MHCET Law LLM Pattern 2026: Know Marking Scheme & Exam Duration

The syllabus for the MH CET law exam has topics from Legal Aptitude and reasoning, GK and current affairs, Logical and analytical reasoning, English language and basic mathematics. Candidates will have to study about legal principles, reasoning skills, and applying laws to scenarios. From GK section, questions from national & international events, politics, science, and legal developments will also be asked.

From the reasoning section, pattern and problem solving abilities will be analysed, and questions from geometry, ratios, percentages will be asked. 

Percentile scores are based on the relative performance of all those who appear for the examination. Basically, the marks obtained are transformed into a scale ranging from 100 to 0 for each session of examinees.
Basically, the Percentile Score indicates the percentage of candidates that have scored EQUAL TO OR BELOW (same or lower raw scores) that particular Percentile in that examination. 

However, marks are the raw scores obtained in the examination by the candidates. Based on these raw scores/ marks, percentile score in the range of 0-100 is calculated to measure each candidates' performance without any bias due to different difficulty levels. 

Legal Aptitude – 40 marks, Logical Reasoning – 40 marks, English – 30 marks, General Knowledge – 30 marks, and Mathematics – 10 marks. Total 150 marks.

Yes, as per the previous year notification, you can choose to answer the MHCET law question paper in Marathi. The examination cell allows applicants to choose either English or Marathi. During the application process, can will be able to fill the preferred language. 

The State Common Entrance Cell, Maharashtra has released the revised exam pattern of the MH CET Law 2025 for the five-year and 3-year LLB programmes. The exam authority changed the total number of questions to be asked to 120 from 150.

Three year LLB programme entrance exam has Legal Aptitude and Legal Reasoning, General Knowledge with Current Affairs, Logical and Analytical Reasoning, English. Same subjects for the five-year LLB course as well but with Mathematical Aptitude as well. 

MH CET Law exam has five main sections. Each part carries different marks. English includes 30 questions, General Knowledge and Current Affairs 40, Legal Aptitude 40, Logical Reasoning 30, and Basic Mathematics 10 (for 5-year LLB only). Total marks 150. Every question gives one mark, no negative marking.

As per the previous year trends, the score above 99 will be considered a good score for both 3-year and 5-year LLB programs. However, the good score depends on many factors such as targetted college, category of the candidate, reservation policy, and the overall performance of the candidate. For admission to top law colleges accepting MH Law CET score, the cut off score is declared which also depends on the number of the candidate and difficulty level of the papers.

There are many benefits to solving MH CET Law previous years' question papers. Here are a few:

• Get familiar with the exam pattern and question types. By solving previous years' question papers, you will get a good understanding of the exam pattern and the types of questions that are asked. This will help you to feel more confident and prepared on the day of the exam.
• Identify important topics. By analyzing previous years' question papers, you can identify the topics that are most frequently tested. You can then focus your preparation on these topics.
• Improve your speed and accuracy. Solving previous years' question papers under timed conditions will help you to improve your speed and accuracy. This is important because the MH CET Law exam is a timed exam.
• Build your confidence. Solving previous years' question papers and getting good scores will help you to build your confidence. This can be very helpful on the day of the exam, when you are feeling nervous.

Overall, solving MH CET Law previous years' question papers is an essential part of your preparation for the exam. It is important to solve as many previous years' question papers as you can, and to analyze your performance carefully. This will help you to identify your strengths and weaknesses, and to focus your preparation accordingly.

Normalization process is an established practice for comparing candidate scores across multiple shift papers. There are possibilities of different level of difficulties in each shift for the same exam, however to tackle this scenario, the Normalization Method will be used to calculate the MH CET Law 3-year and 5-year LLB results.

Step 1: Candidates would be distributed into four sessions randomly so that each session has approximately equal number of candidates. Suppose: Session-1: Day-1 Batch 1 (D1-B1), Session-2: Day-1 Batch-2 (D1-B2), Session-3: Day-1 Batch 3 (D1-B3).

Step-2: The examination results for each session would be prepared in the form of Raw Scores.

Total Percentile (TP) = 100 X No. of candidates appeared from the session with raw score equal to or less than T1 score

                               Total No. of Candidates appeared for the session

Step-3: The Percentile scores for the Total Raw Score for all the four sessions (Session- 1: Day-1 Batch 1-1, Session-2: Day-1 batch-2 and Session-3: Day-1 Batch-3 as calculated in Step-2 above would be merged and shall be called the CET Percentile scores which will then be used for compilation of result.

The Percentile of all four sessions will be calculated separately for the total raw score.

Yes, self-study is enough if done properly. Follow a schedule, use good books, and practice mock tests regularly. Discipline and consistency are key.

Important topics include Legal Principles, Current Affairs, Logical Puzzles, Reading Comprehension, and Basic Arithmetic. Focusing on these improves overall score.

There's no negative marking in the MH CET Law exam, whether it's for the 3-year LLB or the 5-year LLB course. You don't lose marks for any wrong or skipped question, so you can try every one of them without worry.

The paper has around 120 to 150 questions, depending on the exam type and year, and you can attempt all without fear of losing marks.