CLAT UG study plan
CLAT UG · Give each week a clear focus.
8 weeks · About 6 hours per week
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.