2 or equivalent exam counting all the core subjects and English language put
together. The eligibility for general category students in terms of age is that
one should not be more than 20 years of age and this eligibility for SC and ST
students is that they should not be more than 22 years. This age is calculated
as on July1 of the year in which admission is being sought.

Now let us
quickly skip to the exam pattern and syllabus for the Faculty of law entrance
exam

There is negative
marking in the exam and while each question which you answer correctly gets you
+1 mark but every wrong answer means -.50 marks. The exam has only objective
type questions and the exam duration is 2 hours.

Finally, let us
look at the subject wise syllabus

English

In this section
one passage will be given and the entrant has to answer questions based on the
understanding of the passage. There are jumbled sentences kind of questions
where one has to rearrange the given parts to form a meaningful sentence or
paragraph. English grammar is equally important plus one has to improve their
vocabulary for word meaning questions.

General
Knowledge

The syllabus for
GK is huge and one must know about Indian judiciary, banking and finance,
business, important Indian institutes, defense and space related news, news
related to science and technology, economics, geography, international
relations, movies, major awards and honors, the who’s who in India and the
world, Constitution, sports, Indian agriculture and Indian industries.

Legal
reasoning

The topics
covered in this section are family law, law of torts, law of contracts and
criminal law.

Family law covers
majorly Hindu and Muslim laws.

Law of contracts
covers essential elements of contracts, types of contracts, what happens when
the contract is breached, how is performance of contracts done and everything
it entails, then comes discharge of contracts and finally specific kinds of
contracts.

Torts covers
general defenses, vicarious liability of an individual and the government,
remoteness of damage, and finally offences and their definitions and details for
example nuisance

Criminal law
means IPC so the general principles of IPC, stages of crimes and offences,
right of private defense of body and property.

Quantitative
ability and Maths

This covers data
interpretation and data sufficiency questions plus this covers basic arithmetic
based Mathematics topics such as percentage, compound interest, profit loss,
time and speed and distance, relative speed, averages, age, pipes and cisterns
kind of questions, ratio-proportion, alligation and mixture, questions on circular
track as well as upstream downstream kind of questions, and last of all
partnership based questions.

Then there are
algebra based questions on topics such as properties of circles, areas and
volumes of 2 dimensional and 3 dimensional figures, questions on the BODMAS
rule, linear equations, quadratic equations, number system and probability, LCM
and HCF, height and distance, logarithm, indices, arithmetic and geometric
progression, set theory and venn diagram, geometry and mensuration, properties
of quadrilaterals and finally properties of triangles.

Logical
reasoning

This includes
critical reasoning

Then comes
analytical reasoning which covers series completion, odd one out, blood
relation questions and clock and calendar questions, cubes based questions,
matrix based questions, coding and de coding, direction and distance tests, and
seating arrangement based logical questions

Last of all comes
verbal reasoning which includes strong and weak arguments, statements and
assumptions, statement and conclusion and statement and inferences based
questions, causes and effects, syllogism, logical deductions based on
syllogism, odd one out, analogies, and logical sequence of words

This is the
syllabus for Jamia Millia Islamia BA.LLB entrance exam. Now let us look at the
weightage given to each section in terms of marks.