CLAT Paper Pattern

Will you please provide me the Paper Pattern of CLAT (Common Law Admission Test)???

CLAT (Common Law Admission Test) is an all India entrance examination conducted for admission to their Under graduate and Post graduate programmes (LL.B & LL.M).

Pattern of the Test Paper for Undergraduate Programme:

Total Marks: 200
Total number of questions: 200
Duration of examinations: Two Hours

Subject areas with weightage:
English including Comprehension: 40 Marks
General Knowledge/ Current Affairs: 50 Marks
Elementary Mathematics: 20 Marks
(Numerical ability)
Legal Aptitude: 50 Marks
Logical Reasoning: 40 Marks

Pattern of the Test Paper for Postgraduate Programme:

Total Marks : 150
Duration of examination : Two Hours

Multiple-Choice Questions 50 Marks
50 questions of 1 mark each

Long Essay Type Descriptive Questions
100 Marks
4 questions of 25 marks each

There shall be a system of Negative Marking wherein 0.25 mark will be deducted for each of the wrong answers to multiple choice questions.

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As you want I am here providing you paper pattern of the COMMON LAW ADMISSION TEST (CLAT) exam for Undergraduate Programme.

Pattern of the Test Paper for Undergraduate Programme:

Total Marks : 200
Total number of questions : 200
Duration of examinations : Two Hours

Subject areas with weightage:
English including Comprehension : 40 Marks
General Knowledge/ Current Affairs : 50 Marks
Elementary Mathematics : 20 Marks
(Numerical ability)
Legal Aptitude : 50 Marks
Logical Reasoning : 40 Marks

CLAT Syllabus:

English including comprehension

English Vocabulary – synonyms, antonyms, analogies.

English proficiency – idioms and phrases, fill in the blanks, one word substitution, cloze tests, sentence improvement, rearrangement of sentences in paragraph, jumbled sentences.

English usage errors – spot the error and correct the sentence, spelling mistakes, use the correct word.

English comprehension – paragraph is given. Questions are asked from that paragraph. Candidate needs to understand what the para says and answer questions accordingly

General knowledge and current affairs:

Events of national as well as international importance must be known to you. Also look out for news specific to science, technology, legal affairs, sports, people and places.

Elementary mathematics (Numerical ability):

Number system
Roots
Decimals and fractions
Surds and indices
Average
HCF and LCM
Approximation
Ration and proportion
Logarithm
Profit and loss
Discounts
Interest calculation
Areas and volumes

Legal aptitude;

This section consisted of fifty (50) questions. Each question consists of legal propositions/principles (referred to as “principle”) and facts.
These principles have to be applied to the given facts to arrive at the most reasonable conclusion. Such principles may or may not be true in the real sense, yet you have to conclusively assume them to be true for the purposes of this section.
In other words, in answering the following questions, you must not rely on any principles except the principles that are given herein below for every question.
Further, you must not assume any facts other than those stated in the question. The objective of this section is to test your interest towards study of law, research aptitude and problem solving ability


Logical reasoning:
Questions to logical links, identify patterns, rectify illogical arguments will be in this section. This particular section will test your ability to solve a wide variety of logical reasoning questions such as syllogisms, logical sequences, analogies.

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