AILET
Admission to the five-year B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) programme at National Law University (NLU) Delhi, which stays out of the CLAT admission process and runs its own test.
Eligibility
Candidates must have passed or be appearing in Class 12 with at least 50% marks (45% for SC/ST/PwD). There is no upper age limit and no restriction on attempts. AILET 2027 admits students to the 2027–28 batch of B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) and LL.M.
Age limit: No upper age limit
Exam pattern
Offline test of 2 hours (2:00–4:00 pm) with 150 multiple-choice questions in three sections: English Language (50), Current Affairs and General Knowledge (30) and Logical Reasoning (70). Each correct answer earns 1 mark and each wrong answer costs 0.25 marks. There is no separate legal reasoning or maths section in the UG paper.
Syllabus at a glance
English comprehension, grammar and vocabulary; current affairs and static GK; and a heavyweight logical reasoning section covering critical reasoning, analytical puzzles, syllogisms and series. No legal knowledge or mathematics is tested at UG level.
Upcoming dates
| Event | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|
| AILET 2027 notification released | 23 Jul 2026 | confirmed |
| Application window | 7 Aug – 10 Nov 2026 | confirmed |
| AILET 2027 exam | 13 Dec 2026 (Sunday, 2–4 pm) | confirmed |
| Result declaration | Late Dec 2026 | expected |
Expected dates follow the usual calendar; confirm on the official notification before planning.
Free prep material
Standard books
- Word Power Made Easy — Norman Lewis
- Analytical Reasoning — M.K. Pandey
- A Modern Approach to Logical Reasoning — R.S. Aggarwal
- Objective General English — S.P. Bakshi
- Manorama Yearbook (current edition)
How toppers play it
- Logical Reasoning alone is 70 of 150 marks — nearly half the paper — so puzzle sets, arrangements and critical reasoning deserve the bulk of your practice time.
- Cut-offs routinely sit above 75% because seats are so few; accuracy matters more here than in CLAT — with 0.25 negative marking, avoid speculative attempts entirely.
- AILET falls one week after CLAT (13 Dec vs 6 Dec 2026), so prepare jointly but drill AILET's distinct pattern — 150 standalone questions, not CLAT-style passages — in the final month.
- 150 questions in 120 minutes means 48 seconds per question; time-box GK to about 10 minutes since those answers are known-or-not.
- Solve every available AILET previous-year paper — NLU Delhi recycles question styles, especially in analytical puzzles.