CLAT 2026

The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2026 is a 120-minute, offline entrance exam comprising 120 passage-based questions. Held on December 7, 2025, the real CLAT 2026 paper was rated as Moderate in overall difficulty. It was marked by an unprecedented and surprising shift in its Logical Reasoning section, which completely abandoned traditional Critical Reasoning in favor of time-consuming, calculation-heavy Analytical Reasoning puzzles.

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Questions: 120
Duration: 150 min
Marks: 120
Attempts: 1
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The actual CLAT 2026 paper served as the gateway to top National Law Universities (NLUs), heavily testing reading stamina and analytical precision. The exam strictly penalized guesswork with a -0.25 negative marking.

Here is the breakdown of the five sections based on the actual exam:

English Language (24 Qs): Rated Easy to Moderate, this section tested contextual vocabulary and inference through dense literary and historical passages. Real passages included excerpts from Rabindranath Tagore's "Hungry Stones", George Orwell's "Animal Farm", and topics like the Non-Cooperation Movement.
Current Affairs & General Knowledge (28 Qs): Rated Easy to Moderate, it leaned heavily on recent events from the past 8–12 months rather than static GK. Actual topics tested included the SCO Summit, US Tariffs, the Indus Water Treaty, and the AI plane crash.
Legal Reasoning (30 Qs): Rated Easy to Moderate, it required candidates to apply legal principles to modern issues across 6 passages. The section covered highly debated topics like "One Nation-One Election", Same-Sex Marriage, and Constitutional governance.
Logical Reasoning (26 Qs): Rated High Difficulty, this was the biggest "shocker" of the 2026 exam. Defying past trends, the consortium completely removed passage-based Critical Reasoning. Instead, candidates faced complex Analytical Reasoning (AR) puzzles, including the tricky "Sunburst Theft" and "Olympiad Teams" sets.
Quantitative Techniques (12 Qs): Rated Moderate to High, this section moved away from simple math and featured lengthy, calculation-intensive Data Interpretation (DI) sets, notably including one complex set on Health Insurance.
Exam Strategy & Outcome: With 120 questions to solve in 120 minutes, time management was the ultimate decider. Because the Logical Reasoning and Quant sections were highly analytical, students who got stuck on puzzles struggled to finish the easier scoring sections.

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Section	Questions	Time
CLAT 2026 English Laguage	24	30 min
CLAT 2026 Current Affairs(including General Knowledge)	28	30 min
CLAT 2026 Legal Reasoning	30	30 min
CLAT 2026 Logical Reasoning	26	30 min
CLAT 2026 Quantitative Techniques	12	30 min

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Total marks: 120 across 120 questions.
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Attempts: 1 in total. An attempt is spent the moment you begin one.

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