WHY A NEW CLAT EXAM PATTERN?
- The two most important skills for budding lawyers include comprehension and critical reasoning skills.
- Law schools mandate that students possess these two skills to cope with the teaching methodology adopted by most law schools.
- In the recent years, the professors at National Law University (NLUs) have felt that CLAT has failed to test these skills, and has instead tested the memory quotient of law aspirants. In short, CLAT has not succeeded in testing students’ real aptitude to pursue law, resulting in a mismatch between selected students and law school requirements.
- New Pattern intends to correct this.
WHAT ARE THE CHANGES?
- NO OF QUESTIONS – Substantial reduction in CLAT 2020 from 200 to 120-150 questions. A good change. Earlier pattern put tremendous time pressure on students.
- GK – No more need to cram facts of history. Questions only on current affairs with focus on editorial reviews and interpretation of current events.
- MATHS – Focus shifts to application of maths in real life; data analysis and interpretation.
- ENGLISH – Will comprise of only comprehension passages with a view to test your understanding of the passages, contextual meaning of words and inferences drawn from the passages.
- LOGICAL REASONING- There will be high emphasis on critical reasoning skills. This section will include a variety of questions to determine students’ ability to reason through an argument logically and make an objective decision.
- LEGAL APTITUDE – Will be case study based. No need to have in-depth knowledge of law subjects. However, good awareness of law of land, civil to criminal with IPAC analysis capability will be a plus point while handling this section.
IS IT GOOD OR BAD FOR ASPIRANTS?
- The CLAT Consortium realised that it is rather unfair to quiz students on their knowledge of legal concepts even before they enter the law schools.
- This section will now test students’ ability to arrive at conclusion from a given set of arguments.
- The focus shifts to identifying skills of a student for Reading and Comprehension and analysis of data and situation logically.
- Students no longer have to cram up, but hone their skills of Comprehension, Logical Reasoning and have an update of current affairs.
- This is in line with international exam patterns like LSAT, GMAT, GRE, TOEFEL etc. ITS GOOD !
TIPS FOR PREPARATION
- NEWS PAPER READING – Focus on editorial reading and its review. Cover news items of importance in areas of law making, economy, sports and international events.
- GK – Read issue based current affairs.
- ENGLISH – Learn concepts of OutLining and PARAPHRASING in Reading and Comprehension. Practice varied difficulties of RC.
- MATHS – Brush up Statistics,
- LOGICAL REASONING– Understand different types of LC and the concept behind each. Develop skill of deduction learning it like a game of hide and seek!
- LEGAL APTITUDE – Get overview of concepts of law. Focus on case studies. Get to understand how a lawyer builds and concludes a case argument; concept of Issue, Principal, Analysis and Conclusion (IPAC).
- GET A GOOD TEACHER – A specialist help is recommended. Identify one. Take the change in pattern as a +VE development and work.
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