NLAT Overall Exam Analysis, Expected Cut Off 2020 & Question Paper

By Neeraj Mishra|Updated : September 12th, 2020

NLAT All Batch/Shifts Analysis & Review (12th September 2020): National Law Aptitude Test (NLAT) 2020 was successfully conducted in 3 batches in an online home-based Examination across the country on 12th September. The test was conducted by the National Law School of India (NLSIU) Bangalore for admissions to the 5 years integrated B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) program, 2020 - 21. The overall level of the NLAT 2020 exam was moderate to difficult. Technological, artificial intelligence along with human-based proctoring method was used to conduct NLAT 2020 in the manner of an online home-based examination. 

The NLAT 2020 was conducted in 3 batches, 

  1. Batch 1 - Exam Time - 12:30 pm to 1:15 pm
  2. Batch 2 - Exam Time - 2:15 pm to 3:00 pm. 
  3. Batch 3 - Exam Time - 4.00 pm to 4:45 pm

Read this post to know the detailed analysis and review of National Law Aptitude Test (NLAT) (UG) 2020. Know the level of the test and different types of questions asked in the NLAT 2020 exam.

Highlights of NLAT 2020 Exam (Batch 1, Batch 2 and Batch 3)

  1. Overall Level of NLAT 2020 Exam was Moderate to Difficult.
  2. In all the three batches of NLAT 2020 exam, it is observed that the theme of the General Comprehension (GC) passage was around the economy topic and on COVID - 19 health emergency. 

Here is a snapshot of the NLAT (UG) 2020 exam pattern:

Mode of the examComputer-Based Test (Online)
Number of Sections1 General Comprehension (GC) passage.
Number of Questions40
Total Marks80 (2 marks per question)
Negative Marking
  • -0.25 marks  deducted for each unanswered question
  • -0.50 marks deducted for each wrong answer
Number of Choices5
Duration of the exam45 minutes
Test typeMCQs
Medium English Language 

NLAT Expected Cut Off 2020 and Overall Good Attempt

Overall Good Attempt 30- 35
Probable NLAT cut-off (All India general)50 - 52

NLAT 2020 Exam Subject-wise Difficulty Level 

SectionsDifficulty Level
EnglishEasy
Current Affairs & GkModerate
Critical Reasoningmoderate level of difficulty
Legal ReasoningEasy 
QuantDifficult
Overall Level Moderate to Difficult

Watch Live NLAT 2020 Overall Exam Analysis here

EXAM STRUCTURE OF NLAT (UG) 2020

The NLAT 2020 UG test candidates on the following 5 (five) sections

  • English Language,
  • Current Affairs Including General Knowledge,
  • Legal Reasoning,
  • Logical Reasoning, and
  • Quantitative Techniques

Total number of Questions

40 questions

Total number of  General Comprehension (GC) passages

4 (four) passages 

Total number of  questions in each General Comprehension (GC) passages 

10 questions

Total number of questions in each GC passage from each the 5 (five) subjects

2 questions

Length of the GC passage

500 words approximately

Type of Questions  

Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ)

Total Marks

80

Duration of the exam 

45 minutes

 
NLAT Marking Scheme
  • +2 mark is assigned to each correct answer.
  • Each question has five responses.
  • -0.50 applicable for wrong answers.
  • -0.25 applicable for un-answered questions

NLAT 2020 Overall Detailed Analysis 

NLAT 2020 Details of 4 passages (Batch 1)

Passage 1

Theme - Over-reliance on forex reserves 

Source: The Indian Express

Type - Economic

Passage 2

 Theme - Government strategy to address the impact of COVID in agriculture relies heavily on credit.

Source: The Indian Express

Type - Economic

Passage 3

Theme - Women’s right to property ownership becomes right when it yields concrete results in women’s favour.

Source: Economic & Political Weekly

Type - Economic

Passage 4

Theme - The Hazards of Being Poor

Source:  Poor Economics - Rethinking Poverty & Ways to end it.  Book by Abhijit Banerjee & Ester Duflo

Ch. 6 Barefoot Hedge-Fund Managers

NLAT 2020 – Details of 4 passages (Batch 2)

Passage 1

Theme - Delhi govt. has issued the Delhi Electric Vehicle Policy, 2020, to boost the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) in the national capital.

Source - mercomindia.com

Type - Economic / Policy

Passage 2

 Theme - Is the National Education Policy 2020 designed to deliver equitable quality public education?

Source: scroll.in

Type - Scheme & Policy

Passage 3

Theme - Women leaders handled coronavirus better than their male counterparts

Source: scroll.in

Type - International Affairs/ Health emergency

Passage 4

Theme: COVID-19 vaccine

Source: DownToEarth
Type - Health

NLAT 2020 – Details of 4 passages (Batch 3) 

Passage 1

Theme - Data from India’s statistics ministry has put a figure on the gloom that has pervaded our economy since the covid pandemic struck

Source - Live Mint

Passage 2

 Theme - The share market is probably the only component of the economy that has recovered fully from the Covid induced slowdown.

Source - The Statesman

Passage 3

Theme - A new framework for paid period leaves

Source: Hindustan Times

Passage 4

Theme: The Himalaya are India's most important natural asset

Source:  NDTV

NLAT Question Answers 2020 (Memory Based)

Q1. Which of the following is NOT a function of the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation of India? 

  • Ans. C (Production of Vaccines)

Q2. The NEP 2020, advocated which degree programme? 

  • Ans. D (Masters in AYUSH)

Q3. List of prominent Educationists: 

  • Ans A (Rabindranath Tagore, Jiddu Krishnamurty & Maria Montessori)

Q4. Name the books Trilogy of ‘Opium Wars’?

  • Ans. B (Ibis trilogy)

Q5. Who among the following became the first chairman of the bank earlier called - Imperial Bank of India?

  • Ans D (Arundhati Bhattacharya)

Q6. Co-Founded an organization that also launched a comic book guide to the menstruation of girls?

  • Ans - Aditi Goyal

Q.7 Film based on Arunachalam Muruganantham

  • Ans - Period: End of Sentence

Q8. When the Author speaks of Unicorn---

  •  Ans- A company with More than one billion dollars in value

Q9.  Method to calculate GDP by the CSO in India?

  • Ans.   GDP at Factor cost and Expenditure Method

Q10. The SEBI banned karvy stock broking from certain activities in November 2019 for?

  • Ans. B - Allegedly misappropriating clients fund and diverting them to karvy realty.

Q.11 What is meant by the term "Open Market Operations"?

  • Ans - B - Buying and selling of debt obligations issued by the government in an open market

Q12. Based on the information and arguments set out in the passage above, which among the following, if true, would justify India holding high forex reserves?

  • Ans - A - The sufficiency of forex reserves is usually measured in terms of how many months worth of imports a country can afford, 

 

This was the complete overall exam analysis of the NLAT 2020 Exam held on 12th Sept. Check below batch wise analysis of NLAT Exam 2020

1. NLAT Batch 1 Exam Analysis 

2. NLAT Batch 2 Exam Analysis 

3. NLAT Batch 2 Exam Analysis 

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