CLAT 2022 Exam Analysis

The Consortium of National Law Universities (CNLU) successfully conducted the Common Law Admission Test 2022 yesterday on 19.06.2022 for Undergraduate and Post graduate admissions in 131 Examination Centres, across 84 locations in 25 States. CLAT 2022 had 92% of the registered candidates taking the undergraduate examination and 87% candidates taking the postgraduate examination.

The CLAT 2022 exam was held offline. The CLAT Question papper for UG exam contained a total of 150 questions of 150 marks were asked in the CLAT 2022 exam, to answer the questions, Aspirants had 120 minutes. The type of questions asked in CLAT 2022 is multiple choice. In CLAT 2022, aspirants have to answers questions from different checked such as English language legal reasoning logical reasoning current affair current affairs and quantity techniques.

If you look back the previous year’s CLAT analysis, most of the CLAT Aspirants identified that the overall difficulty level of the CLAT exam is moderate to difficult, the number of good attempts of the papers depends upon the difficulty level and cut off scores.

The answer key for CLAT 2022 released on the official website- www.consortiumofnlus.ac.in today. CLAT 2022 result is expected to be declared by the 4th week of June 2022. In this post CLAT Aspirants can get an idea of the CLAT 2022 question paper analysis.

CLAT 2022 Question and Weightage

There were 150 questions in CLAT 2022, which were supposed to be answered within 120 minutes. The total number of questions and weightage for each section are given below in the following table.

 

CLAT 2022 Question Paper Analysis

CLAT 2022 exam can be said as reasonably easy to moderate. Check the overall CLAT 2022 question paper analysis here in the following table.

 

The Consortium of National Law Universities (CNLU) released the CLAT 2022 answer key on the official website- consortiumofnlus.ca.in. Aspirants can check CLAT 2022 Answer key to recognise the total obtainable score in the exam.

CLAT 2021 Exam Analysis

The CLAT-UG 2021 exam was conducted in a paper and pen-based mode and had 150 questions across 5 areas: English, Current Affairs including General Knowledge, Legal Reasoning, and Logical Reasoning and Quantitative Techniques. Students visited the respective exam centres and attempted the questions by filling an OMR Sheet as done before.

The CLAT question paper for UG courses contained a total of 150 passage-based objective-type questions of 150 marks had to be answered in 120 minutes. The questions carried 1 mark each for correct answer with 0.25 marks deducted for every incorrect answer. The overall feel of the paper was moderate.

You can scroll down to know subject-wise analysis by our experts.

• Overall the CLAT 2021 exam was easy compared to CLAT 2020. Last year there were so many unexpected questions, but this year questions were predictable and doable.

• All the passages and questions were predictable. It was less lengthy than the previous year. This increased the number of attempts.

• Compared to the previous year, the passages in the English language were easy this year. All questions were predictable, and they were to the point.

• Current Affairs and GK were very easy. Passages were based on PM Modi's visit to Bangladesh, United Nations, SAARC. All the questions were straightforward.

• Legal Reasoning was also easy this year. Questions were based on regular topics like Hindu Marriage Act, IPC, Jurisdiction, Contract Law. Most of the questions were standard.

• In Logical Reasoning, there were three passages based on ongoing virus outbreaks and one on climate change. The section was easy to moderate. One passage was extremely lengthy. Most of the questions were on standard topics like inference, strengthen and weaken, etc.

• Quantitative Aptitude was also easy. Surprisingly there were no graphs or tables given. There were only paragraph based questions.

As the question paper was easy, hope your number of attempts are high. It is also important that you must have good accuracy as a good number of attempts with less accuracy doesn't fetch you a good score.

Subject-Wise CLAT 2021 Analysis

Get the in-depth review of each subject of CLAT 2021 here. Know the difficulty level, good attempts, and questions asked in each CLAT subject.

 

 

English:

Evaluation: This section had 30 questions. The level of questions in this section was easy except a few, which were tricky. There were 6 reading comprehension passages. Passages ranged from impact or repercussion of COVID, climate change, gig economy to education and failure of TRC in South Africa. The passages were easy to moderate in terms of understanding and had 5 questions each. Most of the passages were moderate in length except one or two passages. The questions were based on conventional types such as inference, tone, main idea, primary purpose and vocabulary. This was a scoring section for students and the main skill required was good reading speed and understanding of diverse areas. Overall the section was easy to moderate.

Current Affairs including General Knowledge:

Evaluation: Similar to last year, the GK section of CLAT 2021 was passage based. In all, there were 35 questions based on 7 passages (5 questions each). It was a highly predictable paper and 5 GK passages were directly/indirectly covered in our Mock/Bull/Aim CLAT tests and Weekly current issues. The level of questions was easy to moderate with 2-3 exceptions, as is expected. Akin to CLAT 2020, the majority of passages in CLAT 2021 were based on international affairs and were derived from current affairs. Most of the questions were current oriented but there were some questions from the static GK as well. The GK section was lengthy for those who required reading the passages. But most of the questions could be answered without reading the passages since the answers were not derivable from the passages.

Legal Reasoning:

Evaluation: This year the Legal Section of the CLAT 2021 exam was easier than last year. There were a total of 40 questions in the Legal Reasoning area, making it the lengthiest area of the exam. There were a total of 8 passages each containing 5 questions. The topics of the passages were related to mostly static laws and had less influence of current affairs this year. The topics of the passages were from Contract Law, Law of Torts, Indian Penal Code, The Hindu Marriage Act and some Miscellaneous concepts. The topics were as follows :-

Logical Reasoning:

Evaluation: This section had 30 questions which included 6 passages with five questions each. The level of questions in this section was easy to moderate. This section contained questions based on Critical Reasoning. This was again a reading-based section like English section with passages from diverse areas like impact of COVID, diplomacy and climate change. The articles were mainly picked from the leading newspapers like Indian Express and world press etc. All the passages were easy to understand. Most of the questions were based on inference, central idea, primary purpose and a few based on conventional critical reasoning such as strengthen or weaken the argument. The main skills required were again a good reading speed and knowledge of critical reasoning fundamentals.

Quantitative Techniques:

Evaluation:This section had 3 sets that were on paragraph based. All the sets required basic understanding of percentage. Among all the three, the set based on COVID was easiest as the questions were direct. Also, the age-based block was direct application of percentage while set based on profit of two companies required basic understanding of percentage change. One important fact is to be mentioned that, this year also, there were ambiguities in Quant section as some assumptions were to be made to solve the questions which should have been, otherwise clearly mentioned. Overall, the feel of the section was moderate.

CLAT-UG 2020 Exam Analysis

As per Consortium on the CLAT a total of 75,183 candidates applied for the CLAT 2020 exam, out of which 68,883 candidates downloaded the admit card. This CLAT Exam Analysis has been derived from the student's reaction and thorough analysis by CLATATHON faculties. The following are the highlights from the analysis:

• The most trickiest section out of all was the Current Affairs and GK.

• The students mentioned that the Quant section was lengthy and calculative.

• The overall reaction to the new pattern based exam was moderate.

 

The paper was lengthy. Not just the passages but the options are given to check the answer were lengthy. The paper was moderate, with few difficult sections in the exam. The CLAT Question paper this year was not in predictable lines.

There were 29-30 passages included in the exam comprising the total 150 mark weightage. Here is the section-wise CLAT exam analysis for your reference:

English

• The section had lengthy passages

• Questions were of moderate difficulty level

• Many questions were asked on vocabulary

• Some important topics covered were Idioms/Phrases and Figures of Speech

• There were no questions on grammar

Legal Reasoning

• The section was based on general awareness of law

• Some questions were tricky to answer

• Students with a good understanding of important of legal terms could answer the questions with ease

• The difficulty level of the section was easy to moderate

GK including Current Affairs

• The section was tough as well as tricky

• The section tested candidates' knowledge and analytical skills on latest events

• Questions were covered on important events such as COVID-19, National Education Policy and Atmanirbhar Bharat Scheme

Logical Reasoning

• The section included both analytical and critical reasoning questions

• The questions were based on straight facts of current news and events

• The difficulty level of the section was easy to moderate

Quantitative Techniques

• The section contained tricky questions

• Some questions based on dimensions and geometry were complicated to answer

• There were many calculative questions

• Overall, the section was moderate to difficult

 

 

FAQs

This is highly confidential but it could be set a month before to check if there are any errors or discrepancy.

Try to revise the topics of incorrect solutions. This way you can improve your score. Focus more on your weaker areas.

Yes, you can expect repeated questions in the CLAT exam. Hence, it is recommended to solve as many previous year papers as possible for complete preparation.

Solve previous year papers and attempt mock tests to boost your preparation. Along with studying the entire syllabus, it is important to solve the previous year question papers to analyse your preparation level.

According to previous year analysis, the difficulty level of CLAT Exam is moderate. The question paper is lengthy and time consuming. But, this year there is a change in the exam pattern and students will experience new type of questions.