AILETAll India Law Entrance Test

AILET is the standalone entrance examination of National Law University Delhi, the only NLU that has stayed outside the CLAT consortium. It is held once a year in pen-and-paper OMR mode for admission to NLU Delhi's BA LLB (Hons), one-year LLM, and PhD programmes. Because NLU Delhi consistently ranks among the top two or three law schools in India (second in recent NIRF law rankings), AILET is prized despite serving a single university — the seat pool is small, making it, seat-for-seat, among the most competitive law exams in the country.

The BA LLB paper differs from CLAT in structure: 150 multiple-choice questions across three sections — English, current affairs/GK, and logical reasoning — in two hours, with 0.25 negative marking. Notably, it has no separate legal reasoning or mathematics section; reasoning carries the largest weight, so AILET rewards speed and accuracy across a higher question count than CLAT's 120. There is no upper or lower age limit for any programme, and reserved-category relaxations follow NLU Delhi's published norms (45% general, 42% OBC, 40% SC/ST/PwD at 10+2 for the UG paper).

Most serious NLU aspirants take both CLAT and AILET in the same cycle, since preparation overlaps substantially and NLU Delhi's placement record with top corporate firms rivals NLSIU and NALSAR. Merger of AILET into CLAT has been discussed publicly for years but had not happened as of recent cycles — always confirm the current position and exam calendar on nationallawuniversitydelhi.in.