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About CLAT

  • The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) is a national level entrance exam for admissions to undergraduate (UG) and postgraduate (PG) law programmes offered by 24 National Law Universities in India.
  • CLAT is organized by the Consortium of National Law Universities, comprising representative universities.
  • Several affiliate universities and organizations also use the CLAT exam for admissions and recruitment respectively.

Application Form and Exam date

Application Form: July to mid Oct

Exam Date: Dec

Frequency: The CLAT exam is conducted once a year

Eligibility Criteria

UG Eligibility

  1. There is no upper age limit for candidates appearing for UG Programme through the CLAT 2025.
  2. Candidates who have passed in 10+2 or an equivalent examination with a minumum of:
    1. Forty five percent (45%) of marks or its equivalent in grade or
    2. Forty Percent (40%) of marks or equivalent in case of candidates belonging to SC/ST/PwD categories.
  3. Candidates appearing for the qualifying examination in March/ April, 2025 are also eligible to apply. However, they shall be required to produce an evidence of their passing the qualifying examination at the time of admission, failing which they shall lose their right to be considered for admission.
  4. The result of the qualifying examination (i.e., 10+2) shall be submitted by the candidate at the time of admission, failing which the candidate shall be ineligible for admission to the course they may have applied for.
  5. If more than one candidate secures an equal number of marks in the CLAT 2025, the break of tie shall be by the following procedure and order as under:
    1. Higher marks in the component/section on Legal Aptitude in the CLAT 2025 exam;
    2. Higher age;
    3. Computerised draw of lots.

PG Eligibility

  1. An Ll.B. Degree or an equivalent examination with a minimum of Fifty percent (50%) marks or its equivalent grade in case of candidates belonging to General/OBC/NRI categories and Forty-Five percent (45%) marks or its equivalent grade in case of candidates belonging to SC/ST/PWD categories.
  2. Candidates appearing for their qualifying examination in April/May 2025 are also eligible to apply.
  3. There is no upper age limit for appearing for the CLAT 2025.
  4. Tie Breaker Rule : In case of equal marks, the break of tie shall be by the following procedure and order as under:
    i. Higher age;
    ii. Computerised draw of lots.

Exam Pattern

For UG

Maximum Marks

120

Duration of CLAT 2025 Exam

02:00 Hours

Multiple-Choice Questions

120 questions of one mark each

Negative Marking

0.25 Mark for each wrong answer

Subject Areas with weightage:

(approximate number of questions)

English Language

22-26 questions, or roughly 20% of the paper

Current Affairs, including General Knowledge

28-32 questions, or roughly 25% of the paper

Legal Reasoning

28-32 questions, or roughly 25% of the paper

Logical Reasoning

22-26 questions, or roughly 20% of the paper

Quantitative Techniques10

14 questions, or roughly 10% of the paper

For PG

Maximum Marks

120

Duration of exam

02:00 Hours

Multiple-Choice Questions

120 questions of one mark each

Syllabus

Constitutional Law

      Other areas of law such as Jurisprudence, Administrative Law, Law of Contract, Torts, Family Law, Criminal Law, Property Law, Company Law, Public International Law, Tax Law, Environmental Law, and Labour & Industrial Law 

Negative Marking

0.25 Mark will be deducted for each wrong answer

Syllabus

  • The UG-CLAT would focus on evaluating the comprehension and reasoning skills and abilities of candidates. Overall, it is designed to be a test of aptitude and skills that are necessary for a legal education rather than prior knowledge, though prior knowledge occasionally may be useful to respond to questions in the Current Affairs including General Knowledge section.
  • The UG-CLAT shall be a 2-hour test, with 120 multiple-choice questions carrying 1 mark each. There shall be negative marking of 0.25 marks for every wrong answer. These questions would be divided across the following 5 subjects:

Subject

Syllabus

English Language

For CLAT UG English Language, passages will be derived from contemporary or historically significant fiction and non-fiction writing and would be of a standard that a 12th-standard student may be able to read in about 5-7 minutes. Each passage will be followed by a series of questions that will require you to demonstrate your comprehension and language skills, including your abilities to:

·        Reading Comprehension

·        Inferences and conclusions 

·        Summarise the passage

·        Arguments or Viewpoints

Meaning of various words and phrases For CLAT UG English Language, passages will be derived from contemporary or historically significant fiction and non-fiction writing and would be of a standard that a 12th-standard student may be able to read in about 5-7 minutes. Each passage will be followed by a series of questions that will require you to demonstrate your comprehension and language skills, including your abilities to:

·        Reading Comprehension

·        Inferences and conclusions 

·        Summarise the passage

·        Arguments or Viewpoints 

·        Meaning of various words and phrases  

Current Affairs, including General Knowledge

 Passages of up to 450 words each will be given. The passages will be derived from news, journalistic
sources and other non-fiction writing. The questions may include an examination of legal information or knowledge discussed in or related to the passage, but would not require any additional knowledge of the law beyond the passage. Each passage will be followed by a series of questions that will require you to demonstrate your awareness of various aspects of current affairs and general knowledge, including:

·        Main Events of India and the world

·        Arts and culture

·        National & International Affairs

·        Historical Events

Legal Reasoning

 Each passage will consist of 450 words related to the facts, situations or scenarios involving legal matters, public policy questions or moral philosophical inquiries. You will benefit from a general awareness of contemporary legal and moral issues to better apply general principles or propositions to the given fact scenarios. Each passage will be followed by a series of questions that will require you to:

·        Identify and infer the rules and principles on
which the passage is focussed.

·        Rules and principles to various facts and
situations asked in the passage. 

·        Understanding of the rules and principles in any
altered situations. 

Logical Reasoning

 The Logical Reasoning section of the UG-CLAT consists of a series of short passages (around 300 words). The questions to be asked in this section will include the following questions. 

·        Acknowledgment of arguments, their premises and
conclusions

·        Identification of arguments discussed in the
passage

·        Reasoning Ability

·        Conclusions based on particular premises or
evidence

·        Infer what follows from the passage and apply
these inferences to new situations

·        Relationships and analogies

·        Identification of contradictions and equivalence

·        Effectiveness of arguments.

Quantitative Techniques

 This section of CLAT Syllabus UG will include short sets of facts or propositions, graphs, or other textual, pictorial or diagrammatic representations of numerical information, followed by a series of questions. You will be required to derive information from such passages, graphs, or other representations, and apply mathematical operations
to such information. Topics will be covering the 10th standard mathematical operations.

·        Algebra

·        Ratios and Proportions

·        Mensuration

·        Statistics

·        Pie Chart

·        Bar Graph

·        Line Graph

·        Table Chart

  • The PG-CLAT 2025 will feature an emphasis on the comprehension abilities of the students. It shall be of 120 minutes duration, with one sections:
  • The first section would include 120 objective-type questions carrying 1 mark each. There shall be a negative marking of 0.25 marks for every wrong answer.
  • The paper will be based on the mandatory subjects of the undergraduate program and include Constitutional Law, Jurisprudence, Administrative Law, Law of Contract, Torts, Family Law, Criminal Law, Property Law, Company Law, Public International Law, Tax Law, Environmental Law, and Labour & Industrial Law.

Previous Year Question Papers

2024 Question Paper

2019 Question Paper

2023 Question Paper

2018 Question Paper

2022 Question Paper

2017 Question Paper

2021 Question Paper

2016 Question Paper

2020 Question Paper

2015 Question Paper

Best Books

UG- CLAT

PG- CLAT

Why to join us?

  • Experienced Faculty: Teachers with in-depth knowledge and teaching experience.
  • Comprehensive Study Material: Well researched and regularly updated study resources.
  • Structured Course Plan: A well-planned curriculum covering all aspects of the syllabus.
  • Regular Classes: Consistent and punctual classes with sufficient time for doubt clearance.
  • Practice Tests and Mock Exams: Regular assessments to simulate the actual exam experience.
  • Personalized Attention: Small batch sizes or individual focus for better understanding.
  • Technology Integration: Utilization of digital tools and resources for enhanced learning.
  • Doubt Clearance Sessions: Separate sessions for clarifying doubts and reinforcing concepts.
  • Performance Tracking: Regular evaluation and feedback to monitor progress.
  • Results-Oriented Approach: A focus on achieving high scores and selection in top institutions.
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