CLAT
CLAT is several parts, all built from one shape: you read a passage you’ve never seen before, then answer what it actually said. None of the parts wants prior legal knowledge — even the legal and logical sections say so — so what you’re training is a skill, not a syllabus: reading speed, and reasoning worked from the passage, not recalled from memory. Decode by question type, not topic — sort your past-paper errors into the types that recur, and train the weak ones alone, timed, key held back until after. The penalty is milder than usual, so the box’s numbers favour attempting more than you’d expect.
The parts don’t carry equal weight, so don’t pace yourself evenly either — give the heavier parts the time their share buys, and let the lighter ones be the ones you can afford to leave if you’re running slow. Seats are ranked nationally across a small set of law universities, so placement here comes down to how close to the top you finish. Once every part sits at a trained, timed pace, what you’re still losing is speed and slips, never an unread passage — a paper-a-week log of both is what closes that gap. The box has the exact numbers.
Open one current CLAT past paper and time yourself on one section. Answer the four questions from it: what form, what the marker pays for, what a miss costs, how many minutes a question buys. Sort the questions you got wrong by type, not topic. That sorted list is what your training runs against.
I have never studied law. The legal sections will be my hardest.
None of the parts wants prior legal knowledge — the legal and logical ones say so plainly. What they test is a trained reading speed and reasoning worked from the passage in front of you, decoded from past papers exactly like any other skill test. Your law-reading, not your law knowledge, is what needs the practice.
CLAT: check the current notice
As read on 28 September 2026, on the Consortium of National Law Universities’ own CLAT pages. The Consortium’s own UG Instructions page now states plainly that CLAT 2027 is in offline, pen-and-paper mode, settling what this box left open on 14 September. The Question Paper Format and Syllabus pages give 120 questions, one mark each, 2 hours, −0.25 for each wrong answer. The Consortium changes these numbers; the shape does not. Confirm in the current notice: whether more than one national sitting exists in a cycle; the exact section weights for your year.