How to self-study for CLAT? I'm really helpless! I don't have online coaching! I have to make it through self-study! please suggest some tips!

Following points given below will help you to prepare for CLAT:-

1.Subjects and syllabus:To prepare for any exam, first thing to do is know it's subjects and syllabus.

2.Adjust Your Strategy: Adjust your strategy, starting right now! Read the online materials. Read newspaper articles, magazine articles etc. Keep remembering the important formulas in your free time.

3.Follow a Daily Routine: Candidates need to go for a routine study of 8-9 hours daily. Take a break in between the regular study of 2 hours.

4.Concrete Vocabulary: Vocabulary will help you in English and Legal aptitude. Try to grasp as much new words as you can. Start with learning 10 new words daily and use them in your daily life.

5.Prepare Notes: Preparing notes for current G.K or for any other lengthy topic will help you in saving your time. Moreover, it is easy to study from your own notes rather than from books. These notes will immensely help you in the last 30 days of CLAT.

6.Online Mock Tests: Mock tests can help you up-to a great extent in understanding the pattern of questions asked the difficulty level of those questions topic-wise.

7.Pick out the best books: The books become best when you make it worth reading. It is not necessary that the famous books available in the market would always be suitable to you. The best book for you is which helps you to understand the things better. Choose your best book.

Thankyou!

Hope it helps!

As you have 5 parts i,e English, Mathematics, General Knowledge, Logical Reasoning and Legal Aptitude.

In English you will get two parts, Comprehension passage and Grammar part and i think you can easily cover this. Just go through previous year papers and Wren n Martin book and Word Power made easy. Quantitative Aptitude by R.S Aggarwal is one of the best books for Mathematics. Legal Aptitude by RJR Kasibhatla. For General Knowledge you can follow Manohar Pandey and for Current affairs go through Study iq channel and their previous months pdf.

All the best!!

CLAT is a 2 hour test with 150 MCQs. Each correct answer gets you 1 mark and wrong answer takes away 0.25 marks. The exam is divided into 5 subjects:

English:

You will be given passages of about 450 words. These passages are usually from Contemporary or Historically signification fiction and nonfiction writing. The standard would be of 12th standard student. So each Passage has a series of questions which will check your Comprehension and language skills. You will be required to Read and comprehend the main point discussed in the passage. Draw Inferences and conclusions based on the passage. Summarise the passage. You will have to compare and contrast the different viewpoints set out in the passage. You will have to understand the meaning of various words and phrases used in the passage.

Current Affairs including General Knowledge: You will be given passages of upto 450 words and these passages are usually taken from News, Journalistic sources and nonfiction writing. The questions may include legal information or knowledge but do not need any additional knowledge of the law beyond the passage. This sections requires you to demonstrate knowledge of various aspects of current affairs and general knowledge including Contemporary events of significance at National and International Level, Arts and Culture, International Affairs and Historical Events.

Logical Reasoning section consists of Short passages of about 300 words each. You have to recognise an argument, its premises and conclusions. You have to read and identify the arguments set out in a passage. Critically analyse the patterns of reasoning and assess how conclusions may depend on particular premises or evidence. You have to infer what follows from the passage and draw relationships and analogies, identify contradictions and equivalence.

Legal Reasoning section has passages of 450 words each which may relate to fact situations or scenarios involving legal matters, public policy questions or moral philosophical enquiries. You need not require any prior legal knowledge. General awareness will do. Yuo have to idenify and infer the rules and passages set out in the passage and apply those rules to various fact situations and understand how changes to the rules or principles may alter the application to various fact situations.

Quantitative Techniques section includes short set of facts or prepositions, graphs, or other textual, pictorial or diagrammatic representations of numerical information followed by a series of questions. You need to apply 10th standard mathematical operations on ratios and proportions, basic algebra, mensuration and statistical estimation.

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