CLAT SYLLABUS

2025

ABOUT CLAT
As a law aspirant, if there is an exam that
tops your list for success in the legal
domain, chances are CLAT would be that
exam.

Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) is a

national-level exam conducted by the
Consortium of National Law Universities,
comprising of 22 National Law Universities
in India.

CLAT SYLLABUS
Alongside the admission notifications,
the Consortium of National Law For 5-year LLB
Universities (NLUs) releases the CLAT
English Language
syllabus annually.
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Logical Reasoning
They provide a brief syllabus
Legal Reasoning
overview on the official site. Let’s dive
Current Affairs & GK
into the details.

UG and PG aspirants take this exam to For LLM:

gain admission to a 5-year LLB and
LLM courses, respectively. All LLB Subjects

So, two different sets of syllabuses

exist for UG & PG students.
 SUBJECT-WISE
DISTRIBUTION
5-Year LLB
The UG-CLAT tests 12th-class students on
their English language skills and Total Questions:
120
comprehension ability.

As 4 out of 5 sections in the CLAT exam are

reading-intensive, therefore, having an

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excellent grasp of English as a language is
utmost essential.

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Even toppers testify that fast reading,
vocabulary, comprehension, and critical
thinking are essential skills to crack CLAT.

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English Language
10%
20%

Logical Reasoning
20%

Current Affairs & GK

25%

Legal Reasoning
25%
 ENGLISH
LANGUAGE
The English language is almost the common
thread of this exam, so it cannot be taken for
granted.

Learning and developing the skills for this

section requires a rigorous and consistent
process of reading and comprehending the
language. Tools to Crack
A candidate is required to solve 6-7 passages
of 450 words each. In English section itself, a
student is required to read and comprehend
2700 words.

KEY TOPICS TO STUDY

Synonyms & antonyms
Tenses
Fill in the Blanks
Active & passive voice
Meaning of words and phrases within the context of the
passage

Total Questions - 22-26 SOURCE

Newspapers, journals, contemporary or
Total Weightage - 20% historically important fiction and non-fiction
writing.

ABILITY TESTED
• Fast reading and comprehension
• Analytical skills
CURRENT AFFAIRS
& GENERAL
KNOWLEDGE
The Current Affairs and General Knowledge
section can get as vast as possible.

Keeping track of the newspapers and staying

updated of recent happenings on both national
and international level. Tools to Crack
Create comprehensive notes that can come in
handy for revision.

A candidate is required to solve 6-7 passages

of 450 words each.
KEY TOPICS TO STUDY
• National & International Affairs
• Schemes
• Science & Technology
• Summits & Conferences
• Sports
• Awards & Honours
• Arts & Culture
• Important Historical Events
Total Questions - 28-32
Total Weightage - 25% SOURCE
News, journalistic sources, and non-fiction
writing.

ABILITY TESTED
Awareness of the following topics
1. Contemporary events of significance from
India and the world;
2. Arts and culture;
3. International affairs; and
4. Historical events of continuing
significance.
LEGAL
REASONING
Legal Reasoning tests an aspirant on basic
legal knowledge and maxims.

This section comprises 450-word

comprehension-type passages that are
followed by objective-type questions.

This section will assess candidates' abilities in Tools to Crack

identifying the relevant facts and drawing
inferences based on the legal principles given
in the passages.

KEY TOPICS TO STUDY

Law of Torts, Contract Law, Indian Penal Code
(IPC) and related concepts, Monism and
Dualism, Personal laws — Special Marriage Act,
Contract Act, Bigamy and Constitution Void and
voidable Marriage, Law of writs, Penal law,
Public international law, Juvenile Justice Act,
Personal data protection bill
Total Questions - 28-32
Total Weightage - 25% SOURCE
Legal knowledge, policy reports, legal journals, cases, news
and editorials

ABILITY TESTED
• Ability to apply rules and principles in various
fact situations
• Familiarity with legal terminology and legal
principles
• Current legal awareness and important laws,
acts and regulations
LOGICAL
REASONING
Logic stands on the pillars of some universal
concepts.

Spend good time with the concepts of critical

reasoning, such as; assumptions, inferences,
main idea.

This section includes 300-word paragraphs Tools to Crack

that involves evaluating arguments, identifying
logical fallacies, and reasoning through
complex scenarios.

KEY TOPICS TO STUDY

• Analogies
• Series
• Seating arrangement
• Syllogisms
• Blood relations
• Logical sequences and matching
• Calendars and clocks

Total Questions - 22-26 TYPE OF QUESTIONS

Arguments, patterns, statements and fact situations
Total Weightage - 20%
ABILITY TESTED
• Ability to identify arguments and their premises and draw
conclusions
• Assess how conclusions may depend on particular
premises or evidence
• Infer what follows from the passage and apply these
inferences to new situations
• Draw relationships and analogies,
• Identify contradictions and equivalence, and assess the
effectiveness of arguments.
QUANTITATIVE
TECHNIQUES
This section of the exam will encompass
questions based on passages with numerical
data.

The fundamental of any quantitative test is to

get the foundation right. Build on the concepts
and master them through regular practice.
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An aspirant is required to extract and deduce
information from these passages or questions,
and subsequently employ mathematical
operations.

KEY TOPICS TO STUDY

Ratios and proportions,
Basic algebra,
Mensuration
Statistical estimation
Algebra

Total Questions - 10-14 TYPE OF QUESTIONS

Total Weightage - 10% Sets of facts or propositions, graphs, or other
textual, pictorial, or diagrammatic
representations of numerical information

ABILITY TESTED
1. Derive, infer, and manipulate numerical information set
out in such passages, graphs, or other representations;
and
Apply various 10th-standard mathematical operations
SYLLABUS
LLM
CLAT LLM syllabus contains subjects of the LLB program.

The questions are asked in similar comprehension passage formats.

However, questions are framed around specific topics of law and current
legal affairs.

In this section of the PG-CLAT, you will be provided extracts from primary
legal materials such as important court decisions in various fields of law,
statutes or regulations.

The topics covered in the CLAT LLM syllabus are listed below.

Administrative law
Constitutional Law Law of Torts

Criminal Law Family law Labour industrial law

Public international Intellectual Property

Jurisprudence
law Law

International Law
Property law Company law

Tax law Law of Contracts

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