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CLAT 2022 Previous Year Questions with Detailed Solution

The official CLAT 2022 paper with questions from all five sections and a worked solution for every question.

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Questions, answer key and solutions.

Questions
144

Across 5 sections

Duration
120 min

5 timed sections

Marks
144

Negative marking

Attempts
100
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About this test

CLAT 2022 Question Paper PYQ: All Five Sections with Detailed Solutions

This is the actual CLAT 2022 UG question paper, held on 19 June 2022, taken from the official question booklet and checked against the Consortium of NLUs' final answer key. Six questions (82, 89, 103, 108, 113 and 125) are left out because their official answers are disputed. Every other question has a worked solution.

Passages and topics in the CLAT 2022 PYQs

  • English Language: famous speeches and the power of public speaking (Chief Joseph, Churchill, Faulkner), how apps and technology both connect people and deepen loneliness (opening with Saroo's story), pioneers recognised only after death: Ignaz Semmelweis, Van Gogh and Kafka, cryptocurrencies as a Ponzi scheme, the uneven spread of fossil fuels across the Earth, and the modern animal rights movement
  • Current Affairs including GK: ISRO and India's space sector, the Home Ministry panel on AFSPA, the Russia-Ukraine war, green technology patents in India, unspent CSR funds, Drone Shakti and the Drone Rules 2021, and India's maritime vision: SAGAR, Sagarmala and the Navy's maritime strategy
  • Legal Reasoning: writs, secularism and freedom of religion, reasonable restrictions on fundamental freedoms, bigamy, special marriages and divorce by mutual consent, monism and dualism in international law, sustainable development, and mistake of fact in contracts
  • Logical Reasoning: why students go to college and the stress they face, online teaching during COVID-19, the UN plan to halt biodiversity loss, the POCSO Act and teenage relationships, a judge's suggestion of a duty to laugh, and India's reliance on fossil fuels
  • Quantitative Techniques: students' choice of streams by gender in a college, production and turnover of a company's five products, and department-wise employees with their gender ratios

Who should attempt this CLAT 2022 paper

Law aspirants preparing for CLAT who want the real passage style and sectional mix should attempt it, ideally after covering legal and current affairs basics.

Test structure

How the paper is split, and how long each part runs. A section you have finished cannot be returned to.

SectionQuestionsTime
CLAT 2022 English Language3024 min
CLAT 2022 Current Affairs Including General Knowledge3528 min
CLAT 2022 Legal Reasoning3732 min
CLAT 2022 Logical Reasoning2724 min
CLAT 2022 Quantitative Techniques1512 min

Marking & rules

Total marks
144 across 144 questions.
Negative marking
A wrong answer costs marks. Leaving a question unanswered costs nothing.
Attempts
100 in total. An attempt is spent the moment you begin one.

What you get when you submit

The analysis is ready the moment you submit the paper.

Score and accuracy

Marks, percentage, right, wrong and skipped, and the time you took.

Section by section

The same figures for each section, so a weak one cannot hide in an average.

The full answer key

Every question with your answer, the right one, the working, and the video where there is one.

Where you stand

Your score against the spread of everyone else who has sat this test.

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