As I always tell my students, there are few books as good as Pearsons GK manual for static GK. Those of you who have just started preparing for CLAT now, may find the size of the book intimidating. However, you dont need to read the entire book, reading certain chapters will serve your purpose. Use your judgment to know which are the more relevant parts. However, I am writing down the chapters that you must not miss:



Section A

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First read the information blow and then try to answer the questions on this thread.





The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) was established on April 1, 1935 in accordance with the provisions of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934, based on the recommendations of the Hilton Young commission.



The Central Office of the RBI, which was then located in Calcutta, was permanently moved to Mumbai in 1937. Today the RBI has 22 regional offices,… Continue

This post deals with the concepts of succession, adoption and gifts in family law. It shall also discuss the concept of domestic violence and the legislation that deals with it.

SUCCESSION

The concept of succession has been dealt with extensively in various Acts. Succession implies the act of…

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When I got the last years paper in my hand, I just turned over to the Legal GK section and got a shock of sorts. Well, 2010 paper is a new ballgame, and would not be set by the same set of examiners. But still, is there any identifiable trend in the question paper that can be expected to be followed in future? I think there are, about two of them.



1. lifting questions from commercial books - Well, those who gave the paper had already said this, but only after looking at the paper I… Continue

This is another area of legal gk on which a lot of questions have been asked in the past, and for which you didn't have the right sort of study material. I hope this helps. This concise and very informative post was written by Hersh Sewak, a student of 2nd year from NUJS. You can email him to give your feedback if you like the post. His email id: hershsewak@yahoo.co.in





In India, the authority to levy tax is derived from the Constitution of India empowering both Union and… Continue

Family law has been a crucial area for CLAT and law entrance exams before that, but for the past few years the number of legal reasoning and legal GK questions have been drastically increasing. We decided that this is a high time to come up with some comprehensive material on family law. Credit for preparing this material goes to Anwesha Pal from NUJS. Please leave any suggestions for new posts or topics you would like to be covered in the comments or in the forum. We shall try to come up with… Continue