Students’ Speak: Tips to prepare for CLAT in 1 month
By: Diwakar Goel
You can easily crack the exam in one month’s preparation provided you are sincere and dedicated in your efforts. You will have to practice sincerely. If you have not been following the newspapers and GK throughout the year, you should buy the Manorama’s yearbook or take help from the websites like gktoday.in which contains daily current affairs brief.
The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) would focus on evaluating the comprehension and reasoning skills and abilities of candidates. Overall, it is designed to be a test of aptitude and skills that are necessary for a legal education rather than prior knowledge, though prior knowledge occasionally may be useful to respond to questions in the current affairs section.
CLAT 2023 will be held on December 18, 2022 from 2 pm to 4 pm, and in a pen-paper based test mode. Candidates can check here one month preparation strategy for CLAT 2023.
CLAT 2023 Sectional Weightage
The UG-CLAT 2023’s question break up will be as given below:
Commonly asked questions
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| Sections |
Weightage |
|---|---|
| English Language |
28-32 questions, 20% of the paper |
| Current Affairs, including General Knowledge |
35-39 questions, 25% of the paper |
| Legal Reasoning |
35-39 questions, 25% of the paper |
| Logical Reasoning |
28-32 questions, 20% of the paper |
| Quantitative Techniques |
13-17 questions, 10% of the paper |
CLAT 2023 One Month Preparation Plan
As one can note from above the least importance has been attached to the Maths section. This does not mean that you can simply leave or avoid the section. Unlike the previous years, the pattern has completely changed. The number of questions has been decreased while no change in the time is made. The candidate should focus and develop his capacity to read and comprehend. No special preparation is needed except having knowledge of news and current affairs and a general idea of principles of law.
The impact of such pattern change will be directly seen on the cutoffs. As the entire question paper is comprehension-based, so anyone would be able to solve the paper easily. Thus little differences in marks will lead to great fall in the All India Rankings. So the aspirant must keep strict regard to the negative marking. You should abstain from taking chances and answering wrong. This will do more damage. Practice on your reading and comprehension speed, practice vocabulary and read newspaper daily. Attempt mock tests and practice pie-charts and graphs which come in newspapers, or in books like R S Aggrawal’s quantitative aptitude. Reading newspaper daily will also help develop vocabulary.
You can easily crack the exam in one month’s preparation provided you are sincere and dedicated in your efforts. You will have to practice sincerely. If you have not been following the newspapers and GK throughout the year, you should buy the Manorama’s yearbook or take help from the websites like gktoday.in which contains daily current affairs brief. Editorials are a must to improve vocabulary and form an opinion on the issues as the CLAT exam pattern will include questions based on socio-legal aspects.
It will be hard to suggest any particular study material as after the change in the pattern all have become outdated, but comprehension is available in all books and must be practised. The focus points should be having a good knowledge of the current affairs and the legal principles involved therein. For example in the recent CAA issue, one should have knowledge about Fundamental Rights, Articles 19 and 14, Section 144 of CrPC and certain provisions of the IPC such as rioting, causing damage to public property, mischief, causing obstructions in the duties of a police officer, trying to instigate people on the grounds of religion, caste, community, etc., you do not need to have special knowledge about this but just a general idea or sound knowledge is sufficient. This can be done by making notes of the newspaper and then finding the sections in the acts.
Do take the mock test which is available on the CLAT website. After this, you will automatically get an idea and then you can go for further mock tests. Keep calm and go in the exam hall with relaxed state of mind. Keep drinking water at regular intervals of 10-15 min. This will prevent your eyes from drying and will boost your brainpower.
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About the Author:
Diwakar Goel is a fifth-year BA LLB student at University School of Law and Legal Studies of Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University. He writes and guides students planning to pursue law
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