What is the exam paper pattern of CLAT2020

Dear Aspirant,

CLAT, also known as the Common Law Admission Test will be held on May 10, 2020. The paper will be a two hour paper in the offline mode, i.e., a pen-paper test will have multiple-choice questions. The number of questions for BA LLB will be 150 in number and total marks will also be 150. Therefore, each correct answer will fetch you 1 mark and each there will be a negative marking of 0.25 marks for every wrong answer.

There will be 5 sections in the paper:

1. English (Comprehension and Grammar) with around 28 to 32 questions and a weightage of 20%
2. Legal Aptitude with around 35 to 39 questions and a weightage of 25%
3. Logical Reasoning with around 35 to 39 questions and a weightage of 25%
4. Elementary Mathematics (Including Numerical Ability) with around 28 to 32 questions and a weightage of 20%
5. General Knowledge and Current Affairs with around 35 to 39 questions and a weightage of 25%

Knowing this will make will help with your speed for the exam and will also save time while writing it. To get more prepared regarding the exam pattern and the exam as a whole, check previous year question papers. There have been changes in the paper pattern which include a change in the number of questions from 200 to 150 and addition of comprehension-based questions in English and other sections like Deductive Reasoning, Quantitative Techniques, Current Affairs and Logical Reasoning as well. Due to this, your inferential reasoning will be thoroughly tested as part of the course. The quantitative aptitude required is that of 10th class. The minimum cut off for the paper is 40%.

Hope this helps. All the best!

Hello candidate,

Hope you are doing well.

The exam pattern of CLAT 2020 is

1. The exam will be held in pen and paper mode.
2. The candidate will be given a OMR sheet where they have to darken their answer.
3. For UG course there will be 150 MCQs questions instead of 200 questions and the questions will be objective only not subjective.
4. For PG course there will be two subjective type questions ( 25 marks each ) and 100 objective type questions.
5. The candidate will get 1 marks for each correct answer however 0.25 marks will be deducted if the answer is evaluated to be wrong ( In case of objective only ).

You can refer to the link below for complete details of CLAT 2020 which ,ay help with further

https://law.careers360.com/articles/clat

Hope it helps.

Thank you!!!