Telangana Law Common Entrance Test (also branded TG LAWCET), incl. TG PGLCET(TS LAWCET)

About the exam

About TS LAWCET

Telangana's law entrance carries two spellings. The official site is headed TG LAWCET and TG PGLCET, while the same office's PGLCET syllabus document for the cycle is headed TS PGLCET, and both names point at one Computer Based Test. The three-year LL.B. paper, the five-year LL.B. paper and the LL.M. paper all came out of it on 18-05-2026, at different times of the same day, and a rank from any of them is spent inside a single academic year.

TG LAWCET is the entrance a Telangana law college admits on for the LL.B., and TG PGLCET is its LL.M. counterpart. Both are conducted by the Convener, TG LAWCET and TG PGLCET-2026, Osmania University, Hyderabad, on behalf of the Telangana Council of Higher Education, for admission into 3Year / 5Year LL.B. regular courses and 2 year LL.M. courses in the colleges of law in Telangana for the academic year 2026-2027, according to the TG LAWCET and TG PGLCET official site, which describes the test as a Computer Based Test.

The name on the current papers is TG, not TS. The 2026 instruction booklet is headed TG Law Common Entrance Test, the official site styles the two tests TG LAWCET-2026 and TG PGLCET-2026, and the council behind them is written TGCHE throughout. The older spelling has not left the official documents entirely: the Convener's own TG PGLCET 2026 syllabus is headed Syllabus for TS PGLCET-2026, and the LL.M. allotment lookup on the admissions site still prints TS PGLCET above its TG heading. None of the 2026 documents records a rename or explains the two spellings, so read TS and TG as two ways of writing one exam rather than as two exams.

The officer who runs the test does not hand out the seat. The TG LAWCET 2026 instruction booklet says the Convener "shall not be responsible for making admissions, allotment of seats at the time of admissions", a task TGCHE entrusts to a separately appointed Convener (Admissions), and it tells candidates to take admission questions to that officer rather than to the Convener of the test.

At a glance

TS LAWCET highlights

Calendar

Important dates

The cycle opened with a February notification and put the paper in May, and the newest schedule published for it, a press note dated 13/09/2026, runs the last counselling phase to 29.09.2026. The dates below are the ones the exam site's own schedule page carries.

The site is carrying two free deadlines, and the schedule page is the one that stands apart. The TG LAWCET and PGLCET 2026 detailed notification puts the last date without late fee at 01-04-2026, the instruction booklet prints the same date, and the Convener's newspaper notification of 08-02-2026 words it as applying online from 10.02.2026 to 01.04.2026. Only the important dates page linked from the homepage carries 10.04.2026, and it pushes the Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 deadlines out behind it. No document on the site says which of the two governs.

The seat runs on its own calendar, kept by another office on another website, and that calendar is published notice by notice rather than all at once. The Convener's press note dated 13/09/2026 sets the final phase of web counselling for TG LAWCET and PGLCET-2026 admissions: online registration with certificate upload, for candidates who did not register in Phase-I and Phase-II, from 15.09.2026 to 17.09.2026, the verified list of eligible candidates on 18.09.2026, web options from 19.09.2026 to 21.09.2026 with a single edit day on 21.09.2026, the college-wise list of provisionally selected candidates on 25.09.2026 and reporting at the allotted college up to 29.09.2026, per the final phase press note for TG LAWCET and PGLCET 2026 admissions.

Who can apply

Eligibility criteria

Every route into a Telangana law seat has its own qualifying examination, and its own bars.

For the three-year LL.B., the qualifying degree is any graduate degree in the 10+2+3 pattern from a recognised university, or an equivalent, with 45% of aggregate marks for the general category, 42% for OBC and 40% for SC and ST, the detailed notification sets out. A candidate short of that still qualifies on securing the same percentage or more in aggregate in any post-graduation or B.Ed. The same document rounds, and says so explicitly: 44.5% and above counts as 45%, 41.5% and above as 42%, and 39.5% and above as 40%.

Three doors are shut on that route. Under G.O. Ms No. 31 dated:18-03-2009, which the detailed notification reproduces, a degree passed by single sitting without undergoing a three-year course is barred whether it was taken regular, private or by correspondence, and so is a degree obtained through an open university directly without any basic qualification. It also reports that the Telangana High Court held, in a judgement dated 28.12.2021 in Writ Appeal. No. 597 of 2020 and connected petitions, that B.A. External graduates of Osmania University are not eligible for the three-year LL.B. course.

For the five-year LL.B., the qualifying examination is the two-year Intermediate in the 10+2 pattern, or an equivalent recognised by the university concerned or the Board of Intermediate Education, at the same 45%, 42% and 40% marks. A polytechnic diploma is treated as Intermediate for this route under G.O. Ms. No.112 Dated. 27-10-2001, per the detailed notification.

TG PGLCET sets no percentage of its own on the LL.B. The detailed notification opens it to candidates holding an LL.B. or B.L. three-year or five-year degree on the date of application, and to candidates who have appeared or are appearing for the LL.B. or B.L. final-year examination, and points them to G.O.Ms.No.116 of the Higher Education (UE.II) Department, Dated: 07.08.2007 for the rest.

Final-year candidates on any route may sit the test in anticipation of results, but must have passed at the time of counselling. Age is not a bar: the detailed notification records that there shall be no age restriction for candidates seeking admission into LL.B. courses through TG LAWCET, citing Bar Council of India letter No. BCI/D/2337/2018(LE/Cir.4) dated 26.11.2018.

The candidate must be an Indian national and must satisfy the local or unreserved status requirement laid down in the Telangana Educational Institutions (Regulation of Admissions) Order, 1974 and its amendments. Under the heading Reservation of Seats, both the LAWCET instruction booklet and the PGLCET instruction booklet print the same split under G.O. Ms. No. 15 of the Higher Education (TE) Department: 85% of the seats in each course are reserved for local candidates of the Osmania University area, and the remaining 15% are unreserved, reaching O.U.-area locals, candidates with ten years of residence in the state that excludes periods of study outside it or a parent's ten years excluding employment outside it, and the children and spouses of people employed by the state or central government and similar bodies within the state.

Where a candidate studied is a second geography test, and it is the one that shuts doors. The LAWCET instruction booklet says candidates who qualified in TG LAWCET but completed Intermediate for the five-year course, or the degree for the three-year course, in a state other than Telangana are not eligible for admission under the Convener quota, and can be considered only under the National Integration Quota or the management quota; the PGLCET instruction booklet carries the same bar for a candidate who completed the LL.B. or B.L. outside Telangana. Separate counselling is conducted for the National Integration Quota in the university and constituent law colleges, and a management-quota candidate approaches the private college itself.

Step by step

Application process and fee

Applications are taken through online mode only, and the TG LAWCET and PGLCET 2026 FAQs make the payment the gate rather than the last step: the online application form appears only after the registration fee has gone through, by one of two modes, a TG or AP Online centre or a debit card, credit card or net banking transaction on the payment gateway.

Missing the free deadline did not close the form; it repriced it. After the last date without late fee, the important dates page sets a ladder of late fees: Rs 500 up to 20-04-2026, Rs 1,000 up to 30-04-2026, Rs 2,000 up to 05-05-2026, Rs 4,000 up to the tenth of May and Rs 10,000 up to 13-05-2026.

What can be corrected afterwards is narrow and timed. The Convener's TG LAWCET and PGLCET 2026 corrections notice splits the form in two: Category-2 fields, among them the qualifying examination, its year and percentage, the medium of the test, gender, area of reservation, income, study details and address, could be changed by the candidate only during the permitted period, 03.05.2026 to 08.05.2026. Category-1 items, including the candidate's name, the parents' names, date of birth, mobile number, the SSC and Intermediate hall ticket numbers, the photograph and the signature, cannot be changed by the candidate at all and need a written request to the Convener by e-mail with valid scanned documents. Anything outside those two lists cannot be changed at all.

Pay for the wrong paper and the money is gone. The TG LAWCET and PGLCET 2026 FAQs are blunt about it in answer after answer: a fee paid for the LL.M. instead of the LL.B. or the other way round is forfeited, a fee paid for the three-year course instead of the five-year course is forfeited because the stream cannot be changed, the transaction ID cannot be exchanged with a friend, and a candidate who decides not to sit the test gets nothing back. The same document warns that a selfie will not be accepted for the photograph, and that the uploaded photo must be under 50KB and the signature under 30KB.

Before the exam

Admit card and exam day

Hall tickets are not sent by post. Candidates download the hall ticket from the exam site by entering their own details, one week before the test according to the instruction booklet, and the important dates page opens that download on 12-05-2026 for the 18-05-2026 paper.

The hall ticket is not transferable, and any tampering with it leads automatically to disqualification from the test and makes the candidate liable for prosecution, the instruction booklet warns.

The detailed notification puts the three-year LL.B. paper at 09.30 AM to 11.00 AM and 12.30 PM to 02.00 PM, and the five-year LL.B. paper and the LL.M. paper together at 04.00 PM to 05.30 PM, all on the same 18-05-2026.

Time discipline at the centre is strict and stated twice. The instruction booklet says the gate will be closed 15 minutes before the commencement of the examination and that a candidate will not be allowed into the hall after the examination begins; the TG LAWCET and PGLCET 2026 test zones list puts it more bluntly, telling candidates they will not be allowed to take the exam if they are even one minute late, and advising them to visit the allotted centre before the day. Once inside, candidates must remain seated in their allotted places until the examination is complete and are not allowed to leave the hall before the end.

Structure

Exam pattern

Both tests run 90 minutes and carry 120 one-mark questions, per the TG LAWCET 2026 syllabus and the TG PGLCET 2026 syllabus, and neither carries a negative mark for an incorrect answer, which the LAWCET instruction booklet and the PGLCET instruction booklet each state. They are still different papers, with different internal shapes, different mediums and different qualifying bars.

In TG LAWCET, 10 of the 60 questions in Part C are based on or related to the comprehension of legal passages given, the TG LAWCET 2026 syllabus states. The standard expected is Intermediate level for the five-year course and degree or graduation level for the three-year course, and every question offers four alternative answers numbered as 1, 2, 3 and 4.

TG PGLCET splits its 120 questions the other way, 40 in Part A and 80 in Part B, and prices each block of law in its syllabus:

The three-year LL.B. test is the only one written in two sessions, on the same syllabus and pattern, with a candidate permitted to appear in just one of them, and the instruction booklet prints the normalisation formula it then applies across the two so that the session drawn does not decide the mark. The booklet's normalisation clause is written for the three-year course alone, and the two papers it leaves out each sat in one afternoon slot, the five-year LL.B. on the same booklet's own timetable and the LL.M. on the PGLCET instruction booklet's.

Language differs between the two tests. The detailed notification sets the question paper both in English and Telugu or English and Urdu for TG LAWCET, and in English only for TG PGLCET.

What to study

Syllabus

Part C is where the law actually enters the LL.B. paper. The LAWCET syllabus assumes elementary knowledge of the basic principles of law and the Constitution of India on the part of the student, and the questions are objective type, including multiple choice questions and matching items.

The PGLCET syllabus is written down to named statutes, and it is current rather than historical. Crimes and torts asks for the general principles and general exceptions of the Indian Penal Code 1860 alongside the salient features of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, general principles of tort, defences, joint liability, state liability for torts and the Consumer Protection Act, 2019. Business and corporate laws covers the general principles of contract in sections 1 to 75 of the Indian Contract Act, 1872, the Companies Act, 2013, intellectual property rights, the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 and competition laws. The labour block names trade union, factories, social security and industrial disputes law and asks for the latest development of the new labour codes, and the allied block covers environmental law, human rights law, alternative dispute resolution, the Information Technology Act, 2000, the Right to Information Act 2005 and family law.

How to prepare

Preparation and books

What the Convener puts out for practice is a mock test per paper and nothing resembling a course. The TG LAWCET and PGLCET 2026 mock test page carries separate mock tests for the LAWCET three-year paper, the LAWCET five-year paper and PGLCET, and the instruction booklet sends candidates there at exactly the point where it explains that each question offers four alternative answers numbered as 1, 2, 3 and 4.

Where a reading list would sit, both booklets put a standard instead. Intermediate level for the five-year paper and degree level for the three-year paper is the whole of what they specify, and for the LL.M. paper the named statutes in the PGLCET syllabus stand in for general legal awareness. Between the two booklets there is not one textbook, author, publisher or coaching programme.

Where it is held

Exam centres

The detailed notification says the test is held at 17 online test centres in Telangana, and that the Convener reserves the right to add or delete any centre from the list and allot accordingly.

A zone is a catchment rather than a building, and the test zones list is written in localities to prove it. Hyderabad is cut into four, with the eastern zone running out through Ghatkesar, Keesara and Uppal Depot and the western one as far as Moinabad and Himayath Sagar. Outside the city the smaller towns are folded into a neighbour: Suryapet sits in the Kodad zone, Palvoncha in Bhadradri Kothagudem, Armoor in Nizamabad, and Jagtial, Huzurabad and Manthani all in Karimnagar.

Capacity decides more than preference does. The same test zones list says a regional centre is shown in the application form only while it has room and drops off the list once it reaches its maximum capacity, that a request to change the test centre will not be entertained once one has been chosen, and that the Convener may still allot a candidate to a centre other than the one opted for.

After the exam

Answer key

A preliminary key comes first and a final key arrives with the result. The important dates page announced the preliminary key on 23-05-2026, closed objections on it on 25-05-2026, and set the final key and the entrance test results, tentatively, at 05-06-2026.

Objecting is not free. The instruction booklet says the candidate "shall pay a minimum fee of Rs. 500/- per question for raising any objection to the question or preliminary key", and that a fee is refunded within 7 days from the date of publication of the final results if the objection is deemed valid. The TG PGLCET 2026 instruction booklet carries the same rule and the same amount for the LL.M. paper.

Scores

Result and scorecard

Hall tickets and rank cards are both downloads, never posted, and the instruction booklet says so of the two in one breath, advising candidates to take the rank card off the website after publication of results. The TG LAWCET and PGLCET 2026 rank card form that opens it wants a Lawcet hall ticket number and a date of birth, and nothing else: there is no registration number to dig out and no scorecard posted anywhere.

Ranks come from raw merit and break on a named part of the paper, per the detailed notification. Candidates are ranked in the order of merit on the marks obtained; a tie in TG LAWCET is decided first on the marks secured in Part-C and then on Part-B, and a tie that survives both leaves candidates bracketed together, with seniority in age considered at the time of admission. TG PGLCET breaks its ties on Part-A, the jurisprudence and constitutional law block.

Nothing is rechecked. The LAWCET instruction booklet says a request for re-totalling or revaluation will not be entertained, and the PGLCET instruction booklet says the same and adds personal identification of scripts to the list. The rank is also short-lived: a rank obtained in TG LAWCET-2026 is valid for admission for the academic year 2026-2027 only, and the same holds for TG PGLCET-2026.

Disputes are timed and venued. All disputes concerning the test are subject to the jurisdiction of the Telangana High Court only, the instruction booklet says, and litigation received within a month from the date of declaration of the result is considered.

Scores you need

Cutoff

TG LAWCET and TG PGLCET do not clear at the same height, and the height is set as a mark rather than as a rank. The qualifying percentage in TG LAWCET-2026 is 35%, which the detailed notification states as 42 marks out of a total of 120 marks. In TG PGLCET-2026 it is 25%, which the same document states as 30 marks out of a total of 120. For candidates belonging to Scheduled Castes or Scheduled Tribes, no minimum qualifying percentage of marks is prescribed in either test.

Clearing that bar is not admission. The detailed notification sets three further conditions before a qualified candidate can be admitted: appearing for counselling at the notified centres, applying in response to the admission notification issued by the authority concerned, and satisfying all the eligibility conditions stipulated at the time of that notification. The candidate must also satisfy the merit and statutory reservations that apply.

Neither the detailed notification nor the final phase counselling notification publishes a closing rank by college or by category, and neither promises one. What the admissions site puts up once a phase closes is a college-wise list of provisionally selected candidates, read by picking a college and a course rather than by looking up a rank.

Getting a seat

Counselling and seat allotment

Admissions are notified separately by TGCHE and run on the admissions site, not the exam site. Three phases of web counselling have been notified for TG LAWCET-2026 admissions, and the final phase detailed notification is the one the cycle ends on: registration, payment and certificate upload from 15.09.2026 to 17.09.2026 for candidates who did not register in the first two phases, the verified list on 18.09.2026, web options from 19.09.2026 to 21.09.2026, the college-wise list of provisionally selected candidates on 25.09.2026, and reporting at the allotted college up to 29.09.2026.

Holding a rank does not by itself buy into that phase. The same final phase notification shuts out two groups from exercising final-phase options: candidates who were allotted a seat in the second phase and did not report at the allotted college, and candidates who cancelled a seat in the first or second phase. A candidate already verified in an earlier phase does not register again and goes straight to options, a candidate satisfied with an earlier allotment need not exercise them at all, and one who does take a new seat loses the claim on the earlier college and must report to the new one by the date on the allotment letter, failing which the claim on both is forfeited. Dropouts and cancellations are not permitted after final-phase allotments.

The TG LAWCET 2026 admissions detailed notification issued on 26th June, 2026 shows what one phase looks like end to end: online registration, payment and upload of scanned certificates from 05-07-2026 to 10-07-2026, the verified list on 15-07-2026, web options from 16-07-2026 to 19-07-2026, provisional college-wise selections on 24-07-2026 and reporting at colleges from 25-07-2026 to 28-07-2026.

Registering for counselling costs a non-refundable processing fee of Rs 800, or Rs 500 for SC and ST candidates, paid online in favour of the Secretary, TGCHE, the final phase notification states, and the first-phase one set the same amounts. Students who secure a seat in a professional course also pay Rs 100 under the Telangana Green Fund head along with the tuition fee, under G.O. Ms No 17 dated 18th February, 2022.

Verification runs on uploaded scans, and the first-phase notification states the one exception to that twice. Certificates are verified from the scanned copies uploaded, but candidates claiming a special category, meaning PWD, CAP, NCC or Sports and Games, must appear in person on a booked slot during the first phase only, and no special-category verification is done in the second or final phase.

Web options are exercised afresh in each phase and are not carried over, the first-phase notification says: first-phase options are not considered for the second phase, and first or second phase options are not considered for the final phase. The notification tells candidates to use a desktop or laptop and not a mobile phone or tablet, and to take a printout of the frozen options. Physical reporting at the allotted college is mandatory in every phase, and a provisional seat stands cancelled automatically if the tuition fee is not paid within the schedule.

Changing your mind is priced by phase. In the first-phase notification, tuition fee is refunded in full for a cancellation after the first phase; after the final phase, 50% of the amount is forfeited before the cut-off date notified for cancellation in the allotment order, and 100% after it.

The Convener does not fill every seat. The first-phase notification says 100% of seats in the University College and 80% of the sanctioned intake of seats in unaided affiliated non-minority and minority professional institutions will be filled by the Convener, TG LAWCET-2026 Admissions, with special-category reservation of 5% for PWD, 2% for CAP, 1% for NCC and 0.5% for Sports and Games.

The remaining management seats are still tied to the test. TGCHE's Category-B law admission guidelines for 2026-27, issued on 05.08.2026 for the 20% management seats in private unaided non-minority and minority law colleges, list a rank card in TG LAWCET-2026 among the essential eligibility conditions, and set the qualifying-examination bar at 45% for OC and BC and 40% for SC and ST, without the 42% OBC figure the Convener's own detailed notification uses. Colleges upload those admissions on a TGCHE portal and pay a processing fee of Rs 800 for each candidate.

Where it is accepted

Participating institutes

Which colleges take part is not settled when you apply. The instruction booklet says the list of recognised and approved law colleges, with their sanctioned strength, the courses permitted by the Bar Council of India, the university concerned and TGCHE, and the seats the government is competent to fill for 2026-2027, will be informed after publication of the results.

For 2026-2027 the admissions site publishes separate college lists for the three-year LL.B., the five-year LL.B. and the LL.M., each carrying the college's intake, the convener-quota intake and the tuition fee per annum. The university law colleges are the cheapest and are filled entirely through the convener quota: in the list of colleges offering the three-year LL.B. in 2026-2027, University College of Law on the Osmania campus carries 60 seats at Rs 16,000 a year, and the university law colleges at Satavahana University, Karimnagar, Palamuru University, Mahabubnagar and Mahatma Gandhi University, Nalgonda carry 120 each at the same fee. Private colleges on the same list are dearer, and their convener-quota intake is smaller than their sanctioned intake: Dr. V. R. K. College of Law at Mehdipatnam lists 120 seats with 96 in the convener quota at Rs 20,000 a year, and Islamia College of Law at Chandrayangutta lists 240 with 192 at an asterisked Rs 55,000.

The five-year list sets aside a block of government residential law colleges whose tuition fee per annum is entered as zero, among them the Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Telangana Backward Classes Welfare Residential Law College for Women at Kazipet and the Telangana Tribal Welfare Residential Law College for Men at Sangareddy. The LL.M. list is organised by specialisation rather than by college: Kakatiya University's law college at Subedari, Warangal lists corporate and securities laws, labour laws and criminal laws at 10 convener seats each and Rs 23,000 a year in the regular stream, and repeats those specialisations in a self-finance day stream at Rs 33,000.

Read the footnotes before treating a number as fixed. The three-year list ends on two cautions: colleges and their intakes are subject to approval from the Bar Council of India, and fees collected for the year marked with an asterisk are subject to the High Court's final decision on the pending writ petitions. Indira Priyadarshini Law College at Abdullapurmet appears on the three-year list under a line recording that it was included in the second phase of web counselling.

Get help

Contact

The office that answers depends on whether the question is about the test or the seat.

For the test, the detailed notification gives the Convener's website, the e-mail address lawcet.tgche@gmail.com and the mobile numbers 9908021100 and 7396114993. The FAQs route application corrections to the same e-mail address. The TG LAWCET and PGLCET contact page names Prof. B. Vijayalaxmi as Convener, TG LAWCET and PGLCET-2026, at the University College of Law, O.U. Campus, Tarnaka, Hyderabad.

A word on the web address, because the documents give two. The PGLCET instruction booklet names both the lawcet and the pglcet subdomains of tgche.ac.in for the online application, the syllabus, the mock test, the hall ticket and the rank card, and the FAQs name both for the application as well. All of it sits on the lawcet one, the TG LAWCET and TG PGLCET official site, whose Information menu is where the notification, the booklets, the syllabus, the test zones, the corrections notice and the FAQs are published.

For the seat, the final phase press note is issued from the office of Prof. I. Panduranga Reddy, Convener, TG CETs (other) Admissions-2026, at the Online Counselling Centre, PGRRCDE, Osmania University, Hyderabad, and the admissions site runs an e-mail support service for discrepancies in verified candidate data.

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