Motivating tips to succeed and survive +2 board examinations

Dear Students,
We know that you are immensely pressurized by the board examinations that you are going through right now. We know that many of you know are nervous, while some are confident. Those who are confident, it is essential that you maintain an absolute balance in everything viz your life, other activities as well as your preparation.
For those of you who are nervous, please understand that nervousness is not going to lead you anywhere, rather it will spoil everything for you. The jitters and butterflies will pull your leg when you are about to climb on to the success ladder. Here are some tips for success in your board examinations:

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• Prepare and follow a proper schedule of your day.
• Allocate your time wisely.
• Mornings are more effective.
• Practice maximum questions.
• Get 8 hours of sleep everyday.
• Take short breaks.
• Prepare key notes / flash cards for revision.
• Get regular exercise.
• Take small, frequent meals.
• Prioritize your activities.
• Power naps work wonders

Career of law - an insight

The career of law:

You might have been asking yourself or others, "Why at all choose a career of law?" or "What's good about career of law?" or "Why is dad after my life to go to law school?" or "Are these career counselors crazy, or do law schools pay these counselors commission?" Lets find out...

WHY LAW? - A million dollar question.

I wouldn't say that these questions are wrong when they come to your mind. In fact, congratulations, you are thinking! That's sign of a great lawyer to start with. I know you might have grown up seeing lawyers as black and white ghosts in those bollywood movies squeaking "objection mee lord". Surprise, surprise! today's reality is far different. Modern era lawyers are not "the" traditional black and white clowns. They run law firms, stand at the heart of corporate world by flowing business transactions. Thanks to globalization leading to evolution of business law. 

Lawyers are self-dependent thinkers, innovators, creators and leaders. They possess the ability to self - interpret, read the un-written and hear the un-said. It is easy, they say apply common sense and you are a great lawyer. After all, they also say, common - sense is relatively un - common. Please don't ask who is / are "they"! 

Here is more interesting stuff... Today's business lawyers function great at corporate level, whereas MBAs do not often have a lawyer's brains. Moreover, lawyering a lot of fun. OK, I aint talking about the portrayal in Boston Legals, but if you like to challenge yourself, then lawyering is meant for you! Tasks such as legally negotiating a $100 million business contract that you have drafted for your client, prosecuting an accused in a court of law, defending a client, arbitrating, travelling the world for cases, brisk walking crowded Broadway at 8am with your morning coffee to meet a client waiting for you office and you sitting with him taking a view of times square, surely is exciting, ain't it? 

Ok let's talk that you are from a different background. Today, many news reporters, business people, or even doctors have found that they need a law degree in order to be more effective or influential in their field. Where doctors worry about malpractice law suits, reporters worry about their professional ethics and other issues. Business people feel that a legal backdrop will enable them negotiate a more effective deal (both commercially and legally).

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CLAT - its pattern and tips to crack!

CLAT - its pattern and tips to crack!

CLAT's recent past has witnessed the number of students appearing for CLAT increase substantially from a few thousand to more than twenty five thousand. Still, not many people are aware of law as a career. However, in the present era, CLAT is not gaining popularity. In small towns, people still have this perception that law is a more so typical, conventional, court room profession lad with black gown and a typewriter. For them National Law Universities don't exist because they don't know about them, and traditional/local universities are a better place, if at all you have to study law.

Thus, AVOCAT TUTORIALS purports to create awareness about law as a career and modes of entering this profession such as CLAT. 

Into its third year since inception, the standard of entrance examination has touched a new high as the legal field has thrown open new avenues for law graduates. The biggest benefit of CLAT and the five-year L.L.B. degree course is that it saves one year for students. Moreover, the pattern of this examination makes it feasible for a student from any educational background. The test primarily evaluates the students' mental aptitude, social aptitude and English proficiency. And for this a student doesn't require to be from any particular field of medical or commerce. Anyone can prepare for this exam.

The most striking feature of studies following CLAT is that National Law Universities have formulated new syllabi and techniques, which not only makes the students from these institutions well-versed in law but also skilful in the interpretation of law according to the demands of time and circumstances. Most importantly, a five year stint at a National Law University transforms a student into a vibrant, skillful, intelligent, aware citizen who can convincingly move the opinions and has a very strong personality.

The CLAT Exam structure:

There are four major components of the CLAT Exam, they are listed below:

I] Legal awareness/ legal reasoning:

The legal awareness segment is an entirely new arena for candidates with any background, be it science, commerce or humanities. Thus the entrance pattern makes sure that students are not asked specific legal questions. No doubt, secondary education includes Civics as a subject where students study a bit of India's Constitution, but even then they can't be expected to be well verse with legal specificities. This segment tests the candidate's basic legal acumen. Legal Aptitude/Legal Awareness This section will test students only on "legal aptitude". Questions will be framed with the help of legal propositions (described in the paper), and a set of facts to which the said proposition has to be applied. Some propositions may not be "true" in the real sense (e.g. the legal proposition might be that any person who speaks in a movie hall and disturbs others that are watching the movie will be banned from entering any movie theatre across India for one year). Candidates will have to assume the "truth" of these propositions and answer the question accordingly.

II] Test of English language:

For the test of English language, students must have a clear knowledge of the fundamentals of English grammar and composition, and vocabulary. The English section will test the candidate's proficiency in English based comprehension passages and grammar. In the comprehension section, candidates will be questioned on their understanding of the passage and its central theme, meanings of words used therein etc. The grammar section requires correction of incorrect grammatical sentences, filling in of blanks in sentences with appropriate words, etc. To check the level of competence in vocabulary building, one must practise answering multiple-choice questions (MCQs).

To be comfortable in correction of incorrect sentences, one must have a good understanding of tenses, voice, and narration. The right understanding of models, determiners, and non-finites is indispensable. Once candidates get acquainted with these aspects, then reading comprehension, sentence completion, sentence correction and other ancillary verticals become easy to tackle. One must also be aware of the common errors that are usually made by candidates in competitive exams. No book or teacher can train you in English in a short span of time. Thus it is advisable that aspirants make it a habit of reading good quality newspapers like The Hindu. A constant newspaper reading will enhance both writing as well as spoken English skills.

The most prevalent problem CLAT candidates have faced if the problem of time management in English. This is because the comprehensions have to be read thoroughly before answering the questions. Since the time limit is very short, students are not able to read the passage correctly. Either they miss out on the comprehension questions or few other questions from any other section due to paucity of time. This problem can be solved by fast and an effective reading which can be developed by a constant reading habit. As I have already laid stress on the fact that newspaper reading is a very important aspect for CLAT preparation.

III] General knowledge:

This section tests the students on current affairs as well as other areas of GK. Most of the current affairs' questions are based upon the events which occur in the preceding one year from the date of CLAT examination. Events can be of both national and international scale. Thus I reiterate that newspaper reading will suffice for any special book preparation. Newspapers prepare you for all kinds of current affairs and their analysis.

IV] Mathematical/ logical ability:

This section tests candidates only on "elementary" mathematics i.e. maths that is taught till the class 10. The mathematical and logical ability segment tests a candidate's intelligence-quotient level and speed. To crack this segment one must able to use matriculation level mathematical formulae, their applications, tricks and short cuts to solve problems in the given time. This section, as usual, contains questions on permutation combination, rate of interest, speed-distance-time and probability. 

To clear CLAT test, candidates must focus on guided, qualitative and organised studies. It is important to remember that assimilation of knowledge is more important that its accumulation. To tackle the general knowledge segment, focus must be on history, polity, geography, science, general awareness and current affairs. A thorough reading of matriculation level science textbooks along with a monthly magazine to keep in touch with current affairs will suffice.

Tips & Suggestions

1. Time Management: Since the number of questions to be attempted is more as compared to the time given to the candidate, it becomes all the more important to have a sound time management. This can be done through a sound practice by solving Multiple Choice Questions in a prescribed time. Working upon previous years' papers can also help.

2. Brush up the fundamentals of English and Build up ample vocabulary: Since a major part of this entrance examination comprises of English comprehension, aspiring candidates should brush up their written as well as spoken English skills. This can be done by regularly reading newspaper and other current affairs magazine. This will also benefit the students when they enter their respective National Law Universities because there exists a very intense competition amongst students, which can be overcome by having sound communication skills.

3. Prepare intensively for general knowledge section: One area in the examination, which primarily decides the score, is general knowledge. This is because not many students are comfortable with current affairs. This can be attributed to lack of newspaper reading habit. Thus, if this section is worked upon, one can outshine others substantially.

4. Try to understand the basics of legal awareness: This is with regards to the section which comprises of legal aptitude. Though looking at the previous years' papers, it may look quite easy that selecting the correct answer when the reasoning and legal fact is already given in the question, it is actually very tricky. This is because all the four options are very similar to each other. This can be efficiently done by the student if he initially prepares himself with a bit of legal awareness like criminal offences, fundamental rights, and government structure and property disputes.

5. Practise answering MCQs and Solve previous years' question papers: As explained earlier, the key to crack this examination is time management and for that one needs to practice MCQs and previous years' papers. This will introduce you to the pattern. Unlike the batch of 2008, when the CLAT was first introduced, one will not be surprised looking at the question paper. Thus take up a set of 200 questions in any model test paper and solve it in a prescribed time of two hours.

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