CLAT 2024 is tentatively scheduled to be held in December 2023. If CLAT 2023’s pattern is to be analyzed, one can see that there is an increased emphasis on the need to improve reading and comprehension skills. But what about other subjects?
Before we begin, let’s take a look at a few details about CLAT 2024.
CLAT 2024 is divided into 5 sections:
| Section | | Duration |
| Current Affairs | | 45 mins |
| English | | 30 mins |
| Quantitative Techniques | | 30 mins |
| Logical Reasoning | | 30 mins |
| Legal Reasoning | | 45 mins |
Each section carries different weightage in the examination.
| Subject | | Questions |
| English | | 30 |
| Quantitative Techniques | | 15 |
| Logical Reasoning | | 30 |
| Legal Reasoning | | 40 |
| Current Affairs | | 35 |
Based on this as well as the
previous year paper’s thorough analysis, we have come up with important topics from each subject that you need to practice more to secure a seat in the college of your dreams!
Important Topics for CLAT 2024: Legal Reasoning
In this section, there will be questions from passages around 400-450 words. These passages may relate to factual situations depicting legal matters, public policy questions or moral philosophical situations. Although no prior knowledge of law is required to solve these questions, you will need to have a general awareness of contemporary legal developments. Each passage would be followed by a series of questions that will require you to:
- Identify and infer the rules and principles set out in the passage;
- Apply such rules and principles to various factual situations in the passage;
- Understand how changes to the rules or principles may alter their application to various fact situations.
| Contemporary Legal Developments |
| New amendments |
| Cases in news |
| Legal Maxims |
| Concepts of subjects like Contract Law, Tort Law, IPC etc. |
Important Topics for CLAT 2024: Logical Reasoning
Questions from CLAT 2023 Logical Reasoning Section were primarily straightforward. However, it was the length of the passages, contextual understanding and critical analyses that the candidates struggled with a bit.
The Logical Reasoning section of CLAT usually includes a series of short passages of about 300 words each. Each passage is followed by one or more questions that will require you to:
- Recognize an argument, its premises and conclusions;
- Read and identify the arguments set out in the passage;
- Critically analyze patterns of reasoning, and assess how conclusions may depend on particular premises or evidence;
- Infer what follows from the passage and apply these inferences to new situations;
- Draw relationships and analogies, identify contradictions and equivalence, and assess the effectiveness of arguments.
Here are a few important topics of Logical reasoning that you need to practice more:
| Statement and Assumption |
| Cause and Effect |
| Seating Arrangement |
| Argument, Premises and Conlcusion |
| Statement and Inference |
| Relationship and analogies |
| Clocks and Calenderes |
| Circular Arrangement |
| Number Series and Logical Sequence |
Important Topics for CLAT 2024: Current Affairs including GK
In the CLAT 2023 Paper Current Affairs section, though the passages ranged from current affairs topics like FIFA World Cup to supercomputers and AI, the students were troubled with a myriad of Static GK questions. This unprecedented focus on Static GK makes this section harder than what most students might have expected. Students who had read newspapers throughout the year were sure to find themselves in an advantageous position.
In this section, passages of up to 450 words each are provided followed by questions related to them. These passages are usually derived from news, journalistic sources and other non-fiction works. The questions may include an examination of legal information or knowledge discussed in or related to the passage, but do not require any additional knowledge of the law beyond the passage.
Here are a few important topics of Current Affairs and GK that you need to practice more:
| Historical events of continuing significance |
| Contemporary events of significance from India and the world |
| International affairs |
| Arts and Culture |
| Legal GK and Current Affairs |
Important Topics for CLAT 2024: Quantitative Techniques
While CLAT 2021 and 2022 had relatively easier questions, questions in CLAT 2023 were moderate in nature. In Quantitative Techniques section, questions include short sets of facts or propositions, graphs, or other textual, pictorial or diagrammatic representations of numerical information, followed by a series of questions. Candidates are required to derive information from such passages, graphs, or other representations, and apply mathematical operations on such information.
The candidates need to :
- Derive, infer, and manipulate numerical information set out in such passages, graphs, or other representations;
- Apply various 10th standard mathematical operations on such information, including from areas such as ratios and proportions, basic algebra, mensuration and statistical estimation.
Here are a few important topics of Quantitative Techniques Section that you need to practice more:
| Important Topics in Quantitative Techniques |
| Percentage |
| Profit & Loss |
| Average |
| Ratio and Proportion |
| Mensuration |
| Statistics |
| Work and Time |
| Speed, Distance and Time |
| Number system |
| Probability |
To brush up your knowledge of these important topics, you can take a look at the previous year questions as well.
| CLAT 2023 UG Question Paper | Download here |
| CLAT 2022 UG Question Paper | Download here |
| CLAT 2021 UG Question Paper | Download here |
| CLAT 2020 UG Question Paper | Download here |
| CLAT 2019 UG Question Paper | Download here |