As entering into High School most of the students are over burdened with the career choices, mulling on a billion dollar question on deciding their own destiny, the incessant enthusiasm for making into the Indian Institute of Technology and craving for being the few blessed one’s among the million desirous freaks, leaves one at the trauma center of Theorems and not so equalizing equations.

Every once in generation there were men who changed the destinies of the world as Abraham Lincoln, Barrack Obama, Mahatma Gandhi, P. Chidambaram , among them one of them remarkably said be the change you want to see in the world. In this knowledge age, where information is freely exchanged, it won’t be hard to come across the realities behind the career options. All of us must be aware about the global economic crunch, where layoff’s and pink slips became the slogan of the day. As the world saw the companies shrinking and adapting retrenchment strategies, it became hard for university graduates finding a reasonable employment, even for the ones at premier engineering or management institutes. As we know there always exists a safe harbor, so in the gloomy light of global recession the demand for doctors and lawyers never declined, but the biggest profiteers emerged were lawyers, as companies amalgamated to save businesses or the persistent filling of bankruptcies, thereafter the shareholder grievances provided opportunity for law firms to dig gold in the days of starvation. Even when the business cycle turns to the prosperity i.e., in the days of boom, further business opportunities furthers the demand for lawyers for subsequent capital market issues and other regulatory procedures. If you want to know the deeper reality, we won’t hesitate to enlighten you by the pay figures for lawyers, which can no way be in comparison to that of engineers or doctors , only competition exists is with the best of B- school’s which is a Post Graduate course. If anyone wants to enter into a B-school after law school then career is sky rocketing. But you want find most of the lawyers doing MBA , the reason behind this is that many lawyers find their career turnaround after becoming partners(a designation above the associate) at the law firms with compensation of not just the salary but also the share of profits.

Entering into a law school strengthens the potentials for one to be empowered with knowledge of rights and duties. Five year law schooling is integration of two degrees such as BBA or BA with LLB. A student at law school gets to write articles for world’s reputed journals, participate at Parliamentary Debates, or get to act as nation ambassadors at Model United Nations Forum, participate in world class moot courts depicting the International Court of Justice and conferences of intellect discussions. Along with internship opportunities at United Nations, National Commission’s, Supreme Court and Law firms, these opportunities only energizes one’s potentials and transforms ones personality. Hence, being the most promising five year plan.

Prior to 2008, every law school in country conducted its own entrance exam, thereafter with the direction of Supreme Court of India to conduct an integrated exam for entrance to various national law schools, resulted into formation of CLAT – Common Law Admission Test on the lines of CAT – Common Admission Test for Indian Institute of Management (IIM’s) or IIT – JEE for Indian Institute of Technology (IIT’s). The brand of NLS or national law school is as of today no less than that off IIT’s. The students of national law school’s proudly call themselves national law schoolite or better than IITian’s.

At present there are 11 Law schools under CLAT and also increasing of NLU’s number conduct their national wide own entrance exam. With the envision of NLU or National Law University in every state of India, the popularity of National Law Schools are day by day increasing and forming a league of its own.

CLAT is a 200 mark examination, questioning on 5 areas such as English, General Knowledge, Mathematics, Logical Reasoning and Legal Aptitude. Those one’s of you who were terrified at 10 + 2 Math’s exams, need not to be scared as here the questioning is on basic arithmetic of Profit & Loss and Simple Calculations which can be performed even by a 10^th standard student very successfully. The new areas for a test taker are Logical Reasoning and Legal Aptitude. It’s advisable for you to remain Bold & Beautiful, so you can happily tame CLat to enter into a law school.