This plan is built for students who start preparing in Class 11 and want a calm, complete runway to CLAT and AILET. It suits a school student who can protect 8 to 12 focused hours a week without sacrificing board marks, and a parent who wants preparation to fit school rather than fight it. If you are starting in Class 12 or later, the 1-year plan is the better match, since this roadmap spends its first six months building foundations that a shorter plan has to assume you already have.
The four phases at a glance
The two years move through four connected phases. Each one earns the next, so you are never testing before you can, or revising before you have learned.
Phase 1, Build. Concepts, a daily reading habit, and section foundations across all subjects.
Phase 2, Practice. Passage drills, sectional timing, and accuracy checks under negative marking.
Phase 3, Test. Full mocks, structured analysis, and rank benchmarking against your own trend.
Phase 4, Revise. GK consolidation, weak-area repair, and final exam-condition simulation.
Month-by-month preparation roadmap
Twenty-four months, mapped to what you study when. Months marked for CLAT Quant are swapped into extra Logical Reasoning for students focused on AILET.
Phase 1: Build (Months 1 to 6)
Stamina, conceptual clarity, and a reading habit that lasts the full two years.
Month | Focus | Milestone |
|---|---|---|
1 | Legal reasoning intro across tort, contract, and criminal liability. Start the 30-minute daily newspaper habit and basic comprehension. | Sectional Drill 1, Diagnostic Mock |
2 | Legal reasoning as principle-to-fact application. Logical reasoning starts with assumptions and inferences. First current-affairs compendium. | |
3 | Vocabulary in context and passage grammar. Quantitative Techniques base for CLAT: ratios, percentages, and data interpretation. | Sectional Drill 2 |
4 | Constitutional basics and legal maxims. Logical reasoning moves to arguments and analogies. Current-affairs consolidation. | |
5 | Critical reasoning inside passages, plus a static GK and current-affairs foundation. One timed test per section. | |
6 | Weak-area repair and a benchmark check to confirm foundations before timed practice begins. | Full Mock 2, Benchmark |
Phase 2: Practice (Months 7 to 12)
Timing and accuracy, one section at a time, with a buffer built in for school exams.
Month | Focus | Milestone |
|---|---|---|
7 | All sections move to the clock. Legal reasoning advances to judgment-style framing. | |
8 | Parajumbles, syllogisms, and reasoning sets that carry heavy weight in AILET. Reading endurance on 450-word passages. | |
9 | Data-interpretation sets for CLAT. AILET-focused students spend this time on additional logical reasoning instead. | |
10 | Combined English and current-affairs timed sets, with a focus on managing negative marking. | |
11 | Pause mocks around Class 11 finals. Hold only the 30-minute daily reading, then resume the cadence. | Buffer week |
12 | Repair weak sections and confirm you can finish a full paper in time. | Full Mocks 3 to 4 |
Phase 3: Test (Months 13 to 18)
Full mocks become the engine, and every mock turns into a small action plan.
Month | Focus | Milestone |
|---|---|---|
13 | Full mocks every two weeks, each with an error log so mistakes become targets. | |
14 | Weekly mocks plus sectional repair aimed at the exact areas your mock data exposes. | |
15 | Balance speed and accuracy, and build a time-per-section plan for a paper with no sectional limit. | |
16 | Three-section, logic-heavy AILET mocks interleaved with full CLAT mocks. | |
17 | Revise the last twelve months of the compendium and drill current-affairs questions. | |
18 | Benchmark against your mock percentile trend and confirm the upward curve. | Milestone Mock |
Phase 4: Revise (Months 19 to 24)
Consolidate, simulate, and arrive at exam day revising rather than learning.
Month | Focus | Milestone |
|---|---|---|
19 | First complete syllabus revision, with legal maxims and static GK consolidated. | |
20 | Weekly full mocks timed to match the real exam slot. | |
21 | Pause heavy mocks for Class 12 finals. Hold reading and light revision, then return. | Board-exam buffer |
22 | Resume intensive mocks and lock in the final six-month current-affairs compendium. | |
23 | Simulation mocks plus an exam-day plan: attempt order, negative-marking discipline, and the 60 to 70 percent confidence rule. | |
24 | Light revision and mock analysis only. Protect sleep, confidence, and calm. | Final Simulation |
Sample weekly timetable
A Class 11 week lands near 9 to 10 hours and still fits around school. A fixed daily slot you keep beats a heavy plan you abandon.
Day | Focus | Time |
|---|---|---|
Monday | Newspaper, then Legal Reasoning | 1 hr 15 min |
Tuesday | Newspaper, then Logical Reasoning | 1 hr 15 min |
Wednesday | Newspaper, then English | 1 hr 15 min |
Thursday | Newspaper, then Quant for CLAT or extra logic for AILET | 1 hr 15 min |
Friday | Newspaper, then current-affairs compendium | 1 hr 15 min |
Saturday | Sectional or full mock, then quick review | 2 hr |
Sunday | Mock analysis and weak-area repair | 1 hr 30 min |
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 memorized 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. This is the section AILET weights 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 one to exam day.
CLAT vs AILET: where the two exams diverge
Most study plans treat both exams as one. They are not. Preparing for both means covering the shared core once, then adding what only one exam tests.
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 analysis
Mocks are staged, not stacked. You begin with sectional tests to fix accuracy in one area at a time, then move to full-length mocks once your concepts hold under the clock. Across the two years the plan runs 85 or more mocks, and each one is paired with analysis. The analysis is where marks are made: every mock produces a short list of what went wrong and what to drill next, so a score becomes an action plan rather than a number you collect and forget.
When school exams clash with the plan
Board results and CLAT preparation do not have to compete. The roadmap has a buffer week at the end of Phase 2, and a second buffer in Phase 4 for Class 12 finals. During school exams you pause mock tests and keep only the 30-minute daily newspaper habit, so you stay in touch without adding stress. Once finals finish, you resume the mock cadence from exactly where you paused. A counsellor can shift these buffers to match your school's calendar.
How to know you are on track
Each phase has a simple readiness check, so progress is something you can see rather than guess.
By the end of | You should be able to |
|---|---|
Phase 1, Month 6 | Attempt every section's drills with confidence and finish a 450-word passage in about seven to eight minutes. |
Phase 2, Month 12 | Clear timed sectionals with steady accuracy and complete a full paper within the time limit. |
Phase 3, Month 18 | Sit fortnightly full mocks and show a rising score trend across attempts. |
Phase 4, Month 24 | 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, 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 best part was that my mentors knew exactly where I was losing marks. Every mock analysis became a small action plan, and that made the final weeks feel controlled." — LPT Delhi NCR student
"I did not feel like one student in a large crowd. Doubts were taken seriously, reading practice was tracked, and the faculty kept bringing me back to the basics whenever I rushed." — LPT Delhi NCR student
"The routine helped me the most. Classes, practice, current affairs, and revision were connected, so I always knew what to do next instead of randomly collecting material." — LPT Delhi NCR student