CLAT Exam Pattern 2023
- 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 2023.
CLAT Exam Pattern 2023
Name Of Exam | Common-Law Admission Test |
Exam Date | May 10, 2023 |
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 2023 Exam Centres
NUSRL, Ranchi has announced the test centers for CLAT 2023. It is expected that there will be 40 test centers for CLAT 2023 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 2023 Syllabus
Reading comprehension |
Antonyms, Synonyms |
Sentence rearrangement or Para jumbles |
Sentence Correction/ Error Finding |
Spell Checks |
Fillers(Sentence/word) |
Cloze Test |
Latest incidents |
International incident / news |
News related science |
News related technology |
Legal affairs |
Sports, people, and places |
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 |
Logic links, Identify patterns |
Rectify illogical arguments |
Syllogisms |
Logical sequences |
Analogies |
For PG Programmes:
Constitutional law |
Law of Torts |
International law |
Jurisprudence |
Intellectual property law |
Law of contracts |
Criminal law |
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