With AILET 2027 scheduled for 13 December 2026, an applicant reading this on 27 October has about six and a half weeks before the planned test date. Use the time to practise the actual paper structure and improve decision-making under a two-hour limit, rather than chasing an unverified “expected cutoff.” NLU Delhi’s published B.A. LL.B. paper has 150 multiple-choice questions for 150 marks: 50 English Language, 30 Current Affairs and General Knowledge, and 70 Logical Reasoning. The published marking scheme awards one mark for a correct response and deducts 0.25 for a wrong response. The plan below is practical guidance based on that format, not an official NLU Delhi study schedule or a guarantee of a score.
Start from the paper, not a generic law-exam syllabus
The official examination-details page is the authority for the current structure. It notes that legal principles may appear within Logical Reasoning, but prior knowledge of law is not required. Therefore, preparation should focus on understanding and applying a rule presented in a question, drawing a valid inference, reading accurately and avoiding unsupported assumptions. Spending most of the remaining time memorising legal provisions is not aligned with the published description.
NLU Delhi’s website also provides an official AILET 2024 B.A. LL.B. question booklet. It is a past paper, useful for seeing question style and practising a timed set. It is not evidence that the 2027 paper will repeat its topics, wording, difficulty or distribution beyond the current official pattern. Use the current exam details page for the structure and the paper as a practice resource.
A six-week plan that can flex to your available time
The exam is less than seven weeks away. If you can study daily, divide the time into a baseline, focused practice and timed consolidation. If your school or work commitments allow fewer hours, keep the same sequence and reduce the number of questions rather than skipping review. Consistency and error analysis matter more than copying a fixed timetable that does not fit your day.
Days 1-3: establish a baseline. Attempt a past AILET paper or a representative timed section without pausing to look up answers. Record the time spent and the questions you left, guessed, or changed. Then classify errors: misread passage or question, weak vocabulary or comprehension, missing current-affairs knowledge, faulty inference, rushed calculation of options, or poor time allocation. This gives you a starting map; a single practice score is not a prediction of the actual result.
Weeks 1-2: rebuild each section deliberately. For English, practise close reading, main idea, author’s claim, inference, tone and vocabulary in context using passages and questions. Review why each distractor is wrong, not only why the keyed answer is right. For Current Affairs and General Knowledge, use a consistent daily source and concise notes; revisit them through spaced recall and short quizzes. Since the official outline does not prescribe a fixed list of topics or a recall window, do not treat any coaching institute’s topic list as an official syllabus. For Logical Reasoning, practise arguments, assumptions, conclusions, strengthen/weaken questions, patterns and principle-based applications. State the reasoning step that connects the information in the question to your answer.
Weeks 3-4: work under time pressure. Complete section-wise timed sets and then mixed sets. Check whether you are spending too long on one passage or puzzle, and practise moving on when a question is consuming time without progress. Because Logical Reasoning carries 70 of the 150 questions in the published structure, it deserves substantial practice, but do not ignore the other 80 questions. For every set, log attempted, correct, incorrect and unattempted answers. With a 0.25 penalty for an incorrect answer, compare the value of an answer supported by reasoning with a blind guess; do not let the penalty lead you to leave every uncertain item blank automatically.
Final 10-12 days: simulate and consolidate. Take full-length practice papers in one sitting, close to the announced 2 p.m.-4 p.m. exam slot where your routine permits. Use an OMR-style response sheet for at least some practice because the current examination is offline OMR. Practise filling one response at a time and checking that the marked choice corresponds to the question number. Review your mistakes the same day or next day, and revise current-affairs notes already collected. Avoid introducing large new material at the last moment if it crowds out sleep, logistics and review.
A simple way to use a two-hour mock
The university publishes the duration but does not prescribe a section order or time split. A student can test a personal allocation in mocks rather than treating any suggested split as official. For example, a starting experiment could reserve roughly 35-40 minutes for English, 20-25 for current affairs and GK, 55-60 for Logical Reasoning, and a few minutes to review the OMR sheet. Change this split if your own timed work shows a better approach. The point is to practise finishing without sacrificing accuracy in a section simply because it comes last.
After each mock, calculate your score under the published marking rule: one mark per correct response and minus 0.25 per incorrect response. Track accuracy and time by section as well as the total. A rising score is useful feedback, but papers differ and practice conditions are not identical to the live exam. Do not convert a mock score into a promised rank or admission chance.
Make current affairs revision sustainable
The official structure identifies Current Affairs and General Knowledge as a 30-question section, but the current page does not establish a complete topic list or an exact look-back period. Build a dependable routine instead of accumulating unread material: follow one credible daily news source, make short notes on events and their context, and revisit the notes every few days. Practise retrieving facts from memory without looking. Include national and international developments, public institutions, legal and constitutional developments, awards, sports, science and major reports where they appear in your chosen source, but regard this as a study method, not a university-issued syllabus checklist.
Keep preparation connected to exam-day details
The planned exam is 13 December 2026, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., in offline OMR mode. The admit card is scheduled from 30 November 2026 according to NLU Delhi’s FAQ. When it becomes available, read its instructions for reporting time, permitted items, identity documents and centre details; those operational details should come from the card, not from a past candidate’s social post. Check the official site for changes to the examination schedule. Do not make travel or test-day decisions based on an unverified centre prediction.
A weekly review checklist
At the end of each week, ask: Did I complete timed work in all three sections? Which errors repeated? Did my current-affairs notes get revised? Am I reading the full question before deciding? Did I mark practice answers accurately on the response sheet? What one adjustment will I test in the next mock? This short review keeps the plan tied to evidence from your own practice rather than an abstract hours target.
AILET preparation is individual. Use the official pattern to guide practice, adapt the time split to your performance and keep the distinction clear between a past paper, an official rule and a preparation recommendation. No timetable can guarantee admission; the final outcome also depends on the exam and the official admission process.