CLAT Syllabus 2021

CLAT Syllabus 2021

CLAT 2021 syllabus includes all the topics that law aspirants must cover in order to prepare for the exam. The national-level exam grants admission in 3-year and 5-year Integrated LLB and LLM programmes offered by the 22 NLUs and other Law Schools accepting CLAT Scores. The syllabi for all the programmes are different.

The CLAT 2021 Syllabus clearly describes the subject and the sub-topics that the candidates need to prepare in order to face the examination. Once candidates are aware of the syllabus of CLAT 2021, they can start with their exam preparation. With the help of syllabus of CLAT 2021, candidates will get an overview of the CLAT 2021 Exam pattern in order to score well in the entrance exam.

The exam pattern will help candidates to understand the structure of the question paper. The exam pattern for the UG programme is divided into 5 sections while for PG programme, it is divided into 3 sections. The question paper for postgraduate courses will have a total of 150 multiple choice questions whereas undergraduate courses will have 200 questions to attempt. Once candidates are familiar with the CLAT exam pattern, they can then easily relate to the CLAT exam syllabus.

CLAT UG 2021 Syllabus for English Language 

Passages of 450 words each shall be given. The same is taken from contemporary or historically significant fiction and non-fiction writing of a 12th standard student. Each passage will have a series of questions that would test the comprehension and language skills of a candidate.

Questions would be based on:

• Reading and understanding the main point of the question including the viewpoints and arguments mentioned in the passage.
• Summarising the passages
• Drawing inferences and conclusions based on the passage
• Comparing various arguments or viewpoints mentioned in the passage.
• Comprehending the meaning of various phrases and words mentioned in the passage.

CLAT UG 2021 Syllabus for Current Affairs and General Knowledge

These passages will also include 450 words each which will be derived from journalistic sources, news and non-fiction writing. The designed questions will examine the candidate's awareness, legal information or knowledge related to the given passage.

No additional knowledge beyond the passage will be asked. The Current Affairs and General Knowledge questions will be based on:

• Arts and Culture
• Contemporary events of significance from India and the world
• International affairs
• Historical events of significance

CLAT UG 2021 Syllabus for Legal Reasoning

Passages in this section would also have 450 words each. These may relate to scenarios or fact situations based on public policy questions, legal matters or moral philosophical enquiries. No prior knowledge of the law is required to answer questions/passages in this section.

The candidates must only have a general awareness of the latest legal and moral issues in order to apply general principles or propositions to the given scenarios. The passages will ask you to:

• Identify and infer rules and principles given in the passage.
• Understand how changing the rules and principles can change their application to different fact situations.
• Apply the rules and principles to different fact situations.

CLAT UG 2021 Syllabus for Logical Reasoning

This section of CLAT 2021 shall include short passages of 300 words each.

The same will demand the candidate to:

• Read and identify the arguments given in the passage.
• Recognise the argument along with its premises and conclusions.
• Analyse the patterns of reasoning and assess the conclusions depending on the particular premises or evidence.
• Draw relationships and analogies, identify equivalence and contradictions and identify the effectiveness of arguments. 
• Infer what follows from the passage 
• Apply the inference to new situations.

CLAT UG 2021 Syllabus for Quantitative Techniques

The CLAT 2021 Quantitative Techniques section will include short sets of facts or propositions, textual or diagrammatic or pictorial, graphical representation of numerical information. The same shall be followed by a series of questions.

Candidates shall be able to derive information of the given passages, representations, graphs and apply mathematical operations on the provided information. 

The questions will be based on:

• Deriving and inferring along with manipulating information given in such passages, graphs or other representations
• Applying different Class X mathematical operations on the given information such as ratios, proportions, mensuration, basic algebra and statistical estimation. 

CLAT 2021 PG Exam Syllabus

PG-CLAT 2021 will be divided into two sections- Objective and Descriptive Sections

In the Objective section, passages will be followed by a series of questions that will ask the candidate to:

• Read and comprehend the issues mentioned in the given passage. This may also include arguments, viewpoints discussed in the passage.
• Summarise the passage.
• Apply your knowledge of the law to the passage.
• Be aware of the issues mentioned in the passage along with legal issues and facts related to the passage and the statute or judgement from which it has been extracted.

In the descriptive section, candidates would be required to write essays and answer 2 questions from the list of questions. Each essay must be of a maximum of 800 words each. These questions would test your:

• Ability to structure the answer and mention the arguments and perspective clearly and then draw the conclusion accordingly.
• Awareness of the factual, legal and philosophical issues set out in the given question.

CLAT PG Topics 2021

The topics asked in the CLAT PG exam have been given in the table below.