CLAT syllabus
Undergraduate admission test for the National Law Universities: 120 passage-based questions in two hours, one mark each, with a quarter-mark deducted for a wrong answer.
English Language
About 22–26 questions, roughly 20% of the paper · Within the 120 minutes
1 mark for a right answer. 0.25 marks are deducted for a wrong answer. This practice test has 24 questions, inside the published range.
- Read a passage of about 450 words from fiction or non-fiction
- Identify the main point, arguments and viewpoints
- Draw inferences and conclusions
- Summarise the passage
- Compare and contrast viewpoints
- Understand a word or phrase in the context of the passage
Current Affairs, including General Knowledge
About 28–32 questions, roughly 25% of the paper · Within the 120 minutes
1 mark for a right answer. 0.25 marks are deducted for a wrong answer. This practice test has 28 questions, inside the published range.
- Read a passage of up to about 450 words from news or other non-fiction
- Contemporary events of significance from India and the world, kept here to facts from 2024 or earlier
- Arts and culture
- International affairs
- Historical events of continuing significance
- Legal information only as the passage states it
Legal Reasoning
About 28–32 questions, roughly 25% of the paper · Within the 120 minutes
1 mark for a right answer. 0.25 marks are deducted for a wrong answer. No prior study of law is required. The UG instructions call this component Legal Aptitude when breaking a tie. This practice test has 30 questions, inside the published range.
- Read a passage of about 450 words on a fact situation, a policy or a moral question
- Identify the rules and principles set out in the passage
- Apply those rules to new facts
- Work out how a stated change in a rule would alter the result
Logical Reasoning
About 22–26 questions, roughly 20% of the paper · Within the 120 minutes
1 mark for a right answer. 0.25 marks are deducted for a wrong answer. This practice test has 26 questions, inside the published range.
- Read a short argumentative passage of about 450 words
- Recognise a conclusion and its premises
- Judge how a change in the evidence would strengthen or weaken the conclusion
- Infer what follows and apply it to a new situation
- Spot an analogy, a contradiction or a weak step
Quantitative Techniques
About 10–14 questions, roughly 10% of the paper · Within the 120 minutes
1 mark for a right answer. 0.25 marks are deducted for a wrong answer. The mathematics is of Class 10 standard. This practice test has 12 questions, inside the published range.
- Read a short set of facts, a table or another numerical description
- Derive and manipulate the numbers
- Ratio and proportion
- Basic algebra
- Mensuration
- Statistical estimation, including an average