AILET 2020 Syllabus (B.A.LLB & LLM): Important Topics and Books

Updated On - January 21st, 2020

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AILET Syllabus: National Law University, Delhi does not release an official syllabus for the law entrance exam. However, on the basis of previous year question papers and CLAT syllabus, we at Collegedunia have curated the syllabus for BA LLB, LLM and Ph.D. programs.

AILET 2020 is scheduled for May 3, 2020 in offline (Pen-paper) mode. Being the top most law entrance exam in India aspirants must be well versed with its syllabus to prepare well. Listed below is a brief of AILET Syllabus:

AILET Syllabus for B.A.LLB program will cover topics from English including Comprehension, General Knowledge & Current Affairs, Elementary Mathematics, Legal Aptitude, and Logical Reasoning.
AILET Syllabus for LLM program will cover topics from Law of Contracts, Law of Torts, Criminal Law, Constitutional Law, and Legal Theory.
AILET Syllabus for PhD program consist of Research Methodology and Legal Research Aptitude.

AILET 2020 B.A.LLB Syllabus

AILET Syllabus for BA LLB course covers the following sections-

English,
General Knowledge,
Legal Aptitude,
Reasoning and
Elementary Mathematics

Candidates have to attempt 35 questions in each of the first four sections and 10 question in the last section.

AILET Syllabus for English

English section tests a candidate aptitude in English language in terms of Grammar, Vocabulary, and Comprehension. The four major groups under this section are as follows:

Reading Comprehension: Passages focused on topics like Intro. duction to Law, International Law, Social Issues, Administrative Law, Criminal Law etc. The questions are theme based.
Grammar: Fill in the Blanks, Identification of Part of Speech, Sentence Correction etc.
Vocabulary: Error Spotting, Cloze Test, Synonyms etc.
Verbal Ability: Para Jumbles, Critical Reasoning, Summary Writing etc.

Chapter	Topics
English Vocabulary	Synonyms, Antonyms, Homonyms, Word definitions, Analogies
English Proficiency	Idioms and Phrases, One-word substitution, Sentence improvement & rearrangement, Fill in the blanks with suitable words, Subject-Verb Agreement, Conditionals, Noun, Pronoun, Articles & Conjunction, Adjective and Determinants
English Usage Errors	Grammatical errors- tense, voice, preposition usage, speech errors, Correct Spelling, Spotting errors, Inappropriate usage of words
English Comprehension	On the basis of the passage provided, various questions will be asked. It is advisable to first go through the questions first and then read the passage. Doing this will help them to point out the answers and gather information relating to the questions.

AILET Preparation Books for English

AILET Books	Author/ Publisher
High School English Grammar and Composition Key	Wren and Martin
Word Power Made Easy	Norman Lewis
A Modern Approach to Verbal & Non-Verbal Reasoning	R.S. Aggarwal

AILET Syllabus for Mathematics

AILET Syllabus for Elementary Mathematics

Through this section, the examination gauges the fundamental arithmetic skills of candidates.
AILET contains 20 questions from this section.
It includes both the basic mathematical concepts and certain modern mathematical concepts.
The questions will be asked mostly from the class 10^th Mathematics. Hence, the level of questions will be easy to moderate.
Make sure to brush up all the basic formulas and concepts of Class 10^th and 12^th.

Here are the most important topics for Elementary Mathematics in AILET:

Important Topics
Number System	Algebra
Percentage	Geometry
Profit and Loss	Height and Distance

Elementary Mathematics Important Topics

Chapter	Topics
Mensuration	Areas, Volumes
Commercial Mathematics	Interest, Profit, loss and Discounts, Percentage, Partnership
Modern Mathematics	Permutation & Combination Probability, Clocks & Calendars
Data Interpretation	Graphs, Charts
Arithmetic	Number system, H.C.F and L.C.M, Logarithms and, Functions, Fractions and decimals, Roots and Indices, Simplification, Ratio and proportions, Time and work, Average

AILET Preparation Books for Mathematics

AILET Books	Author/ Publisher
Universal's Elementary Mathematics (Numeral Ability)	Jain Prateek
Mathematics for CLAT & AILET	LAWGICIANS
Mathematics for CLAT	Shailesh Kumar

AILET Syllabus for G.K

AILET Syllabus for General Knowledge and Current Affairs

This section will test the knowledge of general awareness including static GK.
Apart from GK, questions will also cover the recent topics and current affairs broadly featuring between January 2020 and April 2020.
This section in AILET covers a vast range of topics. A total of 50 questions will come from this section.

Here is AILET Syllabus GK section:

AILET Syllabus for GK
Politics	Ancient, Medieval, Modern and World History
Geography	Economics (Outline of Indian Economy, Five Year Plans, National Income of India, Indian Tax Structure)
Science and technology	Environment & Ecology
General Science	National & International Burning topics
Books and Authors	Environment
Industries	Major Industries in India
Agriculture	Awards and Achievements

AILET Preparation Books for GK

AILET Book	Author/ Publisher
Manorama Yearbook 2017	Mammen Mathew
Current Affairs Yearly 2017	Arihant Experts
General Knowledge 2017: Latest Current Affairs & Who's Who	RPH Editorial Board

AILET Syllabus for Reasoning

AILET Syllabus for Logical Reasoning

This section is devised to evaluate a candidate’s ability to analytically comprehend different aspects of a situation or scenario and logically derive solutions.
The section will also cover a variety of logical aptitude questions including syllogism, logical sequences, analogies, etc. However, the logical reasoning section will not have visual reasoning questions.
A total of 40 questions is asked from this section.

AILET Syllabus for Logical Reasoning
Statement & Assumptions	Statement & Conclusions
Statement & Arguments	Statement & actions
Assertion – Reason	Syllogism
Number test	Direction and distance test
Coding and Decoding	Blood Relationships
Ranking	Analogy

AILET Preparation Books for Logical Reasoning

AILET Books	Author/ Publisher
Universal's Logical Reasoning for CLAT, LSAT and other Law Entrance Exams	Jain Prateek
Analytical Reasoning	M. K. Pandey
Logical Reasoning	R K Gupta and Samiksha Gupta

AILET Syllabus for Legal Aptitude

This section primarily focuses on the legal aptitude of candidates.
The questions are framed as legal propositions having a set of facts that satisfies the propositions.
One has to analyze suitable proposition and answer questions based on the given set of facts. They will have to apply their legal aptitude in order to solve the problems.
This section covers 50 questions out of the total 200 questions in AILET.

AILET Syllabus for Legal Aptitude
Indian Constitution	Indian Penal Code
Indian Contract Act	Family Law
Law of Torts	Legal fundamentals and terms
Legal Maxims	Important Landmarks, Supreme Court Judgements

AILET Preparation Books for Legal Aptitude Section

AILET Books	Author/ Publisher
Legal Aptitude for the AILET and other Law Entrance Examinations	Bhardwaj
Legal Awareness Legal Reasoning	Bhardwaj
Legal Aptitude	RK Gupta

*The article might have information for the previous academic years, which will be updated soon subject to the notification issued by the University/College

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