How to Prepare for CLAT along with Class 12 Board?: Tips & Effective Study Plan
Common Law Admission Test 2026 ( CLAT )
Exam On - 7 Dec '25
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 2026 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 2026 - Section-wise questions and weightage
- Topic-wise tips to prepare for CLAT 2026 from Class 12
- How to prepare for CLAT 2026 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 2026 - Section-wise questions and weightage
| Subject |
Number of questions |
|---|---|
| 28-32 |
|
| 35-39 |
|
| 35-39 |
|
| 28-32 |
|
| 13-17 |
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.
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 2026 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
How to prepare for CLAT 2026 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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