CLAT 2025: Highlights

The key highlights related to the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2025 are listed below:

CLAT 2025: Important Dates

The important dates related to the CLAT 2025 are listed below:

CLAT 2025: Section-Wise Weightage

The section-wise weightage for the CLAT 2025 exam is listed in the below table:

CLAT 2025: Syllabus

The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) exam will in total include 5 sections i.e., English Language, Legal Reasoning, Current Affairs, Logical Reasoning, and Quantitative Techniques. Below is the syllabus for each section.

English Language

• In this section of the UG-CLAT 2025, you will be provided passages of about 450 words each. These passages will be derived from contemporary or historically significant fiction and non-fiction writing and would be of a standard that a 12th-grade student may be able to read in about 5-7 minutes.

Current Affairs Including General Knowledge

• In this section, you will be provided passages of up to 450 words each. The passages will be derived from news, journalistic sources and other non-fiction writing. 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.

Legal Reasoning

• In this section, you will be expected to read passages of around 450 words each. The passages may relate to fact situations or scenarios involving legal matters, public policy questions or moral philosophical enquiries. You will not require any prior knowledge of the law to attempt the questions in this section. You will benefit from a general awareness of contemporary legal and moral issues to better apply general principles or propositions to the given fact scenarios.

Logical Reasoning

• The Logical Reasoning section of the UG-CLAT 2025 will include a series of short passages of about 450 words each.

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 required to derive information from the passages or questions and apply mathematical operations to such information.

CLAT 2025: Preparation Strategy

The Consortium of National Law Universities (NLUs) has published various preparatory study materials for the candiates who have this year registered for the CLAT 2025, such as Guides to the question paper and sample questions, Model question papers and Instructional materials and exercises for each of the subjects that the UG-CLAT 2025 comprises.

Consortium of NLAs will also provide candidates who have registered for the CLAT 2025 with a learning platform, where they will able to access the preparatory study materials listed above. At the portal candidates will be given various tasks, tests, and exercises to test their capability. Each exercise will show the scores of the candidates which will provide them motivation to work harder. The authority will also organise some set online sessions for these candidates in which subject experts will guide students with the best way to prepare for each section included in CLAT 2025.

Candidates are advised to read textual content the most, this will develop reading and understanding capabilities in students. In the case of current affairs section, candidates are advised to read quality newspapers and periodicals regularly and also improve their speed of answering questions on quantitative techniques by practising through the study material such as the class 10th mathematics textbook.