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Graduated already, or in your final year? If Panjab University’s Department of Laws is on your list, PU LLB 2027 is your way in.
Quick reality check first. It’s mid-October 2026 and PU hasn’t released a single 2027 notice. Open the PU LLB portal today and you’ll still see the 2026 test. So the numbers here come from the 2026 prospectus, the latest official paper the university has put out. Wherever we talk about 2027, we’re estimating.
Don’t mix this up with the five-year course. The five-year BA LLB/BCom LLB entrance is for Class 12 pass-outs. The three-year one, officially the PU-LL.B. (3 Years) Entrance Test, is only for graduates. Half the confusion online comes from sites calling both “PU CET Law”.
Seats? In 2026 there were 300 at the Department of Laws in Chandigarh, and 60 each at Muktsar, Ludhiana and Bajwara near Hoshiarpur. You need a bachelor’s or master’s degree in any discipline with at least 45% aggregate marks, with a 5% concession for SC/ST/BC/PwD candidates. Check the 2027 prospectus before you apply, in case anything changes. Final-year students can apply. And in 2026 the entrance score alone decided the merit list. Graduation marks only came in when two candidates tied.
Short answer: late June 2027. In 2026 the paper was on Sunday, 28 June, and forms opened on 6 May. Until PU says otherwise, that’s the best guide we have. So read the first column as our guess and the second as fact, taken from PU’s important-dates notice.
| Event | 2027 (our estimate) | Selection Basis |
| Application form opens | Early May 2027 | 2026 (official) |
| Registration closes | Mid-June 2027 | 13 June 2026 (fee by 15 June, form by 17 June) |
| Admit card | Around a week before the test | 23 June 2026 |
| Entrance test | Late June 2027, likely a Sunday | 28 June 2026, 10:00–11:30 am, Chandigarh only |
| Answer key | On or shortly after the test day, as per the official schedule | 28 June 2026, objections by email till 30 June |
| Result | Mid-July 2027 | 15 July 2026 (tentative) |
Registration last year wasn’t one deadline but three: create a login by 13 June, pay by 15 June, then upload your photo and signature and confirm by 17 June. Skip that last step and your form simply doesn’t count. Bookmark the portal and start checking it from April.
100 marks. 90 minutes. Minus a quarter for every wrong bubble. That was the 2026 paper according to the prospectus, and unless the 2027 prospectus changes something, it’s what you should prepare for.
| Feature | 2026 pattern (official) |
| Mode | Offline. You mark answers on an OMR sheet with a black gel pen |
| Duration | 90 minutes (PwD candidates get 30 minutes extra) |
| Marks | 100, from multiple-choice questions worth 1 mark each |
| Current Affairs and General Knowledge | 30 marks |
| Legal Aptitude | 40 marks |
| Reasoning Ability and Knowledge of English | 30 marks |
| Negative marking | Minus 0.25 per wrong answer; blanks cost nothing |
| Language | English, with questions also given in Hindi and Punjabi |
| Minimum to make the merit list | 20% (15% for SC/ST/BC/PwD) |
Do the maths once and you’ll respect that penalty. Attempt 80, get 64 right, and the 16 wrong ones pull you down to 60. A pure guess among four options still averages a small plus, about 0.06 of a mark, but on any single question it’s as likely to cost you. Rule out two options and the average gain rises to roughly 0.38. So weigh how sure you are before you fill the bubble. Also: no calculators, and nothing you write in the question booklet gets checked.
PU doesn’t actually publish a topic-wise syllabus for this test. The prospectus gives three section names and their marks, and that’s it. So the lists below are built from the sample questions at the back of the 2026 prospectus. Think of them as a study map, not an official list.
30 marks, and the sample questions are all over the place. One asks which non-metal stays liquid at room temperature. Another asks why a pencil looks bent in water. Then come banking, insurance, a navy induction and a new metro line.
In other words, newspapers alone won’t cover it. You need static GK as well: polity, modern history, geography, economy and government schemes. Add the last year of national and international news on top, plus awards, sports, and books and authors.
Forty marks, the heaviest section. Look at what PU itself picked as samples: which part of the Constitution was drafted last, the Article Ambedkar called its heart and soul, which contracts must be in writing, and the term for going easier on a pregnant offender’s punishment.
That tells you where to dig. Know the Preamble, Fundamental Rights, Directive Principles and Fundamental Duties properly. Learn the basics of contracts and torts, common legal terms, Latin maxims and some landmark cases. And practise principle-and-fact questions, where you get a rule and a short situation and have to connect the two.
The last 30 marks cover reasoning and English together, and PU doesn’t say how they split. For reasoning, practise analogies, series, coding-decoding, blood relations, directions and syllogisms. For English, work on vocabulary, grammar, sentence correction, fill-in-the-blanks and short passages.
You have roughly eight months. That’s plenty, provided you begin with a routine you can actually keep. Two honest hours on weekdays and a longer session on Sunday beats a punishing schedule you drop by December. If you’re working, that’s still realistic.
Start current affairs today, not in spring. Half an hour with a national newspaper, plus a page of notes at the end of each month, gives you twelve tidy summaries to revise in May. Trying to rebuild a whole year in the final weeks rarely works.
For legal aptitude, begin with the Constitution’s structure, then move to contracts and torts, then legal terms and maxims. When you practise principle-based questions, apply only the rule you’re given, even if you think you know the “real” law.
Reasoning and English improve with small, frequent doses. A timed set of 20 questions a day does more than one marathon session a week.
Once the basics are in place, get hold of previous years’ papers. They tell you more about the real difficulty and the mix of static GK and news than any list can. From February, sit full 90-minute mocks, ideally on a Sunday morning, since that’s when the 2026 exam ran.
After every mock, go through each wrong answer and ask one question: did I not know this, or did I guess? If careless guesses keep costing you, set a rule to attempt only when you can rule out two options.
The first one to watch for is leaving GK until the end. Graduates often pour their energy into legal aptitude because it feels like “real” law, then discover in May that 30 marks of general knowledge can’t be crammed in a month.
Another is memorising without applying. Knowing the text of Article 21 is useful, but it won’t rescue you if you freeze when a principle is applied to an unfamiliar set of facts.
Then there’s timing. With 100 marks in 90 minutes, you get less than a minute a question, and untimed study hides how slow you really are. Revision gets pushed back too; notes written in November help only if you reopen them before June.
Finally, be careful what you trust online. Some pages mix up the three-year and five-year tests, and others quote section splits that don’t match the prospectus. If a number matters to your plan, check it on the PU portal.
Plenty of candidates clear this test on their own. Others find they study better with a fixed timetable and someone checking their mock scores. If you’re in the second group, Prakash Law Academy Chandigarh runs a PU 3-Year LLB entrance course built around the three sections of the paper.
The academy lists online, offline and recorded-video batches, which helps if you’re working or live outside Chandigarh. It also mentions section-wise study material, class quizzes, online mock tests with performance analysis, small batches and doubt-clearing sessions, with regular, weekend and crash-course options.
Still deciding between the three-year and five-year routes? The academy’s page on PU law entrance coaching covers both. Whichever way you prepare, the score comes down to steady practice.