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By Vivek Subramanian
Know the topics from which questions of higher difficulty level are asked in AILET exam. Also, know how you should prepare to ace different sections of AILET.
AILET is an exam given by a smaller number of students than CLAT, since it is conducted by and for NLU Delhi alone. You would think that since the number of students is less and hence the competition is lower, the exam would be easier than CLAT. However, this is not the case at all. In several topics, AILET has surprised students by asking questions much tougher than what they were prepared for.
So, it is clear that AILET challenges students at a level higher than CLAT. Is this true across the paper? Not necessarily. From analysing the last 5 years of CLAT and AILET papers, we have found that the difficulty levels are similar in the following topics:
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- Constitution
- Legal Awareness & Aptitude
- General Knowledge
- Current Affairs
However, in the below mentioned topics, the level of questions asked by AILET has frequently been tougher than that of CLAT:
- Logical Reasoning
- Mathematics
- English including Comprehension
So how is a student to prepare effectively? These are not small topics, and their weightage constitutes a large part of the exam total.
The good news is that there will not be anything new or additional to study. The syllabus of AILET does not include any new topics that a student preparing for CLAT would not have encountered. All you have to do is just solve tougher problems in the areas you have already covered.
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The next question is – where to get such tougher problems? One obvious answer is to look at past papers of AILET.
Another answer is if you are enrolled in a good coaching programme or a crash course programme that covers AILET as well, you should get some targeted material that addresses the questions that would be asked in AILET.
A third option is to look for a good online test series for AILET, or a CLAT programme that offers some papers for AILET 2021 as well. Here again you should find some good tough questions that will give you practice at the AILET level.
There are also a couple of other strategies that we advise our students to follow which may lead to scoring marks in the paper.
We have generally seen that the Logical Puzzles asked in AILET tend to be much tougher than CLAT. And since puzzles usually appear as a block of questions, leaving the entire block is not a good idea at all. Instead, what you can do is that even if the question appears tough, spend a minute reading it to understand the information. Then scan the questions that follow. Very often, there would be one or two questions that are obvious or straightforward. They do not require much solving and would follow directly from the information given in the question. We commonly refer to these as ‘freebie’ questions. These are marks in your pocket that are hidden but can be easily obtained. This is not suggested as something you do in the first pass of the paper, but rather something that can be done in the second pass when you have already done the easy questions.
A similar thing happens in Reading Comprehension. Even though the passage may be tough and lengthy, sometimes in the block of questions that follow there may be a simple one on Idioms / Phrases or Synonyms / Antonyms. This is a ‘freebie’ question in the RC section. Again, something that would be hidden in plain sight, waiting for a slightly more diligent student to snap it up and put the marks in their pocket.
We hope that following these strategies will help you scale up to the challenge that AILET poses. Wishing you all the best!
Vivek Subramanian
About the Author:
Vivek Subramanian has a BTech from IIT Bombay and an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad. He has worked internationally in New York and Hong Kong in investment banking and management consulting, before deciding to return to India to pursue his love for teaching. He is the co-founder and Chief Instructor at ExamVictor.
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The candidates will be able to download the notification for the AILET exam from the NLU Delhi official website. This document is important as it provides the exam registration schedule and eligibility criteria. Students should go through this document thoroughly for the application fees, last date
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The result for the AILET 2026 exam will be released a few days after the exam. Candidates will be able to check their scorecards through their candidate's login using the credentials as craeted during the registration. The scorecard will mention the Candidate's name, roll number, overall scores, sco
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With the help of previous year exam analysis, candidates looking to sit for the exam this year will be able to ascertain the type of questions asked in the exam and what is the difficulty level for each section of the exam. This helps in preparing for the exam accrodingly. Also, candidates who appea
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AILET admit card will include the details such as Candidate's name, roll number, course opted for, address of the examination hall, date and time of the entrance exam, etc. Along with this, candidates will also be intimated regarding the general guidelines for the exam day through the admit card of
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To crack the AILET exam, candidates must target to achieve rank between 50-60, which means score above 75 will help you land at the NLU Delhi. Candidates must go through the AILET exam pattern, syllabus, and previous year questions to prepare for the exam effectively. The previous year questions wil
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The AILET application fee structure is categorised based on different categories as given below:
Category | AILET Application Fee (in INR) |
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General | INR 3,000 |
PwD/ SC/ ST | INR 1,000 |
Women of SC/ST Category and Women belonging to Below Poverty Line (BPL) | Exempted from paying the application fee |
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AILET exam is conducted for admission to the 5-year integrated courses and LLM courses offered at the National Law University Delhi. Aspiring candidates will have to register for the entrance exam before the last date to sit for the exam. However, candidates must furnish the eligibility criteria to
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Please add these entrance exams also in your list for LLM.
- MHCET Law LLM
- LSAT LLM
- AP PGLCET
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- SLS AIAT LLM
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Yes, AILET preparation can be done in 1 month with an organized plan and strategy. Follow the steps given below to prepare for the exam efficiently within a month:
- Collect the study material, books, reference notes, practice question papers, previous year papers
- Allot equal time to each section
- Decote
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