Law Exams 2014 - CLAT 2014, SET 2014, AILET 2014, NLU Delhi 2014

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CLAT 2014 will be held on Sunday, 11th May.
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SET (Law) 2014 Exam Analysis

The Symbiosis Entrance Test (SET) 2014 for admission to their Law programme was conducted on May 3, 2014, all over India. The pattern of the paper was largely as expected. Much to the relief of students, the paper was fairly easy. This is likely to push the cutoffs a little higher this time around.

As given in the notification on the official website, the paper had five sections of Logical Reasoning, Legal Reasoning, Analytical Reasoning, Reading Comprehension and General Knowledge. A total of 150 questions, to be attempted in 150 minutes, were divided equally over the five sections. Each question had 4 options and carried one mark each. There was no negative marking for incorrect attempts. To the amusement of many, two questions (which makes it a total of 4) in the Legal Reasoning were repeated. Many of the questions, particularly in the Legal Aptitude, General Knowledge and Reasoning Sections, are discussed in the LST material almost in a similar manner.

The details of each section are as given below:

Section	No of Question	Suggested time (in minutes)	Good score
Logical Reasoning	30	30	23-25
Legal Reasoning	30	40	23-25
Analytical Reasoning	30	30	22-24
Reading Comprehension	30	35	24-26
General Knowledge	30	12-15	18-20
Total	150	150	110-120

Logical Reasoning
This section consisted of various question types such as Statement Assumption, Statement Conclusion, Strong and Weak Arguments, drawing conclusions from given statements, Analogy, Syllogisms, Implicit Statement, Course of Action and Critical Reasoning. A few questions from Series were also asked in this section. The questions were mostly easy and this section could have been attempted in about 30-35 minutes. A score of around 23-25 can be considered a good score in this section. Legal Reasoning
This section was a combination of questions based on Legal Reasoning and Legal Knowledge. There were around 10-15 questions in which legal principles were provided. About 10-12 questions from Legal Knowledge were also asked. There were also a few questions wherein facts were provided but the related legal principles were missing. This caused a little confusion among the candidates. The dominating area in Legal Reasoning was Contracts (Fraud, Contingent Contract, Mistake, etc.) followed by Criminal Law (Murder, Cheating, etc.) and Constitutional Law (2 questions were based on Art. 14). Questions from the area of Family Law, Intellectual Property or International Law were missing. The questions from Legal knowledge were mostly based on Constitutional law (Polity) and Criminal Law. A score in the range of 23-25 could be considered good.

Analytical Reasoning:
This section too, like Logical Reasoning, was quite easy. Out of the thirty questions asked in this section, a major chunk of the questions were Arrangement based problems. About 3-4 questions each from Coding-Decoding and Puzzles were also asked. There were about 5 questions from Series also in this section. A score in the range of 22-24 can be considered a good score in this section. A few questions from Verbal Logic were also present in this section.

Reading Comprehension
The 30 questions in this section were divided amongst 5 passages. The passages came from a variety of topics. One was an excerpt of Jawaharlal Nehru’s interview, another two were excerpts from Sunday Times. There was also a passage based on a court’s judgment, which the students found a little difficult to comprehend. Most of the questions were direct and could be answered easily with direct reference to the passage. The overall level of questions in this section was easy and an attempt of 24-26 questions can be considered a good attempt.

General Knowledge
Questions in this section can be divided between Static and Current GK. There were around 12-15 questions from static GK and 10-12 questions from current affairs. Areas covered were Geography, Sports, History, Science, National & International events and Constitution. The level of difficulty of this section ranged from easy to moderate. A score of 18-20 in this section could be considered good. The cutoff for the GD-PI round is expected as following

Categories	Cut offs
General	110-120
Scheduled Caste (SC)	50-60
Scheduled Tribes (ST)	40-50
Differently Abled	40-50
Kashmiri Migrants (KM)	80-90
Wards of Defence Personnel	100-110

SET has set the ball rolling for the upcoming exam season on a good note. Students should now look forward to the other major exams and hope for the best.

Disclaimer: All information on cut-offs, analysis, answer key and scores are based on independent analysis and evaluation made by Career Launcher. We do not take responsibility for any decision that might be taken, based on this information.

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Team LST

AILET (NLU Delhi) 2014- Exam Analysis

Overview
Students took a sigh of relief with this year’s AILET sticking to the regular pattern of the paper NLU-D is used to giving. They sailed through the not-so-challenging English Section and General Knowledge Section easily. What really bothered them was the paper’s length. Another thorn in the students’ somewhat smooth journey was the complexity of questions that appeared in the Analytical Reasoning Section.

English
A whiff of cool breeze, the confidence of the students was boosted by this section’s reasonably easy Cloze Passage and questions on Vocabulary and Grammar. RC passage though lengthy was also comprehensible. As befitting a law entrance exam, the subject of the passage was based on law related to murder and felony. Of the 7 questions that followed, majority of them were inference-based. The questions on Synonyms and Antonyms were doable. Unlike previous year, there were a few questions on Word Usage and Foreign Words/Phrases. Questions on Para Jumbles were slightly tricky in nature. The questions that followed the Cloze Passage were a mix of vocabulary and grammar. The overall level of difficulty of this section ranged from easy to moderate. A score of 27-29 can be considered a reasonably good score for this section.

General knowledge
Majority of the questions being based on Current Affairs, this section did not intimidate the students that were abreast with latest news. Talking about current affairs, questions on eminent personalities, sports, awards and honours found an important emphasis. As far as static GK is concerned, questions on Geography ruled the roost. Then there were questions on International Organizations like UNO, UNESCO and EU. A fairly easy section to attempt in comparison with last year’s, a score of 22-25 can be considered a good score.

Legal Aptitude
Like last year, this year’s paper was much on the expected lines. It was more of an aptitude based section with approximately 25 Reasoning based questions and about 10 questions based on Legal Knowledge. Most of the reasoning questions were from area of Torts including the concepts of Vicarious Liability and Strict Liability. The second most-dominating area of this section was Law of Crimes, which comprised questions on theft, murder and criminal conspiracy. A few questions on Contracts and Constitutional Law also featured in this section. It was interesting to note that questions on International Law and Intellectual Property Rights were missing. A majority of knowledge based questions rather pertained to Legal Awareness covering Constitutional Law and Polity. Overall, a score of 26- 28 could be considered a decent score in this section. Considering that so many questions that featured in the paper can be spotted in the LST material, anyone who had practiced the LST material thoroughly would have found it to be a cakewalk.

Reasoning
If there was anything that came as a thunderbolt was this section of the paper. There were questions based on Series, Blood Relations, Directions, etc. The set of questions that the students struggled with big time was related to arrangement of flags. What added fuel to fire was the length of the Critical Reasoning questions. Students could have saved time by not attempting these. The section saw a few questions on Syllogism and Analogy that were doable. A score of 20-22 can be considered a fairly decent one.

Mathematics
This section being similar to last years’ pattern was not a shocker either. With no surprises at all, it covered questions from almost all the topics in Arithmetic. There were some questions based on the fundamental concepts of Number System. A score of 6-8 was attainable.

Expected Cut-off
Except for the Reasoning Section, the paper was moderately easy, therefore the cut offs can be as following (under the respective categories)

Categories	Cut offs
General	100-105
Scheduled Caste (SC)	85-95
Scheduled Tribes (ST)	80-90
Persons with Disability (PWD)	85-95
Kashmiri Migrants (KM)	93-98

Since this exam served as a morale booster for the students, they can now set their focus on CLAT with full enthusiasm and vigour.

Disclaimer: All information on cut-offs, analysis, answer key and scores are based on independent analysis and evaluation made by Career Launcher. We do not take responsibility for any decision that might be taken, based on this information.

All the best
Team CL

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