There is no shortcut to prepare for CLAT PG. They test your hard earned knowledge of five years. No single book can be a substitute to what you studied throughout this long duration of five years. So from the day one in college I focused on core law subjects like Constitution, CrPC, CPC, IPC, Contracts, Evidence, Family and Property Law etc. In fifth year especially in my last sem I started to cover subjects specifically asked in CLAT PG. Majority of core law subjects were already covered in five years. What I did at this stage that I started to prepare minor subjects (those having less weightage in CLAT like IPR, Labour, Tax, Arbitration, Company etc.) alongwith revising the major subjects. Take sufficient margin of time so that you can revise the whole course atleast twice.
Once you have completed the theory part you need to practice a lot of MCQ’s. You can’t afford to leave MCQ practice. They test your understanding and memory. Many a times they show you how to pick the most suitable option out of the four. So practice them a lot. Practice past years of CLAT and other LLM Entrance like AILET, DU, ILI etc.
I devoted roughly around 6-8 Hours of study to preparation everyday. During the most productive hours I used to study theory and whenever I felt like sleeping I practiced MCQ’s.
Before providing a list of suggested books I am assuming that you have already studied good commentaries of core law subjects in your law school career like M.P Jain and VN Shukla for Constitution, Dr. Poonam Pradhan Saxena for Family and Property Law, Dr. IP Massey’s Lectures on Administrative Law, Kelkar and Pillai for Criminal Law and Procedure.
- Pillai or R&D for IPC,
- Poonam Pradhan on Family and Property Law,
- Avtar Singh or Bangia for Contract
- Bangia or R&D for Torts
- I.P Massey on Administrative Law
- A.K. Jain (Ducci) Part –I & II for Constitution
- A.K. Jain or Salmond for Jurisprudence
- A.K. Jain for Public International Law
- For Laws like Arbitration, IBC, Labour, Tax, IPR, Environment etc. refer to bare acts and do a simple google search for latest cases and notes.
For Recent Legal you can refer to- “Harshit Sharma’s Legal Digest on Current Legal Events for Judiciary, CLAT PG, NTA NET, BCI Exam and other LLM Entrance Examination”
For practising MCQ’s you can refer to
- Universal’s Book on Past year Papers
- M.A Rashid’s Book on MCQ’s
- CLAT Past Year
- AK Jain Mcq’s
This was for your static law part. To score good marks and to secure rank in two digits you need to be aware about current legal topics. So follow some good legal websites regularly and look for judgements & news related to the laws that are going to be asked in exam. To reduce the burden from students I will be very soon coming out with a book covering current legal topics that are important from the MCQ and Essay Questions point of view.
For securing good rank in CLAT PG you need to have strong hold on core law subjects that you studied in your 5 years. But from 2020 we all know consortium changed the pattern. Now it requires in depth and comprehensive study of landmark and recent topics. So books wouldn’t be sufficient in view of changed pattern. So you need to keep a constant vigil on recent and hot topics related to law. For that you can subscribe to leading Law Websites for day to day update. You need to study the past, present and possible future of every relevant topic.
In the old pattern there was a descriptive section also where they used to give you five-six topics out of that you have to write on any two. The topics are mostly of contemporary relevance but they require knowledge of past and settled position as well.
Once you have completed the theory part you need to practice a lot of MCQ’s. You can’t afford to leave MCQ practice. They test your understanding and memory. Many a times they show you how to pick the most suitable option out of the four. So practice them a lot. Practice past years of CLAT and other LLM Entrance like AILET, DU, ILI etc.
BY HARSHIT SHARMA