MH CET LawMaharashtra Common Entrance Test for Law

MH CET Law is Maharashtra's state entrance examination for law, conducted by the State Common Entrance Test Cell as two separate papers each year: one for five-year integrated LLB admission after Class 12, and one for three-year LLB admission after graduation. Both are online computer-based tests of 120 questions in two hours with one mark per question and no negative marking, available in English and Marathi. The five-year paper adds a small basic-mathematics component to the four common areas of legal aptitude, GK/current affairs, logical reasoning and English.

The exam's significance lies in the institutions it unlocks. Maharashtra hosts some of India's most storied law colleges — Government Law College Mumbai (established 1855, among Asia's oldest) and ILS Law College Pune foremost among them — where the combination of heritage, alumni networks in the Bombay Bar, and very low government-college fees makes MH CET Law seats exceptionally good value. Proximity to Mumbai's courts, law firms and corporate legal departments gives students practical exposure that few other cities can match.

Admission after the exam runs through Maharashtra's Centralised Admission Process (CAP): candidates register, submit documents, file college preference lists, and receive seat allotments over multiple rounds, with a fraction of seats filled institutionally. Candidates from outside Maharashtra can appear, though state-domicile reservation policies shape the effective seat pool. Notifications, the syllabus and marking scheme, and CAP schedules are published on cetcell.mahacet.org, which should be treated as the sole authoritative source for each cycle.