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How to prepare for CLAT in 2 Months (60 Days) Preparation Strategy

Author : Samriddhi Pandey

October 25, 2024

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Reader's Digest: If you're gearing up for the CLAT (Common Law Admission Test) , now with CLAT being just two months away, this article shall form an effective study strategy for you. 

It can be confidently said that preparing for CLAT in two months is one hell of a job in quite a literal sense- and very challenging, but not impossible. You need to be strategic in your planning, focused in your study sessions, and mindful in your practice.

The key to mastering the CLAT exam is in understanding its pattern, building stamina for long study hours, revision regularly, and optimising your strengths and weaknesses. Here's an exhaustive guide on how to prepare for CLAT in 2 months effectively.

How to Prepare for CLAT in 2 months?

1. Cultivate the habit of Intensive Study Sessions

Concentrated stretches are one of the major demands of CLAT study. CLAT is a 120-minute test, and it is essential to condition both mind and body to maintain concentration throughout that period of time. In case you are already difficult to sit for 2-2.5 hours without losing focus or feeling weak, building up this endurance is the need of the hour.

How to Develop Stamina for Study:

  • Start with 60 minutes of concentration and gradually extend it up to 2 hours.
  • Take breaks of 5-10 minutes between each session, but such breaks should be as minimal as possible.
  • During practice sessions, wholly keep yourself engaged without using your mobile phones or social media.

Why does this matter?

It will help you concentrate better on the CLAT exam by preventing weariness and stress during the actual test.

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2. Limit Your Daily Tasks to 5-6

Too many tasks in your daily study schedule will cause burnout and render you less efficient. The secret to remaining focused, organized, and productive lies in keeping your tasks manageable at 5-6 per day.

Structuring Your Tasks:

  • According to difficulty and importance. Start from the most important and difficult ones.
  • Specific time blocks for each task (e.g., 1 hour to current affairs, 2 hours to sectional tests).
  • Equilibrium must be kept between new learning concepts, revision of old ones, and practice questions.

Why This Matters: A finite number of daily tasks helps harden focus and retention without driving you crazy.

3. Attempt at Least 2-3 Mocks per Week & Analyze them in detail

 Among all tools for CLAT preparation, mocks stand out to be the best, but overdoing mocks may actually work against you. You must take 2-3 mocks per week and spend considerable time analyzing each mock in detail.

How to Leverage Mocks:

  • Take a Mock Test: This should be taken in real test conditions, just like the actual examination, which requires 2 undisturbed hours.
  • Deep Analysis: Take 1-2 hours to analyze the mock, understand what went wrong, note down patterns, and identify weak areas.
  • Mistake Work: Focus on why an answer went wrong and learn concepts again.

Why It Matters: These help find weak areas, decrease negative marking, and familiarise you with the CLAT Exam pattern.

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4. Sectional Tests with Time Limits

Besides full-length mocks, sectional tests are an excellent drilling method into specific sections. This will facilitate the entire process of improving your speed, accuracy, and familiarity with every paper section.

How to Practice Sectional Tests:

  • Schedule a test with a timer. Ensure you have an equal number of questions as you have total minutes.
  • During these tests, accuracy and speed are to be focused on, but it is to be accomplished such that it can be completed a little before time to allow for revision.

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Why This Matters: Sectional tests are given concentrated practice on specific sections (e.g. Legal Aptitude, Logical Reasoning) that help improve precision and time management.

5. Revise Legal Reasoning Topics & Concepts

Legal Reasoning is one of the most important sections in CLAT. Preparing regular concepts related to legal principles, facts, and various laws will be a great base.

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Revision Strategies:

  • Concept Recaps: Prepare a summary of all legal concepts, principle, and the frequently asked case law.
  • Application Practice: Solve passages and case scenarios to apply the legal principles.

Why This Matters: Regular revision will always refresh the learning for you and also enable you to recollect the concepts quickly during the exam.

6. Topic-Wise Practice of Weaker Sections

Every person has strong and weak points, and an effective CLAT preparation strategy would be to focus on weaker areas. Quantitative techniques, English, or any other weak section is your weakness, so dedicate some day-to-day practice time so that they become increasingly perfect.

How to Work on Weak Areas:

  • Work on topic-wise questions so that you are becoming more familiar with it and confident also.
  • Use resources like topic-specific quizzes, worksheets, or past papers.

Why This Matters: The stronger practice of weaker sections can greatly enhance the overall score and minimize the possibility of negative marking.

7. Genre-Specific Reading for English & Logical Reasoning

The sections of the CLAT for English and Logical Reasoning are strictly reading comprehension and inference-based. So, some practice in improving reading skills is essential through genre-specific practice.

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Reading Practices:

  • Read newspaper editorials, fiction, and non-fiction passages to get well-exposed towards different genres.
  • Pay attention to the tone, structure, and purpose of each passage

Why This Matters: Genre-specific reading makes it easy for you to quickly grasp different writing styles, an important imperative in your comprehension-based English and LR sections.

8. Revise passages and questions from previous mocks on Legal & Current Affairs

Legal Reasoning and Current Affairs: Drills are necessary for the two sections. Revisit previously attempted CLAT mock tests as many times as you can. Recaps will familiarise you with all the passages, questions, and answers.

How to Utilize Previously Attempted Mocks:

  • Re-read the passages where you didn't understand them or where you were unable to solve the problem earlier.
  • Resorts to revising key current affairs questions and updates from mock tests.

Why It Matters: Mock content reviews help reinforce concepts already covered and build confidence in where students need significant improvement.

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How to Prepare for CLAT in 2 months: Schedule

That will require time management and a schedule-cum-plan to be followed for the last 2 months that properly covers all CLAT sections. Here is a sample schedule that optimizes preparation.

1. Current Affairs - 4-5 Hours

  • New Developments: Use 2-3 hours to cover the latest news and important details, along with the legal development relevant to the case.
  • Revising: 1-2 hours review older topics and maintain a running list of important points.

2. Diverse Reading - 1 Hour

  • Reading Material: Read newspapers, magazines, blogs, editorials, and diverse topics.
  • Comprehension Practice: Practice quick comprehension and summarizing the central idea.

3. Sectional Tests - 2.5 Hours

  • Solving Time: A 1.5-hour sectional test can be taken. It might be focused on either of the subjects including English, Logical Reasoning, Legal Aptitude, etc.
    Time for Analysis: 1 hour Review your answers, and understand your mistakes. Note the areas for improvement in this case.

4. Practice Weaker Topics - 2 Hours

  • Focus particularly on the weaker sections or difficult concepts.
  • Using practice papers, topic-specific quizzes, and previous years' questions

5. Quantitative Techniques Practice

  • Daily Practice: Daily practice is to be allotted for 30 to 45 minutes only for practicing quantitative techniques.
  • Mock Practice: Practice these in your mocks and sectional test to establish consistency.

Why This Schedule Matters: A balanced schedule helps you cover all sections comprehensively, ensuring no topic is left untouched and you maintain consistent progress.

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Conclusion

Preparing for CLAT in two months seems almost impossible unless approached systematically. Focused study sessions, practice through mocks and sectional tests, targeted revision of legal concepts, improving weak areas, and keeping up with current affairs are the key to effective preparation. The above schedule can be adapted according to your needs and then remained constant and dedicated.

If you follow a disciplined routine, focus on making an analysis of mistakes, and emphasize doing better in remaining days, then you can really maximize your performance. After all, it is not so much a matter of how many hours you study or how many test questions you cover but rather how effectively you use your time and practice for the exam.

Frequently Asked Questions

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