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.





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 The CLAT 2020 Exam pattern includes changes like reduction in no. of questions from. A new subject has been introduced too i.e,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

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



