All you need to know about CLAT 2023 Syllabus!

Before starting your preparation for any exam, you must know the exam syllabus well. The syllabus determines the topics, themes or concepts that candidates must focus on. Similarly, the CLAT syllabus includes the topics and skills to be assessed through the CLAT exam. The CLAT 2023 syllabus is available on the Consortium’s official website. It was released in August 2022. 

CLAT Exam Structure

The Consortium has released the number of questions candidates can expect in each section for CLAT 2023. The distribution is as follows.

Subjects	Questions(approx.)
English including Comprehension	28-32
General Knowledge and Current Affairs	35-39
Legal Reasoning	35-39
Logical Reasoning	28-32
Quantitative Techniques	13-17
Total	150

The marks distribution and weightage of each section is also given below.

Subjects	Marks Distribution (approx.)	Weightage
English including Comprehension	28-32	20%
General Knowledge and Current Affairs	35-39	25%
Legal Reasoning	35-39	25%
Logical Reasoning	28-32	20%
Quantitative Techniques	13-17	10%
Total	150	100%

CLAT Syllabus UG: Skills to be Assessed

The CLAT exam comprises 5 sections. Each section aims to assess a set of skills of the candidates. 

1. English Language: The English Language section assesses the candidate’s command of the English language. The questions of this section require appreciable reading and comprehension skills. The candidates must also focus on building their vocabulary. 
2. Current Affairs, including General Knowledge: The CLAT aspirants are expected to be aware of the recent happenings in India and across the globe. Therefore questions regarding current affairs and general knowledge are included in this section. The candidates are advised to read the newspaper daily and get a subscription to a weekly/monthly magazine. 
3. Legal Reasoning: The Legal Reasoning section demands candidates employ their critical thinking skills and deductive abilities in legal scenarios. The passages in this section include rules and principles. 
4. Logical Reasoning: The candidates’ logical reasoning skills are assessed through the presentation of arguments. The candidates are expected to analyse the reasoning pattern mentioned in the passage critically. It also includes questions where the candidates must draw parallels and differences between the arguments. Therefore candidates must demonstrate refined logical reasoning skills to ace the section.
5. Quantitative Technique: The candidates must know the elementary mathematics concepts to respond to questions in this section. The passages of this section have numerical data that demands the ability to derive, infer and manipulate the numbers.

The candidates must refine the above-mentioned skills and abilities to get a good CLAT score. Constant practice will help you strengthen these skills. 

CLAT Syllabus UG: Section Wise Important Topics

Apart from the skills mentioned earlier, there are specific topics that one must focus on. During CLAT’s previous years’ paper analysis, the experts noticed questions on these topics appear pretty often. Therefore, experts in the field have laid out a list of important issues. These important topics are an essential part of the CLAT syllabus. The section-wise lists of important topics are given below.

• English Language

Sentence Sequence Arrangement	Phrase Replacement
Synonyms & Antonyms	Tenses
Spotting Error	Fill in the Blanks
Active and Passive Voice	Vocabulary Based Questions

 

• Current Affairs

National & International Affairs	Government Schemes
Science and Technology	Summits and Conferences
Foreign Affairs	Arts and Culture
Awards and Honours	Sports
Science and Technology.	Eminent Personalities

 

• Legal Reasoning

Fundamental Rights and Duties	Judiciary
Parliament- Executive, Legislature, President	Prepositions and facts
Important amendments and provisions	History of Indian constitution
Important judgments	Current legal affairs

 

• Logical Reasoning

Analogies	Logical Puzzles
Series	Calendar and Clocks
Seating Arrangement	Logical Sequences and Matching
Syllogisms	Blood Relations

 

• Quantitative Techniques

Profit and Loss	Probability
Mensuration	Average
Fractions	Time, Speed and Distance
Work and Time	Statistics
Ratios and Proportions	Number System

CLAT Syllabus PG

The CLAT syllabus for postgraduate courses is not divided into distinct sections. Rather the aim is to assess the candidates‘ knowledge of the subjects studied in their undergraduate law courses. Therefore, we can only list essential topics for the CLAT PG exam 2023. 

The important topics for the CLAT PG exam include:

• Constitutional Law
• Jurisprudence
• Administrative Law
• Criminal Law
• Company Law
• Law of contract
• Environmental Law
• Torts
• Family Law
• Property Law
• Public International Law
• Tax Law
• Labour & Industrial Law
• Other contemporary law-related issues.

These are the major topics one must cover to get a good score in the CLAT PG exam.

You must focus on the skills that each section aims to assess along with that study for the important topics mentioned. The refined skills and proper understanding of the topics mentioned will surely help you get a good CLAT score.