The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT), a national level entrance exam, is held for admission to undergraduate and postgraduate law programmes in law universities. This year the CLAT is scheduled on June 13. Candidates can apply for the exam online at consortiumofnlus.ac.in till March 31.
The admission test conducting body, Consortium of National Law Universities (CNLU), releases the exam pattern along with the notification. The CLAT exam pattern will let a candidate have an overall idea about the scheme and mode of exam, the structure of the question paper and weightage of topics.
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The CLAT LLM exam pattern has been changed this year. A subjective section in the postgraduate law entrance examination has been added this year. CNLU has also introduced cut-off marks in the CLAT LLM 2021 objective section. The new subjective section will only be evaluated if the law candidates score above the cutoff marks in the objective section.
CLAT UG 2021 Exam Pattern
The CLAT UG paper for law has five sections -- Verbal Ability, General Knowledge and Current Affairs, Legal Reasoning, Logical Reasoning and Quantitative Aptitude comprising comprehension-based questions. Each section may have four to five comprehension passages followed by a set of multiple choice questions. The duration of the exam is two hours.
CLAT PG Exam Pattern 2021
The CLAT PG paper will comprise two sections -- Objective and Subjective. The CLAT PG objective section will consist of 100 multiple choice questions of one mark each. The questions are expected to test critical thinking and legal aptitude of the candidates. The subjective section which has been reintroduced this year for will test the writing skills of the candidates. It will be an essay-based long answer questions-based format section. The topics can range from current legal affairs to general affairs.
