What is CLAT in law?

Subject wise

1) English Language

This subject will require you to prove your understanding and proficiency in the language, which includes your ability to:

• Learn and understand the primary aspect of the passage and any arguments or perspectives presented or discussed in the passage.
• Make inferences and draw conclusions based on the passage.
• Recapitulate the passage;
• Examine and compare the various arguments or perspectives presented in the passage.
• Learn the meanings of different words and phrases that are used throughout the text.

2) Current Affairs (with GK)

It consists of passages of up to 450 words each. These passages are derived from sources such as news, journalism as well as other writing that is nonfiction. The questions could comprise the analysis of legal knowledge or information that is discussed in or relating to the text, but they would need no additional understanding of the law other than the text.

Each chapter is followed by a set of questions that require you to show your knowledge of different aspects of the current situation and general knowledge. This includes:

• Recent events that are significant in India and across the world;
• Culture and arts;
• International matters and
• The significance of historical events is not lost.

3) Legal Reasoning

A comprehension-type passage comprising 450 words each, followed by questions of an objective type.

Real-life scenarios or situations involving legal issues, public policy questions, or moral questions.

Important areas to focus on;

• A General Awareness of current moral and legal questions.
• Recognize and understand the rules and concepts outline within the paragraph.
• Apply the rules and principles to various facts
• Understanding how changes to rules or the principles could alter their application to different circumstances.

4) Logical Reasoning

Objective questions based on passages on arguments and sets such as puzzles, diagrams, relationships and more.

Skills to be evaluated;

Ability to discern arguments and their premises, and draw conclusions

The ability to critically analyze patterns of reasoning and evaluate how conclusions could be based on specific premises or other evidence

Find out what is in the passage, and apply these inferences to different scenarios.

Make connections and draw analogies.

Find contradictions and equivalences, and evaluate the efficacy of arguments.

5) Quantitative Aptitude

The Quantitative Techniques portion of the UG-CLAT 2025 exam will comprise brief sets of facts, graphs, propositions, or other visual, textual or graphic representations of numeric data and a set of questions. You’ll be expected to draw information from such passages, graphs or other representations and perform mathematical operations on this information.

The questions will need you to:

• Deduce, infer, and manipulate the numerical information that is presented in these passages, graphs or other representations and
• Use a variety of mathematical operations to these data, ranging from areas like proportions and ratios, basic algebra, statistical estimation and mensuration.