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Maximum Marks: 120
Duration of CLAT 2025 Exam: 120 Mins
Each Question Carries: 1 Mark
Negative Marking: 0.25 Mark for each wrong answer
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 organisations also use the CLAT exam for admissions and recruitment respectively.
All admissions to the 5-year integrated LL.B. and LL.M. programmes that commence in the Academic Year 2025-2026 shall be through the CLAT 2025.
(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 Techniques
10-14 questions, or roughly 10% of the paper
In this section of the UG-CLAT 2025, you will be provided passages of about 450 words each. These 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:
Read and comprehend the main point discussed in the passage, as well as any arguments and viewpoints discussed or set out in the passage.
Draw inferences and conclusions based on the passage.
Summarise the passage.
Compare and contrast the different arguments or viewpoints set out in the passage.
Understand the meaning of various words and phrases in the context that they are used in the passage.
In this section, you will be provided passages of up to 450 words each. 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:
Contemporary events of significance from India and the world
Arts and culture
International affairs
Historical events of continuing significance
In this section, you will be expected to read passages of around 450 words each. The passages may relate to fact situations or scenarios involving legal matters, public policy questions or moral philosophical enquiries. You will not require any prior knowledge of law to attempt the questions in this section. 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 would be followed by a series of questions that will require you to:
Identify and infer the rules and principles set out in the passage
Apply such rules and principles to various fact situations
Understand how changes to the rules or principles may alter their application to various fact situations
The Logical Reasoning section of the UG-CLAT 2025 will include a series of short passages of about 450 words each. Each passage will be followed by one or more questions that will require you to:
Recognise an argument, its premises and conclusions
Read and identify the arguments set out in the passage
Critically analyse patterns of reasoning, and assess how conclusions may depend on particular premises or evidence, and how conclusions may be strengthened or weakened as a consequence of an alteration in premises or supporting facts
Infer what follows from the passage and apply these inferences to new situations
Draw relationships and analogies, identify contradictions and equivalence, and assess the effectiveness of arguments
The Quantitative Techniques section of the UG-CLAT 2025 will include short sets of facts or propositions, or other textual representations of numerical information, followed by a series of questions. You will be required to derive information from the passages or questions, and apply mathematical operations on such information.
The questions will require you to:
Derive, infer, and manipulate numerical information set out in such passages
Apply various 10th standard mathematical operations on such information, including from areas such as ratios and proportions, basic algebra, mensuration and statistical estimation
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