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CLAT UG study plan

CLAT UG · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 6 hours per week

Week 1

Legal Reasoning & Logical Reasoning

  • Map the two heaviest reasoning domains by writing a one-page schema of Legal Reasoning question types (principle-fact application, rule interpretation, legal maxim matching, constitutional/procedural reasoning) and Logical Reasoning question types (assumption, inference, strengthen/weaken, flaw, analogy, syllogism, arrangement).

  • Solve 40 Legal Reasoning questions untimed, tagging each with its question type and recording the exact reason for every wrong option.

  • Solve 30 Logical Reasoning questions untimed, writing a one-line pre-phrase (predicted answer) before reading the options for at least 20 of them.

  • Build a personal error log template with columns for question type, trap type, root cause, and corrective rule, and populate it with all misses from this week.

Your checkpoint

A dated error log containing at least 70 attempted questions across Legal and Logical Reasoning, each miss classified by trap type.

Week 2

Legal Reasoning & Logical Reasoning

  • Apply the principle-fact method to 30 fresh Legal Reasoning passages by underlining the governing principle, isolating the material facts, and rejecting options that add facts not in the passage.

  • Drill 25 assumption and inference questions, distinguishing necessary assumptions from sufficient ones in writing.

  • Drill 25 strengthen/weaken and flaw questions, articulating the argument's conclusion and hidden premise before selecting an option.

  • Review week 1 error log entries and rewrite each corrective rule as a single checkable instruction.

Your checkpoint

A 10-rule 'reasoning checklist' distilled from your error log, with each rule traced to at least two logged mistakes.

Week 3

English Language & Current Affairs, including General Knowledge

  • Read four editorial-length passages and answer 30 reading-comprehension questions, practising main-idea, inference, tone, and author-agreement question stems separately.

  • Compile a vocabulary and idiom log of 60 words drawn from your reading, with usage sentences rather than bare definitions.

  • Build a current-affairs timeline covering the last 12 months across polity, economy, environment, science and technology, and international relations, with at least 50 dated entries.

  • Practise 30 static general-knowledge items (constitutional bodies, geography, awards, institutions) and mark any entry you could not justify confidently for review.

Your checkpoint

A 50-entry dated current-affairs timeline plus a 60-item vocabulary log, both in a single reviewable document.

Week 4

Legal Reasoning & Current Affairs, including General Knowledge

  • Complete 60 mixed Legal Reasoning questions under a 1-minute-per-question cap, then analyse every miss for whether the failure was legal knowledge or reasoning discipline.

  • Link 15 current-affairs entries to legal concepts (legislation, judgments, regulatory bodies, international agreements) and write two sentences explaining each link.

  • Memorise and self-test 25 legal maxims and core constitutional provisions, writing the meaning in your own words.

  • Re-read the week 2 checklist and retire any rule that no longer catches mistakes.

Your checkpoint

A timed Legal Reasoning set of 60 questions with accuracy percentage recorded and a split between knowledge-gap and reasoning-gap misses.

Week 5

English Language & Quantitative Techniques

  • Answer 40 English Language questions across comprehension, para-jumbles, cloze, error-spotting, and analogy, timing each section and logging the time per question.

  • Rebuild the quantitative formula sheet from memory for percentages, ratios, averages, profit and loss, simple and compound interest, time-speed-distance, and time-work, then verify against a reference.

  • Solve 40 arithmetic questions untimed with full working shown, and mark every question where the method was correct but arithmetic slipped.

  • Solve 15 data-interpretation sets (tables, bar and line graphs, pie charts) focusing on approximation and elimination rather than full calculation.

Your checkpoint

A one-page quantitative formula sheet reproduced from memory and corrected, plus a timed English section score.

Week 6

Quantitative Techniques & Logical Reasoning

  • Complete 50 quantitative questions under a 1-minute cap, deliberately skipping any question that would exceed 90 seconds and recording the skip decision.

  • Drill 20 critical-reasoning and 20 analytical puzzles (seating, scheduling, grouping, blood relations) with diagramming conventions standardised.

  • Review all arithmetic-slip entries from week 5 and practise 20 questions using only mental estimation to confirm the habit.

  • Take one 30-question mixed Logical Reasoning and Quantitative sectional test and analyse it question by question.

Your checkpoint

A sectional test report showing accuracy, average time per question, and the number of deliberate skips.

Week 7

English Language & Current Affairs, including General Knowledge & Legal Reasoning

  • Sit two full-length simulated papers under exam timing, including the sectional composition of the actual paper.

  • Analyse each simulation by domain, recording accuracy and time spent per domain and identifying the two domains that cost the most marks.

  • Update the current-affairs timeline with the most recent two months and re-test 30 previously logged entries.

  • Re-drill 30 Legal Reasoning questions drawn only from your highest-error question types.

Your checkpoint

Two completed full-length simulations with a domain-wise accuracy and timing table for each.

Week 8

English Language & Current Affairs, including General Knowledge & Legal Reasoning & Logical Reasoning & Quantitative Techniques

  • Sit two final full-length simulations at the target time of day, applying a fixed section order and a documented skip rule.

  • Reduce the error log to a single one-page pre-exam sheet containing only rules that recurred in weeks 6 and 7.

  • Re-test 20 questions from each of the five domains, drawn exclusively from previously missed items.

  • Finalise exam-day logistics: section order, time checkpoints, and a rule for abandoning a question.

Your checkpoint

A one-page pre-exam rule sheet plus a final simulation scorecard comparing week 7 and week 8 accuracy.

Milestones

Week 2: You can state the governing principle of a Legal Reasoning passage in one sentence and predict the correct option before reading the choices in at least 7 of 10 attempts.

Week 4: Legal Reasoning accuracy at a 1-minute-per-question cap is at or above 60%, and your error log shows reasoning-gap misses outnumbering knowledge-gap misses.

Week 6: Quantitative accuracy at a 1-minute cap is at or above 55% with a documented skip rate, and English section accuracy is at or above 65%.

Week 8: Full-length simulation accuracy improves by at least 5 percentage points over week 7, with no domain below 50% accuracy.