CLAT/MH-CET 1.5 Months Online Crash Course

The TG CLAT 2021 course has been created with the focus being on the evaluation of the student's capability of comprehension and reasoning skills and abilities of candidates.

The overall course has been designed to check and test the aptitude and skills which are needed as part of understanding education about legal matters. The prior knowledge of the subject may be useful but is not an essential requirement though for some sections like Current Affairs, having a prior knowledge helps the students.

The CLAT exam would be a 2-hour computer-based test, having 150 multiple - choice questions, with each of the questions carrying 1 mark each. For every wrong answer, the student would lose 0.25 marks.

The CLAT Question paper comprises of the following 5 subjects:

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

English

The English section of the CLAT exam would be testing the Language Skills of the student. This section would consist of passages of about 450 words and these passages would be from contemporary history or topics from fiction and non - fiction books and so on.

Every passage would be followed by a series of questions which tests the comprehension skills of the students along with that it tests the application of Grammar and linguistics.

General Knowledge with Current Affairs

This section would have passages mainly from the following disciplines, i.e.

• Contemporary events of significance from India and the world;
• Arts and culture;
• International affairs; and
• Historical events of continuing significance.

Each of these passages would have up to 450 words in it and would have been carried over from News, writings and literature from prominent Journalists and Authors.

The questions based on the passage would be testing the awareness of the student about the current affairs and incidents and important notifications about the same.

Legal Reasoning

This section, like other sections, would have passages up to 450 words in it and would have been picked based on scenarios which may involve legal scenarios, policies regarding policy matters and moral questions. Having said that, the complete knowledge of Law and Legal Matters is not essential.

The passages would have questions which are asked mainly based on the following, i.e.

• Identify and infer the rules and principles set out in the passage;
• Apply such rules and principles to various fact situations; and
• Understand how changes to the rules or principles may alter their application to various fact situations.

Logical and Analytical Reasoning

The Logical Reasoning section of the CLAT includes a series of short passages. These passages have close to 300 words in each of them. The passages are followed by questions which relate to the following:

• Student needs to recognize an argument, its premises and conclusions;
• Student needs to critically read and identify the arguments set out in the passage;
• Student needs to critically analyse patterns of reasoning, and assess how the conclusions can be drawn which may depend on particular premises or evidence;
• Student needs to infer what follows from the passage and apply these inferences to new situations;
• Student needs to draw relationships and analogies, identify contradictions and equivalence, and assess the effectiveness of arguments.

Mental Aptitude

The Mental Aptitude section of the CLAT includes the following but are not limited to:

1. short sets of facts or propositions,
2. There can be passages with graphs, or other textual, pictorial or diagrammatic representations having numerical information

The students would be required to derive necessary information from these passages, graphs, and/or other representations, and then apply mathematical operations on such information to get the appropriate answers.