60 Days to CLAT: What Should You Stop Wasting Time On?

When you are around 60 days away from CLAT, the biggest problem is usually not a lack of study material. It is spending too much time on things that are no longer giving enough returns.

At this stage, preparation needs to become more selective.

You do not need ten new books, endless lectures or a completely redesigned timetable. You need more mocks, better mock analysis, regular reading, revision of current affairs, focused practice and improvement in the areas where you are actually losing marks.

For CLAT 2027, the examination is scheduled for 6 December 2026. The UG paper has 120 questions to be attempted in 120 minutes, with 0.25 marks deducted for every incorrect answer. This means speed, comprehension, question selection and accuracy become extremely important in the final weeks.

So, with roughly 60 days to CLAT, here is what you should seriously consider stopping.

Why Do the Final 60 Days of CLAT Preparation Matter So Much?

The final two months are different from the beginning of your CLAT preparation.

Earlier, it makes sense to spend time learning concepts, experimenting with resources and understanding each section. With only two months remaining, your priority should gradually shift towards performance under exam conditions.

The official CLAT UG syllabus itself makes it clear that the examination primarily tests comprehension and reasoning abilities rather than extensive prior knowledge. The five sections are English Language, Current Affairs including General Knowledge, Legal Reasoning, Logical Reasoning and Quantitative Techniques.

That means the last 60 days should largely revolve around:

• solving passages and questions;
• taking full-length mocks;
• analysing mistakes;
• revising current affairs;
• strengthening weak concepts;
• improving reading speed and accuracy; and
• developing a reliable exam strategy.

Anything that repeatedly takes time away from these activities deserves to be questioned.

1. Stop Collecting New CLAT Study Material

One of the easiest ways to waste the final two months is to keep searching for better material.

You already have five mock sources, three current affairs PDFs, multiple YouTube playlists and several books. Then someone recommends another resource and suddenly you feel that your existing material is not enough.

This creates a cycle of collecting instead of practising.

At this stage, completion matters more than collection.

For example, solving and properly analysing 20 good mocks will generally help more than downloading 100 mocks and attempting only a few of them.

What should you do instead?

Choose a limited set of resources for each section and stick to them.

Your basic preparation system could simply include:

• one dependable mock source;
• previous CLAT papers;
• one current affairs revision source;
• one source for sectional practice; and
• your own notebook or document for mistakes and revision.

If your existing material covers what you need, there is little reason to keep searching.

2. Stop Watching Long Lectures for Topics You Already Understand

Video lectures can be useful when a concept is genuinely unclear.

But in the final 60 days, spending two hours watching a lecture on a topic that you already understand reasonably well may not be the best use of time.

For CLAT, passive learning should gradually reduce while active practice increases.

Suppose you understand percentages but struggle to solve percentage-based Quantitative Techniques questions quickly. Watching another introductory percentage lecture may not solve the real problem.

What you need is timed practice.

Use lectures only when there is a clear purpose

Watch a concept video when:

• you repeatedly make the same conceptual mistake;
• you genuinely do not understand the topic;
• your mock analysis shows a particular gap; or
• a short explanation can solve the problem quickly.

Do not watch lectures simply because completing a playlist feels productive.

3. Stop Trying to Study Every Possible Current Affairs Topic

Current affairs often creates anxiety because there is no perfectly fixed list of topics.

The Consortium’s CLAT 2027 FAQ states that there is no specific time frame prescribed for the Current Affairs including General Knowledge section. The official syllabus says this section may cover significant contemporary events from India and the world, arts and culture, international affairs and historical events of continuing significance.

This does not mean you should start studying every news event that appeared during the year.

Trying to memorise thousands of isolated facts is usually inefficient.

Focus on important issues and their background

When revising an important current affairs topic, try to understand:

1. What happened?
2. Why did it happen?
3. Who or which institutions were involved?
4. Why is the issue important?
5. What important background information is connected with it?

For example, if an important international summit is in the news, simply memorising its date may not be enough. Understanding the organisation, participating countries, major decisions and relevant background gives you much better coverage.

4. Stop Making Beautiful Notes That You Will Never Revise

There is nothing wrong with organised notes.

The problem begins when note-making itself becomes the preparation.

Students sometimes spend hours colour-coding notebooks, rewriting newspaper articles or preparing detailed notes from material that they already have.

With 60 days remaining, every page of notes should answer one question:

Will I realistically revise this before CLAT?

If the answer is no, do not spend an hour creating it.

Make revision-friendly notes instead

Your final-phase notes should preferably contain:

• important current affairs facts;
• commonly forgotten formulas;
• logical reasoning traps;
• vocabulary encountered during practice;
• mock-test mistakes;
• legal reasoning errors; and
• short reminders about your exam strategy.

Think of them as revision tools, not textbooks.

5. Stop Taking Mocks Without Analysing Them

This is one of the biggest mistakes you can make.

Taking a CLAT mock is only half the exercise.

The other half is understanding what happened inside that mock.

Suppose you score lower than expected. Simply taking another mock the next day may not fix anything.

You need to know whether marks were lost because of:

• poor comprehension;
• excessive guessing;
• incorrect question selection;
• weak current affairs preparation;
• calculation errors;
• spending too much time on one passage;
• changing correct answers;
• misunderstanding the author’s argument; or
• attempting too many doubtful questions.

Remember that CLAT has negative marking of 0.25 marks for every incorrect answer, so avoidable mistakes can directly affect your final score.

Maintain a simple mock-analysis sheet

After every mock, note something like this:

Do not obsess over one particular mock score. Mock scores can vary significantly depending on the paper’s difficulty, quality and testing conditions.

Look for trends across several mocks.

6. Stop Comparing Every Mock Score With Other Students

Someone in a Telegram group scored 95.

Another student claims to be scoring 105.

Someone else says anything below a certain score means there is no chance of getting an NLU.

This comparison rarely helps.

Different mock providers have different difficulty levels. Even within the same test series, one paper can be considerably easier or harder than another.

Instead of asking, “What did everyone else score?” ask:

Why did I lose my marks?

If your performance moves from:

• rushed attempts to controlled attempts;
• repeated mistakes to fewer repeated mistakes;
• incomplete papers to better time management; and
• random guessing to better question selection,

your preparation is moving in the right direction.

Scores and ranks required for particular NLUs also vary across examination years, categories, reservation policies and paper difficulty. Therefore, mock scores should not be treated as guaranteed predictors of an NLU or final rank.

7. Stop Trying to Master Advanced Mathematics

CLAT Quantitative Techniques is not an advanced mathematics examination.

The official syllabus refers to the application of 10th-standard mathematical operations, including areas such as ratios and proportions, basic algebra, mensuration and statistical estimation.

You therefore do not need to spend the last 60 days learning difficult mathematics that is far beyond the CLAT requirement.

Focus on useful basics

Strengthen areas such as:

• percentages;
• ratios and proportions;
• averages;
• profit and loss;
• basic algebra;
• mensuration;
• interpretation of tables and charts; and
• basic statistical calculations.

More importantly, practise extracting numerical information from a set and calculating accurately under time pressure.

8. Stop Studying Legal Reasoning Like a Law-School Subject

You do not need to become a first-year law student before CLAT.

The official syllabus specifically says that prior knowledge of law is not required for the Legal Reasoning section. Candidates are expected to identify principles from passages and apply them to factual situations.

General awareness of important legal and contemporary issues can certainly help.

But spending your final 60 days memorising dozens of statutory provisions, case citations or complicated legal doctrines is usually unnecessary unless they are directly relevant to your preparation material or current affairs.

Spend more time on application

Legal Reasoning practice should train you to:

• identify the principle;
• understand its scope;
• recognise relevant facts;
• ignore emotionally attractive but legally irrelevant facts;
• apply the principle correctly; and
• understand how changing a fact may change the answer.

The skill being tested is reasoning through legal material, not demonstrating a law degree’s worth of knowledge.

9. Stop Reading the Newspaper From Beginning to End

Reading is important for CLAT.

Reading every newspaper page is not.

At this stage, newspaper reading should support your comprehension and current affairs preparation without taking over your entire schedule.

You generally do not need to spend two or three hours every morning reading:

• local crime reports;
• routine political statements;
• celebrity news;
• repetitive sports reporting;
• advertisements; or
• minor stories with little relevance.

Read selectively

Focus more on:

• major national developments;
• important international events;
• significant Supreme Court and constitutional developments;
• major government policies;
• economy-related issues of national significance;
• international organisations;
• environment and science developments;
• important editorials; and
• major social and public-policy debates.

An editorial can also be useful reading practice because it trains you to identify arguments, assumptions, tone and conclusions.

10. Stop Avoiding Your Weakest Section

Students naturally prefer solving sections they enjoy.

If Legal Reasoning is your strongest section, completing another legal sectional feels good.

But if Quantitative Techniques consistently remains untouched in mocks, avoiding it for another 60 days will not make the problem disappear.

Your weak section does not necessarily need to become your strongest section.

It needs to stop becoming a major liability.

Use mock data to decide what to practise

Ask:

• Which section gives me the lowest accuracy?
• Where am I spending too much time?
• Which section do I regularly leave incomplete?
• Which type of question repeatedly goes wrong?

Then dedicate a fixed part of your daily schedule to that weakness.

Even 30 to 45 minutes of focused daily work over several weeks can make a meaningful difference.

11. Stop Changing Your Strategy After Every Mock

One mock goes badly and suddenly everything changes.

You change the section order.

Then you change it again.

Then you decide to attempt Current Affairs first because a topper said so.

Three days later, another video recommends Legal Reasoning first.

This creates unnecessary confusion.

Experimentation is useful, but the final weeks should eventually produce a stable strategy.

Test strategies systematically

Try different approaches across several mocks and compare:

• accuracy;
• time taken;
• concentration;
• number of questions attempted; and
• performance towards the end of the paper.

Once you identify a strategy that consistently works, practise it repeatedly.

The goal is to make the actual CLAT paper feel familiar.

12. Stop Spending the Entire Day “Planning” Your CLAT Preparation

A perfect timetable is not going to clear CLAT.

Execution matters much more.

Some students rewrite their daily timetable every few days because they could not complete the previous one.

Keep your plan simple.

A productive final-phase day could include:

• current affairs revision;
• one or two sectional practice sessions;
• reading practice;
• weak-area improvement;
• mock analysis or a full mock on designated days; and
• short revision of previous mistakes.

Your exact routine will depend on whether you are attending school, preparing as a dropper or managing board examinations alongside CLAT.

The schedule does not have to look impressive.

It has to be repeatable.

What Should You Spend More Time On During the Last 60 Days?

Reducing low-value activities is useful only if that time is redirected properly.

A practical priority list could look like this:

What Should Your Main Goal Be With 60 Days to CLAT?

Your goal should not simply be to “finish the syllabus”.

CLAT is a passage-heavy aptitude examination. English, Current Affairs, Legal Reasoning and Logical Reasoning all involve substantial reading and comprehension, while Quantitative Techniques requires interpreting and manipulating numerical information.

By the final weeks, preparation should therefore become increasingly performance-oriented.

You should aim to reach a stage where:

• long passages do not intimidate you;
• you know when to leave a difficult question;
• your mistakes are becoming less repetitive;
• your current affairs revision is organised;
• your calculation speed is improving;
• your mock strategy is becoming stable; and
• you can maintain concentration across the complete two-hour paper.

That is far more useful than simply saying that you studied for eight or ten hours.

Final 60-Day Rule: Ask Whether an Activity Can Improve Your CLAT Performance

Whenever you are confused about whether something deserves your time, ask one simple question:

Will this activity improve my reading, reasoning, current affairs recall, calculation ability, accuracy, time management or exam strategy?

If the answer is clearly yes, continue.

If the answer is no, and you are doing it mainly because everyone else appears to be doing it, reconsider it.

The final 60 days before CLAT are not about doing everything.

They are about identifying what actually contributes to your performance and repeatedly doing those things well.

With CLAT approaching, simplify your resources, analyse your mocks properly, revise more frequently and practise under realistic conditions.

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