clat test pattern

The CLAT Consortium has issued a press release on 21st Nov'19 in which the pattern and the date of CLAT 2020 have been mentioned. Highlights of the press release are given below.

• The pattern for CLAT 2020 will have comprehension-based questions from Quantitative Techniques, English, Current Affairs, Legal Reasoning and Logical Reasoning.
• The President of the CLAT Consortium and Vice-Chancellor of NALSAR, said that the reason for the change is to get better students, who have competence in reading texts and demonstrate skills in inferential reasoning, into the NLUs.
• The number of questions will also be reduced from 200 to 150.
• Quantitative analysis will be based on 10th standard mathematics content.
• The mode of exam will continue to be Paper & Pencil based with a total duration of two hours.
• The exam will be conducted on 10th of May 2020.
• The paper will have questions on "Current Affairs including General Knowledge.
• Selection Criteria: CLAT Score only

The pattern of Question Paper for the UG Courses in CLAT-2020 is as follows:

UG Question Paper Formata. Maximum Marks150b. Duration of CLAT 2020 Exam02:00 Hoursc. Multiple-Choice Questions150 questions of one mark eachd. Negative Marking0.25 Mark for each wrong answer

Subject Areas with weightage:(approximate number of questions)

English Language28-32 questions, or roughly 20% of the paper

Current Affairs, including General Knowledge35-39 questions, or roughly 25% of the paper

Legal Reasoning35-39 questions, or roughly 25% of the paper

Logical Reasoning28-32 questions, or roughly 20% of the paper

Quantitative Techniques13-17 questions, or roughly 10% of the paper
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