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CLAT 2010- FIRST IMPRESSION CLAT 2010 has come to an end and with it all associated apprehensions. Overall, the paper was fairly easy and tested knowledge of fundamental concepts. We are certain that everyone who had been diligent and regular with preparation (and revision) would share this sentiment. Having mentioned a brief overview of the paper this year, let us devote space to section-wise analysis of the paper. 1. English: The English section of the CLAT 2010 paper had 40 questions in total. There were questions of reading comprehension, idioms, identification of part of speech, contextual vocabulary, spelling error, fill in the blanks and para-jumbles. The reading comprehension passage was taken from ‘Greek Mythology’. The questions were factual in nature and could be easily answered from the passage. Overall difficulty of the section was easy. A good student should attempt all the questions with 80 percent plus accuracy. 2. Logical Reasoning: In the logical reasoning section of the CLAT 2010, there were 45 questions, but five questions of legal reasoning were also part of this section. There were 10 15 questions of analytical reasoning. The questions tested the aspirant’s ability to interpret information correctly. There were questions based on series, coding-decoding etc. Moreover, there were critical reasoning questions based on strong and weak argument, analogy, implicit assumption and cause and effect. The paper was in line with the LST mocks. In legal awareness, concepts including master-servant relationship, criminal trespass, theft etc. were tested. In a nutshell, this section hardly posed any challenge to LSTians. A good student should attempt all questions with an accuracy of over 80 percent. 3. General Knowledge: The type of GK questions this year was more or less based on last year’s CLAT GK pattern. It was again a blend of Static and Current GK with little bit more emphasis on Static GK. The questions were of wide range of difficulty; some of the questions were very easy like, capital of Zimbabwe, Human Rights Day, Headquarters of ILO, Gyan Sudha Mishra etc. and some of them were quite difficult like, Asian Games of 1970, the place Darwin conducted his experiments etc. The overall level of difficulty of the paper was MODERATE and a serious aspirant should not find it difficult at all. In short, 65% of questions should have been correct. 4. Legal Knowledge: Another sitter for LSTians! The section was based on general knowledge about basic legal terms and there was no legal reasoning in this section though there were 5 legal reasoning based questions asked in logical reasoning section. Questions in this section were concept driven and one was expected to know the fundamentals. Being thorough with the Word Power guide (LST) would have certainly helped students score well in this section. Various legal subjects were touched upon including Constitution, Criminal law, Family law, Contracts, Torts and basic Indian polity. A clear departure from past CLAT papers was the analogy-based questions, which were again doable for those who were thorough with the fundamentals. No question on case laws was asked which is quite surprising. International law was completely ignored. In total, an easy to moderate section wherein 90% accuracy can be achieved easily. 5. Mathematics: The overall difficulty of the section was easy. This section would hardly pose any difficulty to the LSTians as the section was similar to LST Mocks. The questions © LST 2010 Replication or other unauthorised use of this material is prohibited by the copyright laws of India
asked under this section were again testing the basic topics of the Mathematics. So, any student who has worked on his basics or has Mathematics as his forte can definitely make a difference in the overall ranking. Some of the very basic questions asked were based on Work, Averages, SI-CI, Profit, Loss & Discount, Factors and Series based. Also, there were some questions were based on the properties of prime numbers. All in all an average student must attempt all the questions and with an accuracy of 85%, due to the fact that there was no negative marking. Last, but definitely not the least, the expected cut-off: it can be safely estimated that it would hover around 145-160 for the top three law schools. Wait for more, and look at the detailed CLAT 10 Analysis, which we’ll provide tomorrow. All in all, a pretty good show, and we are sure, that all of you can afford to relax now. The LST Team
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