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. 

General Knowledge and Current Affairs section is the most important section in the MH CET Law question paper. These sections test candidates' awareness of current events and a variety of academic subjects. The weightage of this section is 40.

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. 

Candidates looking to get admission to the 3-year LLB and 5-year LLB program through the MHCET Law exam should aim to acheive the score above 100 marks. However the good score is different for each category of students. To target the colleges like Government Law College (GLC), Mumbai, or ILS Law College, Pune, one should achieve a score that enhances the chances of getting a seat in best colleges. The sccores above the 80-100 range can also be considered "average," and student achieving this score has the possibility to get admission in the mid-tier colleges, particularly depending on the candidate's category and the specific college's cutoff.

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.

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.

Fo Maharashtra LAWCET exam preparation, candidates must know the exam pattern first. Read the main topics that are there in the syllabus. The best way to clear the exam is to prepare from books recommended by the experts.  

Candidates can access the previous year questions through the Shiksha's website. The MH CET Law examination cell does not releases the question paper online. The candidates can find the memory based questions along with the answers here.

No there is no negative marking in MH CET Law exam pattern. The MH CET law 2025 will follow the marking scheme as under-

• For each correct answer, one mark will be awarded to candidates. 
• There is no negative marking in the exam, therefore, in case of wrong attempts no marks will be deducted from the total marks. 
• However, candidates must note that no marks will be awarded or deducted in case they leave questions unanswered. 

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

There are several factors that affect the MH CET Law scores such as level of exam, targetted college, category of the candidates, and overall performance of the candidates. The kind of questions asked, the level of the exam and the number of test-takers can influence cutoffs. Candidates must try to attain scores more than 90 to get their desired college.

The Maharashtra CET Cell releases the free mock test papers for candidates a few days before the exam, which can be accessed online through the official website. Meanwhile, candidates can practice the previous year MH CET Law mock test papers, you can also go through the memory based questions compiled up here to get an idea about the exam structure and level of exam.