B.Com.LL.B.(Hons.): AIL LET Pattern and Syllabus
The B.Com.LL.B.(Hons.) stream integrates commerce and law; AIL LET uses the same broad entrance structure as the B.A.LL.B. stream, but the programme’s commerce orientation makes quantitative and commercial-awareness questions especially relevant. Expect English, general knowledge, legal aptitude, reasoning, and elementary mathematics, with data interpretation and commercial arithmetic appearing in the quantitative part.
Core areas
- Commercial arithmetic: percentage, profit and loss, simple and compound interest, ratio, average, and discount.
- Data interpretation: tables, bar charts, and caselets on turnover, cost, or market share.
- Legal aptitude: contract, sale of goods, negotiable instruments, and consumer-protection basics, tested through principle–fact questions.
- English and reasoning: as in the general paper; accuracy matters more than speed on multi-step sums.
- Commerce awareness: basic accounting terms, forms of business organisation, and current economic policy.
Worked example
A trader marks a shirt at ₹1,000, allows a 20% discount, and still makes a 25% profit on cost. What is the cost price? Reasoning: Selling price = 1,000 × 0.80 = ₹800. If ₹800 is 125% of cost, cost = 800 ÷ 1.25 = ₹640. Check: profit = ₹160, which is 25% of ₹640. A common wrong answer, ₹750, comes from applying the discount to cost or treating profit as 20%.
Traps that cost marks
Computing discount on cost instead of marked price; confusing markup with margin; applying compound interest when the question says simple interest; in legal aptitude, confusing a sale with an agreement to sell; ignoring “of” and “more than” in percentage wording.