Demand and Supply – How to get Hold of Previous Years Papers?

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One of the Major questions being asked by almost all the visitors on our site is how to get hold of the previous years question papers. And as far as papers are concerned, It is advised that you do all the NLSIU – Bangalore, NALSAR – Hyderabad, WBNUJS – Kolkata  and NLU – Delhi question papers.

1. For NLSIU, Bangalore papers:

The past 20 years’ NLSIU question papers (1988 – 2007) and CLAT 2008-2010 papers are available for the price of Rs.950/-. The payment can be made by Demand Draft in favour of “NLSIU” payable at Bangalore. Prices are inclusive of delivery charges. The draft can be sent to the address given below.

The Registrar,
National Law School of India University,
P.O. Bag 7201, Nagarbhavi,
Bangalore – 560 242 .

2. For NALSAR, Hyderabad papers:

The past 13 years’ question papers including the 2007 paper are available for Rs. 650/- by post. The payment can be made by DD in favour of “Registrar, NALSAR University of Law” payable at Hyderabad to the address given below.

The Registrar,
NALSAR University of Law,
3-5-874/18, Adjacent to Apollo Hospital,
Hyderguda, Hyderabad – 500 029.

3. For WBNUJS papers:

The last 7 years question papers (2000 – 2007) including the 2007 paper can be availed of by sending a demand draft of Rs.450. The demand draft must be in favour of “WB NUJS, Kolkata” payable at Kolkata. This request along with the payment can be sent to

The Registrar,
The West Bengal National University Of Juridical Sciences (NUJS),
NUJS Bhavan,
12, LB-Block, Sector-III,
Salt Lake, Kolkata – 700 098.

4. For NLU – Delhi papers:

The last 3 years question papers (2008 – 2010) can be availed of by sending a demand draft of Rs.550. The demand draft must be in favour of “NLU Delhi” payable at New Delhi. The DD along with a letter which has your address can be sent to :

National Law University – Delhi,
Sector 14, Dwarka,
New Delhi – 110078

5. For NLU – Orissa papers:

The last 2 years question papers (2009 & 2010) can be availed of by sending a demand draft of Rs.500. The demand draft must be in favour of “Registrar, NLU Orissa” payable at Cuttack. The DD along with a letter which has your address should be sent to :

Registrar,
National Law University – Orissa,
C.B.- 8, Cantonment Road,
Cuttack,
ORISSA – 753001.

Alright guys I hope this information suffices and answers all your questions.

As far as preparations with respect to papers go, Personally, I had not touched the GK section as the current GK would be of that year and no use to you. You can practice all the other sections from these papers. I would strongly advise you to solve the Logical reasoning sections of these papers. Also in the earlier papers there were subjective questions which will not be a part of your CLAT so you need not solve them.

It goes without saying that you have to pay attention to the NUJS past years’ papers because they will be setting your CLAT 2011 paper. It might just help you to get used to their pattern of questions.

Well that’s about it. If there are any more questions please don’t hesitate to post questions to ClatGyan. We are always there to help you.

Thank you,
Nishant Prasad

The following notes form the opinion of our CLATGyan GK Editor Aymen Mohammed:
[Note 1: While Nishant has spoken about how the GK section in these papers will be of no use. I disagree, it is my suggestion that you guys solve the GK section as well, especially of CLAT 2008 because, only when you go through these questions will you learn what you “ought to” read and what you are reading.

Note 2: And if you find the whole exercise of past years’ papers to be too expensive, as I did, it would be my suggestion that you only concentrate on a combination of any two of the papers, ideally NLSIU and NALSAR. It is paramount, however, that you get a hand of what sort of questions are asked]

[Thanks to Vishaal who gave us the details of NLU Delhi and NLU Orissa]

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50 COMMENTS

  1. ive the papers with me………..wondering whether the keys can be put up 4 the same, or a source from where the answers can be reffered to.im sure it’s a tedious task,bt if possible please 🙂

  5. As additional information, those who wanted to buy the NLU-D papers (2008-2010) may send a draft of Rs. 550/- in favour of “NLU Delhi” to their address :
    National Law University
    Sector 14, Dwarka
    New Delhi, Delhi 110078

    🙂

  6. Also if interested, NLU-Orissa Papers (2009 & 2010) can be purchased for Rs. 500/- by sending a DD in favour of “Registrar, NLU Orissa” to:
    C.B.- 8, CANTONMENT ROAD, CUTTACK,
    ORISSA, PIN – 753001, INDIA.

    🙂

    • Thanks for mentioning it. It is my suggestion that, if you guys have the money to burn, do purchase the past years’ papers of NLU-O and NLU-D, as, in my opinion, they have generally been of a higher quality than the CLAT papers of 2009 & 2010.

  11. @ Ananya… You’ll get a book on solutions and explanations to those papers when you join a coaching center. Almost all the coaching centers provide it.

  16. I emailed nls Banglore asking them how can obtain the past years papers and they replied that it is available for a DD of rs810 inc. postal charges for papers from 1988-2007….whereas you informed they were available for a DD of rs760…i got it made for rs760…what to do?

    • did you get the answers for NLU? pls help me if you got. i purchased the papers but wonder where i could find the answer key. though found 2010 solutions on the internet.

  21. HEY,,,,CAN ANY ONE PROVIDE ME THE PREVIOUS YEAR QUE. PAPER OF BHU AND DELHI SCHOOL OF LAW OR TELL ME HOW TO GET IT.PLZ REPLY AS SOON AS

  22. hey guys! NALSAR’s address has changed now. They asked me to send the DD at their new address.
    NALSAR University of Law,
    H.No: 3-5-874/18, Adjacent to Apollo Hospital, Hyderabad – 500029

    And a change in pin code for sending DDs to NLSIU.
    New pin code: 560242

  31. it will be greatness of you people if somehow i may receive the answer key of nlsiu banglore question papers thank u

  34. I want to get the previous year papers of CNLU, Patna. How can I get those papers from year 2006 to 2009, coz CNLU was estd. in 2006 and it was associated with clat in 2009. So for the three years they would probably have not been remained admissionless. There should be some entrance exams or sth.

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