AILET 2017 Student Reaction; Exam was lengthy & difficult

Students share experience of giving AILET 2017

AILET 2017 was conducted by National Law University (NLU), Delhi across 20 test cities in the country today, May 7. AILET exam is of 90 minutes duration and was conducted from 3 pm to 4:30 pm. In this law entrance exam, aspirants are evaluated out of a total of 150 marks. AILET scores are accepted by NLU Delhi to shortlist aspirants for admission in BA LLB (Hons), LLM and PhD programmes.

Experts often share that the difficulty level of All India Law Entrance Test (AILET) is higher as compared to other popular law entrance tests such as CLAT and LSAT India. Keeping up with the tradition, AILET 2017 was also tough. Law experts even went on to share that AILET 2017 was the toughest edition of the exam since 2013.

Shiksha was reporting live from Gargi College where around 500 students took AILET exam. Most the students we spoke to shared that they found the exam to be extremely tough and were not able to complete their paper on time. Attempting 150 questions in 90 minutes duration was a difficult task and so AILET 2017 was a race against time for almost every candidate.

To bring some relief to students, we think it is worth sharing that since the difficulty level of the exam was high, they can expect the AILET cut-offs to be lower as compared to last year.

AILET 2017: Difficulty level of the exam

AILET aspirants shared that the test pattern was exactly as shared by NLU Delhi. Talking about AILET exam, Karan of Amity International School shared that the, “Exam was good, it was fine. GK and last part of Logical Reasoning was a little difficult. English was good. Legal Aptitude was fine. Time management was the most difficult part of the exam. I couldn’t complete the Maths section only”. Even Sonal Mishra of Dynasty International School, Faridabad was unable to complete her paper on time. “I left 5 questions in Maths section”, she said. As per her, “Logical Reasoning and GK were very tough, English was easy, Maths was easy and Legal Aptitude was also easy”.

A student of Modern School, Barakhamba Road, Tanmay Mehtha said that the exam average, “It was OK. Neither good, neither bad. All the sections of the exam were difficult. I was not able to complete my paper on time. I completely left the Maths section and GK was difficult”.

Talking about the difficulty level of different sections in the exam, Swati a student of Lord Jesus School, Gurgaon shared that “GK was the most difficult section but other sections were OK. In English mainly synonyms and antonyms were asked along with statement arrangements. GK had more current affairs questions. In Maths there were profit and loss questions as well as time and work questions. In Logical Reasoning section, there were questions on family trees. Here, we had to read full paragraphs and then had to explain what the reaction would be”. Overall, she felt that her exam went well.

Srishti Sharma of Amity International School was quoted as saying, “It was a good exam but the Legal part was very difficult. Rest of the paper was good. In fact, Mathematics and Legal Aptitude section were difficult, rest all was OK”. She was one of the very few students who was able to complete her exam on time”.

Not expecting such a difficult paper, Lovely Public School’s Tarkash Khanna said, “It was very tough. English and Logical Reasoning were easy but Maths was very tough. I attempted all the questions but not properly. So, I do not know if the questions I attempted are correct or not, especially in the Legal Aptitude and GK section”. Elaborating further on the questions asked in each section of the exam, Tarkash shared, “GK questions were related to affairs of the United States of America and not of India. Logical Reasoning was more about mental aptitude and contained questions of 7^th and 8^th standard level. English vocabulary was easy and Legal Aptitude section was very lengthy. The difficulty level of Maths questions was very high”.

Currently pursuing a Law course at Government Law College, Mumbai, Tanmay Nath shared that, “I was not able to complete my paper on time and I will be surprised if anybody has completed the whole paper. I do not think anyone would have been able to complete more than 100-120 questions because the time given is limited”. He further stated that all the other law entrance exams give aspirants around 2-2 ½ hours to complete the paper. Thus, it can roughly be said that students are given at least one minute to solve one question in other law exams. But in AILET, candidates have to attempt 150 questions in 90 minutes which is an extremely difficult task. Talking about the difficulty level of each section in the exam he was quoted as saying, “General Knowledge was a little tricky. English was very easy. Reasoning was moderate and Maths was easy. Legal Aptitude was easy. In GK section, most of the questions were on International Current Affairs and facts instead of local ones (that is, they were not on current affairs of India). Legal Reasoning was more of what we have been taught like you were given a situation then a fact and then you had to analyse the judgement. English was easy”. He further shared that, “In the Legal Aptitude section, Principle and Situation questions were easy but the Legal Knowledge questions were a little tricky”.

 Swarnima shared that the, “Paper was really tough and time given was not enough. In Legal Aptitude section, the questions were very long. It was very difficult to attempt all the questions in time, we had just half an hour to complete each section”. She also shared that AILET 2017 was much more difficult than past years’ papers.

AILET 2017: Test pattern as compared to last year

Almost 90% of the students felt that the difficulty level of AILET 2017 was much higher as compared to past years’ papers. Tanmay Nath had taken AILET exam last year as well and so he explained how the exam was different this year as compared to last year. “This time the questions were lengthier. So, like last time if there was a passage, then it had 5 questions along with it. But this time, most of the passages had just 3 questions. So, you had to write more and this made the question paper lengthier”. However, Tanmay felt that the difficulty level of the questions asked was almost the same as last year. Further he shared, “English section was easy and surprisingly, the synonyms and antonyms asked in this year’s paper were very easy. Also, there was no unseen passage in English rather there were fill in the blank questions. So, this was something that was very different from last year”.

Having practiced AILET 2013 and AILET 2015 test paper, Tanmay Mehtha felt that “this paper was difficult and long. The pattern was the same but the difficulty level was higher”. On the other hand Sonal felt that the test pattern of AILET 2017 was also a little different as compared to last year’s paper. “Last time GK was the last section, this time it was 2^nd in position and the difficulty level of the questions asked was also higher. The word meanings in English language were beyond reach for me”, she added.

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