AILET 2018 Topper Interview: AIR 1, Devansh Kaushik shares his success mantra

A student of Cambridge Court High School, Devansh Kaushik secured Rank 1 in All India Law Entrance Test 2018 with a score of 98.25/150. Devansh, a Commerce stream student, cleared his Class 12 from the CBSE board. He secured 92.8% in his Class 12 board exams.

Devansh shared that he attributes his success to his parents and teachers who supported him during his preparation. Talking about his family, Devansh said, “My father’s name is Mahender Kaushik and he is a principal in Government education. My mother’s name is Gayatri Kaushik and she is a lecturer in Government education too. My sister Pragya is currently pursuing law from NLSIU bengalore”.

In a candid interview, Devansh shares his prep strategy, books he read, success mantras, future plans, and a lot more. Go through the complete interview Shiksha had with AILET 2018 topper below.

I was confident of securing a rank in the top 10, but topping the exam by a wide margin came as a pleasant surprise.

I first analysed AILET previous years’ papers to gain an idea of the exam pattern and identified high value topics.

I brushed up on my English, practiced Critical reasoning questions, stayed up to date with the latest legal affairs and gave a lot of mock tests to compete with others.

Yes, I joined the classroom programme of CLAT PREP education in Jaipur.

I balanced my board and law entrance preparation by allotting time between them, focusing more on the latter.

I interacted and coordinated my mock practice with my batch mates particularly with my friend Madhav Mitruka also from Jaipur who secured AIR 21 in AILET 2018.

Initially my strengths were English, GK, Legal and Critical Reasoning. My Maths and Analytical Reasoning were not up to the mark. But I was able to cover a lot of ground through extra practice in these areas before the actual exam.

Still in AILET, I allotted more time on my strengths rather than on my weaknesses after seeing the high difficulty level of the paper.

I referred books from Arihant publications on verbal reasoning and objective English. I also studied Wren and Martin and yearbooks for Static GK.

I referred to the modules and workbooks provided by my coaching for the remaining subjects.

My hobbies are reading, playing chess, following current affairs and researching online.

Apart from my AILET, I only appeared for CLAT. I believe in the order of difficulty, AILET is always at the top followed by CLAT and then SLAT.

The overall difficulty level of CLAT was comparatively lower compared to AILET (no surprises there!), particularly the English, Reasoning and Legal sections. The paper was manageable. However, the GK section was at par while the Maths section was even more difficult than AILET.

Yes.

AILET is nothing more than a more difficult version of CLAT. But, for this exam focus more on Critical Reasoning, Political Science and Legal GK.

I am interested to appear for UPSC in the future. I also wish to pursue international law as a specialisation.

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