AILET Topper Interview 2019: AIR 8, Shreya Varshney shares section-wise prep tips
Shreya Varshney topped the AILET 2019 exam with AIR 8 and 80.5/150 score. Know what prep strategies she adopted to crack the AILET exam.
A student of Sacred Heart Convent Higher Secondary School, Mathura, Shreya’s father is a businessman and mother is a homemaker. Shreya also has a sister who is pursuing BTech in IT (Information Technology) from IGDTUW (Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women).
In her free time, Shreya likes surfing Quora, Twitter and YouTube. She also likes reading about Indian Politics and watching cricket is like a stress buster for her.
In a candid interview with Shiksha, Shreya shares her preparation strategy for each subject/ section of the exam and a lot more. Read the complete interview below:
Q. Congratulations! Did you expect to be the topper of AILET 2019?
Not at all, All India Rank (AIR) 8 came as a real surprise, after reading about all the puffery and hyped estimation of my peers after AILET 2019. Let alone getting a single digit rank, I did not even expect myself to clear the cutoff, honestly.
Q. Can you tell us your preparation strategy that helped you crack AILET exam?
I prepared myself for a tough paper, and this helped me ace AILET 2019. People usually take aptitude exams for granted, but it’s not the easy stuff that helps you get through, but the tougher ones that provide you an edge.
English: It was kind of my strong suit, so I didn’t pay much attention to the conventional English topics, and solved the previous year AILET papers for getting a hold of the quirky ones.
Maths: According to me personally, this is the subject that fetches you a good rank in AILET. Also, this was the subject I worked upon, the most. You should be exploring YouTube sites for short tricks for different questions. A question you think would take 1 minute can be easily solved in 5 seconds, I did this in 3-4 questions of AILET 2019.
Logical Reasoning: AILET focuses more on Critical Reasoning than Analytical reasoning, and many students tend to put it at the backseat. I worked on my reading speed and this helped me a lot in the section. As for the analytical reasoning, I solved tough LSAT (Law School Admission Test) puzzles, the kind of the ones AILET asks.
Legal Aptitude: Before starting your prep, solve previous year questions for atleast two times. I can’t stress this enough. Keep solving these all year round, and get a hang of the PYQs (previous year questions). Then take any coaching’s modules/sheets and solve those. Analysing your mocks properly would do most of the work for you.
GK: If you are determined to do Static, finish it as early as possible in the starting days of your AILET prep. You’ll never get the time/mood to do it once you are in the late phase of the preparation. For CA (Current Affairs), I took some exhaustive sources like GKToday, textbook app, MonthLEs, Manthan etc. and prepared notes out of these in the initial months of my prep. And, then I switched to taking crisp one liners, quizzes etc. Both approaches should be followed, looking at AILET 2019’s GK section.
Q. Did you taking any coaching for this exam?
I was enrolled in CL CP Residential program and was a student of the LE Super 30 online coaching. Legal Edge was instrumental in preparing me for a tough paper as AILET 2019.
Q. Which books did you study for the exam?
I read books like Legal Edge’s RSMs, CL (Career Launcher) sheets, and some standard books like LexisNexis, AP Bhardwaj for Legal Aptitude, RS Aggrawal for Logic/Math.
Q. How did you deal with your strengths and weaknesses while preparing for the exam?
Analysing your strong and weak areas is one of the most important parts of the preparation, and taking mocks regularly help you do that. I worked on my weak areas regularly and tried aiming for 100% accuracy in those by solving a better pool of questions.
Q. What other law entrance exams did you take or are planning to take?
Besides CLAT (Common Law Admission Test) and AILET, I took MHCET Law and BLAT (BHU UET Law).
Q. Was law always your first preference?
No, after my 10th Board results, I wanted to pursue my career in medical field. But my sister felt I would do better in Law, hence I made a switch after my 12th board exams and dropped a year for Law entrance exams.
Q. Any tips for students who are planning to take the exam next year?
Be consistent with your preparation, do daily GK and solve mocks regularly after you are done with the AILET syllabus.
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