CLAT 2022 Syllabus and Pattern for UG, All You Need To Know

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CLAT 2022 Syllabus and Exam Pattern: If you are preparing for the CLAT 2022 and searching for the latest syllabus and exam pattern of CLAT-UG then you are at the right place. In this article, we are providing the new CLAT UG updated syllabus along with the PDF, which would be found at the bottom of this article.

What is CLAT Exam?

First, we discuss a brief intro of the CLAT 2022 Exam, The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) is a centralized national level entrance test for admissions to 23 National Law Universities (NLU) in India. and the sole exception that conducts its separate entrance exam is NLU, Delhi.

CLAT 2022 Syllabus and Pattern for UG

CLAT 2022 — Introduction and Overview (CLAT 2022 Syllabus)

The UG-CLAT 2022 would focus on evaluating the comprehension and reasoning skills and abilities of candidates. Overall, it is designed to be a test of aptitude and skills that are necessary for a legal education rather than prior knowledge, though prior knowledge occasionally may be useful to respond to questions in the Current Affairs section.

The UG-CLAT 2022 shall be a 2-hour test, with 150 multiple-choice questions carrying 1 mark each. There shall be a negative marking of 0.25 marks for every wrong answer. These questions would be divided across the following 5 subjects:

English Language
Current Affairs, including General Knowledge
Legal Reasoning
Logical Reasoning
Quantitative Techniques

CLAT 2022 Syllabus – Section wise distribution of questions

Subjects	Number of Questions	Marks
English Language	28-32 questions	28 – 32
Current Affairs, including General Knowledge	35-39 questions	35 – 39
Legal Reasoning	35-39 questions	35 – 39
Logical Reasoning	28-32 questions	28 – 32
Quantitative Techniques	13-17 questions	13 – 17
Total	150	150

CLAT 2022: English Language Syllabus

In this section of the UG-CLAT 2022, you will be provided passages of about 450 words each. These passages will be derived from contemporary or historically significant fiction and non-fiction writing and would be of a standard that a 12th standard student may be able to read in about 5-7 minutes.

Each passage will be followed by a series of questions that will require you to demonstrate your comprehension and language skills, including your abilities to:

Read and comprehend the main point discussed in the passage, as well as any arguments and viewpoints discussed or set out in the passage;
Draw inferences and conclusions based on the passage;
Summarise the passage;
Compare and contrast the different arguments or viewpoints set out in the passage; and
Understand the meaning of various words and phrases used in the passage.

CLAT 2022: Current Affairs Including General Knowledge

In this section, you will be provided passages of up to 450 words each. The passages will be derived from news, journalistic sources, and other non-fiction writing. The questions may include an examination of legal information or knowledge discussed in or related to the passage, but would not require any additional knowledge of the law beyond the passage.

Each passage will be followed by a series of questions that will require you to demonstrate your awareness of various aspects of current affairs and general knowledge, including:

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

CLAT 2022: Legal Reasoning

In this section, you will be expected to read passages of around 450 words each. The passages may relate to fact situations or scenarios involving legal matters, public policy questions, or moral philosophical inquiries. You will not require any prior knowledge of the law. You will benefit from a general awareness of contemporary legal and moral issues to better apply general principles or propositions to the given fact scenarios.

Each passage would be followed by a series of questions that will require you to:

Identify and infer the rules and principles set out in the passage;
Apply such rules and principles to various fact situations; and
Understand how changes to the rules or principles may alter their application to various fact situations.

CLAT 2022: Logical Reasoning

The Logical Reasoning section of the UG-CLAT 2022 will include a series of short passages of about 300 words each. Each passage will be followed by one or more questions that will require you to:

Recognize an argument, its premises and conclusions;
Read and identify the arguments set out in the passage;
Critically analyse patterns of reasoning, and assess how conclusions may depend on particular premises or evidence;
Infer what follows from the passage and apply these inferences to new situations;
Draw relationships and analogies, identify contradictions and equivalence, and assess the effectiveness of arguments.

CLAT 2022: Quantitative Techniques

The Quantitative Techniques section of the UG-CLAT 2022 will include short sets of facts or propositions, graphs, or other textual, pictorial or diagrammatic representations of numerical information, followed by a series of questions. You will be required to derive information from such passages, graphs, or other representations, and apply mathematical operations on such information.

The questions will require you to:

Derive, infer, and manipulate numerical information set out in such passages, graphs, or other representations; and
Apply various 10th standard mathematical operations on such information, including from areas such as ratios and proportions, basic algebra, mensuration and statistical estimation.

Preparing for the UG-CLAT 2022

The Consortium plans to publish various preparatory materials for the UG-CLAT 2022, including:

Guides to the question paper and sample questions;
Model question papers; and
Instructional materials and exercises for each of the subjects that the UG-CLAT 2022 comprises.

The Consortium will also provide candidates who have successfully completed their application to the UG-CLAT 2022 access to a learning platform where you may access the preparatory materials described above, as well as your scores on various exercises and model questions papers.

In addition, you should develop your capacity to read and understand bodies of text, ensure you stay abreast of news and current affairs by regularly reading quality newspapers and periodicals, and improve your speed of answering questions on quantitative techniques by practicing with materials such as 10th standard mathematics textbooks.

Source of the information @consortiumofnlus.ac.in

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