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AP LAWCET · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

Legal Aptitude

  • Map the Legal Aptitude syllabus into a one-page checklist of every tested area, including constitutional law, legal maxims, torts, contracts, criminal law, family law, property law, and legal reasoning

  • Define legal maxims such as res ipsa loquitur, actus reus, mens rea, audi alteram partem, and stare decisis in your own words without consulting notes

  • Solve 40 legal aptitude practice questions untimed and tag each error as a knowledge gap or a reading error

  • Build a personal legal vocabulary log with at least 50 maxims and Latin terms, each with a one-line meaning and example

Your checkpoint

A completed legal aptitude checklist plus a 50-term maxim and Latin glossary with error-tagged results from 40 solved questions

Week 2

Legal Aptitude

  • Distinguish the essential elements of a valid contract, including offer, acceptance, consideration, capacity, free consent, and legality of object

  • Classify torts by type and identify the remedy available in each of at least 10 fact patterns

  • Explain the difference between civil and criminal liability using three original hypotheticals

  • Complete 60 timed legal aptitude questions in 60 minutes and review every wrong answer with a written rule statement

Your checkpoint

A one-page elements-and-remedies summary sheet plus a reviewed 60-question timed set with written rule statements for each error

Week 3

Legal Aptitude

  • Apply constitutional principles such as fundamental rights, directive principles, and the basic structure doctrine to 15 scenario questions

  • Summarize the structure and jurisdiction of the Indian judiciary, including Supreme Court, High Courts, and subordinate courts

  • Practice legal reasoning passages by extracting the rule, the facts, and the conclusion from each in under 4 minutes

  • Write 10 short legal-reasoning answers using a rule-application-conclusion format

Your checkpoint

A 10-answer legal reasoning portfolio showing rule, application, and conclusion for each passage

Week 4

Legal Aptitude & Mental Ability and Reasoning

  • Re-attempt all previously missed legal aptitude questions and reach at least 80 percent accuracy

  • Learn to diagram syllogisms and seating arrangements and solve 20 of each without timing pressure

  • Identify your three weakest reasoning subtypes from a diagnostic set and rank them by error rate

Your checkpoint

A diagnostic report listing reasoning and legal accuracy by subtype, with the three weakest areas ranked

Week 5

Mental Ability and Reasoning

  • Solve 25 syllogism and 25 blood-relation questions with at least 85 percent accuracy

  • Practice coding-decoding, direction sense, and series completion in sets of 10 under a 6-minute cap

  • Analyze 15 logical reasoning passages covering assumptions, strengthening, weakening, and inference

  • Create a one-page error-pattern log for reasoning mistakes and the correction for each pattern

Your checkpoint

A completed reasoning error-pattern log plus a timed 50-question reasoning set scored and reviewed

Week 6

Mental Ability and Reasoning & General Knowledge and Current Affairs

  • Build a current-affairs timeline covering the last 12 months of national, international, and legal news

  • Memorize key facts on Indian polity, geography, history, and economy using spaced-repetition flashcards

  • Solve 50 general knowledge questions and record accuracy by subject

  • Practice 20 data-interpretation and analytical reasoning questions under time pressure

Your checkpoint

A 12-month current-affairs timeline with at least 100 dated entries plus a GK accuracy breakdown by subject

Week 7

General Knowledge and Current Affairs & Mental Ability and Reasoning

  • Revise the current-affairs timeline and close gaps below 70 percent accuracy in any GK subject

  • Complete two full-length mixed mock tests under exam conditions and record section-wise timing

  • Analyze each mock for time sinks and question-selection errors

  • Drill the 30 most-missed questions across all domains until answered correctly twice in a row

Your checkpoint

A mock-test analysis sheet comparing two full-length attempts with section timings and a remediation list

Week 8

Legal Aptitude & General Knowledge and Current Affairs & Mental Ability and Reasoning

  • Take three full-length timed mock tests and aim for a rising score in each attempt

  • Review all error logs and glossaries and consolidate them into a single pre-exam revision sheet

  • Simulate exam-day pacing by allocating fixed minutes per section and holding to them

  • Confirm exam logistics, including admit card, ID, and reporting time, and finalize a revision schedule for the last 48 hours

Your checkpoint

A single condensed revision sheet plus a three-mock score progression showing improvement

Milestones

Week 2: Score at least 60 percent on a 30-question legal aptitude set and have a complete maxim glossary

Week 4: Reach at least 80 percent accuracy on previously missed legal questions and identify the three weakest reasoning subtypes

Week 6: Achieve at least 70 percent accuracy in every GK subject and finish the 12-month current-affairs timeline

Week 8: Show a rising score across three full-length mocks and complete the consolidated revision sheet