A season of disappointing law school entrances came to an end with NLUO’s entrance, and unlike all the others, this was a paper that somehow lived up to its reputation of being a paper of sustained quality. In the last two years, the paper has had one drawback – which is, that it is a lengthy paper, and a paper of a level of difficulty that borders on ‘impossibility’, however, this time, that one problem was rectified.
The paper broadly follows the same pattern as CLAT, with 200 marks for 200 questions. From the reviews that we’ve got from students, most of them were satisfied on both counts: quality and length.
Legal Reasoning
There were 15 standard legal reasoning questions, of reasonable length and moderate to easy difficulty. The section also consisted of, interestingly, exercises of Legal Assertion and Reasoning – this tested students on understanding of basic law, reasoning and also basic legal knowledge.
There were also a lot of Legal GK questions, and a few that CG has decided to classify as “Legal Understanding” questions pertaining to fraud/misrepresentation, standing up during the national anthem, etc – and you had to conclude accordingly what the answer could be.
Serving three of the most important purposes (testing knowledge, reasoning and understanding capabilities), without wasting the student’s time – this section should get full marks for presence of mind and creativity.
General Knowledge
NLU-O has never had a reputation with respect to General Knowledge, the papers have always tested the students on knowledge of the mundane and irrelevant. While there were a lot of relevant Current Affairs (mostly drawn from 2011) there were a lot more of irrelevant questions, and surprisingly, A LOT of Static General Knowledge. And in my opinion, most of it was terribly misplaced (China’s plan to link Tibet to a certain city, evolution of species, really?) However, over all the difficulty level was a notch lower than the previous papers, but still, students who’d kept CLAT in mind and prepared, would’ve had problems.
English
More than just satisfactory, in smaller sub-sections, this part of the paper tested the students on almost everything – from routine stuff (reading comprehensions, sentence correction, appropriate words, Contextual vocabulary paraphrasing, similar pairs, odd word out) to something very, very interesting where we’d to choose the “most appropriate summary”. Anyone with a good reasoning capability and basic knowledge of the language could have easily aced it. Again, questions were of a very good quality and nothing unreasonable turned up.
Logical Reasoning
Logical Reasoning was completely dominated by Analytical Reasoning. However, the ‘CR’ aspect was pretty well, balanced by the English section as well as the residue of the reasoning questions.
Math
Was the most difficult of the set, evidently. Had a few data interpretation questions, mixtures, and the like. Looks like NLU-O fell in love with Analytical Reasoning this summer, with the subject dominating, both reasoning and the Mathematics section.
Final Comments
Overall the paper was a breeze in this summer of terrible Law Entrances. However, this is psychology playing in our heads, since the others were either too easy, lengthy or unreasonable – this looked much better. Objectively speaking, this was a good paper only in parts, the GK being very disappointing. The paper needs to move away from its paradigm of assuming that irrelevant questions could naturally be equated to a higher level of difficulty.
However, introducing newer exercises and reasonably balancing difficulty was a very good decision. Another good aspect was the fact that this paper was thematically coherent and uniform – in the sense that certain essentials of a students’ aptitude were recognized and they were sought to be tested throughout the paper, viz. understanding and reasoning capabilities.
This paper is exactly what law entrances should be (with a major exception being GK) – a test of aptitude, a test to know whether you have it in you to be a lawyer or not. Coaching or no coaching you’d have done well if you had the stuff.
All the best!
Signing Off for the last time!
Aymen Mohammed.
CG
For the GK questions asked in the paper, click here
absolutely agree…gk was weird..seriously..!!
what would be the possible cut-off according to you
ya plz tell what would be the possible cut off…….and plz tell what was the cut off last year
If got 105+ , then you could have got in the first merit list.
Otherwise through waiting list , 95 was a sufficient score to get in .
But Mind you , NLUO is not the kind of university one should keep amongst its priority college .
You might just want to keep it as your last resort and you don t want to drop.
*if you dont
I dont agree with you. It looks promising. It wont be right to reject it outright. It has shown promise and we should promote it. If we start discarding places for their location, IIT Kharagpur would never be what it is today. Rana, dont discourage people. Get a life.
There was this one question in LR in which two options were same and that was the correct answer also
at the mid of test ,odisha’s official person clarified option d as none of these.
we were not informed abt the change and I marked D 🙁
fully satisfied with the paper. It was ditto as i expected. Maths was difficult but if one had patience and some extra leviage of time , it was do-able . And Logical was lenghty and those “false-true” statements were just too much for me atleast 😀
Yeah. The Kya Kya island thing right? Very annoying. :/
It went superb. But the problem is I can’t stand Orissa for 5 years.
Bah.
I made a proper attempt of 165-170 questions. May be because I was worn out from travelling half the city and having already taken one exam in the morning (IP).
Maths: tough.
Gk: strange.
Rest: phenomenal.
The pick of the entrances this year would be SET and NLUO, in my op. And somewhat clat if you ignore the english section.
Btw, I found at least 4-5 vital misspellings or missing words in the questions. Anyone else did as well?
Yes. I did. Damn us people with excellent, impeccable english. =P
Just in case anyone raises eyebrows over this comment of mine, it was a satire. Laugh, please.
Lol. The language of the Bard of Avon has seen better days indeed.
I did too. But they were seriously dwarfed by the blunders that were in the IP paper! 😛
So did I!!! I got seriously irritated too!
Ya ip reasoning was dam gud ,Better dan symbi one. Only problem was negative marking so i left most of de questions- gk nd legal aptitude was a joke played on us, english was again easy except vocabo .. Are u guys from delhi region or outside delhi
The English section was mostly from a CAT book…
can nybody tell me about the placement in army ins. of law??