Useful tips: Don’t push yourself too hard. ‘Work smart not hard’ is the key to cracking CLAT.
Law as a course to study has undergone a sea-change over the years with establishment of National Law Schools and the corporatisation of the placements in top law schools in the country. Last year National Law Schools decided to conduct Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) for admissions into various under-graduate and graduate study programmes in leading National Law universities of India.
For preparing to take a test like CLAT, it is very important to study judiciously rather than just mugging up from study material readily available in the market. Not only will CLAT pursuers have to be adequately prepared but also for their board exams. Now is a time where CLAT aspirants should maintain a fine and a judicious balance in preparing for CLAT and their boards.
If you are a CLAT aspirant, you will need to know what portions of the syllabus you should be sticking on to now and how much time you ought to allot for it, where the time allotment itself would vary from student to student depending on their understanding skills.
Time management
Aspirants should proportionately allot the available time and resources to cover the topics like General Knowledge, English, Mathematical & Logical Reasoning and Legal Aptitude.
Go through the newspaper everyday. Most aspirants sometimes start skipping the newspaper sometime in February thinking that they can manage the skipped portion after the board; however it is better to study fewer portion on a daily basis. For example, there is continuous change in posts and ranks in many government departments, new amendments in the laws, etc. Instead of piling it all up its better to study this on a regular basis. This is the time where your focus on GK must be restricted to areas, which you can grasp and recall easily. Don’t sit hard intending to finish your module by February, rather just brush through it a