CLAT 2025 Exam Overview
The CLAT syllabus for 2025 is extensive and requires candidates to read approximately 20,000 words in total across various passages and answer questions within a period of two hours. The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) is administered by the Consortium of National Law Universities (NLU) for admission to 5-year LLB and LLM programmes. The exam will consist of 120 multiple choice questions, each with a score. A total of 24 national law universities accept CLAT scores for their law admissions. This article provides a comprehensive overview of the CLAT 2025 syllabus, including thematic topics, recommended books, and analysis of previous years’ performance for each section.
Introduction and overview
The UG-CLAT 2025 would focus on assessing the comprehension and reasoning abilities and skills of the candidates. Generally, it is designed to be a test of aptitude and skills necessary for a legal education rather than prior knowledge, although sometimes prior knowledge may be useful in answering questions in the Current Affairs section, including the general knowledge section .
The UG-CLAT 2025 will be a 2-hour long test, with 120 multiple choice questions worth 1 mark each. A negative score of 0.25 points will be awarded for each incorrect answer. These questions would be divided into the following 5 topics:
- English language
- Current affairs including general knowledge
- Legal Reasoning
- logical reasoning
- Quantitative Techniques
English language
In this section of the UG-CLAT 2025, you will be provided with passages of approximately 450 words each. These passages will be derived from contemporary or historically significant fiction and nonfiction writings, and would be of a standard that a 12th grade student could read in approximately 5 to 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 understand the main point discussed in the passage, as well as any arguments and points of view discussed or expounded in the passage;
- Make inferences and conclusions based on the passage;
- Summarize the passage;
- Compare and contrast the different arguments or points of view presented in the passage; and
- Understand the meaning of various words and phrases in the context in which they are used in the passage.
Current affairs including general knowledge
In this section, you will be provided with passages of up to 450 words each. Excerpts will be derived from news, journalistic sources, and other nonfiction writings. 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 knowledge of various aspects of current events and general knowledge, including:
- Contemporary events of importance from India and the world;
- Art and culture;
- international affairs; and
- Historical events of continuing importance.
Legal Reasoning
In this section, you are expected to read passages of around 450 words each. Passages may relate to factual situations or scenarios involving legal issues, public policy issues, or moral philosophical investigations. You will not need any prior knowledge of the law to answer the questions in this section. You will benefit from a general knowledge of contemporary legal and moral issues to better apply general principles or propositions to given factual scenarios.
Each passage will be followed by a series of questions that will require you to:
- Identify and infer the rules and principles established in the passage;
- Apply these rules and principles to various factual situations; and
- Understand how changes in rules or principles can alter their application to various factual situations.
logical reasoning
The Logical Reasoning section of UG-CLAT 2025 will include a series of short passages of approximately 450 words each. Each passage will be followed by one or more questions that will require you to:
- Recognize an argument, its premises and conclusions;
- Read and identify the arguments presented in the passage;
- Critically analyze patterns of reasoning and evaluate how conclusions may depend on particular premises or evidence, and how conclusions may be strengthened or weakened as a result of an alteration in the premises or facts that support them;
- Infer what follows from the passage and apply these inferences to new situations;
- Draw relationships and analogies, identify contradictions and equivalences and evaluate the effectiveness of arguments.
Quantitative Techniques
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 asked to obtain information from passages or questions and apply mathematical operations to that information.
The questions will require that:
- Derive, infer and manipulate numerical information established in said passages; and
- Apply various tenth standard mathematical operations with such information, including areas such as ratios and proportions, basic algebra, statistical measurement and estimation.
Preparing for UG-CLAT 2025
The Consortium plans to publish various preparatory materials for UG-CLAT 2025, including:
- Quiz Guides and Sample Questions;
- Questionnaire models; and
- Instructional materials and exercises for each of the subjects included in the UG-CLAT 2025.
The Consortium will also provide candidates who have successfully completed their application for the UG-CLAT 2025 with access to a learning platform where they will be able to access the preparatory materials described above, as well as their scores on various model exercises and questionnaires. The Consortium will also organize online sessions for such candidates, where subject matter experts will provide guidance on how best to prepare for each of the sections of UG-CLAT 2025, and how candidates can approach the questions in each section. .
Additionally, you should develop your ability to read and understand bodies of text, ensure you stay up to date with news and current events by regularly reading quality newspapers and periodicals, and improve your speed in answering questions about quantitative techniques by practicing with materials such as 10th Books of standard mathematics text.
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