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CUET PG LLM General Section Preparation Strategy 2026

Author : Pragati Pragi

January 2, 2026

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Reader's Digest: Hey there, aspiring law graduate students who want to get admission to a Master of Laws (LLM) program through India's most prestigious entrance examination, i.e. Common University Entrance Test (CUET). In this post, you will get to know all the minute details about how to prepare for the CUET PG LLM General Section.

Preparing for the CUET PG LLM 2026 General Section requires a strategic approach to master the syllabus and excel in the examination.

This guide offers an overview of the exam pattern, key topics, effective preparation strategies, and recommended study materials.

Aimed at aspiring law graduates, it provides insights into tackling language comprehension, verbal ability, general awareness, mathematical ability, and analytical skills, setting the foundation for success in one of India's most prestigious law entrance exams!

Key Contents

  1. An overview of the CUET PG LLM exam pattern and syllabus for the General Section.
  2. Detailed preparation strategies to excel in the exam, including tips on tackling each topic within the syllabus.
  3. Suggestions for daily study habits and resources, such as reading comprehension practice and legal current affairs.
  4. A list of recommended books for adequate preparation across various subjects like English Grammar, Verbal & Non-Verbal Reasoning, and Quantitative Aptitude.

CUET PG LLM General Section Syllabus

In order to ace and prepare well for the CUET PG LLM General Section, you should be aware of the syllabus of the CUET PG LLM. So, below, we have mentioned the CUET PG LLM General Section Syllabus 2026.

Topics to be covered in the General Section are as follows:

  • Language Comprehension
  • Verbal Ability
  • General Awareness
  • Mathematical/Quantitative Ability
  • Analytical Skills

Check: CUET PG LLM Result

CUET PG LLM 2026 General Section Preparation Strategy 

If you want to ace the CUET PG LLM general section, then you have to follow the below-mentioned preparation strategy. This preparation strategy will definitely help you improve your score in the CUET PG LLM general section.

  • Out of the 25 questions asked in this General section of the CUET PG LLM examination, you should attempt at least 13 to 15 questions to get selected in the top CUET universities like Delhi University and Banaras University.
  • You should aim to answer around 13 to 15 questions for the CUET PG LLM exam. Each correct answer will earn you four marks, which is great for boosting your score. However, be careful and only attempt the questions that you feel confident about. If you happen to answer a question incorrectly, you'll lose one mark, and that can bring down your overall CUET PG LLM score. So, it's important to be cautious and focus on the questions you know you can answer correctly.
  • This section is equally important as the other sections of the CUET PG LLM examination and should not be taken lightly while preparing.
  • So, the first step to start the preparation of the CUET PG LLM general section is to know the syllabus thoroughly.
  • The questions asked in the CUET PG LLM general section are based on Language Comprehension, Verbal Ability, General Awareness, Mathematical/Quantitative Ability, and Analytical Skills. These 5 are the major part of Part A of the CUET PG LLM examination, i.e. the general section.
  • To ace the CUET PG LLM examination general section, you have to prepare well for these five major topics.
  • After understanding the whole syllabus, start practising questions related to all five major topics. If you have prepared well for all of these topics, then I can definitely assure you that you will easily score 60 to 70 marks in the CUET PG LLM General Section examination.
  • After attempting questions related to the above-mentioned topics, check a couple of previous years' CUET PG LLM Paper analyses and understand the weightage of each topic. 
  • After analysing the previous year's paper, you will get an idea of the structure of the examination, and after that, you can prioritise the topics, understand the basics, and start solving mock tests every week. 
  • You should study from the best books for the CUET PG LLM general section examination. Try to use the books to clear the basics of the topics mentioned in the syllabus. 
  • Always adhere to the topics that have been mentioned on the CUET PG LLM general section syllabus. Never try to study anything irrelevant, as it can lead to a waste of time. 
  • Analyse the CUET PG LLM Previous Year's Paper and try to get a gist of the structure, paper pattern, and repetitive questions. 
  • Attempt the CUET PG LLM sample and the previous year's paper on a regular basis. This helps get an idea of the level of the questions asked in the examination. 

How To Prepare For CUET PG LLM General Section 2026

In order to excel in your CUET PG LLM General Section preparation, you have to prepare well. To prepare well for this section, we have mentioned some of the tips and tricks that will help you enhance your preparation game.

Practice 1 Reading Comprehension Daily

  • You should build a habit of attempting one reading comprehension passage daily. This will help you improve your vocabulary and will help you solve the reading comprehension question easily.
  • By practising it on a daily basis, you will see many changes in you, like your reading ability will be enhanced. If you improve your reading ability, it will help you at the time of the CUET PG LLM examination because you will have less time and you have to attempt many questions, so enhanced reading ability will help you at that time.
  • If you are unable to practice one reading comprehension passage question daily, then you can practice at least 3 to 4 reading comprehension passages in a week. This weekly practice will also be beneficial for your CUET PG LLM General Section examination.
  • Some of the best books for reading comprehension passage-based questions are CUET (PG) Common University Entrance Test (Postgraduate) by Team Prabhat and English Grammar & Composition by Wren and Martin.
  • Reading comprehension refers to the ability to understand and illuminate what you read. 
  • Read the questions carefully first, and then look for the keywords in the passage related to the questions asked. They will help you to formulate a suitable answer quickly and precisely. 
  • Mostly in the reading comprehension passage, the questions were not asked directly from the passage. So you must be intelligent with your answers and have good thinking skills, as most questions won't have direct answers. 
  • Read the comprehension given at the beginning of the CUET PG LLM General section test carefully. 

Check: CUET PG Application Form

Develop a Habit of Covering Legal Contemporary GK and Events of National and International Importance

  • You should follow some of the web pages, YouTube channels, etc, which will help you to study legal contemporary GK.
  • You should prepare well for the news and their static facts because they are an important part of the CUET PG LLM general section preparation.
  • News is important, but static facts are more important than news. So, prepare well for the static facts of the news you are reading.
  • Once a wise man has said that you should connect the dots, this line is applicable in this scenario also. In order to score well in the general section of the CUET PG LLM 2026 examination, you should connect all the lines.
  • Connecting the dots means, for example, if there is any news about the Telangana chief minister, then you have to study all the recent and previous news about him because the questions related to him can be asked from any area.
  • You should read current affairs on a daily basis and make it a habit.
  • Make it a habit in such a way that you begin your day by reading a newspaper daily, which will help you to be aware of all the things which are happening around you. That will also help you increase your vocabulary. 
  • Many students avoid reading current affairs on a daily basis. They read current affairs on a 3-month basis. This way is wrong for preparing current affairs topics.
  • You can read current affairs from many sources, like newspapers, magazines, books, online videos, and many other websites.
  • Here, we at LegalEdge provide daily videos on current affairs that will help you to study easily just by watching our videos on our YouTube channel.
  • Your main focus should be on Legal GK only because Laws are related to Law, and Law evolves around Legal GK only.
  • You have to give extra attention to all the Legal developments happening or that have happened in the last 1 year, because from those 1 or 2 questions will definitely come.

Start Reading Regularly

  • The Verbal Ability section is one of the most important aspects of any competitive examination conducted in India. 
  • For the Common University Entrance Test (CUET) for the postgraduate law program, you must have good reading and understanding skills. You must prepare for the reading skills to enhance your reading speed and ability to do well in the Verbal Ability section of the CUET PG LLM General section test.
  • Try to read 5 to 10 pages of a novel on a regular basis because that would be the best option to improve your reading skills. You may see many unknown words while reading 5 to 10 pages of the novel daily. Write down those words, and after finishing your reading, look for the meaning, synonyms, and antonyms of those words in the dictionary. 
  • Also, while reading, you may come across some unknown quotes or phrases. So, note down those quotes and phrases because you might face those quotes and phrases in some form in your CUET PG 2023 examination. Try to understand their meaning and approach as well. 
  • Read the newspaper on a daily basis because reading the newspaper is the best and cheapest means of enhancing your reading and understanding skills. 
  • While reading the newspaper, you will not only get to improve your reading and understanding skills, but you will also come across what is happening around the world, and that will help you in the general awareness section of the CUET PG LLM General section test.

Read Also: CUET PG 2026 Preparation Strategy

Covers All the Basics of the Mathematics Section 

  • You have to cover all the important topics in the mathematics section: Profit and loss, average, and calculation of interest (simple and compound). These are the most important topics with maximum weightage in the mathematics section of the CUET PG LLM General Section Test.
  • You should aanalysethe CUET PG LLM General section paper, which includes the analysis of the types of questions asked, the difficulty level of the paper, and the types of questions asked and from which topics.
  • In this general section, the test mathematics section is very scoring and approachable, and the NTA ask 8th-standard-level mathematics questions only.
  • You should learn all the formulas of all the topics of the CUET PG LLM Mathematics section of the general section test. Because if you are aware of the formulas, then it will be beneficial for you to solve the question easily without wasting any time.
  • Learning the formulas of the mathematics section will hardly take 1 hour of your time.
  • The questions asked in this section range from easy to moderate level only.
  • If you practice only two questions from each topic, then it is also enough because the level of this section is mostly easy. It is a high-scoring section.
  • You should understand the concept of each topic in the mathematics section, which will help you to answer the question easily and will save a lot of time. 
  • As per our analysis, we found that in mathematics, concept-based questions have become so easy that any student who has a good understanding of the concept can answer them efficiently and can score a good mark in their mathematics section of the CUET PG LLM General section test.

Read More: CUET PG LLM Eligibility Criteria 2026

Practice Logical Reasoning Questions to Score Well in the CUET PG LLM Examination.

  • If you want a good score on the CUET PG LLM General Section Test, then you should practice logical reasoning questions thoroughly because the logical reasoning section is considered the most scoring section.
  • Good practice in this section will help you to upgrade your score.
  • The important topics of the logical reasoning section are - Syllogism, Seating Arrangement, Assertion and Reasoning, Puzzles, Fill in the sequence, coding and decoding, inequality, Statement, Assumptions, etc.
  • If the students have prepared for the AILET (All India Law Entrance Test) examination, attempting the logical reasoning questions is as easy as a walk in the park.
  • The logical reasoning section does not require any learning of concepts or understanding of formulas. It just requires practice. As much as you practice, you become a pro at logical reasoning.
  • You can practice from any competitive exam book which you have for this section.

Cover At Least 6 to 8 months of Current Affairs

  • You should read current affairs on a daily basis and make it a habit.
  • Make it a habit in such a way that you begin your day by reading a newspaper daily, which will help you to be aware of all the things which are happening around you. That will also help you increase your vocabulary. 
  • Many students avoid reading current affairs on a daily basis. They read current affairs on a 3-month basis. This way is wrong for preparing current affairs topics.
  • You can read current affairs from many sources, like newspapers, magazines, books, online videos, and many other websites.
  • Here, we at LegalEdge provide daily videos on current affairs that will help you to study easily just by watching our videos on our YouTube channel.
  • There are also many applications that provide you with daily current affairs. This will help you to read the current affairs daily on your phone.
  • So install the application on your phone, read the current affairs daily, and be updated about all the things which are happening around you.

Check: CUET PG LLM Previous Year Paper

Best Preparation Books For CUET PG LLM General Section 

The table below shows the best preparation books for the CUET PG LLM General Section Test 2026: -

Best Books for CUET PG 2026 Preparation: General Selection
English Grammar & Composition Wren and Martin
Verbal & Non-Verbal Reasoning  R.S. Aggarwal
Quantitative aptitude for all competitive exams Abhijeet Gupta
Data Interpretation Arun Sharma
General Knowledge  Arihant
Objective Computer Awareness Arihant
Quantitative Aptitude for Competitive Examination R.S Agarwal
Verbal & Non-Verbal Reasoning R.S. Agarwal

Key Takeaways

  • Understand the Syllabus: Know the CUET PG LLM General Section syllabus inside out.
  • Strategic Practice: Aim to attempt 13 to 15 questions to maximise your score accurately.
  • Quality Study Materials: Use recommended books and resources for effective preparation.
  • Regular Mock Tests: Practice with previous year papers and mock tests weekly to assess your preparation level.
  • Focus on High-Value Topics: Prioritise topics with higher weightage in the exam.
  • Daily Reading Habit: Incorporate daily reading of current affairs, legal updates, and comprehension passages to improve speed and understanding.
  • Analytical Preparation: Dedicate time to improving mathematical, logical reasoning, and analytical skills for a comprehensive preparation approach.

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Pragati Pragi

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A Gold Medalist with a B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) from DSNLU, Visakhapatnam. With two years of experience in research-oriented content writing, I write here to contribute effectively to the legal profession.... more