• The UG-CLAT 2022 shall be a 2-hour test,
• with 150 multiple-choice questions
• For each correct answer, +1 mark will be awarded.
• Negative Marking – For each wrong answer, 0.25 mark will be deducted.

Subjects No. of Qs
English Language 28-32 Qus.
Current Affairs, including General Knowledge 35-39 Qus.
Legal Reasoning 35-39 Qus.
Logical Reasoning 28-32 Qus.
Quantitative Techniques 13-17 Qus.

1. English Language (28-32 Qus.)
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.
• The passages might be fictional as well as a non-fictional piece of writing.
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.
Here are the topics that can be studied for the English section
1. Reading comprehension
2. Figures of speech – Personification, Irony etc..
3. Articles
4. Active and passive voice
5. Concord (subject-verb agreement)
6. Verb formation
7. Vocabulary based questions
8. Tenses.
9. Propositions
10. Models
11. Verb usage.

NOTE:- Below is the list of topics which have been eliminated from the new syllabus of CLAT 2022:
• 1. Sentence-correction
• 2. Cloze Test
• 3. Fill in the blanks
• 4. Phrase replacement
• 5. Error spotting
• 6. Sentence sequential arrangement
• 7. Choose the correct sentence.

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2. Current Affairs Including General Knowledge (35-39 Qus.)
• In this section, you will be provided passages of up to 450 words each.
• The passages will be derived from
o national or international news,
o major historical or contemporary events,
o journalistic sources (like newspapers and magazines), and
o 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:

• Static GK
• Contemporary events of significance from India and the world;
• Arts and culture;
• Important Historical events of continuing significance.
• National & International Affairs
• Schemes
• Science & Technology
• Summits & Conferences
• Sports
• Awards & Honours
• Eminent personalities
• Geopolitics and important environmental agreements
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3. Legal Reasoning (35-39 Qus.)
 In this section, you will be expected to read passages of around 450 words each.
 The passages may relate to any:
o static or current topic/news related to the field of law
o fact situations or scenarios involving legal matters,
o public policy questions or
o moral philosophical enquiries.
 You will not require any prior knowledge of 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. Its sole aim is to test your judgment ability.

Each passage would be followed by a series of 3 to 5 questions per passage 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.

Some of the most important and frequently asked topics, likely to be covered under this section are:
 Indian Constitution
 Legal GK and
 Legal Current Affairs
 Important topics from Contract law, Criminal law, Torts law, and Constitutional law;
 Important Supreme Court Judgments;
 Important and recent acts and amendments of the legislature;
 International treaties and conventions affecting national legal framework etc.
 Legal Terms & Legal Maxims
 Landmark Judgements

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4. Logical Reasoning (28-32 Qus.)
The Logical Reasoning section of the UG-CLAT will include a series of short passages of about 300 words each. Each passage will be followed by one or more questions related to verbal reasoning 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.
 Syllogism
 Weakening & Strengthening arguments
 Statement & Assumption
 Statement & Course of Action
 Statement & Arguments
 Statement & Inference
 Cause & Effect

Important topics to study
1. Analogies
2. Series
3. Seating arrangement
4. Syllogisms
5. Blood relations
6. Logical sequences and matching
7. Calendars and clocks
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5. Quantitative Techniques (13-18 Qus.)

 The section has been renamed from ‘Elementary Mathematics’ to ‘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

The likely to be covered syllabus of this section is as follows:
 Most of the questions will be asked on the basis of
o Charts,
o bars, and
o other graphical representations.
 Bar Graph
 Pie Chart,
 Mixed Graphs
 Line Graph
 Table Chart
 Caselet D.I. (Passage Based)