LAW SCHOOL ADMISSION TEST—INDIA (LSAT— INDIA)

LSAT—India is a standardized test adopted as an admissions criteria by multiple law colleges across India. LSAT—India measures skills that are considered essential for success in law school. LSAT—India is specially created for admissions to law schools in India by the Law School Admission Council, USA (LSAC). The LSAC has been helping law schools in several countries evaluate the critical-thinking skills of their applicants for more than 60 years.

Candidates have the benefit of taking a single test – the LSAT—India, and become eligible for the admissions process of multiple law colleges in India which recognize LSAT—India scores. LSAT—India is designed to measure skills that are considered essential for success in law school – critical-thinking skills, such as logical reasoning and problem solving. These skills are considered as key to success in the practice of law throughout the world. Apart from being a gold standard in its field, LSAT—India offers law schools in India an unmatched access to reach out to international students through its overseas testing centre facility.

The Law School Admission Council (LSAC) is a nonprofit corporation whose members are more than 200 law schools in the United States, Canada and Australia. LSAC is renowned globally for excellence in law admissions testing and administers over 140,000 tests annually.

The LSAT—India test will be administered by Pearson VUE in India and abroad. Pearson VUE delivers millions of high-stakes tests every year across the globe for clients in the licensure, certification, academic admissions, regulatory, and government testing service markets.

EXAM DETAILS

by Law School Admission Council, USA (LSAC)

The LSAT—India is a paper-and-pencil test with four sections. Two of the sections contain logical reasoning questions; one section contains analytical reasoning questions; and one section contains reading comprehension questions. The amount of time allotted for each section is 35 minutes. There is one 15-minute break between section 2 and section 3. All questions are in a multiple-choice format, some with four answer choices and others with five. Answers are collected on a scannable answer sheet. Only correct answers will count toward your score; there is no penalty for incorrect answers.The LSAT—India consists of questions that evaluate a candidate's logical reasoning, analytical reasoning, and reading comprehension abilities.

There will be two versions of the LSAT - India ; one for the B.A., LL.B. programme applicants, and another for the LL.B. applicants, in view of the difference in their education level.

The total duration of the test is 2 hours and 35 minutes including a break of 15 minutes.

Test Locations :

The locations for the LSAT—India in India are:

North: Chandigarh, Dehradun, Delhi, Jaipur, Lucknow
South: Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad
West: Ahmedabad, Bhopal, Mumbai, Pune
East: Bhubaneswar, Kolkata, Raipur, Ranchi

The locations for the LSAT—India overseas are:

Bangkok, Hong Kong, Johannesburg, London, Manila, Singapore, Sydney.

ADMISSION PROCEDURE

by Law School Admission Council, USA (LSAC)

Registration Process

 •  Register online for the LSAT—India entrance test by logging on to www.pearsonvueindia.com/lsatindia. On completion of their registration all candidates will get an LSAT—India registration number. Candidates will need to mention this LSAT—India registration number while submitting the application forms of the participating colleges.
 •  After obtaining the LSAT—India registration number, the candidate must download/obtain the Application Form from the participating college; the college Admission Application Forms will require candidates to mention their LSAT—India registration number. Candidates must ensure that they write their LSAT—India registration number at the given place in the Application Form of the participating colleges.
 •  All registrants who complete the test registration, pay the test fee in a timely way, and follow published test rules may sit for the LSAT—India - It is your responsibility to understand the eligibility requirements of the participating law schools to which you are applying before deciding whether to register for the LSAT—India. If you register for the test and then determine that you are ineligible for admission to your intended law school, no test- fee refund will be available.
 •  Test Scores of all students writing the LSAT—India will be transmitted to the participating colleges.

Candidates should write “LSAT—India” at the bottom of the envelope.

If you are a candidate testing from outside India, you can pay online via a credit card only.

Confirmation of completed registration and payment will be sent by electronic mail only. Pearson VUE shall not be held responsible for non-receipt of confirmation either on account of or bouncing of mails in case of electronic confirmation.

Registration forms received without the proper notified registration fee or insufficient or incorrect details or received beyond the specified closing time and date for submitting the registration form, will be summarily rejected and Pearson VUE shall not entertain any queries with respect to the same.