Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) is a centralized national-level entrance exam for admission to undergraduate (LLB) and postgraduate (LLM) law programs at 24 National Law Universities across India. It tests English, Current Affairs, Legal Reasoning, Logical Reasoning, and Quantitative Techniques.

CLAT

Official 2025 syllabus extracted from https://clat2025.consortiumofnlus.ac.in/clat-2025/ug-syllabus.html

English Language

Read and comprehend main point of a passage

Identify arguments and viewpoints in the passage

Draw inferences and conclusions based on the passage

Summarise the passage

Compare and contrast different arguments and viewpoints

Understand meaning of words and phrases in context

Current Affairs Including General Knowledge

Contemporary events of significance from India and the world

Arts and culture

International affairs

Historical events of continuing significance

Current Affairs and GK

Legal Reasoning

Identify and infer rules and principles set out in a passage

Apply rules and principles to various fact situations

Understand how changes to rules or principles alter their application

Logical Reasoning

Recognise an argument, its premises and conclusions

Read and identify arguments in a passage

Critically analyse patterns of reasoning

Assess how conclusions depend on premises or evidence

Assess how conclusions may be strengthened or weakened

Infer what follows from the passage

Draw relationships and analogies

Identify contradictions and equivalence

Assess effectiveness of arguments

Quantitative Techniques

Derive, infer and manipulate numerical information

Ratios and proportions

Basic algebra

Mensuration

Statistical estimation

Standard 10th-level mathematical operations

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