AILET 2018 Student Reaction

All India Law Entrance Test (AILET) was conducted by National Law University (NLU), Delhi today, May 6, 2018. AILET 2018 was conducted from 3 pm to 4:30 pm across 21 test cities in India. A 90 minutes duration exam, AILET exam is conducted by NLU Delhi to shortlist aspirants for admission in BA LLB (Hons), LLM and PhD programmes.

AILET’s exam pattern for BA LLB (Hons) course is such that aspirants need to attempt a total of 150 questions from subjects such as English including Comprehension, General Knowledge, Elementary Mathematics, Legal Aptitude and Logical Reasoning. On the other hand for LLM course, AILET exam comprises of 100 objective type questions and one subjective (essay) question.

Experts always share that the difficulty level of AILET exam is higher as compared to other popular law entrance exams like Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) and Law School Admission Test- India (LSAT-India). Keeping true to tradition, AILET 2018 was quite tough.

Shiksha reported live for AILET exam from Bal Bharti Public School where 800 students took the exam. AILET 2018 was a mixed bag for students. Some students felt that the exam was good while others found sections like English and Logical Reasoning to be difficult.

However, to bring some relief to aspirants we would like to share that since the difficulty level of the exam was high so they can expect AILET cut-offs to be lower as compared to the previous year.

AILET 2018: Difficulty level of the exam

Most of the student who took All India Law Entrance Exam 2018 felt that the Legal Aptitude section was doable but very lengthy and it took up most of their time to solve questions of this section. Time management is the most crucial part of this law entrance exam and this could prove fatal for most students. Tanvi of Ryan International School, Rohini said, “The paper was good, not too easy not too tough. But admission would be difficult”. She further shared, “English was quite tough, Maths was also a bit tough, Logical Reasoning was quite tough and Legal Aptitude was lengthy but it was easy. I only found GK to be easy”. Confirming the same, Bal Bharti Public School’s Vaibhav Ahuja was quoted as saying that his paper was good. “English was easy, Legal was a bit lengthy and tough. GK was also easy. Maths was difficult”.

Talking about her exam a student of School of Open Learning, Delhi University, Vaishnavi Sharma said, “It was good but I think NLU Delhi always asks difficult questions from unexpected sections and this year also questions were unexpected”. Elaborating on the same she further said, “To be very honest, Legal and Logical Reasoning sections were very good. But the English section contained elementary English questions, like questions were from Class 9 or 10 textbooks, parts of speech and punctuation marks. English section was difficult”.

Also appearing for other law entrance exams CLAT, IPU CET and AMU Entrance Exam, Vidushi Ranjan of City Public School shared that her AILET exam was average. “I found the English part pretty difficult. Maths and Logical Reasoning was not so tough. Talking about GK it was easy. Legal was OK”, she said.

Talking about the difficulty level of each section of the exam Arwachin International School’s Vanshika Singh said, “Maths was easy, Logical Reasoning was also easy, GK was easy and English was moderate. The Legal section was very difficult and a bit lengthy”. She further shared that overall “the exam was pretty good but some sections were difficult and the test pattern was very different from past years’ papers”.

AILET 2018: Test pattern as compared to last year

Parmar took AILET exam last year as well shared that his exam was pretty good. “The Legal section was as expected, it contained questions which are pretty much like the usual paper expected in AILET. English was pretty easy, it focused a lot on figures of speech. On the other hand, GK was more focused on current affairs rather than static GK which is always the case in AILET exam. Logical Reasoning was at par with last year’s paper. I didn’t attempt the Maths section so I can’t comment about that. The Legal Aptitude was as expected. It had appropriate questions on Legal Reasoning and Legal Awareness”. He further shared that compared to last year’s paper AILET 2018 was “pretty similar in context that Legal Awareness was mostly current affairs”.

However, most of the other students felt that AILET 2018 was more difficult than last year’s question paper. Varun a student of St Anandram, Jaipuria felt that, “The exam was lengthier than past year’s paper”. Talking about the test pattern of AILET 2018 he said, “GK was pretty easy, Maths was a bit tough for me. Legal passages were too lengthy. English was a bit different from previous years’ papers. I had enrolled for one year preparation group at CL and the topics which we prepared were not asked in English section so it was different”.

Vaibhav Ahuja also felt that All India Law Entrance Test was a little high level as compared to last year’s paper. But the marking scheme and test pattern was exactly as shared by NLU Delhi.

“AILET exam was a bit difficult. I studied previous years’ question papers and it was a bit difficult from that. Legal Aptitude section questions were a bit lengthy and it took almost all the time of the exam to solve that section. English was ok, Logical Reasoning was quite easy, Legal Aptitude was tough and Maths was difficult from previous years’ paper”, shared Vani, Reliance Public School, Gurgaon

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