This article will talk about how one should prepare for the entrance exam for admission into the 5 year law program. This exam is called…
This article will
talk about how one should prepare for the entrance exam for admission into the
5 year law program. This exam is called BLAT.
talk about how one should prepare for the entrance exam for admission into the
5 year law program. This exam is called BLAT.
The exam will be
conducted in pen paper mode. There will be 150 questions and all of them will
be objective type questions. Each correct answer gets you +3 marks and each
incorrect answer gets one mark deducted from your total score. So, keep in mind
there is negative marking and do not guess any answers. The total duration of
the exam is 2 hours. The different sections are General Knowledge and current
affairs, legal aptitude, mental ability and English comprehension.
conducted in pen paper mode. There will be 150 questions and all of them will
be objective type questions. Each correct answer gets you +3 marks and each
incorrect answer gets one mark deducted from your total score. So, keep in mind
there is negative marking and do not guess any answers. The total duration of
the exam is 2 hours. The different sections are General Knowledge and current
affairs, legal aptitude, mental ability and English comprehension.
Now let us look
at how one should prepare for each section
at how one should prepare for each section
General
awareness
awareness
This section
includes questions from important judgments that were recently passed,
important constitutional amendments, major news from the international arena,
books and authors, important awards, important days, questions on Indian geography,
important data on major national and international organizations- the head
quarters, number of members, chiefs of these organizations, then comes famous
Indian movies, nicknames of places, important wars, constituents of human body,
important discoveries and inventions, sports news, RBI news. A good reading of
Manorama year book should suffice.
includes questions from important judgments that were recently passed,
important constitutional amendments, major news from the international arena,
books and authors, important awards, important days, questions on Indian geography,
important data on major national and international organizations- the head
quarters, number of members, chiefs of these organizations, then comes famous
Indian movies, nicknames of places, important wars, constituents of human body,
important discoveries and inventions, sports news, RBI news. A good reading of
Manorama year book should suffice.
Mental
ability
ability
This section
covers Maths and Logical reasoning and questions that can be expected are
speed, time and distance based questions, simple and compound interest based
questions, logical reasoning questions for instance series based questions,
questions from words that belong to the same group, odd one out based questions,
coding and decoding based questions, logical ability questions on family and
relations. For logical ability go for R.S. Aggarwal’s book on logical reasoning
and for Maths questions a good practice of questions found in Universal’s law
guide should be enough.
covers Maths and Logical reasoning and questions that can be expected are
speed, time and distance based questions, simple and compound interest based
questions, logical reasoning questions for instance series based questions,
questions from words that belong to the same group, odd one out based questions,
coding and decoding based questions, logical ability questions on family and
relations. For logical ability go for R.S. Aggarwal’s book on logical reasoning
and for Maths questions a good practice of questions found in Universal’s law
guide should be enough.
Legal
aptitude
aptitude
Basic questions
on law from the subjects such as Constitution will be asked . One would not
need to know anything in depth from any law subject and basic information that
can be found in the book Universal Law Guide should suffice. There will be
principle and facts based questions where only the aptitude is tested and one
has to assume the veracity of the principle given and apply it to the fact
statement and arrive at a conclusion. Practice questions from a good legal
aptitude module from a coaching institute should do the trick. The last kind of
questions will be from legal maxims and legal terms from torts and IPC mostly.
These can be found in the legal module of a good coaching institute or a law
entrance guide
on law from the subjects such as Constitution will be asked . One would not
need to know anything in depth from any law subject and basic information that
can be found in the book Universal Law Guide should suffice. There will be
principle and facts based questions where only the aptitude is tested and one
has to assume the veracity of the principle given and apply it to the fact
statement and arrive at a conclusion. Practice questions from a good legal
aptitude module from a coaching institute should do the trick. The last kind of
questions will be from legal maxims and legal terms from torts and IPC mostly.
These can be found in the legal module of a good coaching institute or a law
entrance guide
English
The first kind of
questions would be from spellings, then come questions based on word meanings-
synonyms and antonyms, then comes questions based on reading comprehension
where a passage will be given and one has to answer on the basis of that. For
English I recommend the book Word Power Made Easy by Norman Lewis which covers
all questions that can be expected.
questions would be from spellings, then come questions based on word meanings-
synonyms and antonyms, then comes questions based on reading comprehension
where a passage will be given and one has to answer on the basis of that. For
English I recommend the book Word Power Made Easy by Norman Lewis which covers
all questions that can be expected.
To conclude I
would say that the exam on the whole is pretty simple if you have gone through
all the modules of a good coaching institute and for GK you will need to grab a
good well recognized static GK book and regularly read a newspaper and listen
to daily news for one hour.
would say that the exam on the whole is pretty simple if you have gone through
all the modules of a good coaching institute and for GK you will need to grab a
good well recognized static GK book and regularly read a newspaper and listen
to daily news for one hour.
