This plan is built for a Class 12 student with roughly one year to the exam. It assumes nothing about prior preparation, but it does assume you can protect 15 to 20 focused hours a week alongside school. If you are starting in Class 11, the 2-year foundation plan gives you a calmer runway. If you have already attempted CLAT or AILET once, the finisher plan skips the coverage phase and starts with diagnosis instead.
Month 1 here means roughly January of the year you sit the exam, so CLAT and AILET land around Month 11 to 12, and your board exams follow in February and March. That order works in your favour: the heaviest CLAT months finish before boards begin.
The four phases at a glance
One year is enough time, but only if the phases stay in order. You cover before you time yourself, and you test before you revise.
- Phase 1, Cover. Complete the syllabus across all five sections and build the daily reading habit.
- Phase 2, Apply. Timed sectionals, passage drills, and accuracy under negative marking.
- Phase 3, Test. Weekly full mocks with a structured analysis loop after every attempt.
- Phase 4, Peak. Revision, current-affairs consolidation, and exam-condition simulation.
Month-by-month preparation roadmap
Twelve months mapped to what you study when. Months marked for CLAT Quantitative Techniques are swapped into extra Logical Reasoning for students targeting AILET only.
Phase 1: Cover (Months 1 to 4)
Full syllabus coverage, plus the reading habit that carries four of the five sections.
| Month | Focus | Milestone |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Legal reasoning from first principles across tort, contract, and criminal liability. Start the 30-minute daily newspaper habit and baseline comprehension work. | Diagnostic Mock |
| 2 | Principle-to-fact application in legal reasoning. Logical reasoning begins with assumptions and inferences. First current-affairs compendium. | Sectional Drill 1 |
| 3 | English comprehension, vocabulary in context, and passage grammar. Quantitative Techniques base for CLAT: ratios, percentages, averages, and data interpretation. | Sectional Drill 2 |
| 4 | Constitutional basics, legal maxims, arguments and analogies in logic. Syllabus coverage closes here. | Full Mock 1, Benchmark |
Phase 2: Apply (Months 5 to 8)
Coverage becomes accuracy. Everything moves onto the clock, one section at a time.
| Month | Focus | Milestone |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | Timed sectionals in every section. Legal reasoning advances to judgment-style framing and longer principle sets. | Weekly sectionals |
| 6 | Parajumbles, syllogisms, and the reasoning sets AILET weights heavily. Reading endurance on 450-word passages. | Full Mocks 2 to 3 |
| 7 | Data-interpretation sets for CLAT. AILET-focused students spend this month on additional logical reasoning instead. | Full Mocks 4 to 5 |
| 8 | Combined English and current-affairs timed sets, with explicit work on negative-marking discipline. | Full Mocks 6 to 7 |
Phase 3: Test (Months 9 to 11)
Weekly mocks become the engine, and every mock turns into a short action plan.
| Month | Focus | Milestone |
|---|---|---|
| 9 | Weekly full mocks with an error log, plus sectional repair aimed at exactly what the mock data exposes. | Weekly mocks begin |
| 10 | Speed and accuracy balance, and a time-per-section plan for a paper with no sectional limit. AILET mocks interleaved with CLAT mocks. | Milestone Mock |
| 11 | Pause heavy mocks for school pre-boards, then resume. Revise the last twelve months of the compendium and drill current-affairs questions. | Pre-board buffer |
Phase 4: Peak (Month 12)
The final stretch is revision and simulation, never new material.
| Weeks | Focus | Milestone |
|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1 to 2 | Full syllabus revision with legal maxims and static GK consolidated. Simulation mocks in the real exam slot. | Simulation Mocks |
| Week 3 | Exam-day plan: attempt order, negative-marking discipline, and the 60 to 70 percent confidence rule for guessing. | Final Simulation |
| Week 4 | Light revision and mock analysis only. Protect sleep, confidence, and calm. | Exam window |
Sample weekly timetable
A Class 12 week lands near 16 to 18 hours and still fits around school and boards. A fixed daily slot you actually keep beats a heavy plan you abandon by March.
| Day | Focus | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | Newspaper, then Legal Reasoning | 2 hr |
| Tuesday | Newspaper, then Logical Reasoning | 2 hr |
| Wednesday | Newspaper, then English passages | 2 hr |
| Thursday | Newspaper, then Quant for CLAT or extra logic for AILET | 2 hr |
| Friday | Newspaper, then current-affairs compendium | 2 hr |
| Saturday | Full mock in the exam slot | 2 hr 30 min |
| Sunday | Mock analysis, error log, and weak-area repair | 3 hr |
Section strategy: the five CLAT sections
- English Language. Comprehension-led passages of about 450 words. Build reading speed, inference, and vocabulary read in context rather than memorised in lists.
- Current Affairs and GK. Passage-based questions on the last year of news. Daily reading plus the monthly compendium covers legal, national, and international developments.
- Legal Reasoning. You apply a given principle to a set of facts. No prior legal knowledge is needed, so the skill is careful reading and clean application.
- Logical Reasoning. Short passages testing arguments, assumptions, inferences, and analogies. AILET weights this section most, so it earns extra practice.
- Quantitative Techniques. Class 10 level maths read from data sets and graphs: ratios, percentages, averages, and interpretation. Present in CLAT, absent in AILET.
Reading speed underpins four of the five sections, which is why the daily newspaper habit runs from Month 1 to exam day without a break.
CLAT vs AILET: where the two exams diverge
In a single year you cannot afford to prepare twice. You cover the shared core once, then add only what one exam tests and the other does not.
| Feature | CLAT | AILET (NLU Delhi) |
|---|---|---|
| Sections | Five | Three |
| Total questions | 120 | 150 |
| Duration | 2 hours | 120 minutes |
| Section split | English, Current Affairs and GK, Legal Reasoning, Logical Reasoning, Quantitative Techniques | English (50), Current Affairs and GK (30), Logical Reasoning (70) |
| Quantitative section | Yes | No |
| Heaviest weight | Balanced across sections | Logical Reasoning, at 70 of 150 |
| Negative marking | 0.25 per wrong answer | 0.25 per wrong answer |
| Conducted by | Consortium of NLUs | NLU Delhi, separately |
Mock cadence and the analysis loop
Mocks are staged rather than stacked. Sectionals come first so accuracy is fixed one area at a time, and full mocks arrive once your coverage holds under the clock. From Month 9 the cadence is weekly, and across the year the plan runs 80 or more mocks, each paired with analysis. The analysis is where the marks are made: every mock produces a short list of what went wrong, why, and what to drill next, so a score becomes an action plan rather than a number you collect.
When school and boards clash with the plan
In a 12-month plan the good news is sequencing: CLAT and AILET fall in December, and your board exams follow in February and March, so the two peaks do not overlap. The clash that does happen is school pre-boards in November, which is why Month 11 carries a buffer. During pre-boards you pause mock tests and keep only the 30-minute daily newspaper habit, then resume the cadence from exactly where you paused. A counsellor can move that buffer to match your school's calendar.
How to know you are on track
Each phase has a readiness check, so progress is something you can see rather than guess.
| By the end of | You should be able to |
|---|---|
| Phase 1, Month 4 | Attempt every section without gaps in coverage and finish a 450-word passage in about seven to eight minutes. |
| Phase 2, Month 8 | Clear timed sectionals with steady accuracy and complete a full paper inside the time limit. |
| Phase 3, Month 11 | Sit weekly full mocks and show a rising score trend, with your error log shrinking rather than repeating. |
| Phase 4, Month 12 | Hold a consistent target-band score in exam-condition mocks with disciplined attempt choices. |
How Law Prep Tutorial Delhi NCR supports this plan
The plan is a map. The support is what keeps you on it. As the official Delhi branch of Law Prep Tutorial, LPT Delhi NCR backs this roadmap with 1310 or more NLU selections built over 23 or more years across four Delhi NCR centres.
- Classes and centres. Learn at the Hauz Khas, GTB Nagar, Noida, and Gurugram centres, with online support and recorded lectures for revision and missed sessions.
- Drills and mock analysis. Sectional drills, weekly full mocks, and mentor-led analysis that turns each test into a focused repair list, taught by faculty with 10 or more years of experience.
- Current-affairs support. A monthly compendium and editorial analysis, so your revision is handled and your daily reading builds the comprehension speed CLAT rewards.
- Counselling and parent visibility. Counselling checkpoints map the plan to your school schedule, and a parent dashboard tracks test scores, mock reports, and teacher feedback.
Fees, scholarship eligibility, centre fit, and batch schedule are confirmed transparently during counselling. A free scholarship test can earn a merit-based fee waiver of up to 100 percent, so cost is discussed with a clear path, not a guess.
What LPT Delhi students say
"The 1-year timetable changed how I approached mocks. By September negative marking was not scary any more, it was just maths." — LPT Delhi NCR student
"I was worried the CLAT year would cost me my boards. It did not. The plan front-loaded the syllabus so December was revision, and February was school." — LPT Delhi NCR student
"Every Sunday I knew exactly what I had got wrong and what to fix. That one habit moved my score more than any new book." — LPT Delhi NCR student