Differences Between CLAT and AILET

AILET and CLAT both are the two most sought-after law entrance exams of the country. Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) is a national level exam offering admission to 3-year & 5-year Integrated LLB and LLM programs offered by National Law Universities (except NLU Delhi), conducted on a rotational basis by 22 National NLUs whereas All India Law Entrance Test (AILET) is a university-level entrance test used for admissions at NLU Delhi for admission to Undergraduate (UG), Postgraduate (PG) and PhD-level law courses.

• CLAT Exam offers admission to 22 National Universities and 52 private colleges that participate in this test, while AILET has only one participating institution, and that is National Law University (NLU), Delhi, along with a few other colleges that accept AILET Score.
• AILET provides a handful of 73 seats for the LLB programs, while 20 seats for the LLM scheme, on the other hand, CLAT has 21 NLUs providing 2,420 seats.
• AILET for UG courses is a one-hour examination of 150 marks with 150 questions, CLAT for UG is a two-hour examination of 200 marks with 200 questions.
• Approximately 50,000 students participate in CLAT for about 2,500 seats, whereas more than 18,000 students participate in the AILET exam.

Differences between CLAT and AILET

CLAT vs AILET Nature of Exams

Important Differences between nature of CLAT and AILET are listed below:

Exam Pattern 

Examination patterns are also different for both exams, too. The variations shall be as follows:

Section-wise Weightage of Questions 

The Section-wise Weightage of Questions are also different for both exams, too. The variations shall be as follows:

CLAT vs AILET Competition level 

This is another determining factor that can have a huge effect on the decision to take either of these exams.The level of competitiveness in both the tests is also substantially different.

• In CLAT, around 60,000 students appear for almost 3200 seats in all the National Universities under it, so the success rate in CLAT is about 5%.
• AILET has about 180 seats for undergraduate and postgraduate courses, and more than 19,000 students will take part in this examination. That indicates that the success rate is about 1%.

This clearly shows that the level of competition for AILET is immense. Therefore, if you appear for each of the tests, you are 5 times more likely to get a seat under CLAT than AILET.

Difficulty Level of CLAT vs AILET

As mentioned above due to low success rate AILET is obviously tougher than CLAT.

• In CLAT, only General Knowledge and Legal Aptitude will earn you half of the maximum marks, but this is not the case in AILET.
• In AILET, the time allocated to each problem is much less than the time allocated per question in CLAT. 

We have also seen the success levels of both papers, and statistics actually suggest that AILET is much more difficult than CLAT. In this amazing field of law , both the exams offer great opportunities. Provided that the syllabus is the same, it is better to go for both of them.

As AILET is scheduled to take place before CLAT, the applicant will obtain the actual exam experience prior to CLAT. This would mean that the candidate gets more confidence, which is more likely than AILET to get him a seat.