Students’ Speak: How to prepare for AILET 2020?

By: Teresa Dhar

Competition for this entrance exam is stiff given that thousands of law aspirants appear for this exam from across India. All these aspirants are competing for 70 BA LLB seats.

National Law University, Delhi (NLU) will conduct the All India Law Entrance Test (AILET) 2020 on May 03. The registration has already started and will continue till April 8. NLU Delhi, although new, is considered one of the best law institutes in India and it conducts this separate law entrance exam. Competition for this entrance exam is stiff given that thousands of law aspirants appear for this exam from across India. All these aspirants are competing for 70 BA LLB seats.

The exam, held offline for 90 minutes, is MCQ-based carrying 150 questions. For every correct answer, 1 mark will be awarded while for every wrong answer 0.25 marks will be deducted.

AILET 2020 Syllabus

English

35 MCQ - 35 Marks

English section will include questions from vocabulary, synonyms, antonyms, word usage, para jumble, grammar, reading comprehension and foreign words/ phrases, sentence correction and error detection, synonyms and antonyms, prepositions and models-based fill in the blanks.

Legal Aptitude

35 MCQ - 35 Marks

In this section, important topics are strict liability, law of crimes, torts, vicarious liability, contracts and constitutional law, legal awareness and international law, Important Fundamental Rights, Articles under Indian Constitution, Landmark Judgement, Recommendations and Chairpersons.

Reasoning

35 MCQ - 35 Marks

Logical reasoning will be based on the topics series, directions, syllogism, analogies, blood relations, critical reasoning Calendars, Liner, Circular & Grid Arrangement, Coding and Decoding, Number and, Letter Series, Odd one out, Venn Diagram, Distribution, Symbols and Notions.

GK and Current Affairs

35 MCQ - 35 Marks

This section will include questions from current affairs, sports, awards and honors, internal events, UN bodies and International Organizations, history, general science and Technology, economics, geography, civics, eminent personalities, Constitution, Environment.

Elementary Mathematics

10 MCQ - 10 Marks

Algebra, profit and loss, time and work, average, speed and distance, permutation - combination and Venn diagrams, numerical ability.

These are some of the books one can refer to:-

• Lucent, Universal’s And Pratiyogita Darpan, along with quality newspaper and apps like Hindu, Inshorts, Times of India.
• RS Agarwal and MK Pandey for logical reasoning
• Word Power Made Easy and books for English
• Past 10 Years’ Papers

AILET Preparation Strategy

Although, there is no such thing as a concrete strategy as it may differ from person to person, however, preparation can be broken into two categories:

1. For students who have ample time to prepare (say, a year or two), they can focus on the subjects mentioned above and take up chapters of each subject and prepare them thoroughly. They can go through the books and solve them. It will be easier to get a clear picture of the AILET format and clear their doubts, subject and topic-wise. Also, they will get the facility of solving a lot of mock tests to estimate their position.
2. For students who have a month or a few weeks to prepare can enrol in a crash course in the above-mentioned institutions and take plenty of mock tests. In case of doubts, they can consult their respective faculties. Go through the chapters where they are very weak.
3. Read and be updated on the current affairs in India and around the world to the best of your ability. Especially if it is related to the Indian Constitution. For that, go through the newspaper daily and religiously.
4. Improve your reading and comprehension skills. You should train yourself enough to be able to read and understand a very complex passage in no more than 7 minutes (ideally).
5. It all boils down to whether you have previous knowledge and understanding as to the format of the AILET paper. In order to be well acquainted, you have to solve the past year papers and take as many mock tests as possible. And then, you will be good to go.

About the Author:

Teresa Dhar is a third-year student pursuing BA LLB from Chanakya National Law University.