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The complete guide to CLAT (UG)

The exam pattern, what each section actually tests, and how to attack the paper — in plain language, from an analysis of the last several years of question papers.

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120

Questions

all passage-based

120 min

Duration

~1 min per question

-0.25

Negative marking

+1 correct · -0.25 wrong · blank 0

5

Sections

English · CA/GK · Legal · Logical · Quant

Offline (OMR)

Mode

no on-screen timer or palette

Dec (for next session)

Held

once a year

What is inside ClarUp for CLAT UG

1,539

questions, each with its working

23

lessons

5

full-length mocks

8

real past papers analysed

How the paper is split

5 sections, as the paper prints them

  • English Language24 questions
  • Current Affairs, including General Knowledge28 questions
  • Legal Reasoning31 questions · 30–32 seen
  • Logical Reasoning25 questions · 24–26 seen
  • Quantitative Aptitude12 questions

Counts are the mean across the recent papers we analysed; where the papers disagreed, the range they printed is shown beside it.

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