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Hi everyone,
I started preparation in April 2026 and have been attending coaching since then. The exam is on 6 December 2026 — roughly 4 months left.

My current mock scores:
Stuck between 24-35 out of 120. Best score was 35.25 in June, but I keep going up and down inconsistently.

Section-wise situation:
Legal Reasoning — strongest section, 69-75% accuracy
English/RC — inconsistent, 50-90% accuracy depending on the day
GK — very weak, mostly guessing
CR/Logical — basics not clear yet, attempting without foundation
AR — just started
QT/Maths — barely attempted, very weak base

What I've been doing:
Attending LegalEdge coaching daily
Giving mocks every Sunday (and now Wednesday too)
Doing assignment sets section wise
Recently got a mentorship session with structured guidance

My problems:
Attempting sections I haven't practiced properly = too many wrong answers
Inconsistency — some days productive, some days nothing gets done
GK backlog from January to July
AR and QT barely started
Score not breaking past 35

What I need help with:
How did you manage GK backlog this late?
How do you build CR and AR from scratch in 4 months?
How to stay consistent when scores aren't improving?
Any specific resources that helped you cross 80+ marks?
I have coaching material, mentor guidance and I'm giving regular mocks. Just feeling stuck and need perspective from people who've been here.
Any advice would mean a lot. Thank you! 🙏

Guys I need tips on what to prepare for an internship interview at AZB and Partners. I have an interview tomorrow and I think I will be subjected to corporate and M&A related questions but has anyone else actually attended an interview. If so tell me how to crack it.

I’m thinking of getting into law school at the age of 21, am I late in life ? Will my age affect my career in this field ?

They were supposed to upload the list of provisionally admitted students yesterday but still no updates!!

I’m a law student currently pursuing my undergraduate degree and I’m planning to pursue LL.M. for my postgraduate studies
The main reason I want to pursue a PG degree is that I’m currently doing my UG from a college that unfortunately, does not provide the kind of academic environment, exposure, peer group or opportunities I’m looking for. I want to use my postgraduate studies as an opportunity to move to a better college, a better city, and most importantly, surround myself with ambitious and like minded people who are at a similar level academically and professionally
Placements are not my primary concern. My plan is to work at a good law firm for around 5–6 years, gain substantial experience and then return to my hometown and join my family’s litigation practice. I performed well in CLAT UG, so I’m confident that I can perform well in CLAT PG as well. At the moment, I’ve shortlisted Mumbai and Delhi as my preferred cities along with the respective NLUs there. However, as a safety option, I’ve also shortlisted two private universities Op Jindal Global University and NMIMS Mumbai. Do you think these are good options for my goals or would you suggest any better alternatives?

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I am 31 F, I have been in litigation for the past 5 years and i really want to go for my master's.

Also I am confused about where to start from or should I really go for it, knowing I am too old to go back to college maybe !

HPNLU has one of the worst campuses and hostel facilities I have experienced. The amount of fungus and dampness in the hostel is completely unacceptable, yet the administration seems to show very little concern about addressing the issue. When students raise complaints, they are simply told to “manage” or adjust. But why should we have to manage such unhealthy living conditions?

We pay substantial fees to the university, and in return, we have every right to expect a clean, hygienic, and safe environment to live and study in. Providing a decent living environment is not a favour—it is a basic responsibility of the institution. Students should not be forced to compromise their health and peace of mind because the administration is unwilling to take proper action.

I have been enrolled in cl for the past 7 months and my mock scores consistently vary but the problem is my percentile, there are times when my percentile drops significantly but steadily increases most of the time, why is this happening and what should I do to avoid this??? Also is 83 percentile good rn for CLAT 2027

clatpost january (national)

clatpost january (international)

clatpost july (sports)

i've attached some screenshots of the doc for those who don't know what the one liners are like

Hi I gave neet with 2 drops I was interested in research but everything is honestly a dead end in this country... I am good with academics... and honestly have enough experience with competitive exams with neet... I am done with neet and honestly law seems interesting I am reading about it and the course seems like something I can survive.... turned 20 and since I fumbled neet I am not even in a ug degree which is bad... I am looking for affordable law options max 2 lakhs per annum coz with hostel it will be a lot and since I didnt appear for clat or cuet my options are very limited
if its in or around delhi it will be the best...
do you have any good universities recommendations or realistically for a decent law career I should prepare for clat only or galgotias will work just fine?

Hey, i hope you're doing well! I just wanted to ask

Doing one liners, from GK today, Clat Express, is enough for gk in ailet? And Clat post?

Last year, i couldn't do well in gk, this time i really need some advice.

Doing one liners becomes really hectic, considering their number in clat post and GK Today. So I would really appreciate some advice regarding GK from someone who cracked ailet or someone who scored good in gk. Thanks!

I wanna do 5yr llb....and want to know about law entrances..I wanna give mh cet law...I know about it but also want to know about Clat so I can have options open for college soo please tell me about it

Guyss idk but i think i made a very big mistake to took another drop for clat its been 10 days since i decided to take another drop and join coaching and start preparing rn idk but i cant be able to study like last year and also my mock score were not so satisfying and everywhere i saw my last year collegues doing fun in their college and i am here doing same things that i do last year i just dont know what to do how to do and idk but i think that bad luck follows me i used to score great marks last year in mocks but at d day i fucked up and after that i apply in various college but at the end idk i dont get any of them i give interview in couple of colleges and they went well but i dont get shortlisted bhai kisi ne kalu jadu kar diyaaa kyaa yaar idk bhai i m just done i just pray everyday ke me plss kisi nlu ke liye vacant me shortlist ho jau i am mentally exhausted emotionally drain and everything is against me for a so long period of time.

I m here in tier 2 nlu and my goal was simply to clear ugc net but after more than 15 days i am realising that..... I am not happy, there's a lot of academic pressure and i am not ready to take this pressure rn, so i started to enquire the process of leaving!, also i am from punjab and facing lot of issues like language barrier and all that...?

How much marks are required to get into the GNLU gandhinagar for the ug general category in clat 2027

On July 7, 2026, the Supreme Court directed the Bar Council of India to set up a National Legal Academy (NLA) — a full-time body for compulsory, lifelong post-enrolment training of lawyers, modelled on the National Judicial Academy (NJA) in Bhopal. The Court's logic was significant: it held that a competent, independent legal profession matters to the rule of law just as much as judicial independence does, and that lawyers need structured, ongoing training to keep pace with ethics, professional standards, and rapid technological change.

Just over a month later, on August 9, at the orientation event for IIULER Goa's incoming 2026 batch, BCI Chairman Manan Kumar Mishra announced where the Academy would actually be built: right there, on IIULER's own campus. In his words, the decision "followed directly" from the judgment — a judgment authored by Justice P.S. Narasimha. The same Justice Narasimha who is also the Chancellor of IIULER, and who was sitting in the audience as Chief Guest when the announcement was made.

That's a fact pattern worth sitting with. And it gets more interesting when you compare it to how India built the last national training academy for the legal fraternity.

The Bhopal precedent

When the National Judicial Academy was set up, the process was layered and visible: site options were drawn up, physical inspections were conducted, the CJI personally visited the shortlisted site, and only then did the Academy's Governing Body — the CJI, two senior Supreme Court judges, and three Union government secretaries — formally vote to approve it. Land allotment came after that vote, not before.

A defined process. A defined, multi-person decision-making body. A paper trail.

What the NLA's record shows so far

For the NLA, the public sequence looks more like: judgment → event → announcement. No visible shortlist, no visible site comparisons, no visible vote by an independent body. Just a chairman telling a room of first-years that the decision had already been made — on the very campus that stood to benefit.

Why this isn't a small thing to gloss over

A few details make the stakes higher than "one location vs. another":

• IIULER already holds an exclusive BCI mandate to run the ₹10–15 lakh bridge course required for Indian lawyers with foreign law degrees — an arrangement that has already triggered litigation over what happens to students after they complete it. So this isn't IIULER's first exclusive BCI-linked mandate; it's arguably its second.
• This is unfolding against a backdrop of real institutional tension: 700+ NLSIU students and alumni recently issued a statement challenging Mishra's authority to make major decisions unilaterally, after he briefly ordered an entire graduating batch blocked from enrolling — an order he reversed within hours.
• And then there's the optics that are hard to look past: the judge who wrote the order creating the Academy is also the Chancellor of the institution that ended up hosting it.

None of this, individually, is a smoking gun. Goa may well be the right call — the campus is new, well-funded, spans 50+ acres, and already has BCI infrastructure and Supreme Court-level mentorship built in. There may be entirely legitimate reasons IIULER beat out every other law school and city in the country.

But "there may be good reasons" isn't the same as "there is a public record of those reasons." For an institution that will shape the compulsory training of every enrolled lawyer in India, that distinction matters.

So here's the actual, unresolved question:

Was IIULER chosen because it was demonstrably the strongest option — assessed, compared, and approved through a real process? Or was it chosen because no such comparison was ever required in the first place?

If a site-selection process exists, it should be public. If it doesn't, that's worth knowing too.

Source: X Thread - https://x.com/bhk_shubham/status/2089285352595042432