All India Law Entrance Test (AILET) 2012 results were declared on Friday, May 18, 2012 at 4 p.m.by National Law University (NLU), Delhi. This highly competitive national law entrance examination to get admission into NLU, Delhi was conducted in various cities including Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chandigarh, Chennai, Cochin, Delhi, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Jammu, Mumbai, Kolkata, Lucknow and Patna on May 6, 2012.
The examination was conducted for admissions into the undergraduate and post graduate courses in law offered by NLU, Delhi for the session commencing from August, 2012. The roll number wise results have been declared on the website which shows the First Merit List and Waiting list of provisionally selected candidates in General, scheduled caste (SC), scheduled tribe (ST), Persons with Disabilities (PWD) and Kashmiri Migrant Categories. The category wise merit list of candidates qualified in AILET-2012 (with 60 and above marks in General, PWD and Kashmiri Migrants category and 45 and above in SC, ST category) and the not qualified candidates (less than 60 marks in General, PWD and Kashmiri Migrants category and 45 marks in SC, ST category) have been declared there.
The cut off for General Category is at 99 marks. The results were declared on the NLU website and Ashwij S Ramaiah from Karnataka topped the entrance by scoring 113 marks followed by Sarthak Gupta, Anwesha Choudhury and Gaganjyot Singh with 108 marks each. The candidates of General Category who have cracked this prestigious entrance test have scored between 113 and 99 marks. The admitted SC reservation marks for 11 candidates ranged from 97 to 82, while five candidates gaining admission from the ST reservation have scored between 80 and 78 marks. Also, the selected candidates of PWD Category have scored 92 and 91 marks and one candidate of Kashmiri Migrants Category who has made through NLU Delhi has scored 81 marks.
There were 10,543 students all across the country vying for those coveted 70 seats in NLU, Delhi. Out of 70 seats, 52 seats are for admission in General category, 11 seats in SC category, 5 seats in ST category, 2 in PWD category, 1 seat is (over and above the 70 seats) reserved for the Kashmiri Migrants category, and 10 seats are under Foreign National Category for admission on merit whose results will be declared later by NLU Delhi.
The 1 hour 30 minutes long examination consisted of 150 multiple choice objective type questions that had English, General Knowledge, Legal Aptitude, Logical Reasoning and Elementary Mathematics sections. The Postgraduate course and Ph.D. results will be declared in the first week of July, 2012. The question booklet and answers key will be available at the University website from today May 21, 2012. This year AILET created a lot of controversy when the students said they found a lot of surprises in the paper. The AILET 2012 results can be downloaded here.