SET (Law) 2012: Analysis

SET (Law) 2012 was conducted on 5 May, 2012 all over India and was on the expected lines. Though the actual paper was not given to the examinees, the analysis is based on feedback from students who appeared in the examination.
The level of the entire paper can be summed up as easy to moderate and students should expect a decent show. Many of the questions, particularly in the Legal Aptitude, English and Reasoning Sections have been discussed in our materials almost in the same manner. The comprehensive LST course covered almost every question type that appeared in the exam.

The examination comprised 150 questions, which were divided equally over the five sections. This year too, the examination was on similar lines as those of the last year. Total Questions were 150 with 4 options for each question and the time limit was 150 minutes.

SECTION WISE BREAK UP OF THE PAPER

Section-wise analysis of the paper:

Legal Reasoning:

This section was a combination of questions based on legal reasoning and legal knowledge. In legal reasoning concepts from Torts (including Vicarious liability, Negligence, Reasonable care), Contracts (including Considerations, Competence of parties) and International Law were covered. The questions in the legal knowledge section were, however, mostly based on Constitutional Law including application of knowledge pertinent to the Preamble of the Constitution of India. Apart from Constitutional Law, a blend of various subject matters was encapsulated in this section. The knowledge based questions were quite simple and might not have posed any difficulties to LSTians.

Topic wise break up of the questions

Logical Reasoning:

A total of 30 questions were asked in this section. The questions were from areas such as Statement Assumption, Statement Conclusion, drawing conclusion from given statements (one liner and three-four liners), analogy (both vocab related as well as verbal logic related). The overall difficulty level of the questions ranged from easy to moderate.

Topic wise break up of the questions

Analytical Reasoning:

A total of 30 questions were asked in this section. Series questions comprising numerical as well as alpha numeric and alphabets were there. Mathematical puzzles were based on age, height and geometrical figures.  Odd one out questions were based on word pairs. A few questions were there based on common logic. The overall difficulty level of the questions ranged from easy to moderate.

Topic wise break up of the questions

Reading Comprehension:

A total of 25 questions were there in 5 passage containing 5 questions each. The passages were from the field of Law. ‘Capital Punishment’, ‘Everyone has the ability to speak’ were some of the topics that were covered.  Average word limit of the passages was 100 – 150 words. Most of the questions were factual and could be answered easily. One cloze test containing 5 questions was also there. The difficulty level of these questions was easy.

Topic wise break up of the questions

General Knowledge:
GK was on the expected line- more of static GK and less of current GK. GK supplement has proved to be quite useful as it covered almost all areas of the GK section in the SET paper. A total of 30 questions were there.  Areas covered were sports, literature, awards, Geography, Science, History, National & International events etc. The difficulty level of GK section was moderate to high.

Topic wise break up of the questions

The expected cut-off for Symbiosis Pune campus can be safely estimated to be around 115-120 and for Symbiosis Noida campus the cut-off may vary from 100-110.

With Best Wishes!
The LST Team

AILET (NLU Delhi) 2012- Analysis

Overview: Although the paper was not unlike previous years but it did defy expectations of the students. Where all the rest of the exams, including CLAT, are shifting focus from knowledge based questions to reasoning based questions, NLU-Delhi focused on knowledge rather than reasoning aptitude.

Like the previous year, the total number of questions that appeared was 150. These questions were to be solved in 90 minutes. Each question carried 1 mark. The paper was divided into 5 sections. 35 marks were allotted to four sections (English, Logical reasoning, Legal reasoning and General Knowledge) and 10 marks to the section on Mathematics.

English: This section was of moderate difficulty level. Most of the students were able to attempt almost all the questions. There was one Reading Comprehension passage with six questions. The passage was based on group think (Psychology) and needed careful reading .Rest of the questions in this section were of easy-moderate difficulty level. There were questions on Synonyms, Antonyms, Fill in the blanks based on Preposition and Tenses, 1 Cloze Test, Para Jumbles (6 Sentence type where first and the last sentence is fixed), Error Detection etc.

Logical Reasoning: The Logical Reasoning section had only a few questions on Critical Reasoning .Of these there were questions based on assumptions, conclusions, strengthening and weakening of arguments etc. Rest of the questions were based on Analytical Reasoning .In Analytical Reasoning, there were 2 sets with 4-5 questions each and quite a few questions on series and coding-decoding. This section was also of moderate difficulty level.

Mathematics: This was perhaps the easiest section in the paper. Most of the questions were from Arithmetic and there were no questions from Geometry and Mensuration and Algebra. There were 2 questions on Ratio, 3 from Percentages and one question each from Time & Work, Compound Interest, Linear Equations, Age Problem and Number Systems.

Legal Aptitude: This year the Legal Aptitude section was a bit of a surprise, considering there was a paradigm shift in the pattern of the paper which stressed more on testing legal knowledge over legal reasoning. There were only 5 questions based on Legal Reasoning and rest were based on Legal Knowledge. The 5 questions based on reasoning were on the concepts of Law of Torts and Constitutional Law. Remaining 30 questions were from a variety of areas including but not limited to Preamble and Fundamental Rights from the constitutional law, Right to Information, Money bill, recent judgments etc. The reasoning based questions were easy but the legal knowledge based questions might have posed some difficulties for the students.

General Knowledge: This section was of Moderate High difficulty level. Total number of questions asked was 35. Questions were more from static GK and only a few questions were from current affairs. Economy and Science (especially Biology) dominated the entire paper. Nature of questions was less factual and more conceptual. Areas asked were: Science, Economy, Current Affairs, History, Polity, Sports, and Geography etc. Questions from science were tricky.

Overall the paper was of moderate difficulty level and an attempt of 125-130 could be considered good. The Cut-off for this paper should range between 95 to 100 marks. This unexpected paper might have thrown you into a whirlpool but now is the time to steady yourselves and prepare for the biggest bash of the exam season CLAT 2012.