Tips to Crack MH CET Law exam in 30 days - Preparation Strategy, Books Recommendations

Maharashtra Common Entrance Test - Law 2026 ( MHCET Law )

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Want to score well in MH CET Law 2025 exam? We got your back. To excel in this competitive exam, aspirants must do an all-round preparation from best MH CET Law 2025 books, by solving the MH CET Law 2025 previous year exam papers, while making note of the MH CET Law syllabus, marking scheme and exam pattern.

Want to score well in MH CET Law 2025 exam? We got your back, given below is the information to aid you during your last days of preparation. 

MH CET Law 2025 Preparation Tips, Books, Question Paper

MH CET Law 2025: With just a few days left for the MH CET Law 2025 exam to take place, candidates looking to sit for the exam must tighten their belts to devote these last days towards an effective MH CET Law exam preparation. To excel in this competitive exam, aspirants must do an all-round preparation from best MH CET Law 2025 books, by solving the MH CET Law 2025 previous year exam papers, while making note of the MH CET Law syllabus, marking-scheme and exam pattern. Candidates are advised to thoroughly go through the information below to ace the exam.

For the ease of candidates, we have listed here key tips to consider while preparing for MH CET Law exam.

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Table of contents
  • MH CET Law Syllabus 2025
  • MH CET Law Exam Pattern and Marking Scheme 2025
  • MH CET Law Weekly Preparation Plan
  • MH CET Law Previous Year Paper
  • Section-wise Books for MHCET Law Preparation

MH CET Law Syllabus 2025

The MH CET law 2025 syllabus for the 5-year LLB is of the intermediate level, whereas the syllabus for the 3-year LLB is of the graduation level. MH CET syllabus for both 3-year and 5-year LLB program is as mentioned below.

MH CET Law 5-year LLB

·       Legal Aptitude and Legal Reasoning

·       General Knowledge and Current Affairs

·       Logical and Analytical Reasoning

·       English

·       Mathematics sub

MH CET Law 3-year LLB

·       Legal Aptitude and Legal Reasoning

·       General Knowledge and Current Affairs

·       Logical and Analytical Reasoning

·       English

Q:   What are the best books for the General Knowledge section of the MH CET Law entrance exam?
A:

The following are some of the best books for the General Knowledge section of the MH CET Law entrance exam:

  • Lucent's General Knowledge
  • Manorama Year Book
  • Pearson General Knowledge Manual
  • General Knowledge for Competitive Exams by Arihant Experts
  • General Knowledge 2023 by Disha Experts
Q:   Which books are the best for MH CET Law 5-year LLB preparation?
A:

Students can refer the following books while preparing for MH CET Law 5-year LLB program:

MH CET Law Preparation BooksAuthor
Pradnya's MH-CET: Law for L.L.B for 3 years & 5 years LLB exam Adv. Revati Mohril, Gajanan Shewalkar (Nikita Publications) 
MHCET CLAT - Best book for Law entranceC J Pooniwala
CLAT Master BoxKaran Mehta and Harsh Gagrani

MH CET Law Exam Pattern and Marking Scheme 2025

The question paper of MHCET Law 2025 will contain 120 objective-type questions of one mark each. The exam will be of two hours’ duration and held in a Computer-based-test mode.

The main features of MHCET Law 2025 question paper for both courses are as under:

Features

Details

Exam mode

Online, Computer-based test (CBT)

Exam duration

2 hours

Test paper language

English and Marathi

Type of questions

Multiple choices questions

Total questions

120 MCQs

Total Marks

120 marks

Negative Marking

No negative marking

The sectional weightage helps candidates understand on which topic they need to focus in the MH CET Law Question Paper 2025 to score high in the entrance exam.

The subject-wise weightage for MH CET Law 2025 five-year LLB course is as under: 

Subject

Total No. of Questions

Maximum Marks

Legal Aptitude and Legal Reasoning

32

32

General Knowledge with Current Affairs

24

24

Logical and Analytical Reasoning

32

32

English

24

24

Basic Mathematics

8

8

Total

120

120

The subject-wise weightage for the three-year LLB course is as under:

Subject

Total No. of Questions

Maximum Marks

Legal Aptitude and Legal Reasoning

24

24

General Knowledge with Current Affairs

32

32

Logical and Analytical Reasoning

24

24

English

40

40

Total

120

120

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MH CET Law Weekly Preparation Plan

To score well in MH CET Law 2025, candidates should work smartly considering the days left, weightage of marks, and MH CET Law Exam Pattern 2025. Along with reading the best MH CET Law books, there should be an appropriate strategy to walk through the exam.

Week 1 – Making a Plan and Equal Division of Time to Each Subject

The first and the foremost thing that a candidate should do in these last 30 days of preparation is equal and smart division of time to each subject. Based on the marking scheme by MH CET State Cell, candidates are advised to devote time to subjects wisely.

In the first week, pick below given two subjects:

Legal Aptitude and Legal Reasoning

First 3 Days

  • Go through the topics such as study of law, research aptitude, and problem-solving ability, Legal prepositions.
  • By the end of each day, solve previous years questions

Logical and Analytical Reasoning

Next 3 Days

  • Read about patterns, logical links and rectify illogical arguments, variety of logical reasoning questions such as syllogisms, logical sequences, analogies etc.
  • By the end of each day, solve previous years questions
  • On the last day of the week, revise each section and focus on solving questions from previous years’ papers.

Week 2 – Thorough Study of GK and English

General Knowledge and Current Affairs

First 3 Days

·       General awareness of History, Geography, General Science, Economics, Civics, Social Science, and Environment,

·       Current Affairs of the past year

·       Recent events and awareness around the world

·       By the end of each day, solve previous years’ questions

 

English

Next 3 Days

  • Vocabulary (Synonyms, Antonyms, Analogies etc)
  • Proficiency (Idioms and phrases, one-word substitutions, sentence improvement and rearrangement, fill in the blanks etc)
  • English comprehension with a minimum of two passages followed by 5-10 questions that test reading and reasoning abilities.
  • English usage errors (common errors, spotting errors, inappropriate usage of words, spelling mistakes etc.)
  • By the end of each day, solve previous years questions
  • On the last day of the week, revise each section and focus on solving questions from previous years’ papers.

Week 3 – Thorough Study of Mathematics (for 5-year LLB) and Solving Question Papers

The Mathematics section will be based on topics from Class 10th Mathematics syllabus as under:

Basic Mathematics(5-year LLB)

Profit and loss

Speed, distance, and time

Algebra

Average

Permutation and combination

Venn diagrams

Geometry

Probability

Triangles

Percentage

Numbers

Trigonometry

3-year LLB candidates should devote this time to practice as many questions from previous year and sample papers. This is the time to revise the topics studied and solve questions.

Week 4 - Revise and Practice MH CET Law Mock Test Papers

The week should be entirely dedicated to solving question papers and getting real time idea about the difficulty level of exam and preparing the mind for the MH CET Law 2025 exam day.

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MH CET Law Previous Year Paper

Candidates preparing for the MH CET Law 2025 exam must make it a priority to solve sample papers and MH CET Law 2025 Questions Papers as part of the exam preparation. There are multiple benefits of solving sample papers and previous years' question paper of MH CET Law, the prime among them being it will help convert the conceptual knowledge into problem-solving ability. The sample papers for MH CET Law 2025 can provide candidates with an insight related to the types of questions, exam pattern and weightage carried by various topics.

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Section-wise Books for MHCET Law Preparation

Given below are the section-wise books that candidates can refer to prepare for each section of the MH CET Law 2025 exam separately.

MH CET Law Subjects 

Books 

Author 

 

English 

Quick Learning Objective General English 

RS Aggarwal

Objective General English

A P Bhardwaj 

Legal Aptitude and Reasoning 

Legal GK for competitive examination

Universal Publications

Legal Awareness and Legal Reasoning 

A P Bhardwaj 

Logical Reasoning

A modern approach to Logical Reasoning

RS Aggarwal 

Logical Reasoning for CLAT, SLAT, LSAT India and other law entrance exams

Universal Publications

501 Challenging Logical reasoning

Learning Express

General Knowledge and Current Affairs

General Knowledge 2022-2024

Arihant Experts 

Yearly General Knowledge Book 

Pearson

Mathematics

Class 10 Mathematics IQ Challenge 

Anil Ahlawat

Quantitative Aptitude ebook

RS Aggarwal

Fast Track Objective Arithmetic

Arihant Publications

Objective Mathematics

R D Sharma

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The MH CET Law merit list is made by the State CET Cell, Maharashtra, using the raw scores and percentile earned by candidates in the exam. It works as a ranking list of students who qualify for the Centralized Admission Process (CAP) rounds.

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MH CET Law toppers usually score around 115–120 out of 150 in the 3-year LLB, and above 120/150 in the 5-year LLB, to get into top colleges like GLC Mumbai or ILS Pune.

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After the MH CET Law results, you need to join the Centralized Admission Process (CAP) to get your seat. You first register on the CET Cell portal, then finish document verification either online or at an FC center.

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Every student who gives the MH CET Law exam, whether for 3-year or 5-year LLB, gets a rank once their marks are checked. Your score is mostly shown as a percentile, which tells how good you did when compared with others who wrote the test.

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The MH CET Law 2026 merit list hasn't been released yet. The 3-year LLB exam is planned for April 1–2, 2026, and the application process is still going on.

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