AILET 2019 Exam Analysis by Experts

By Pranav Mishra

AILET 2019 was a lengthy and moderately difficult paper. Check out the complete section-wise AILET exam analysis along with expected cutoff below.

AILET 2019 or the All India Law Entrance Test was conducted in multiple cities throughout India by NLU Delhi as the entrance examination for the said college on May 5, 2019. This paper has negative marking of 0.25 in it which was introduced last year. This paper has 150 questions which are divided into 5 sections – English, General Knowledge, Legal Aptitude, Logical Reasoning, and Mathematics.

This year’s AILET paper held no surprises and was quite similar to last year’s, especially when talking about its lengthiness and difficulty since the paper was quite lengthy and moderately difficult.

AILET 2019: English

This section comprises of 35 marks. This year’s paper had 8 inferential-based questions based on a Reading Comprehension, 3 vocabulary questions, 12 grammar questions including 10 questions of improving the sentence and 2 questions relating to indentifying the part of speech, 6 questions of a single cloze test set, and 6 questions related to figures of speech.

This section did not hold any surprises since the only potential surprise could have been the questions regarding figures of speech. However, they had already been introduced last year and did not surprise anyone who had already gone through last year’s paper. Last year’s paper did not contain a passage; however, no one could have ruled that out as a possible set of questions, so no surprises there either. This section was a bit lengthy and could have taken some extra time to solve. Keeping all this in mind, 18 would be a decent score in this section.

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AILET 2019: General Knowledge

This section comprises of 35 marks. This paper only had 2 questions based on static GK—Geography in particular; the rest of the questions were from the current side with most questions from international affairs, person-based appointments, and science and technology. There were also some statement-based questions.

This section’s difficulty level was moderate and 20 would be considered a decent score in this.

AILET 2019: Legal Aptitude

This section comprises of 35 marks. This year’s paper had 13 questions of Legal Reasoning while the rest were from Legal GK. Most of the reasoning-based questions were quite lengthy with multiple principles. However, most of the principles were from conventional topics and are very common in this section. The Legal GK portion of this section contained questions from Economics, Polity, and legal current affairs mostly from the last quarter i.e. January to March.

The reasoning portion of this section was quite lengthy and would have taken quite a bit of time to solve properly. However, the actual surprise was the Legal GK questions in this paper which were abundant in number and some required a bit of detailed knowledge. This would play the deciding role in the final cut-off as this contained questions which required immense study and dedication on the student’s part during the preparation. 18 would be considered a good score in this section.

AILET 2019: Logical Reasoning

This section also comprises of 35 marks. In this year’s paper, there was a 7-question set and 10 traditional questions of directions, blood relations, clocks, seating arrangement, and puzzles in analytical reasoning, 2 questions of syllogism, and 16 questions on critical reasoning including 10 paragraph-based questions and 3 questions each on course of action and cause and effect.

Overall, it was a tricky section with an increased focus on critical reasoning and the students not comfortable with this part would have faced some problems with it as this would affect the final score a lot. 18 would be a good score in this section.

AILET 2019: Mathematics

This section comprises of 10 marks. This year, this section had 3 questions of time-distance-speed and 2 questions of mensuration with some other questions of individual topics.

This section was extremely lengthy as well as difficult; attempting all questions would have bordered on foolhardy since it would have wasted a lot of time as each question required quite a bit of reading and would taken more than the time the students had. Only 4 or 5 questions could have been possibly attempted properly while keeping the rest of the paper in mind.

AILET 2019: Final Verdict

The paper was rather lengthy and difficult which would affect the entire cut-off. No student is expected to have performed well in each section and it would have been a rather formidable challenge to attempt every possible question. Legal GK and critical reasoning would play the most crucial role in deciding a student’s fate with the former being a bit more important than the latter.

The final cut-off would probably be 72+ keeping all these factors in mind.

About the Author:

Pranav Mishra, an engineer from MNIT and CAT topper, is the Director of Clat Prep Education. He teaches Critical Reasoning and is considered an authority on the subject. He has been teaching for more than 15 years now and has made gigantic contributions to the field.