Pro tips for cracking CLAT
Common Law Admission Test better known as CLAT is a national level exam. It is held each year for students aspiring to take admission in law schools from the colleges participating in the CLAT. If a student has a CLAT score, then it is valid for all 21 national law universities, 2 public sector universities and 43 other educational institutes across India. The advantage that clearing CLAT can give students is that, it allows students to take admission to incorporated LLB or LLM courses. These integrated courses are generally of 3 or 5 years.
To answer the basic question of students, which is how to crack CLAT? Well students can follow some important tips by previous year’s toppers and some tips by coaching institute which is as below. Most of the toppers have applied this tip, and that is they had prepared time table for themselves way before their exam and they followed them strictly. The time table should be made keeping in mind that at least an hour or two is allotted for refreshment and recreation. If these are not mentioned in time table then the mind of student is bound to fall sick and tired. Another tip is to try to refer books from at least two or three authors. These will give students idea of variety of question that can be expected in the CLAT entrance exam. These will help students to keep them calm and avoid panicking on seeing differently framed question. Another method that students should follow is solving previous years question paper, these will again help student to understand the diversity in questions. An added tip on how to crack CLAT exam is to join any institutional mock tests. These institutes will discuss the mistakes and wrong answers. These will help students to understand concepts more clearly and hence they will avoid repeating the mistakes. Other advantage of solving mock test is students will get idea on how to work on time and how to improve to solve the CLAT entrance exam paper fast and correctly. Another pro tip on how to crack CLAT is avoid using calculators while solving mock test questions. They should be solved using mental math. This will reduce dependency on calculators and mental calculation speed will improve, which will definitely help in solving actual CLAT entrance exam paper. For students belonging to regional language schools, clearing the English proficiency section is quite a difficult task and thus in this section only they lose marks and consequently reducing total marks. An important tip for this student on how to crack CLAT’s English proficiency section is by continuously reading and listening to English newspaper and English news channel. Also, such students can help themselves by reading the subtitle of the movies and then finding the meaning of the words that are new to them. This kind of exercise will not only help to improve English language but also will help in increasing the vocabulary. A different and very important tip on how to crack CLAT is to avoid unnecessary discussion about studies with friends and family. This discussions most of the time leads to serious burden on the minds of students and they start to take peer pressure. This pressure somehow discourages students and the students slowly start feeling insecure.
With keeping all the answers required to take up the CLAT entrance exam, students will be fully confident, they will be calm and composed and they will not panic in the actual exam. Thus they will answer the question paper properly and will definitely score good number of marks. This will help them to lay the foundation stone of their successful career ahead.
