For admission into Undergraduate (UG) and Post-Graduate (PG) law courses offered by 22 nationwide Law Universities in India, aspirants are required to pass the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT), a nationwide entrance exam.
Comprising representative universities, the Consortium of National Law Universities organizes CLAT.
The CLAT exam is additionally utilized for recruiting and admissions by a number of affiliated colleges and organizations.
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
CLAT 2025 Admission Test 2025 (OFFLINE) : Sunday 01, 2024 (2.00 – 4.00 PM)
(Eligible Candidates belonging to PwD Category (2.00 -4.40 PM)
The main purpose of the UG-CLAT 2025 is to assess applicants’ reasoning skills and abilities of candidates.
CLAT 2025 SYLLABUS: Section-wise
|
Subject |
No. of Questions | Marks |
Weightage |
| English |
22-26 |
22-26 |
20% |
| Current Affairs including General Knowledge |
28-32 |
28-32 |
25% |
| Logical Reasoning |
22-26 |
22-26 |
20% |
| Legal Reasoning |
28-32 |
28-32 |
25% |
| Quantitative Techniques |
10-14 |
22-26 |
10% |
| Total |
120 |
120 |
English Language & General Knowledge
CLAT 2025 English section Total weightage 20% you will be provided passages of about 450 words each. The passages will be extracted from contemporary or historically significant fiction and non-fiction writing and would be of a 12th-standard student.
|
English |
General knowledge |
|
| Total weightage |
20% |
25% |
| Type of questions | Comprehension-type passage-based questions | Comprehension-type passage-based questions, static general knowledge and current affairs |
| Important topics | Sentence grammar correction, synonyms & antonyms, Tenses, Fill in the blanks, finding grammatical errors, Active and passive voice, Vocabulary, Idioms and phrases | Schemes, National & International Affairs, Science and Technology, Sports, Awards, Honours, Arts and culture, historical events |
| Skills tested | Vocabulary, comprehending the idea of the passage, summarising ideas, drawing inferences and conclusions, evaluating arguments | General awareness,
Reading comprehension ability, drawing inferences and conclusions |
Legal Reasoning & Logical Reasoning
|
Legal Reasoning |
Logical Reasoning |
|
| Total weightage |
25% |
20% |
| Type of questions |
Multiple choice type questions from comprehensive passages |
MCQs from comprehension passages |
| Important topics | Concepts of Law, Contract Act, Law of Torts, Indian Penal Code and related concepts, Special Marriage Act, Bigamy and Constitution, Law of Writs, Penal Law, Personal Laws relate to Bigamy, Public International Law, Legal current affairs | Statements and arguments, Analogies, Inferences and conclusions, recognising presumptions and premises
|
| Skills tested | Identify and infer the rules and principles set out in the passage, Apply such rules and principles to various fact situations; and Understand how changes to the rules or principles may alter their application to various fact situations. | Recognising arguments, 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, draw relationships and analogies, identify contradictions and equivalence, and assess the effectiveness of arguments |
Mathematics
|
English |
|
| Total weightage | 10% |
| Type of questions | Graphs, or other textual, pictorial or diagrammatic representations, sets of facts or propositions |
| Important topics | Algebra, Profit and Loss, Basic Algebra, Ratios and Proportions, Mensuration, Statistical estimation |
| Skills tested | Working with and drawing inferences from numerical data, performing basic mathematical operations on given problems, Reading and comprehending data given in the passage |
CLAT LLM 2025 SYLLABUS
| Areas |
No. of Questions |
Marks |
| Constitutional Law, Law of Torts, Administrative Law, Criminal Law, Family Law, Labour and Industrial Law, Public International Law, Company Law, International Law, Law of Contracts, Intellectual Property Law, Tax Law, Jurisprudence, Property Law. |
120 |
120 |