Can I still improve my score in the last two months?

Yes, and often substantially, but through subtraction rather than addition. In the final 8 to 12 weeks the marks are in mistakes you already make: repeat errors, careless misreads, over-attempting under negative marking, and shaky current affairs. This plan targets those directly with timed mocks and alternate-day analysis. What will not work is opening new material and hoping to learn a section from scratch.

How many hours a day does the final stretch need?

Around 18 to 24 focused hours a week, which is roughly 3 hours on most days with longer mock-and-analysis blocks twice a week. Notice that about half of it is mocks and analysis rather than reading. Pushing far beyond this range late in the cycle usually costs sleep, and a rested candidate outscores an exhausted one who revised more.

Should I start any new topic this close to the exam?

As a rule, no. A topic you have never opened carries a small number of marks and would cost a week that is worth more spent on your weakest revised section. The exceptions are narrow and high-yield, such as a legal reasoning principle type you keep meeting in mocks. Let your error log decide, and ask a mentor if you are unsure — that call takes one session with your mock data.

How many mocks should I sit in the last 8 to 12 weeks?

About 30, which is two a week rising to three in the simulation block. The hard limit is analysis: never sit a mock you do not have time to review, because an unanalysed mock is practice for repeating your mistakes. From Week 9 the mocks move into the exact exam slot so the timing, seat, and no-break discipline are rehearsed rather than experienced for the first time on exam day.

How do I stop losing marks to negative marking?

Both CLAT and AILET deduct 0.25 for a wrong answer, so the working rule is to answer when you are 60 to 70 percent confident or better and leave the rest. Track attempts and net score as separate numbers in every mock, because that is the only way to see whether your guessing is earning or costing marks. Week 6 of the plan is an explicit attempt audit for this reason.

How do I revise current affairs in eight weeks?

In two passes over a finite source rather than a year of scattered notes. The first pass, in Week 4, goes oldest months first while there is still time to absorb them. The second, in Week 8, prioritises the most recent twelve months, which the exam weights most. Pair both with passage-based GK drills, since CLAT asks current affairs through comprehension rather than as direct recall.

I have only 8 weeks, not 12. What do I cut?

Compress Blocks 1 and 2 into six weeks by running the revision sweep alongside your weak-section repair, and keep the simulation block intact. The order matters more than the length: you still need a baseline mock and an error log first, current affairs locked second, and exam-slot simulation last. Cutting the simulation block is the one change that reliably costs marks.

Is a short-runway plan enough on its own?

It is a revision plan, not a preparation plan. It assumes you have covered most of the syllabus at some point and need to convert that into a score. If large parts of the syllabus are genuinely unseen, this plan will not manufacture the missing months — a counsellor will tell you that honestly and point you at a finisher year instead of selling you a crash course that cannot work.

Short-Runway Revision Plan for the Final 8 to 12 Weeks

A short-runway plan covers the final 8 to 12 weeks before CLAT and AILET. With this little time left, the aim is to protect marks rather than add new material: consolidate current affairs, fix repeat mock mistakes, control negative marking, and simulate exam day. Plan for 18 to 24 focused hours a week, roughly 30 timed mocks, and alternate-day analysis of every one.

Written & reviewed by Anand Sharma, Advocate · B.A. LL.B. (Hons.), NLIU Bhopal

Last updated: 12 August 2026

Timeline

2-3 months

Weekly load

18-24 focused hours

Best for

Final 8-12 week revision

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What this page will break down.

Build

Concepts, reading habit, section foundations

Practice

Passage drills, sectional timing, accuracy checks

Test

Mocks, analysis, rank benchmarking

Revise

GK consolidation, weak-area repair, final simulation

Mock cadence

Timed mocks plus alternate-day review

Support

Classes, drills, analysis, and counselling checkpoints.

Target Exam

CLAT & AILET

Duration

3 Months

Weekly Study

18-24 focused hours

Total Mocks

30+ Mocks

Pace & Intensity

Intensive

This plan is for the last stretch. You have 8 to 12 weeks to the exam, you have covered most of the syllabus at some point, and the honest question is no longer how much more you can learn but how many marks you can stop losing. That change of goal is the whole plan.

Three rules govern the final weeks. Do not start a new book. Do not chase a topic you have never studied at the cost of one you half-know. And never sit a mock you do not have time to analyse, because an unanalysed mock is practice for repeating your mistakes.

The three blocks at a glance

Block 1, Stabilise (Weeks 1 to 4). Full-syllabus revision sweep, error patterns identified, mocks twice a week.
Block 2, Consolidate (Weeks 5 to 8). Current affairs locked down, weak sections repaired, negative marking brought under control.
Block 3, Simulate (Weeks 9 to 12). Exam-slot mocks, attempt strategy fixed, and a deliberate taper into exam day.

On an 8-week runway you run Blocks 1 and 2 in six weeks combined and keep Block 3 intact. The simulation block is never the part to cut.

Week-by-week revision roadmap

Block 1: Stabilise (Weeks 1 to 4)

Find out where you actually stand, and revise everything once at speed.

Week	Focus	Milestone
1	Baseline mock in the real exam slot. Start the error log, classifying mistakes by cause rather than topic. Revise legal reasoning principles and maxims.	Baseline Mock, Error Log
2	Logical reasoning revision across arguments, assumptions, inferences, and analogies. Two timed mocks with same-day analysis.	2 mocks
3	English comprehension speed on 450-word passages, plus vocabulary in context. Quantitative Techniques revision for CLAT, extra logic for AILET-only students.	2 mocks
4	First full pass of the current-affairs compendium, oldest months first. Weak-section drilling based on three weeks of error-log data.	Revision Benchmark

Block 2: Consolidate (Weeks 5 to 8)

Turn the error log into marks, and finish current affairs for good.

Week	Focus	Milestone
5	Weakest section rebuilt with daily drilling. Static GK consolidated alongside the compendium.	2 mocks
6	Negative-marking control: the 60 to 70 percent confidence rule enforced in every mock, with attempts and net score tracked separately.	2 mocks, Attempt Audit
7	Second-weakest section repaired. AILET-format mocks interleaved so the three-section paper feels routine.	2 mocks
8	Second full pass of the compendium, most recent twelve months prioritised. Passage-based GK drills.	Current Affairs Lock

Block 3: Simulate (Weeks 9 to 12)

Rehearse the paper until exam day is the least surprising day of the plan.

Week	Focus	Milestone
9	Three mocks in the exact exam slot, same seat, same clock, no breaks. Analysis on the alternate days.	3 mocks
10	Attempt strategy fixed: section order, per-section time caps, and the skip rule. Final legal reasoning and logic revision.	3 mocks, Strategy Lock
11	Two simulation mocks only, plus targeted revision of your own error log. No new questions from unfamiliar sources.	Final Simulation
12	Taper. Light revision of notes and the compendium, one half-paper for rhythm, and a hard stop on new material. Protect sleep and calm.	Exam window

Sample weekly timetable

Around 20 hours a week, with roughly half of it spent on mocks and analysis rather than reading. That ratio is what separates a revision plan from a study plan.

Day	Focus	Time
Monday	Newspaper, weak-section drilling	3 hr
Tuesday	Timed mock in the exam slot	2 hr 30 min
Wednesday	Mock analysis and error-log repair	3 hr
Thursday	Current-affairs compendium revision, passage-based GK drills	3 hr
Friday	Legal and logical reasoning revision sets	3 hr
Saturday	Timed mock in the exam slot	2 hr 30 min
Sunday	Mock analysis, weekly review, next week's targets	3 hr

Protecting marks: the three habits that move a final score

Negative-marking discipline. Both CLAT and AILET deduct 0.25 for a wrong answer. Answer when you are 60 to 70 percent confident or better, and leave the rest. Track attempts and net score as separate numbers in every mock so you can see whether guessing is helping or costing you.
The repeat-mistake list. Any mistake that appears twice in your error log becomes a drill, not a note. Most students in the final weeks lose more marks to five repeating errors than to anything they have never studied.
Reading speed, held not built. Four of the five CLAT sections are comprehension-led. In the final weeks you maintain speed with daily timed passages rather than trying to raise it, which takes months you no longer have.

What to skip in the last eight weeks

Cutting well is a skill. A topic you have never opened and that carries a couple of marks is not worth the week it would take, when the same week spent on your weakest revised section is worth several. Skip new sources and new test series with unfamiliar difficulty calibration, since a strange scoring pattern this late costs confidence rather than adding information. Do not skip current affairs, mock analysis, or sleep. If you are unsure what to drop, a mentor can make that call from your mock data in a single session.

CLAT vs AILET: what to revise separately

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

With both exams days apart, the only revision that genuinely needs splitting is pace: 150 questions in 120 minutes for AILET is a faster paper than 120 questions in 2 hours for CLAT, so each format gets its own simulation mocks in Block 3.

Exam-day plan

By Week 10 the paper should have a fixed shape. Decide your section order and stay with it, cap each section's time so no single passage can eat the paper, and mark a skipped question once rather than returning to it twice. Reach the centre with documents checked the night before, eat something ordinary, and treat the first ten minutes as reading time rather than a race. The plan's last week is deliberately light because a rested candidate outscores an exhausted one who revised more.

How to know you are on track

By the end of	You should be able to
Week 4	Name your two biggest error patterns from mock data and finish one full revision sweep.
Week 8	Score at or near your target band in current affairs and hold net score steady while attempts rise.
Week 10	Complete a full paper inside the time limit with a fixed section order and skip rule.
Week 12	Repeat a target-band score across consecutive exam-slot mocks, with the repeat-mistake list nearly empty.

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.

Test series and simulation. Nationally benchmarked full mocks in the real exam slot, in both CLAT and AILET formats.
Mentor-led mock analysis. Each test converted into a short repair list, so the final weeks are spent fixing named errors rather than revising everything again.
Current-affairs consolidation. The monthly compendium and editorial analysis give you a finite, revisable GK syllabus instead of a year of scattered notes.
Crash and revision batches. Short-runway batches at the Hauz Khas, GTB Nagar, Noida, and Gurugram centres, with online-live and recorded options for students revising from home or school.

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

"In the last two months I stopped adding material and started fixing the same five mistakes. My score moved more in eight weeks than in the six months before it." — LPT Delhi NCR student

"Sitting mocks in the actual exam slot sounded like a small thing. On exam day it was the reason I was not nervous." — LPT Delhi NCR student

"The compendium made GK finite. Instead of panicking about a whole year of news, I had something I could finish twice." — LPT Delhi NCR student

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Common Doubts

Questions about this roadmap

Understanding how this plan fits into your daily school life matters. Here are the questions students ask most before starting.

The plan is designed with a 'buffer week' built into the end of Phase 2. We recommend pausing mock tests during your school finals and strictly maintaining a 30-minute daily newspaper reading habit to stay in touch without adding stress.