My Tips and Tricks for 'LAW'

CA Madhukiran Reddy (CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT) (12714 Points)

08 March 2011  

MY TRIPS AND TRICKS FOR LAW

 

Hi Friends, after completing our journey in MY TIPS AND TRICKS for Accounts, Taxation and Costing & F.M.:) Now we enter into the only balance subject in IPCC group- I “LAW”.

 

INTRODUCTION:

As I already said earlier one of most scoring subject in IPCC is Law:P. You need not to mug up all the questions in Companies Act, Contract Act and other Acts.

You should know the provisions (understanding of the concept) and quoting of relevant sections is important.

 

RELEVANCY OF QUOTING SECTIONS:

I am not going to say that quoting of sections is not at all relevant. Yes it is important in examinations because it will add presentation;).

I my opinion for other subjects it is not that much important but for Law subject it is important because I will share with you one live example “When I wrote my IPCC I quoted all the sections in exams wherever they are relevant and I got 71 marks in LAW, I quoted the sections in other subjects too but I got between 40 to 60:/. Then I realized that understanding of case laws and quoting of sections in Law is very important”:D

 

MY TIPS FOR THE EXAMINATION:

Go for the Munish Bandhari book for Law.

Write all the important sections in one paper, colour it and paste it to the wall. Read that paper once in every morning when you wake up.

In law every question will fetch for minimum of 5 marks. So, don’t leave any question in examination.

One more advantage in Law is “Here the question of Lack of time will not arises” the 3 hours is more than sufficient for examination.

As I already shared this with you in my TIPS FOR THE THEORY SUBJECTS answer the case laws in the following way:

@ Facts of the case

@ Provisions of the case

@ Analysis of the case

@ Conclusion for the case.

Don’t give direct decisions at first when u started answering Case law.

 

LAW:

Total Law is for 60 marks. In that

Companies Act – 30 marks

Bonus Act – 5 marks

Payment of Gratuity Act – 5 marks

Provident fund Act – 5 marks

Negotiable Instrument Act – 5 marks

Indian contract Act – 10 -15 marks

COMPANIES ACT:

In total of Law it is area where we have to give extra effort while reading. For me “I faced a different type of problem while reading this Companies Act i.e. while I reading this act I will remember the provisions, when I complete reading of this act I use to forget the first topics which I read.” Same this problem will come to most of our friends; the only solution to overcome this type of problems is revision. Revise this act for ‘n’ number of times.

BONUS, GRATUITY, PF and NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENT ACT:

These are very simple areas you will get surely 15 – 20 marks from this chapter.

So, be perfect with these types of small small chapters.

Study the previous question papers for these acts as the same type of questions will be repeating in exams.

INDIAN CONTRACT ACT:

This act already u covered in your CPT again the same will repeat here. The only difference is there u has to answer for bits and here u has answer for cases. For the both anyway u has to read the entire act. So, this is also one more advantage in IPCC.

One more very small chapter is there about Computer in MCA environment most of us will think examiner will not give questions from this chapter and use to neglect this chapter. Please don’t because a question from this chapter also asked in my attempt.

ETHICS AND COMMUNICATION:

As I said in my earlier article this is one of the best scoring area. Only direct answers will come from this area. Just read this once or twice and remember the side headings properly.

As our Ankur garg sir already shared a technique in one of his brilliant articles for remembering the side headings.

By combining the first letter of all the headings make one word and remember that word.

Be thorough with drafting of AGM/EGM, Minutes and legal documents like affidavit, partnership deed, lease deed etc.,

 

STUDY SCHEDULE:

Now let’s go for the study schedule starting from 1st April:

 

Date

Topic

No. of Days

No. of Marks

1st – 3rd April

Companies Act

3 Days

30

4th – 5th April

Bonus, Gratuity, PF and NI Act

2 Days

15 - 20

6th April

Indian Contract Act and MCA chapter

1 Day

10 – 15

7th – 8th April

Ethics, communication and Letter drafting

2 Days

40

 

CONCLUSION:

By this we completed our study schedule for all the subjects in IPCC 1st group and accounts in 2nd group. Only auditing and Info tech & S.M are remaining.

Hope that your preparation is going well according to our study schedules.

Only less than 2 months time is there for your exams;(. My suggestion is don’t get any deviation from studies with any other aspects.

 

MY OTHER ARTICLES IN THE SERIES:

Also see my other articles in this Series:

My Tips n Tricks for Accounts

My Tips n Tricks for Taxation

My Tips n Tricks for Costing

My Tips n Tricks for Financial Management