Since the time
CLAT was founded in 2008 the five year law course has more or less replaced the
conventional three year LLB but Delhi University has emerged as the sole name
which keeps three year LLB courses alive in India. The DU LLB three year law
course is a reputed course for all those who are not sure of the career path
they will choose post their education and for those who want many career paths
open for themselves in the future. So the question we are going to answer is how
does one prepare for the DU.LLB entrance
The paper pattern
is such that there are a total of 175 questions carrying a weightage of 4 marks
each. The maximum marks for the exam are 700.
The best tip to
prepare according to all experts is that one should get hold of past year
papers and try and solve them.
Let us now look
at each section of the paper
1. English
· The first section is English and
comprehension. The focus areas are vocabulary, grammar and sentence correction,
and reading comprehension.
· In order to build vocabulary I
suggest you straight away pick up the dictionar
and read the meanings of twenty words daily.
and read the meanings of twenty words daily.
· Read an English newspaper too.
This will help with your GK preparation as well.
· If you want to improve your
grammar then go for the book called Wren and Martin and read the relevant
sections. For example if you want to learn about punctuations then read only
that chapter.
For the most part
this section should be scoring.
2. General Knowledge
· The GK section is very important
because a large number of questions come from this section and for DU.LLB
current affairs are quite important.
· Read the newspaper "The
Hindu" every day for one year and read each month's issue of the
competition success magazine for one whole year.
· Inculcate the habit of watching a
one hour news show everyday where they go over all events of the day.
· Make your notes.
· Daily preparation is a much better
way to prepare for GK than learning everything at the last moment but if you
are not prepared and want a last minute tip then go for an yearbook like
Manorama year book which will cover the news for one whole year.
3. Legal aptitude
This section also
covers questions from legal GK for instance important positions held by people
from the legal field for example if a lawyer holds a ministry. You could also
be asked about important judgments passed by the SC or HC related to interpretation
of any article of the constitution, or judgments for safety of women or those related
to intellectual property. This was all about legal GK and for legal reasoning I
suggest the compilation of past year solved papers by A.P. Bhardwaj.
4. Logical reasoning
Once again I would
recommend the book by RS Aggarwal which is more than sufficient to cover this
section.
For last minute
revisions I suggest the Universal Law Guide. Also, ensure you take a lot of
mock tests so as to be able to get an accurate idea about how well you do while
keeping in mind the time factor.
My conclusion is
that with a little preparation this exam is not so much of a tough nut to
crack.
