CLAT 2022 Syllabus UG

UG Syllabus & Guide

Introduction and Overview
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 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

English Language
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.
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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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
question 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
practising with materials such as 10th standard mathematics textbooks.