Class 10 Student Seeking Advice: CLAT or IPMAT Preparation?

Ans: Sumeet Sir, Please Note, (1) Syllabus for both Exams are more or less same. (2) It is advisable to join any Coaching Center once your Son completes his 10th Standard, either offline (if nearby your home) or online. (3) From now onwards, he can even practice questions of Quantitative Ability, Logical Reasoning & Verbal Ability of 10th Level to get him mentally prepared for Advance Problems for both Exams during his 11th / 12th Standards. (4) He should focus more on weak subjects and practice more till he appears in both Exams (5) Should also plan to manage both School Syllabus & also preparation for these 2 exams (6) He has to keep on attempting Online Test Series frequently to not only to know the wrongly answered questions but also the speed and accuracy, besides time taken for each question (7) MOST IMPORTANT which your son should keep in mind. Law Courses are tougher, compared to Management Courses. (8) Aspiring Law Students should read, write & memorize a lot like Sections, Sub-Sections, Clauses & Sub-Clauses various Bare Acts apart from Specialisation your son chooses (Civil, Criminal, Company, Labour Laws etc.) (9) According to a recent Article in 'Times of India', most Law Graduates prefer working in Corporates / Companies instead of Practising as Lawyers in Courts due to lack of lengthy litigation process and lack of patience. Please think over this, whether your son will be suitable for this? If yes, he can appear in CLAT Exam also apart from IPMAT as a back-up (10) Please shortlist the Universities / Colleges to be targeted for both exams and also the know the expected Score / Percentile / Marks for the Top-Ranked Universities / Colleges. I hope I have covered important points Sir. If you need any other clarification(s), please follow-up with me.

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Ans: Sumeet Sir, as Students should always have Plan B & Plan C, he can target both CLAT & IPMAT. However,

(a) he should allot more time to the one he is more interested in (law or management?).
(b) Preparing for both exams even from the 10th now will help him a lot to crack both exams with a decent score
(c) It is better to shortlist at least 5 law/management colleges he wishes to join, based on location preference, NIRF Ranking, specialization in both (civil, criminal, corporate, tax, cyber, intellectual property etc. and also in management: Finance, HR, Marketing, Operations, IT/Systems, etc.)
(d) He should join offline or online Coaching with any reputed Coaching Center. Choosing the right coaching center to prepare for both exams is important & also the Time Management for both.
(e) Make sure, he chooses the right stream (commerce or science) for his 11th/12th. Choosing the easier stream and the stream he is interested in will be better as he has to focus for CLAT & IPMAT also.
(f) It is also advisable to appear in 2-more Law & Management Entrance Exams as back-ups, instead of relying only on CLAT & IMPAT.
(g) Please check the syllabus of each Entrance Exam, download them, check the differences & he should focus more on weak subjects/topics among (examples of 2 exams):

IPMAT: Quantitative Ability, Logical Reasoning, and Verbal Ability.
CLAT: current affairs, logical reasoning, English language, legal reasoning, and quantitative techniques.

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