How to Prepare for CLAT along with Class 12 Board?: Tips & Effective Study Plan
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Preparing for the CLAT exam while in Class 12 is quite common, but you can crack it if you apply right strategy. Read below to know some tips that will help you to do well in the exam.
If you are in Class 12, you must be thinking that what strategy you can apply to prepare for CLAT without compromising your board exam preparation. This concern is valid since both exams are often scheduled close to each other. While it might be confusing, when to start CLAT preparation? The best thing is that the CLAT Syllabus can be covered easily if you decide to.
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You can easily cover the CLAT syllabus while preparing for the board exams, especially since sections like Quantitative Techniques. Read further to know how to prepare for CLAT Exam along with Class 12th board exams?
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- Tips to prepare for CLAT in Class 12th
- CLAT - Section-wise questions and weightage
- Topic-wise tips to prepare for CLAT from Class 12
- How to prepare for CLAT with boards
Tips to prepare for CLAT in Class 12th
One of the most important part is to begin your CLAT preparation on time. Try and solve as many sample papers, mock tests and previous years' question papers as possible. If you start your preparation way before, you will be able to do all this. Begin your preparation with the CLAT important topics first. Once done, you can begin other topics. Some of the challenging part is to decide how much time should be dedicated to preparing for CLAT exam. For that, make sure you give 3 to 4 hours daily. You should also make a study plan so that you don't loose way during your journey.
Tips for Effective Study: Candidates can follow the following study plan to score well in CLAT Exam:
- Create a Study Plan
- Assess Your Progress
- Cover Important Topics First
- Seek Help If required
- Stay Consistent
The CLAT UG question paper will have questions from five sections:
- Current Affairs including GK
- English Language
- Legal Reasoning
- Logical Reasoning
- Quantitative Techniques
When preparing for these sections, remember the weightage carried by them.
CLAT - Section-wise questions and weightage
| Subject |
Number of questions |
|---|---|
| 28-32 |
|
| 35-39 |
|
| 35-39 |
|
| 28-32 |
|
| 13-17 |
Commonly asked questions
Though CLAT Preparation takes months of practice, it is still not impossible. You can prepare for the CLAT Exam in one week with a correct and dedicated focus. But you should have at least some understanding of concepts to clear the exam.
The CLAT syllabus is considered challenging due to its comprehensive, passage-based nature. Candidates will have to solve the questions within two hour time limit for 120 questions. The syllabus is tough and exam is difficult to crack.
As per NIRF ranking 2025, NLSIU Bangalore is the No. 1 ranked NLU colleges in India. The table below has other NLUs in India rankwise.
Top NLUs in India | NIRF 2023 | NIRF 2024 | NIRF 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
1 | 1 | 1 | |
2 | 2 | 2 | |
4 | 4 | 4 | |
7 | 8 | 5 | |
18 | 21 | 27 | |
24 | 22 | 30 | |
30 | 26 | 15 | |
28 | 27 | 35 |
Disclaimer: This information is sourced from official website of the ranking body listed and may vary.
To get good marks in CLAT 2027, focus on reading comprehension, daily current affairs, and consistent mock test practice. The exam consists of 120 questions, making speed and accuracy crucial. Prioritize Legal and Logical Reasoning, and use daily newspaper reading to boost your score in all sections.
Reference material or CLAT books - If you closely analyse the CLAT exam pattern and syllabus released by the consortium for the CLAT exam, you will note that not all sections are equal. Also, each section in the question paper is designed to test a different skill set. So, to succeed, you need to follow the best CLAT reference material that is out there. CLAT 2027 exam date is December 6.
Here are some of the features of good reference material or best books for CLAT
- Error-free - If a book is filled with errors, stay away from it. Rather than help you in your effort to crack CLAT, it will only sabotage your plans. So, ensure that the books are clean, well-written, and contain few to no errors. If you can’t do it yourself, take help from a senior.
- Well-known published - Good books are typically published by reputable publishers.
- Contain examples, illustrations, charts, etc - These items make learning fun, easy, and engaging. Also, it helps to memorize important points.
- Comes with question sets - These problem banks can be found at the end of each chapter or at the end of the book. Problem sets can help edify what you have learned, develop problem-solving skills, and understand how different concepts interact.
Topic-wise tips to prepare for CLAT from Class 12
The CLAT test is designed to test the comprehension and reasoning abilities of the candidate. Also, typically, no prior knowledge is needed to solve the CLAT question paper, apart from maybe the Current Affairs section.
- English Language - The section will contain 45–word passages and test your comprehension and language skills.
- Current Affairs including GK -Will assess your awareness of current affairs and GK. You will given passages and for that you don't need any prior knowledge of legal subjects. To prepare for this section, make sure you rea newspaper and opinion pieces daily.
- Quantitative Techniques - This section will test your ability to derive, infer, and manipulate numerical information. The level of questions asked in the 10th standard.
- Legal Reasoning -Questions will be passage-base,d and you are required to identify and infer rules and principles, and use these rules and principles to solve problems.
- Logical Reasoning - This section will test skills like the ability to recognize an argument, its premise, conclusions, etc. This section can only be mastered through practice, as simple rote learning won’t work
Commonly asked questions
To prepare for CLAT Exam you need right books and good study plan. You must solve past-year question papers and mock tests.
The Quantitative Techniques & Logical Reasoning sections are considered the most difficult to prepare for in the CLAT exam.
The Consortium of NLUs will conduct the CLAT Exam in offline; pen and paper mode. The exam will be conducted from 2 to 4 pm.
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How to prepare for CLAT with boards
One of the biggest challenge is to prepare for board exams and CLAT too. Some of the tips that can help you to prepare well:
- Make a separate study plan for boards and CLAT exam
- Utilise summer and winter vacations
- Focus on important and more weightage topics first
- Solve sample papers
- Attempt Mock tests
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Anything you would want to ask experts?Answered a week ago
No, CLAT is generally considered more difficult than CUET as CLAT exam requires more intense reading and preparation. It also involves intense time pressure as candidates are required to read around 15,000 words across 30 passages before answering the questions.
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Contributor-Level 6
Answered 2 weeks ago
Choose Commerce if you want an early foundation in business and finance for corporate law, or Arts (Humanities) if you prefer subjects that align closely with reading comprehension and current affairs for the CLAT exam.
Both streams make you fully eligible for the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) and
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Contributor-Level 10
Answered 3 weeks ago
Ministry of Education can release the NLUs NIRF Ranking soon on its official website. There is no time line announced by the ministry in this regard.
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Contributor-Level 7
Answered 3 weeks ago
NLSIU Bengaluru, which has held the top spot in the Law category every year since NIRF introduced it in 2018.
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Contributor-Level 7
Answered 3 weeks ago
No, the NIRF Law Ranking 2026 will be released soon by the Minsitry of Education on its official website.
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Contributor-Level 7
Answered 4 weeks ago
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Contributor-Level 10
Answered a month ago
Yes, the Consortium removed two Test Cities from the CLAT 2027. The removed test cities are Vellore and Tiruvarur. CLAT 2027 exam date is December 6.
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Contributor-Level 7
Answered a month ago
Candidates are required to pay the CLAT Registration/Form fee as per their category. The Consortium prescribed the category-wise form fee. Without submitting the CLAT form fee, the registration will not be completed.
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Contributor-Level 7
Answered a month ago
No, a domicile certificate is not mandatory for all candidates. It is only required if you intend to claim a reservation/ seat under state quota (offered by specific NLUs). Students can skip this document if they are applying solely under the All-India open category.
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Contributor-Level 6
Answered a month ago
Yes, only Indian Citizens can fill and appear in CLAT. The Foreign nationals can take admission in NLUs but through different official channel.
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