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Crack the CLAT!

Start preparing at least 6 months in advance. However, preparing for a year will make your chances almost certain.
Study for about 2 or 3 hours a day if you have started 6 months in advance.
Practice a CLAT model paper daily once you have become acquainted with the syllabus. Practice indeed makes one perfect.

Legal Aptitude:

Legal Reasoning:

Previous Years CLAT Question Papers
CLAT Exam Preparation Guides

(NOTHING PREPARES YOU MORE FOR THE CLAT EXAM MORE THAN THE PREVIOUS YEARS QUESTION PAPERS OF CLAT. ORDER THE ENTIRE SET FROM THE UNIVERSITY CONDUCTING THE EXAM.)

Legal GK:

Manish Arora's Guide to Legal Reasoning
Civil Services Preparation Magazines

General Preparation -

Universal's Guide to LLB Entrance Examination
The Ultimate Guide to LLB Entrance Examination 2008-2009-LexisNexis Butterworths Wadhwa
Common Law Admission Test Guide-from A1 Books
(CLAT GUIDES HELP YOU COVER ALL PARTS OF THE CLAT SYLLABUS. THEY GO A LONG WAY IN GIVING YOU A ROUGH IDEA OF THE PAPER.)

General Knowledge:

Yearbooks:

Manorama
Penguin
Competition Success Review
(THESE YEARBOOKS WILL HELP YOU PREPARE YOUR BASIC GENERAL AWARENESS.)

Current Affairs:
- Civil Services Magazines such as:
  - Pratiyogita Darpan

Competition Refresher
Civil Services Chronicle
Competition Refresher

(THESE MAGAZINES WILL HELP YOU GET YOUR CURRENT AFFAIRS IN SHAPE.)

English

Vocabloury Building:

Merriam Webster's Vocabloury Builder
Chandresh Agarwal's MBA Today (Magazine)
Any MBA Entrance Exam Magazine

(THE MERRIAM WEBSTER IS AN AWESOME PREPARATION VEHICLE. IT CONTAINS 2000+ WORDS DIVIDED INTO 20+ CHAPTERS OF AROUND 40 WORDS EACH, DIVIDED INTO SUB UNITS OF 10 WORDS. AFTER 10 WORDS, YOU HAVE A SMALL TEST OF WORD MEANINGS AND GRAMMATICAL USAGE. DOING 1 CHAPTER A DAY IS REALLY EASY. TO PLAY SAFE, DO 1 CHAPTER IN TWO DAYS. ADD AN MBA ENTRANCE MAGAZINE TO IT AND YOU WILL HAVE AN AWESOME VOCABLOURY IN 60 DAYS.)

Grammar:
- Any decent Grammar Guidebook, such as Wren & Martin

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