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CLAT 2023 Exam Analysis

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CLAT 2023 Exam Analysis

The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) is a national-level entrance exam conducted by the Consortium of National Law Universities consisting of representative universities. This is the exam for the admission to Undergraduate and Postgraduate programs in law domain offered in 22 National Law Universities (NLU's) of India. The application for the CLAT exam has started and will be closing on 18th November.

Highlights of the CLAT Exam 2023:

  • The exam will be conducted on 18th December, 2022 for both UG and PG programmes.
  • The last date to submit an online application is 18th November 2022
Question (UG) Paper Format - 2023
Duration 2 hours
Total Marks 150
Negative Marking 0.25 mark for each incorrect answer.
MCQs 1 mark of each question (150 MCQs)

CLAT UG - 2023 Section Wise Analysis

Sections UG-CLAT 2023
English Language
  • Provided paragraphs of about 450 words each.
  • Would be of a standard that a 12th standard student may be able to read in about 5-7 minutes.
  • Students are expected to exhibit comprehension and language abilities.
Current Affairs Including General Knowledge
  • Provided passages of up to 450 words each.
  • The questions may be obtained from current affairs from India and the world, arts and cultures, and historical events and significance.
Legal Reasoning
  • Expected to understand paragraphs of around 450 words each.
  • Portions may link to constitutional concerns, public policy, or moral philosophical questions.
Logical Reasoning
  • Include a set of short passages of about 300 words each.
  • The candidate has to identify an argument set in the passage, analyze the patterns with outcomes.
Quantitative Techniques
  • Include small portions of data/ propositions/ graphs/ pictorial/ diagrammatic representations of numerical information

CLAT PG - 2023 Analysis

  • The duration of the program will be 120 minutes.
  • The first section includes 120 objective-type questions carrying 1 mark each.
  • The negative marking of 0.25 marks for every incorrect answer.
  • The second section requires students to write 2 narrative essays.

The CLAT 2023 paper will be based on the obligatory topics of the UG program and include

  • Constitutional Law
  • Jurisprudence
  • Administrative Law
  • Family Law
  • Criminal Law
  • Property Law
  • Company Law
  • Public International Law
  • Tax Law
  • Environmental Law
  • Labour & Industrial Law

CLAT 2020 Exam Analysis

The exam analysis of CLAT 2020 provides information regarding the types of questions, difficulty level, common topics, and other significant factors. The exam had 150 questions across 5 sections namely English, Current Affairs including General Knowledge, Legal Reasoning, and Logical Reasoning and Quantitative Techniques. The expected cutoff for the top 3 NLU is about 100+ and the top 10 NLU is 93+.

Section Wise Analysis 2020:

Sections Analysis
English In the English section, there were six passages and thirty questions. The majority of the passages were simple and clear, but a few were challenging. The questions were simple and contextual. The majority of the RC questions centered around the passage's tone, inferences, central idea, and so on. This section also covers questions, idioms, phrases, and grammatical concepts.
Logical Reasoning There were five passages with 30 questions each. The questions were straightforward, centered on critical thinking. As a result, time management was difficult.
Quantitative Techniques This section consisted of three sets of 15 questions each. It took time and had a variety of questions ranging from easy to moderate. This section was challenging in general.
Legal Reasoning This section included questions based on important laws and recent decisions. There were eight current affairs passages covering topics such as tort law, contract law, the Indian Penal Code, and related concepts. Understanding concepts was essential in this section.
Current Affairs, including General Knowledge This section, according to students, was unexpected. The questions ranged from FIFA to the growth of the agricultural sector to FTX. There were 35 questions based on seven passages. The majority of the questions were difficult to answer.

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CLAT 2023 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

CLAT 2023 will be conducted on December 18, 2022.
Candidate is advised to visit the page for re-printout of application form, generate the printout and keep the hard copy and soft copy (printout) of the application.
Yes, you are eligible for the CLAT 2023 examination.
CLAT 2023 examination will be conducted through online mode.
There is no age limit for appearing in the exam.
The examination would be conducted by the consortium of National Law Universities (NLU)
Each year the CLAT exam is attempted by more than 50,000 candidates.
LST session is conducted usually for two hours in which a student is acquainted with the basic concepts of the topic in hand with the help of examples and instances for the best possible understanding. Much emphasis is laid on practice as it is considered to be the key to crack competitive exams. Class exercises are handed over to the students followed by rigorous discussion. CL believes in interactive learning so that the students are at ease and do not hesitate to come up with doubts or clarifications.
This completely depends on one's ability to grasp concepts and to learn. Anything between 8 to 16 months is good for preparation, depending on the average number of hours invested per day and the quality of preparation.
Yes. Being Government institutions, there are reservations in different National Law Universities. All NLUs have reservations for SCs and STs and quite a few of them have seats for OBCs as well. Fewer have regional quotas and some also have reservations for women, wards of defense personnel and even NRI sponsored Candidates.
Yes. Though law is a subject of humanities, students of any stream can sit for the law exam. The paper is evenly balanced so that no particular stream is given a complete edge over the other. In fact, most of the students who sit and qualify the law exam over the years have been science students as it was the most popular stream. It is only in recent years that Arts and Commerce students are also seen appearing in sizable numbers.

Apart from CLAT, which is the gateway to the 18 National Law Schools in India' certain other entrance exams which any law aspirant should keep in mind and appear for are:

  • AILET - All India Law Entrance Test (AILET) for admission in National Law University (NLU), Delhi.
  • Symbiosis Entrance Test (SET) conducted by the Symbiosis International University to get admission into Symbiosis Law School.
  • CET IPU - The Common Entrance test conducted by Indraprastha University, Delhi for various law colleges situated in Delhi and NCR including Amity Noida.
  • LSAT-India is a standardized test adopted as an admissions criterion by multiple law colleges across India.
  • Christ University Law Entrance Exam - conducted by Christ University, Bangalore for admission to School of Law, Christ University.
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