MH CET Law 2026 (3 & 5-yr LLB): Registration (Out Soon), Exam Date (OUT), Syllabus, Preparation Tips

The Maharashtra CET examination cell conducts the MHCET Law exam for admission to the LLB programs offered at the colleges in Maharashtra. The exam is conducted at the designated centres across the state and nearby cities. Candidates who register for the exam will only be issued the admit cards and given the chance to appear for it. 

The website of the MHCET Law exam is cetcell.mahacet.org. Candidates can check the notification, application form, admit card, and other updates of the exam from the website. Candidates can check details related to MHCET Law by visiting the CET portal available on the homepage.

MHCET Law exam is held for admissions to 5-year and 3-year Law courses offered at participating Law colleges in Maharashtra. The exam is conducted in an online mode. Through the entrance exam, Law aspirants are shortlisted for admissions to 10,860 seats (excluding management intake) for the 5-year LLB program and around 16,420 seats for the 3-year LLB courses programmes.  

The MHCET Law Application form is expected to be released anytime soon. once the application window open, candidates will be able to apply for the MHCET Law exam for admission to 5-year and 3-year LLB courses.

Maharashtra State Common Entrance Test Cell will provide the application correction facilityn for the candidates who have already registered for MHCET Law 2026 but submitted a form with ceratin mistakes and erros. Candidates will be given an opportunity to correct or edit the below mentioned details in their already submitted application form:

• Candidate's Name
• Date of Birth
• Photograph
• Signature
• Gender

Along with this, MH CET Cell is also allowing candidates to complete the application form and pay the MH CET Law Registration Fee within this time who were unable to do it earlier.

Candidates will be able to edit details in their MH CET Law 2026 application form using their own Login ID at the official MH CET Law website.

• Visit the official website - portal.maharashtracet.org
• Use LoginID and password to login
• Click on edit MHCET Law application form
• Do the changes required and save the form after duly checking

The MHCET Law syllabus 2026 for the 3-year LLB course is given below:

The MHCET Law syllabus for the 5-year LLB course is given below. The candidates can apply for 5-year LLB programs after 12th.

The MHLAW CET question paper has 120 objective-type questions. These 120 questions are divided into five sections for 5-year LLB course and four sections for the 3-year LLB courses. No negative marking in the exam.

To prepare for the Maharashtra LAWCET exam, candidates must know and understand the pattern of exam first. Read the important topics that are there in the syllabus. The best way to ace the exam is to refer recommended books 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.

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

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.

If you are not able to download your MH CET Law admit card, make sure you internet is stable. Cross check your registration number / registration or payment reference ID, qualifying exam hall ticket number, and date of birth. You can also try accessing it on another device.

Candidates will have to carry the following listed items to MH Law CET exam centre:

• MH Law CET admit card printed copy 
• A valid photo ID proof (Aadhaar card, PAN card, Driving License, etc.)
• Passport-size photo (same as uploaded in the application)

Also, the examination cell may also permit certain other items including transparent water bottle, ball-point pen, etc. in the examination hall. Candidates are advised to read the exam day guidelines carefully before the exam day.

If you forget your MH CET Law admit card, you will not be allowed to sit for the exam. Therefore, carry the admit card to the exam centre. 

Candidates will be able to access the MH CET Law answer key for both 3-year LLB and 5-year LLB through the individual candidate's login. The MH CET Law 2026 answer key will be available to download through the official website only by logging in to the portal using the registered email ID and password.

Candidates will receive a full refund of INR 1000 for the answers whose objection is accepted by the exam authorities. Though, candidates can raise the objections on multiple questions during the process. It is upon the exam authority to accept or reject the objection raised.

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. 

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. 

MH CET Law question papers consist of MCQs. Candidates are required to answer these questions in a computer-based test mode (online). You can skip questions if you do not know their answers. However, candidates should answer all questions because there is no negative marking scheme in the MH CET Law exam. The option of marking for review is also available for questions in the MH CET Law question paper. Candidates can answer these questions later before clicking on the submit or end exam button. 

MHCET Law 2026 Exam Analysis will be released after the exam. MHCET Law exam will be conducted on May 8, 2026. We'll provide the exam analysis based on student reviews and reactions.

The MH CET Law 2026 3-year LLB & 5-year LLB results will be declared within 30-45 days of the exam on the official website. The MH CET Law entrance result for both 5-year LLB and 3-year LLB will be released separately online on the official website of CET Cell Maharashtra, cetcell.mahacet.org. Candidates will be able to download their MH CET Law 2025 result as the MH CET Law 2025 scorecard. The following details will be mentioned in the MH CET Law scorecard:

• Registration number/ CET application number
• CET Roll Number
• Candidate's name
• Normalised CET score 

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.

Candidates can expect the following score to be safe to secure seats in top Colleges accepting MH CET Law score including GLC Mumbai and ILS Pune for the 3-year LLB MH Law CET exam:

The registration process for the counselling started will begin online on the CET cell official website at cetcell.mahacet.org. The CAP process will be conducted for 3-year and 5-year LLB separately. Once the counselling registration will be over, the exam authority will release the MH CET Law merit lists. Candidates will be given option for choice filling during the CAP process.

The MH CET Law merit list is a list of candidates who have been shortlisted for counseling based on their rank in the MH CET Law entrance exam. The merit list is prepared separately for MS (Maharashtra State), OMS (Other State / Outside Maharashtra State) candidates, Jammu & Kashmir Candidates and INR, Outside Maharashtra State (OMS) or All India category candidature type, Foreign Nationals, Non Resident Indians (NRI) / Overseas Indian Citizen (OIC) / Person of Indian Origin (PIO) candidates. Candidates cannot raise objections against the merit list.

The MH CET Law merit list is released by the State Common Entrance Test Cell (CET Cell), Maharashtra. Candidates can check their MH CET Law merit list on the official website of the CET Cell, Maharashtra.

Candidates can expect the following score to be safe to secure seats in top Colleges accepting MH CET Law score including GLC Mumbai and ILS Pune for the 3-year LLB MH Law CET exam:

The top colleges that accept the MH CET Law scores are given below-

1. Governmet Law College, Mumbai
2. Indian Law School, Pune
3. Pravin Gandhi College of Law, Mumbai
4. Dr DY Patil Law College, Navi Mumbai
5. Rizvi Law College, Mumbai
6. Shri Naval Firodia Law College, Pune

The ideal cut off to secure a seat and get the admission in one of these top colleges ranges between 96 to 99. Candidates must target to acheive this score in order to easily land into their preferred Law College.

Candidates are advised to focus on all the sections asked in the MH CET Law exam. Each section carry importance and finally add into the final score. Also, you can see the weightage of the sections asked in MHCET Law exam, the Legal Aptitude and Logical Reasoning sections carry more marks than the other sections. In the 3-year LLB exam of Maharashtra LAWCET, English section also carry more weightage in the exam. Students should have a strategic approach while preparing for the exam, keeping in mind the exam pattern and MHCET Law marking scheme.