Students who have a dream to pursue arts and law as an undergraduate course, then i would suggest you a government university which offers an integrated undergraduate course Bachelor of Arts – Bachelor of Legislative Law. Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University offers integrated courses for students who have completed their 10+2.Students need to check which college would be suitable for them according to their location, you can go to the official website of colleges and ask them about the eligibility criteria for BA LLB course. Every university who offers courses has a proper eligibility criteria. Students and parents can check on the website of college and university. Students can get in touch with the admission officer of college and get the information and plan accordingly for enrollment. Earlier IPU CET entrance examination was conducted for Integrated law courses. But now students have to appear for CLAT, Common Law Admission Test. Once the students register and appear for CLAT examination and get the results. The score of the CLAT exam will be applicable to IPU CET.
Eligibility Criteria
Course | Eligibility Criteria | Admission Criteria |
BA LLB | Students should have completed class 12 with minimum 45% marks for General, OBC and Specially abled persons
Students should have completed class 12 with minimum40% marks for SC,ST.
Students should have the English language and passed it.
There is no age limit for enrolling into an integrated BA LLB course according to IPU. |
Students should appear for CLAT UG and should have qualified in CLAT |
Detailed Syllabus of UG CLAT 2022
- English Language
- Current Affairs, including General Knowledge
- Legal Reasoning
- Logical Reasoning
- Quantitative Techniques
English Language
In the English section, students have to read the passages given completed and answer the questions related to the reading comprehension. The passages are long and are about 400 – 500 words. Students can read the passage between 7-10 minutes and check the questions and find the answers according to information provided in passage.To solve the reading comprehension, your vocabulary should be good. There can be any kind of word written in the passage. You need to read every line and understand what it says.
Current Affairs Including General Knowledge
In this section students will have reading comprehension related to news, journalism and nonfiction stories. The passages are long and are about 400 – 500 words. Students can read the passage between 7-10 minutes and check the questions and find the answers according to information provided in passage. Questions would be related to laws which are enforced by the government.
Reading comprehension would be from these topics related to
- Contemporary events
- Arts and culture;
- International affairs; and
- Historical events of continuing significance.
Legal Reasoning
In this section, students read passages which are quite lengthy. So your reading speed should be higher and finding out which option would be right according to the information mentioned. The passages are related to legal matters, public policy questions or moral philosophical enquiries.
Logical Reasoning
In this section there is reading comprehension related to the Logical Reasoning section which includes a series of short reading passages.
Quantitative Techniques
This section has graphs, reading comprehension, facts, pictorial and diagram representations which have numerical information. Students need to work on the solution and find the right answer. Students should use basic 10th formulas and concepts to solve this section.
CLAT Syllabus 2022 – Subjects & Weightage
Section | Questions | Marks |
Current Affairs, including General Knowledge | 35-39 | 35-39 |
English Language | 28-32 | 28-32 |
Logical Reasoning | 28-32 | 28-32 |
Quantitative Techniques | 13-17 | 13-17 |
Legal Reasoning | 35-39 | 35-39 |
Total | 150 | 150 |