AILET 2024 Analysis

AILET 2024 was conducted today by NLU Delhi across the country in the paper & pencil mode. The paper, as announced, had 150 questions to be solved in two hours. . The pattern, however, was not of that of AILET 23. After surprising students with a unique type of questions in 2023 where the passages had questions on English, Logical Reasoning, Legal Reasoning and Quant as well, AILET went back to the traditional question types seen in the papers of earlier years - different data/information for questions in different sections.

The difficulty level, and overall pattern is as below.

Section	No. of Questions	Difficulty Level
English	50	Moderate
Current Affairs and General Knowledge	30	Moderate
Logical Reasoning	70	Moderate
Total	150	Moderate

The level of difficulty was on the lower side, compared to that of the last year and the year before. That the paper did not have questions of the kind seen last year has been a relief to students as they would now be handling relatively familiar question types. The time increase of 30 min also contributed to make the students feel that this year’s paper was more solvable than the last year’s.

Here’s the section wise analysis of AILET 2024

English

There were seven passages in the English section as against 10 passages in AILET '23. There were 50 questions in all. The passages were easy to moderate in terms of readability. The questions were mostly easy, with options that could be easily eliminated. An interesting observation is that the passages were similar to this year's CLAT passages in terms of content, language and length.

The first passage on Linguistics was moderate in difficulty - students who are not familiar with subjects such as philosophy and sociology would have taken a little longer to read this passage. However, the questions, which involved inference, contextual meaning of words and application of concepts from the passage, were fairly easy. (6 questions)

The second passage on External Validation through Accolades was also a moderate read in terms of length and difficulty. There were a few critical reasoning questions, a question on grammar and a few on vocabulary.(10 questions)

The third passage was an excerpt from a writer's article on Perfectionism and Creative Writing. This passage was easy to read and had mostly direct questions. There was one question which involved identifying the correct sequence of events that led to a particular consequence. (6 questions)

The fourth passage was on mental health in colleges - an easy read because of the familiar theme. The questions were mostly inference and application based, and the options were easy to eliminate. (5 questions)

The fifth passage was on the application of Virtual Reality in Medical Education. While the passage was easy, there were 10 questions including questions on critical reasoning, grammar, vocabulary, inference etc. The number and variety of questions may have been a bit daunting for relatively slow readers. (10 questions).

The sixth passage was a very short read on electric vehicles, and the questions were mostly direct and detail-based. This was undoubtedly the easiest passage in the paper. (7 questions)

The last passage on Community was also very brief and had 5 questions based on specific details and vocabulary (5 questions).

Overall, the section was easy and good students would have been able to attempt around 40 questions correctly.

General Knowledge

The General knowledge section had 30 questions with a mix of current and static questions. The questions were slightly predictable and not unique or experimental. More than a thrd of the questions were on international affairs.

Almost all major areas were covered with the following distribution.

Sports: 1 Question on IPL

Science: 4 Questions

Geography: 1 Question

International Affairs: 12 Questions

Economics: 3 Questions

Business: 2 Questions

Awards: 3 Questions

Personalities: 2 Questions

Miscellaneous: 2 Questions

These were questions that most candidates could’ve attempted had they been reading mainstream newspapers and articles on regular basis, covering topics like G20, COP26, Russia Ukraine conflict, Kavach system, Statute of Unity.

Topics from Economics included basic knowledge of concepts like GDP and CRR. Questions on Science were slightly difficult, while traditional questions like the First woman judge of the Supreme Court, longest river in India made this section quite doable.

Overall, out of 30 questions, 22+ could’ve easily been attempted with good accuracy by the well-prepared student.

Logical Reasoning

This section had 70 Questions which included questions from Critical reasoning, Analytical reasoning and Legal reasoning. There were no questions testing Quantitative aptitude.

There were 33 Critical Reasoning questions from the Logical Reasoning area, which required students to have good language comprehension/reasoning and analysis abilities. However, the questions were quite predictable – they were similar to those see in the AILETs of the previous years – and there were no surprises in terms of difficulty level/question types.

Each question was based on a short passage. The students were required to identify the assumptions, inferences, conclusions, strengthening statements etc. While most of the questions were easy, especially the ones on assumptions, some questions had two close options which made them tricky. The secret lay in identifying and attempting the easy questions, and not lingering too long on the confusing questions.

A good student would have been able to attempt around 20 questions out of 33 in this section.

Under the heading of Logical Reasoning, there were only 10 questions that dealt with Legal concepts. Eight questions were direct application of the given principle. Principles given included topics like Criminal Trespass, Vicarious liability, Jurisdiction etc. The other two questions were Legal based but simple reasoning ability was sufficient to answer these questions. There were 4 principle-based questions on the concept of Vicarious liability had three given principles that had to be commonly applied for all the four questions.

These 10 legal based questions could’ve secured 7+ marks for a well-prepared student.

Under what can be categorized as Analytical Reasoning, there were 23 questions that included 13 questions on Deductions, 6 questions on Puzzles, 2 Questions on Coding and 2 questions on Analogies.

All Deductions questions were of the same type seen in AILET 22. Every puzzle had multiple possibilities. These are to be answered from answer choices by checking whether the given clues are satisfied or not. Instead of attempting to solve the puzzle, students should instead try to choose the answer choice that satisfies all the given conditions as this could et them to the answer faster.

Overall, this section was also of moderate level and a score of 55+ out of 70 can be considered a good score.

To summarise, AILET 2024 was of Moderate level of difficulty and is expected to have a higher cut off than AILET 2023. A score of 100+ could be considered for admission into NLU Delhi, for the General category.