Magic Mantra for performing well at law entrance tests and get through top law colleges in India

Magical Formula To Crack CLAT

Magic Mantra for performing well at law entrance tests and getting through top law colleges in India

You might not even imagine it, but there is a magical formula to crack CLAT. 

And I repeat – “There is definitely a magical formula for every one of you to crack CLAT and get through top law colleges of India” and in the absence of this magic it is impossible to crack CLAT.

Let us first understand these three things mentioned above.

1) Magic,

2)Formula,

3) Cracking CLAT.

                                                                          

Magic is a must for any type of success, and there is magic inside every one of us. The most common mistake that CLAT Aspirants make is that they start getting fascinated by someone else’s magic ( especially of the CLAT toppers) and try to emulate them exactly. This is a blunder which happens by many. This is because the type of magic which she or he has, in most of the cases, is unique and does not match with anyone. Many don’t believe in their own magic and hence never, ever try to dig out their own. And try to copy the topper’s strategies. This doesn’t feel right. Many times the toppers do not know why they got the success or are not able to express that. That becomes even more dangerous. One has to work according to his own magic. Although I agree that there are some common strategies which apply to all and hence listening to toppers can also be made useful, “magic” is almost always different in all the CLAT aspirants. Every aspirant carries a magic inside them which must be recognised, respected and implemented. Then only there can be an optimal utilisation of the magic inside you. In most of the cases, it remains severely unutilised or underutilised. This mostly happens because people call us mediocre, and we trust them. In each school there are hardly 3-5 so-called “good students”, and the rest are called not-so- intelligent students. When this tag of being “not so intelligent” is positioned into our minds, in the majority of the cases we believe in that and continue disrespecting ourselves. 

Excellent performance in school validates only one thing, which is that the student is definitely hard-working but CLAT tests you majorly on other parameters, which is unfortunately never covered in school. Do not disrespect yourself by taking school performance as the parameter for CLAT. This keeps us underutilised. I feel we all are equally intelligent, and we all have that magic inside us. To get this realised, there are two essentials. Firstly, there should be a deep desire to achieve a defined goal, and secondly, we must believe that there is a magic inside us. Therefore, let us understand what “magic” is.

 

 

What is Magic?

Magic is nothing but the art that purports to control or forecast events, effects, or forces by invoking the supernatural. Often, successful students in CLAT are average performers in school. How do they succeed? It all starts with “the deep desire” to crack CLAT. The strong desire forces the so-called “average guy” to think and believe that he has the magic inside or will have to acquire it even if it is not there. So the goal in the mind and the deep desire are the first essential things needed to crack CLAT. 

(Please refer to the first few paragraphs of this article written by me – “http://clat-preparation.blogspot.in/2010/12/clat-preparation-11-dos-11-donts-for_03.html”). 

The desire will follow if you have chosen law after being well-informed, correctly guided, and having properly analysed your decision. A deep desire will arise if you are clear in your mind that this career is the best fit for you and will fulfil all your dreams. The strongest desire will emerge when you have well-defined dreams and goals in life, with cracking CLAT as the first step toward achieving them. This desire will become fierce when you start realising that you can definitely achieve your goals. And that realisation will come when you discover your own hidden magic.

Trust me – “We all have that magic inside”.

If you do not respect yourself, who else will?

Start digging today – you may find some this week, and a few of those might be the magic needed for CLAT.

How to excavate “The magic”?

Let me tell you my own story. At the age of 9/10 in my village town in Bihar I was part of a cricket- playing group. One day an offer to play a match came from another team known as the “Bullet Team”. That was a much better team than us, but we accepted the challenge. Before the match we had to decide who would be the captain from our side. Since all knew the fate, no one wanted to take up that risk. But I grabbed the opportunity. As expected, the result was an innings defeat (at that time, Test matches were more popular, and India had not won the World Cup). A few weeks later we played another match with the “Sardar team” and we defeated them by an innings. I was the captain again. Interestingly and surprisingly, next week the Sardar team defeated the Bullet team. I never gave a thought about this that at time and kept losing many matches after that. The problem with me was that neither I had the strong desire nor I ever thought that I had a magic inside me.

                                                                         

This is called “Mental Myopia”. Interestingly, I had been suffering from myopia (both eyes) since the age of maybe 5-6 years, and I never could realise that. You know why? Because I never had that deep desire to succeed in life. Otherwise, I would have tried to know why I was the only one who had to come in the front row to take down the notes written on the whiteboard (sorry, the blackboard). Moreover, I would have tried to discover why I was not able to handle a faster ball while batting. Further, I would have also analysed the matches and come to know that the reason for losing the matches were the absence of fast bowlers and poor quality bats that we had.


I always used to come in the top 5 of my school but never in the top 2 or 3 because I did not have any DEEP DESIRE to do so.

By the time I could have realised all of this, I was in a boarding school in Don Bosco’s academy, Patna. There I got lost in the extremely talented pool of students. I felt very much ignored. Sometimes I was insulted. That created a DEEP DESIRE in me to do something. Many opportunities came as the time progressed, and one of them was that I got a chance to become house captain at my school. God has been blessing me with all such opportunities to lead teams till to date. This time the opportunity was not fully out of luck, but it was because of the deep desire. I wanted to come over from the tag of average boy. I wanted to do something.

The “deep desire” helped to facilitate the opportunity to deviate towards me. And it also kept inspiring me to find the ways to improve the team’s performance and finally win the title of best house at the end (annual sports). I was awarded the winning shield with my name engraved on that as the winning captain. What made us achieve that goal? What was the “magic inside” me and my team, which led to the success? Actually, I had to discover them. First I found out that I have a very good sense of beats (musical), and I can train the squad with good marching practice. Incidentally, March past had the highest marks allocated. Secondly, I went to junior and sub-junior section teammates and motivated them to participate. I knew that many hidden talents from these sections never give it a try and it is easier to compete here. And this was a wonderful “magic inside”. I found out about two stars (Farhad and Kaukab) who ultimately became the reasons for our victory. I did discover many more, and some of them were newly created. I trained the relay team how to exchange batons, which no other team did. These things were some of the reasons for our victory. The magic is in abundance. It is just that we do not respect ourselves. 

We must respect ourselves first. Then only the “magic” will surface and will be realised. As I told you that in my school I wanted to come out of the tag of a mediocre and that came as a deep desire. I also wanted to become popular and recognised. In this process there was another revelation. In my hostel in the evening during study time there was a power failure and the generator also was not working. Then our perfect encouraged us to sing (in the dark). There was a revelation – “Vikash is an amazing singer”. He was a shy like me. Maybe because of the dark, he got the courage to do that and he got a huge cheer of appreciation. There arose the “Deep desire in me”. And I decided to take that chance in dark. It was Jagjeet singh’s “Hothon se chhu lo tum” (The best ever song in Cibaca Geet Mala at that time). I too got a similar praise and “the magic inside” was realised by many and mainly by me. Suddenly, the lights were on as an irritant to the eyes and the heart. But from there to the dinner table to the bed, I kept enjoying the (short time) recognition. This “magic” kept growing big and bigger. “Hothon se chhu lo tum” was performed again at a bigger stage (teacher’s day) and since then I remained the best singer of the school till I was there. Won several prizes in my college, became part of the best musical band in UP “Rolanda” and completed 3 year diploma in hindustani classical vocal from BHU. I had such a “magic inside” which would have gone un-realised had i not been able to bring that out.

Public speaking used to be a really difficult task for me. I used to perform on stage in several ways (drama, singing etc) but giving a speech was something which always scared me. Later, it came as a big hindrance in my career growth and one day a “deep desire” arose. It came up when I read somewhere that “who are poor communicators in the beginning are often the best ones because they know what  good communication is”. Their strength becomes a weakness in the beginning because the desire to perform perfectly from the start delays the development of efficiency and confidence. For me, it was the realization of the “magic inside.” Since then there has been some magical change in my attitude. Today, I can address a huge crowd with ease. I am still learning and I know I have that “Magic inside” me and one day I will become a communicator, one whom people will remember for a long time. This is my dream and I have a super strong DEEP DESIRE for this. I am sure that I will be able to do that. Everyone has magic inside them.

I always thought that I could do many things I was good at, but I could never become a teacher. It seemed so difficult. Yet today, teaching is one of the best things I do, and it is the most satisfying. I cannot imagine my life without it. This would not have been possible if I had not realized the “magic inside” me. The credit goes to my deep desire and my first students—Rakesh, Preeti, Manish (MBA Prep in 2000)—who helped me realize that there was a teacher within me.

                                                                 

Magic is inside every one of us and it is in abundance. You have to discover them to succeed. Please, Please, Please, recognise and respect them. We all are intelligent and no one is mediocre.

What is Formula?

Formula is a method of doing or treating something that relies on an established, uncontroversial model or approach. Only knowing the magic will not help. The magical formula is formed only when the way of doing things is designed and defined correctly. This needs organising and managing skills. A good formula has to be created by oneself. Help of correct mentors may be taken but the final formulation should be yours.

A good formula can be only defined when one is correctly informed. The collection of all related information is the first need before any planning happens.

What is cracking?

“Cracking” means discovering the solution to something, especially after considerable effort. Reaching the final goal requires a lot of effort. CLAT is a test of intelligent hard work, and there is no substitute for hard work. Hard work can make you intelligent, but intelligence alone can never make you hard-working. In fact, intelligent people are prone to becoming lazy because their intelligence provides them with a temporary cushion. Hard work will inevitably follow as long as you have that “deep desire.”

How to succeed in cracking CLAT –  here is the flow chart

Step 1 – Deep Desire

Step 2 – I can win

Step 3 – Discovering “The Magic Inside”

Step 4- Getting correctly and well informed

Step 5 – Defining the “Magical Formula”

Step 6- Implementation of The magical formula in the “CLAT Prep LAB”

Let me make things more clear with one example. This is the story of “Mutri” (Moortshobhit Shandilya). Son of an IAS, Mutri had never been a high percentage scoring student in school. The father, being sure about the bright future of law as a career, decided this career for Mutri. Mutri was a CLAT 2012 aspirant and was taking CLAT Prep training with IMS. When he took his first Sim CLAT (Simulated test) in November 2011, his worry got further aggravated. The worry was about the bad performance as a CLAT aspirant. He had never been so frustrated before. CLAT was so near now and he was apprehending failure. He graduated from NLSIU Bengaluru. Let us closely watch how exactly he handled this situation.

Step 0

Someone suggested Mutri to talk to RSCM (Rach-Neech Singh CLAT Mantrar). Mutri messaged him for help. Mutri was told to call later so that discussion can be in detail. Mutri tried getting him twice over the phone but could not get him to talk. That day he was very frustrated. The frustration was mainly because his father was about to see his test performance. ……… Suddenly his phone caught his attention which was getting an incoming call. RSCM was calling. RSCM asked him if it was a good time to talk after he apologised for not taking his call. “It is high time that you decide a career for you” RSCM asked (RSCM had read his problem in the FB message box briefly and had done his homework). Mutri reacted quickly, “No, sir I had. I wanted to be an IAS but……………. “But??” “But I feel I cannot crack that. It is too tough for me. CLAT is easier.” “But how are you sure about that?”, RSCM asked. He did not have an answer. After thinking a while he accepted that this was concluded and decided by his father.

RSCM identified the first problem: “Lack of any desire”. This happens with many of us. Most of us decide our career randomly. First mistake by Mr IAS was that he felt that the IAS entrance exam is the toughest. Second mistake by his father was that school exams are able to filter the talent correctly (in terms of entrance test prep aptitude). Third mistake was that he never felt a need for career counselling. Fourth mistake was that he believed that IAS was tougher than CLAT (Majority decide that by seeing the level of the questions). Toughness of the entrance test depends on the capability of the test taker in terms of the parameters being tested in that particular test. GMAT asks much easier questions than CAT/IIT-JEE. But success at GMAT is tougher.

RSCM made Mutri aware about the problems. The moment he heard this, he felt as if a big burden from his head was diffused. Now he was even ready to face Mr IAS who was going to check his progress report after a few hours. RSCM explained to him that a correct career must be decided first. Preferably, two or three careers must be decided in the preferred order. RSCM advised him and suggested the following actions.

  1. Career counselling
  2. Get to know what an IAS, a lawyer, a manager or a doctor do. Watch their job profile closely (Related to your potential and interests).
  3. RSCM confirmed to him (after checking his test score and asking him a few questions) that he had all that potential which was required to get him through top 5 colleges in CLAT in case he goes for CLAT(even in those few months left).
  4. No one is average. Everyone has a magic inside him or her.

Step 1

“The Deep Desire”

In 10 days, Matri called RSCM and had a 2 hour talk to finally decide that CLAT/Law is his aim of life. Matri was now desperate to achieve that.

Step 2

“I can win”

He took some tests as suggested by RSCM. RSCM concluded that Matri has brilliant potential and can even become one of the toppers. But extreme hard work was required.

Step 3

Discovering “The Magic Inside”

Maitri’s next task was to find the “magic inside”. He knew that his father had been the hero of his life and the first motivation would come from there. First thing he did was to inform and convince his father he too can do great things. He was successful in doing so by making RSCM and his father talk over the phone. Secondly he went to his previous school and met his favourite teacher Mr Martin, after recalling that he was another person who was another motivating factor. Mutri felt much energised after the meeting. Martin reminded him that he had very good power to argue. Mutri had silenced Martin during an argument over an issue in the classroom, and yet he remained humble Mutri. “This impressed me a lot”, recalled Martin, “And I assure you that you will rise to a great height, you have chosen the right career for you.”

Mutri had the task to find out more magic inside him. Most of us do not respect ourselves and never give an attempt to dig out the hidden magic inside. Trust me it is in abundance. Every day I find something good in me. Yes, one more interesting fact is that, while doing this you will come across many weaknesses too. Generally we keep avoiding them to accept that we inherit that. This exercise makes this easier. And knowing one’s weakness and realising them is a great strength. This is because the deep desire to come over the weaknesses begins the moment one realises that honestly.

There came revelations for Mutri when he started thinking about himself for the first time. He realised that he is a great team worker and has never been hesitant to share things and skills. He came to know and realise that he is a procrastinator. There were a few more good ones and bad ones. He felt a big change in himself. Knowing oneself correctly makes you very confident. You do not even hesitate to speak about your weaknesses publicly. For example I was shifted to an English medium school from a Hindi medium school. I have never been good at English. Right from my student life my articles have been published in all nationally reputed publications like Economic Times. This was possible after some of my classmates used to help me by editing the grammatical mistakes. The greater problem was that I was never ready to accept that this is my weakness. The moment I was able to accept this weakness I never had a problem in accepting this publically and then I started working on it and I am still working on it. I am sure I will overcome this problem very soon.

Step 4

“Getting correctly and well informed”

This was the next task assigned by RSCM. He collected all the past year papers of CLAT, AILET, and LSAT India. He went through them briefly but carefully reviewed all the GK questions without attempting to solve them or checking the answers. He explored the official website of CLAT. He read all the popular blogs of RSCM. He took CLAT 2008 and 2012 as mock tests under a complete exam environment. He also researched past years’ cut-offs and the most popular CLAT preparation support systems, books, and other resources.

                                                             

Step 5

Defining the “Magical Formula”

Now Mutri was ready to talk to RSCM and ask for a magical formula.

The magical formula is as follows (Caution – This was for Mutri and not necessarily for you).

(I have shared only a part of his magical formula )

Read these –

  1.      http://clat-preparation.blogspot.in/2011/09/how-to-start-clat-prep.html
  2.     http://clat-preparation.blogspot.in/2010/12/clat-preparation-11-dos-11-donts-for_03.html
  3.     https://www.facebook.com/notes/rajneesh-singh-clat-mentor/media-coverage/418275441567088

Legal reasoning does not require legal knowledge. It just needs good reasoning ability. I feel you are good at that. Let me know if you have a problem with that. CLAT ESSENTIALS (CE) material is good enough.  For legal GK you can buy Universal, Arihant and lexis nexis guides. They have a good collection of legal GK MCQ. The CLAT ESSENTIALS (CE) Legal awareness book is very unique. That will cover things which are not covered anywhere else.

Step 6

Mutri ensured that an effective implementation of the magical formula happened.

You can also create your own magical formula. I can help you. Put a blank mail to me at rajneeshsingh@outlook.com (subject – Magical Formula).

I will revert back with a link which will ask you to take a mock CLAT (Free) and also you will have to answer few questions (I may have to call you to discuss few things if required).  Based on that i will mail you your magical formula.

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

                                                                     

Rajneesh Singh is a distinguished educator and mentor with over 24 years of experience in entrance training and course development for a wide array of competitive exams, including CLAT, CAT, GMAT, IIT JEE, MCA, Bank Exams, CSAT, BBA/IPMAT, Hotel Management, and NIFT.

Academically accomplished, Rajneesh holds a BA and MA in Economics from Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi, where he was also the university topper. Additionally, he earned an MBA from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Dhanbad, further solidifying his skills.

Rajneesh has co-authored four books on the Civil Services Aptitude Test (CSAT) published by Cengage, and two books on the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT). These publications are a testament to his expertise and dedication to helping students succeed in competitive examinations.

As the Founder and Chief Mentor at CLAT Essentials and The Do-Zen, he has been instrumental in guiding countless students towards achieving their academic and professional goals. His leadership roles in the past extend to being the National Product Head for IMS Learning, overseeing all undergraduate products and job-related courses, and serving as the City Head at Career Launcher in Kolkata and the Centre Head at Professional Tutorials.

Rajneesh’s comprehensive understanding of entrance exams and product development, combined with his vast experience in mentoring and coaching, positions him as a leading authority in the field of competitive exam preparation.