How to solve the legal reasoning section in CLAT

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How to Solve the CLAT
Legal Reasoning Section
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Tips to solve Legal Reasoning section in CLAT

• If you are a Common Law Admission Test (CLAT)
  aspirant in all probabilities, you would be up
  against close to 50,000 competitors with the
  number spiking every year from over 20 cities
  in India.
• So how does one tackle the different sections so
  as to make a distinctive mark and strike an
  advantage? While CLAT has several sections to
  solve, one of the key parts is legal reasoning

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Tips to solve Legal Reasoning section in CLAT

• The Legal Aptitude section in CLAT consists of
  two parts the Legal Knowledge section and the
  Legal Reasoning one. The legal reasoning is
  geared towards testing your application of the
  principle of law that has been provided to you.
  What this means is you are not tested on your
  knowledge of the laws, bills and statutes.
  Rather, how do you apply your aptitude and acumen
  to resolving an issue at hand in the legal
  reasoning section? Trust OPUS to guide and mentor
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Tips to solve Legal Reasoning section in CLAT

• You will be provided with the situations and
  accompanying facts, the principle you need to
  apply and expected to arrive at an appropriate
  decision or make a judgment applying the given
  principle to solve the questions in the legal
  reasoning section in CLAT. Remember, you need to
  keep your opinion, judgment, viewpoints,
  arguments and prior knowledge at bay. Dont delve
  into what you think should be the right decision
  focus on what judgment call you should make
  applying the principle provided to you. There
  will be four options that you have to choose from
  and sometimes they will be so close that they
  will sound tricky. However, if you concentrate
  solely on the facts and principle, making a
  decision to solve the legal reasoning section in
  CLAT will be easier. OPUS provides you the
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Tips to solve Legal Reasoning section in CLAT

• Topics to prepare for legal reasoning
• While preparing to solve the legal reasoning
  section in CLAT, the key topics you need to focus
  on are as follows
• Law of torts
• Contracts
• Criminal law
• Constitutional law

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Trends in CLAT

• In 2013, the legal reasoning section became
  time-consuming for many students because there
  were questions of varying difficulty and
  attempting all questions in the allotted time
  became a major challenge for aspirants. In 2014,
  while there were questions from criminal law,
  Hindu law, contracts and torts, there were none
  on testing legal knowledge, intellectual property
  rights (IPR) or international law. The team of
  CLAT experts at OPUS ensures you can tackle all
  kinds of questions and takes you extensively
  through the format of previous years.In 2015,
  while the legal reasoning section was relatively
  easy, there was focus on legal knowledge and
  general knowledge questions.

• The legal reasoning section carries 50 marks.
  However, over the last few years, there has been
  varying trends in the number of questions in CLAT
  related to legal reasoning.

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Tips to solve Legal Reasoning section in CLAT

• Legal reasoning section in CLAT is an important
  segment in the paper because in case of a tie in
  the other sections, the score in the legal
  reasoning section will help you scrape through.
  OPUS prepares you for a variety of dynamic and
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Find below Sample question from legal reasoning
section

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• Principle

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• Situation

• 3

• Options

• Sohag enters into a contract with Rajesh whereby
  Rajesh will supply Sohag with 50 grams of
  marijuana for a specified amount. Is the contract
  valid?

• If the consideration or object of an agreement is
  forbidden by law, or is of such a nature that
  would defeat the provisions of any law, or is
  fraudulent, or is injurious to the person or
  property of another or, the Court regards it as
  immoral, or opposed to public policy, then the
  object or consideration shall be deemed unlawful.
  Every agreement of which the object or
  consideration is unlawful is void.

• No, because the contract is for the sale of
  illegal drugs.
• No, because Sohag and Rajesh have entered into
  the contract out of their own free will.
• No, because drugs are harmful.
• None of these.
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