CHANGE IN THE PATTERN OF CLAT 2020 FOCUSES MORE ON SKILLS AND CAPABILITY
“The CLAT 2020 has introduced some major changes in the exam pattern . In a meeting on November 21 held by CLAT Consortium, The number of questions has been reduced from 200 to 120-150 and also the questions will be comprehension based. But the time will remain the same i.e, 2 hrs .The president of the consortium, Prof. Faizan Mustafa, also Vice-Chancellor, NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad. said that asking students to answer 200 questions in 120 minutes is not right as it puts students under a lot of mental stress.
- The no. of questions reduced to 150 but the time will remain the same i.e, 2 hours .
- The questions will be comprehension based that means student would require efficient reading skills
- The question paper will have questions from Quantitative Techniques, English, Current Affairs, Deductive Reasoning and Logical Reasoning.
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- Candidates will be given OMR sheets, where they have to answer by colouring the correct option.
- Question paper for UG program will include 200 multiple-choice type (MCQs)questionsNo subjective questions will be asked.
- The PG Admission test will also have the comprehension based questions but the descriptive portion will remain the same .
- PG paper will have both types of questions - subjective (100 questions) and objective (2 questions).
- Each objective type question will carry 1 mark, while for incorrect attempt 0.25 marks will be deducted.
- Meanwhile, the two subjective questions will each carry 25 marks, for a combined total of 50 marks.
- First time the Carbonised OMR Sheet will also be provided to the aspirants .
EVENTS | DETAILS |
Name of the exam | CLAT 2020 |
Date of the exam | 10th may, 2020 |
Conducting body | NUSRL, Ranchi |
Mode of the exam | Offline |
No. of questions | 120-150 |
Question type | Objective |
No. of Participating NLUs | 21 |
No. of seats | Around 2500 for UG and 720 for postgraduate (NLUs only) |
Total no. of aspirants | More than 50000 |
Courses offered | BA LLB, B.Sc LLB, BBA LLB, B.Com LLB, BSW LLB, andLLM |
- Candidates should keep themselves Up to date of all the changes in the exam patterns as well as the schedule and other information related to the CLAT 2020. Here are the tentative dates for the CLAT 2020 mentioned however it can change so students are requested to check the time table on a regular basis .The dates will be updated once the official notification will be released.
NAME OF EVENTS |
IMPORTANT DATES |
Issue of notification | Last week of december |
Start of application form | 1st january 2020 |
Last date of application form | 3rd week of april |
Issue of Admit card | 2 weeks before the exam |
Date of exam | 10th may 2020 |
CLAT 2020 ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA :
- Aspirants belongs to the general category or OBC category or specially abled category having 45% marks or above in their +2 exam can apply.
- Aspirants who belong to the SC or ST category having 40% marks or more in their +2 exam can apply
- Also, those students who are appearing for +2 exam in March/ April of the year of the CLAT exam can apply.
- There is no upper age limit to appear in CLAT 2020.
APPLICATION PROCESS FOR CLAT 2020 :
- Personal details - Name, email, phone number and address
- Your educational background- Marks or CGPA obtained in the qualifying grade XII exam
- The course which you are interested in taking up if in case you are selected
- Three test centers in the order of preference.
- passport or birth certificate
- Mark sheets of the high school
- Mark sheet of the qualifying exam
- The category certificate if applicable
- The disability certificate if applicable
- Special certificate applicable to those who are wards and dependents of freedom fighters of Bihar and Kashmiri migrants
- NRI and NRI sponsored certificate if applicable
- Domicile certificate under state quota
- The applicants have to upload a photograph and signature on the form. the photo and The signature should be of size 100 kb and the photograph should be of 30m*45mm in size.
- And at last student have to do the fee payment .
Application fees of CLAT 2020
Category | Amount |
General, OBC | Rs. 4000 |
ST, SC | Rs. 3500 |
SYLLABUS FOR CLAT 2020 :
Sections | Topics |
English |
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Mathematics |
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General Knowledge & Current Affairs |
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Logical Reasoning |
Logical and Analytical reasoning skills |
Legal Aptitude |
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- Constitutional Law
- Other Law Subjects such as Contract, Torts, Criminal Law, International Law, IPR and Jurisprudence.
- Early preparation
- Stay updated with the pattern and the syllabus
- Make a plan or strategy and remain stick to it
- Maintain the continuity
- Time to time revision
- Practice mock tests and sample papers
- Clear doubts.