B.A.LL.B.(Hons.): AIL LET Pattern and Syllabus
The B.A.LL.B.(Hons.) stream is the five-year integrated programme at AIL; the AIL LET paper is an objective test of readiness for legal study rather than a test of memorised statutes. Its syllabus normally combines English, general knowledge and current affairs, legal aptitude, logical reasoning, and elementary mathematics.
What each section rewards
- English: comprehension, grammar, vocabulary, sentence correction, and inference from a passage.
- General knowledge: static polity, history, geography, economy, and current legal and public affairs.
- Legal aptitude: principle–fact application, legal maxims, and basic constitutional ideas; the answer must follow the stated principle.
- Reasoning: syllogisms, blood relations, seating, series, assumptions, and strengthen/weaken questions.
- Mathematics: Class X arithmetic-ratio, percentage, average, profit and loss, time and work.
Worked example
Principle: A person who keeps a dangerous substance on land and fails to take reasonable care is liable for harm caused by its escape. Facts: A factory stores acid in a rusted tank; acid leaks onto a neighbour’s field and destroys the crop. Reasoning: The factory owed a duty to the neighbour; the rusted tank shows a failure of reasonable care; the escape caused the crop damage. The correct answer is liability. Do not replace the given principle with “absolute liability” unless the facts mention a hazardous industry and the statutory rule.
Traps that cost marks
Treating a moral wrong as a legal liability; ignoring the exact wording of the principle; importing outside law into a principle–fact question; converting “some” into “all” in syllogisms; spending too long on one mathematics item.