CLAT Syllabus 2025: Detailed Subject-wise Syllabus, Topics & Test Pattern

CLAT Subjects

The CLAT syllabus is divided into five sections/subjects, namely:

• English Language
• Current Affairs & GK
• Legal Reasoning
• Logical Reasoning
• Quantitative Techniques

Candidates planning to take the CLAT 2025 exam should familiarize themselves with the curriculum and subjects in CLAT before beginning their preparation. Read on to learn more about the CLAT 2025 curriculum, marking structure, important topics, and more.

*NLU Delhi and NLU Meghalaya do not accept CLAT scores.

CLAT 2025 Exam Pattern

Before jumping into the CLAT 2025 syllabus, here’s a general overview of the exam pattern:

Candidates planning to take the CLAT 2025 exam should familiarize themselves with the curriculum before beginning their preparation. Read on to learn more about the CLAT 2025 curriculum, marking structure, important topics, and more.

*The only NLU that does not recognize CLAT scores is NLU Delhi. NLU Delhi administers the AILET admission exam. AILET information can be found at the conclusion of this article.

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CLAT UG 2025 Syllabus

To excel in CLAT UG, candidates must thoroughly study these five CLAT subjects outlined in the CLAT UG 2025 syllabus.

Even before beginning the preparation, CLAT aspirants should have a proper run down of the syllabus; they are also advised to have the CLAT exam syllabus PDF(redirect it to the lead form) downloaded and keep tracking their progress as per the CLAT 2025 syllabus.

CLAT English Language Syllabus 2025

In the English Language portion of the CLAT 2025 syllabus, you will be given passages of around 450 words each. 

These passages will be drawn from contemporary or historically relevant fiction and non-fiction literature and will be of a level that a 12th-standard pupil might read in roughly 5-7 minutes.

Each paragraph will be followed by a series of questions that will demand you to demonstrate your comprehension and linguistic skills, including your abilities to:

• Read and grasp the paragraph's core message, as well as any arguments or opinions presented in the passage;
• Based on the reading, draw deductions and conclusions;
• Summarise the passage;
• Compare and contrast the various arguments or perspectives presented in the passage;
• Recognize the meaning of certain words and phrases in the context of the passage.

CLAT Current Affairs Including General Knowledge Syllabus 2025

In the CLAT’s Current Affairs Including General Knowledge section, you will be given passages of up to 450 words each. The excerpts will be drawn from news articles, journalistic sources, and other nonfiction works.

Each paragraph will be followed by a series of questions that will demand you to demonstrate your understanding of current events and general information, such as:

• Contemporary events of relevance from India and the world; 
• Arts and culture;
• International affairs;
• Historical events of enduring significance.

CLAT Legal Reasoning Syllabus 2025

CLAT’s Legal reasoning is one of the most important sections in the CLAT syllabus. This CLAT Subject will assess the candidate's interest in the study of law, research aptitude, and problem-solving abilities.

Each passage will be followed by a series of questions in which you will be required to:

• Identify and deduce the passage's rules and principles.
• Apply these rules and concepts to a variety of factual circumstances; and
• Understand how modifications to the rules or principles may affect how they are applied in different factual circumstances.

CLAT Logical Reasoning Syllabus 2025

The logical reasoning section's goal is to assess the candidate's critical thinking skills to find patterns and logical relationships, as well as to correct erroneous arguments. The questions are based on a 300-word text.

Each reading will be followed by one or more questions that will need you to:

• Recognize an argument, taking into account its premises and conclusions.
• Read the paragraph and identify the arguments presented.
• Analyse patterns of reasoning critically and examine how conclusions may depend on specific premises or evidence, and how conclusions may be strengthened or weakened as a result of a change in premises or supporting facts.
• Determine the passage's implications and apply your conclusions to other contexts.
• Draw comparisons and links, discover contradictions and equivalents, and evaluate the efficiency of arguments.

CLAT Quantitative Techniques Syllabus 2025

The CLAT Quantitative Technique or Maths component of the CLAT 2025 syllabus will consist of a sequence of questions followed by a brief collection of facts or propositions, graphs, or other textual, visual, or diagrammatic representations of numerical information. 

The questions will be in the form of Data Interpretation, which requires applicants to deduce information from the supplied paragraph and respond accordingly. Out of all the CLAT subjects, quantitative techniques are one of the hardest.

Some of the important topics that students should focus on include:

CLAT 2025 Section-wise Weightage

The Consortium of NLUs has issued a notification on the section-wise distribution of questions. The section-wise allocation of questions to each CLAT Subject of the exam is given below.

CLAT 2025 Preparation Books

One could also use some top books and study material to ace CLAT 2025. While there are plethora of books in the market that can help your cause, but right below this paragraph we have identified the best ones for you.

CLAT 2025 Preparation Tips

We have curated a list of CLAT preparation tips by our top mentors on “How to prepare for CLAT 2025”. Try to emulate the 8 tips mentioned as follows and you’d feel the impact of these on your preparation.

1. 500-Hour Study Plan

If you can spend 500 hours on self-preparation in the next 120-125 days, you will be in a perfect place and have a good chance of cracking CLAT 2025.

Take out 3-4 hours and divide the time according to your strengths and weaknesses. 

2. Set the Context 

As we suggest to every student who joins us, the first step should be to test yourself by taking the CLAT 2025 mock. Take it very seriously as if the CLAT were to happen right now, where would you stand?

Analyze the mock. Decipher what needs to be done and analyze your subject-wise strengths and weaknesses in the exam. 

3. Skill-based Learning for Reading Section

We generally break the entire paper into two parts.

The reading section primarily accounts for two-thirds of the total test and has 80 questions. Those 80 questions are purely skill-based, so you have to develop a skill for that.

TIP: Read 8 to 10 articles every day–good high-quality articles, newspapers, magazines, maybe a few blogs.

4. Ace Legal & Logical Sections

Students are intimidated by the number of sections in the exam.

But if you dig deeper, the difference between English, Logical, and Legal is that in the Legal section—you get passages only from one genre; i.e., law. 

Whereas, in English and Logic, you can expect contemporary philosophy, literature, and anything to come. 

5. Now is the time for GK

As far as GK is concerned, there is no closure to it. 

In fact, most of the GK that will come in CLAT 2025 probably has not yet happened; it will probably occur between July and November.

I suggest giving GK at least two hours of extra time in the next couple of months.

TIP: Pick one or at max two resources that are comprehensive. Manthan, for one, is exhaustive in nature.

Remember, just because some topper has said that I studied from a specific source doesn't mean that you'd have to collect all the resources. It will waste your time, as there's hardly anything extra that one can provide for GK. 

6. Do not miss the QT section 

Quantitative Techniques is one section that will define the NLU for you. The goal is not to get into any national law university–it is to get into the very best.

Focusing on every section in CLAT 2025 is a necessary condition and not a sufficient one.

7. Don’t forget the Mocks

There is no syllabus 'as such' for CLAT 2025, so there is no point in waiting before you can write mocks. Write two mocks almost every week, and write not more than two mocks in the last three months.  

8. Keep an eye on the ticking clock 

While analyzing the mock, do not just map your percentage score in a mock, but also map it with the time you're taking to solve that section. 

In the mocks, you need to commit a bare minimum of time for all the sections.

You cannot borrow time from one section and give it to the other, so you cannot get an inflated score in just one section; your overall score will drop. 

So, both need to be mapped accordingly and then you can take a call about where you stand.