How to Prepare for Legal Reasoning for CLAT?
One of the most common and important sections of any law entrance exam is legal reasoning. The legal reasoning section of any law entrance exam is specifically designed to assess a candidate's research aptitude and problem-solving ability.
CLAT Legal Reasoning is intended to assess a candidate's interest in the study of law. It assesses the candidate's legal knowledge to the highest level. To pass CLAT, candidates must perform well in this section of the exam. This article contains all of the necessary information about the CLAT section on Legal Reasoning and how to prepare for it.
CLAT Legal Reasoning
Several passages are included in CLAT's legal reasoning section. Candidates should keep the following points in mind when attempting these passages: Try to identify and deduce the passage's principles and rules. Once identified, these principles can be applied to questions based on whether they are single principal, multiple principals, without principle, legal knowledge, current events, and others. Because these types of questions can be found in the paper, the test taker must be proactive.
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CLAT Legal Reasoning Tips
- First, read the comprehension, and then attempt the question. Do not start with the hypothetical situation. It aids in developing an unbiased response/approach to the question.
- The author's point of view is paramount. When answering the questions, avoid inserting personal opinions.
- Always choose an answer that has a direct reference in the passage.
- Do not skip any Mock Tests or Practice Exams. While textbooks may not be up to date on the ever-changing test patterns, previous years' papers / mock tests are designed to best replicate the actual test.
- Work on your reading skills on a regular basis. Make a note of the following items on your to-do list:
- Static and current global issues, primarily from the last ten months
- Landmark decisions and significant cases from the previous year and before that New amendments and enactments were made in both the monsoon and winter sessions of parliament
- Current issues such as LGBTQ+ rights, the death penalty, and current events
- Legal jargon, terms, foreign phrases, maxims, and so on.
Legal Reasoning Topics for CLAT
- The candidate must invest time in reading articles about static and current legal issues on a regular basis.
- Concentrate on the legal issues that have arisen in the last ten months and read about them.
- Significant decisions and cases from the previous year should be given special consideration.
- Read about all of the new amendments and enactments passed during the parliament's monsoon and winter sessions, as well as current issues such as LGBTQ rights and the death penalty that have made headlines in recent months.
- Reading about static and current legal issues before your CLAT will help you understand the passage more easily and quickly during your final exam.
- Second, you may find yourself running out of time and unable to devote the remaining three to four minutes to reading the entire passage. Your prior basic understanding of the legal issue will come in handy here, as you may be able to answer a couple of questions without having to read the entire passage word for word.
- Increase your legal vocabulary by learning legal jargons, terms, foreign phrases, and maxims.
- To improve in this area, go over the list of such terms and their definitions several times.
- If you don't know what a term means, look it up. Prepare for the legal passages by practising this.
CLAT Legal Reasoning - Overview
- The legal reasoning section will have between 35 and 39 questions.
- 1 mark will be awarded for each correct answer, and 0.25 marks will be deducted for each incorrect answer.
- This section will include legal comprehension questions. The passage will be about any static or current legal issue, and it will be followed by 5-7 questions.
- The questions will be both straightforward and based on Legal Reasoning.
- The simple questions will assess the student's ability to present the best conclusion or supporting argument related to the legal issue discussed in the passage. To answer such questions, students will need to have excellent and unbiased comprehension skills.
- Students will be given hypothetical situations for the legal reasoning section and will have to decide the case using the legal knowledge provided in the passage.
