CLAT (Common Law Admission Test - National Law Universities) Syllabus 2026

Passage-based reading comprehension (450 words passages derived from contemporary or historically significant fiction and non-fiction writing).

Questions test: Reading and comprehending main points, drawing inferences and conclusions, summarizing passage, comparing points of view, understanding meaning of words and phrases in context.

Passages of up to 450 words derived from news, journalistic sources, and non-fiction.

Contemporary events of national and international significance, arts and culture, international affairs, historical events of continuing significance.

Passages of about 450 words relating to legal matters, public policy questions, or moral philosophical inquiries.

Identifying and inferring rules and principles set out in the passage, applying such rules and principles to factual scenarios, understanding how changes to rules affect application to factual contexts (Constitutional Law, Law of Torts, Law of Contracts, Criminal Law, International Law, Intellectual Property).

Short passages of about 300 words.

Recognizing an argument, premises and conclusions, reading critically patterns of reasoning, inferring how conclusions depend on premises, assessing effectiveness of arguments, identifying parallel patterns of reasoning.

Short sets of facts or propositions, graphs, or other textual, pictorial, or diagrammatic representations of numerical data.

Deriving, inferring, and manipulating numerical data using basic arithmetic: Ratios and proportions, Basic algebra, Mensuration, Statistical estimation, Percentages, Profit and Loss.