LSAT Law School Admission Test
Law · UG / PG · All India
Overview
Eligibility
LSAT—India is administered by the Law School Admission Council and is accepted by a number of private law schools in India.
- Undergraduate programmes: class 12 or an equivalent. The minimum percentage, where one applies, is set by the law school rather than by the test.
- Postgraduate programmes: an LL.B. or an equivalent.
- Age and attempts: neither is limited by the test.
Registering for LSAT—India is not an application to any college. Each participating school is applied to separately, and the score is then sent to the schools you nominate.
Exam Pattern
Syllabus
Analytical Reasoning
35%Logic Games, Grouping & Sequencing, Conditional Reasoning, Deductive Logic, Pattern Identification
Logical Reasoning
45%Arguments, Assumptions, Strengthen & Weaken, Cause & Effect, Critical Reasoning, Inference
Reading Comprehension
20%Passage-based Questions, Main Idea, Tone & Purpose, Vocabulary in Context, Fact-based & Inference Questions
How to Apply
The application is an online form on the official LSAT—India website. Everything below is done in one sitting or saved and returned to; nothing is done on paper.
Register
Create an account on the official LSAT—India website with an email address and mobile number you will still have months from now -- every notice, the admit card and the result reach you there. A registration number is issued; keep it.
Fill the form
Personal details, academic record from class 10 onwards, category, and work experience where it applies. The academic figures must match your marksheets exactly, because they are verified later against the originals.
Choose test cities
LSAT—India is sat online under remote proctoring, so there is no centre to choose. What you do need is a quiet room, a working camera and a stable connection, all checked in advance through the system readiness test.
Upload photograph and signature
Both have to meet the format, size and background stated in the notification. A rejected upload is the most common reason a form is left incomplete past the deadline.
Pay the fee
Online, through the official portal only. The amount is set afresh in each year’s notification and is lower for SC, ST and PwD candidates. Keep the payment receipt.
Submit, then check
Registering for the test is not an application to any law school. Each participating school is applied to separately, and you nominate the schools your score is reported to.
Apply only through the official portal. No agent can register you, and nobody can change a score once it is declared.
Selection Process
LSAT is unlike the other Indian law entrances in one important way: it tests no knowledge at all. There is no current affairs section and no legal awareness section. Everything needed to answer a question is in the question.
- Analytical Reasoning gives a set of conditions and asks what must follow. It rewards diagramming, and it is the section most improved by practice.
- Logical Reasoning, in two sections, works on short arguments — finding the assumption, the flaw, what would strengthen or weaken.
- There is no negative marking, so nothing should be left unanswered.
- The score is a percentile. Each participating law school applies its own cut-off and runs its own process.
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