CLAT 6-Month Preparation Plan
1st Month: Start your preparation Now!
- Make your preparation plan and follow it through
2nd Month: Complete your GK and Legal Aptitude
- GK: Focus on history, science, UN and International organisations
- Legal: Legal jargons, Legal Maxims, Law of tort, etc
- By the end of the 2nd month ensure that you are through with the GK and Legal Aptitude.
3rd Month: Start Maths, Verbal and LR section
- Maths: Prepare for Basic maths, age problems, ratio and proportion, speed, distance and
time, etc
- English: Reading comprehension, Basic grammar, Direct and indirect speech, etc
- Reasoning: Blood relations, analogies, direction problem, logical puzzle, inference and
judgement, etc.
4th Month: Practise and Revise
- Continue with Maths, Verbal and LR
- Keep revising GK and Legal Aptitude
5th Month: Solve Mocks and Revise
- Solve mock tests
- Revise the GK and Legal Aptitude section
- Memorize all the math formulae
6th Month: Focus on Mocks
- Try to attempt at least 2 mock tests each day
- Analyse your perform
- Focus on improving your weak areas
Tips to crack CLAT in 6 months
On your CLAT preparation journey, try to keep these 7 things in mind:
- Don't Procrastinate
Don't procrastinate while preparing for CLAT!
Start preparations as soon as possible and actively give mock tests. Analyze your mock
results and try to understand your weaknesses and work on
them accordingly. Don't delay beginning your preparations or your result will suffer.
- Do not refer to multiple sources
CLAT does not demand extensive
research on every section and having 10 different sources for every other subject is a major
blunder. You might think that all you are doing is covering all your bases, putting in an
extra effort, but in reality, you are making a huge mistake. Do not
fall into the trap of learning from multiple sources and simply stick to the basics.
Remember,
CLAT is an aptitude test, or an assessment of who you already are, and excessive mugging
cannot
dramatically change that. Follow single sources for each subject, ideally, however be
completely
thorough with them.
- Take time if needed
Taking your time in understanding the concepts is
okay. Remember, the exam is the place where you
have to face the competition and not the preparation. Your preparation time is your own and
everyone works at different paces. The important thing to keep in mind is to take your time
and
understand all concepts. With negative marking in place, you are better off being late than
being wrong.
- Do not neglect the Legal Aptitude Section
As a law aspirant, never
underestimate the legal reasoning section. Never for once think that you
know enough law to tackle the legal aptitude section. Keep in mind that this section is not
meant to test your legal knowledge, but only your application of it. The basic rule of
answering
a legal reasoning question is to stick to the principle and make no assumptions. This
section
has always proved to be the distance students needed to go for that national law school of
their
dreams.
- Save nothing for the last
The biggest mistake of them all would be if
you leave your preparations until the last minute.
This applies to all the sections and most importantly to General Knowledge and Vocabulary in
English. Not reading your share of yearbooks, newspapers and current affairs throughout can
prove to be very fatal. General Knowledge and English vocabulary can be very intimidating as
the
D-day approaches closer. It is best to update yourself on both these areas every day, rather
than trying to master these sections individually in a small period of time.
- Keep your calm!
During your preparations and just before the exam,
don’t panic, and most importantly, do
not go on assuming things. If you want to know something regarding CLAT, Law Schools and
everything that’s between, ask your mentors. They are here to guide you in every
possible
way. So, don’t shy away from asking whenever you are facing difficulties.
Above all, remember you are the best judge of yourself. Analyse yourself, know where
you stand and accordingly work towards it. The clock is ticking, it’s just 6
months now. Leave no room for mistakes.
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