CLAT Exam Pattern 2020
This year CLAT Consortium has announced changes in the CLAT 2020 Exam pattern. The changes have been focused to make CLAT less complicated and offering admissions to the more competent candidates. Discussions on the new patterns are currently underway and the final notification for the CLAT 2020 Exam pattern will be released in the last week of December. The date of the exam has already been announced i.e, 10th May 2020.
The CLAT 2020 Exam pattern includes changes like reduction in no. of questions from 200 to 120-150. A new subject has been introduced too i.e, Deductive reasoning. Aspirants need not be confused about the exam pattern. They should keep themselves updated with the changes that have been made in CLAT 2020 Exam pattern and start their preparations accordingly.
In this article, all the important details related to the CLAT 2020 exam pattern have been discussed. To know more about the CLAT 2020 exam pattern, go through this article.
- The mode of the exam will be offline.
- No. of questions has been reduced to 120-150 from 200 but the time will be the same as it was earlier that is 2 hours.
- Questions will be comprehension based thus aspirants will have to improve their reading skills.
- The question paper will have 5 sections - Quantitative Techniques, English, Current Affairs, Deductive Reasoning, and Logical Reasoning.
- Candidates will be givenOMR sheets, where they have to answer by coloring the correct option.
- For the first time, the Carbonised OMR Sheet will also be provided to the aspirants.
- General Knowledge and Legal Aptitude have been removed from the syllabus of CLAT 2020.
CLAT Exam Pattern 2020
| Name Of Exam | Common-Law Admission Test |
| Exam Date | May 10, 2020 |
| Duration | 2 Hours |
| Mode | Offline (Pen Paper Mode) |
| Type Of Questions | For Ug - Multiple Type Questions (Mcqs) For Pg- Mcq Type - 100 Subjective Type - 2 |
| No. Of Questions | Ug - 120 -150 Objective Type Questions Pg - 100 Objective And 2 Subjective Question |
| Language | English |
| Total Marks | Ug - 200 Pg - 150 Marks |
| Marking Scheme | For Ug - With The Changes In The Exam Pattern Nlu Consortium May Make Changes In The Marking Scheme Also. Changes Will Be Reflected Here Once Notified. For Pg- objective- 100 marks Subjective- 50 marks, each containing 25 marks. |
CLAT 2020 Exam Centres
NUSRL, Ranchi has announced the test centers for CLAT 2020. It is expected that there will be 40 test centers for CLAT 2020 where the offline exam is going to take place as last year. Further changes will be updated later. Candidates need to visit the website regularly to keep themselves updated.| State | Centers |
| Andhra Pradesh | Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam |
| Assam | Guwahati |
| Bihar | Muzaffarpur, Patna |
| Chattisgarh | Bilaspur, Raipur |
| Gujarat | Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar |
| Haryana | Faridabad , Gurgaon , Hisar, Kurukshetra |
| Himachal Pradesh | Shimla |
| Jammu & Kashmir | Srinagar, Jammu |
| Jharkhand | Ranchi, Jamshedpur |
| Karnataka | Bangalore, Mysore |
| Kerala | Kozhikode, Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi |
| Madhyapradesh | Bhopal, Indore |
| Maharashtra | Aurangabad , Mumbai, Nagpur, Pune, Thane |
| Meghalaya | Shillong |
| Manipur | Imphal |
| Odisha | Bhubaneshwar, Cuttack |
| Punjab | Amritsar, Jalandhar, Chandigarh, Mohali, Patiala |
| Rajasthan | Jaipur, Jodhpur, Kota |
| Sikkim | Gangtok |
| Tamilnadu | Chennai, Coimbatore, Madurai, Tiruchirappalli |
| Telangana | Hyderabad |
| Uttar Pradesh | Agra, Allahabad, Ghaziabad, Gorakhpur, Greater Noida, Noida, Kanpur, Lucknow, Varanasi |
| Uttarakhand | Dehradun, Haldwani |
| West Bengal | Siliguri, Kolkata |
CLAT 2020 Syllabus
For UG Programmes :
English including comprehension:English section will be based on comprehension and grammar. The list of topics to be covered in English :
| Reading comprehension |
| Antonyms, Synonyms |
| Sentence rearrangement or Para jumbles |
| Sentence Correction/ Error Finding |
| Spell Checks |
| Fillers(Sentence/word) |
| Cloze Test |
Current Affairs: Questions from general knowledge and current affairs will be based on current affairs.
List of topics to be covered in this section:
| Latest incidents |
| International incident / news |
| News related science |
| News related technology |
| Legal affairs |
| Sports, people, and places |
Quantitative techniques: The quantitative aptitude section will involve the use of numbers, symbols, mathematical expressions, other elements of quantities.
List of topics come under this section:
| Number system, Ratio |
| Decimals and fractions |
| Surds and indices |
| Average, HCF, LCM |
| Approximation |
| Ratio and proportion |
| Logarithm |
| Discounts |
| Area and volumes |
| Interest calculation |
| Profit and loss |
Logical reasoning: Logical reasoning will include identify patterns, logical links and rectify illogical arguments.
List of topics to come under this section :
| Logic links, Identify patterns |
| Rectify illogical arguments |
| Syllogisms |
| Logical sequences |
| Analogies |
Deductive reasoning: Deductive reasoning relies on a general hypothesis or statement. The statement is used to reach a specific logical conclusion.
For e.g, if A = B and B = C, then Deductive reasoning tells us that A = C.
In DEDUCTIVE reasoning the conclusions are drawn only from the information given in the question, not from the facts or our knowledge. the most common types of deductive reasoning questions are syllogisms.
For PG Programmes:
Topics to be covered in CLAT 2020 Exam for LLM
| Constitutional law |
| Law of Torts |
| International law |
| Jurisprudence |
| Intellectual property law |
| Law of contracts |
| Criminal law |
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