Is CLAT 2026 syllabus tough? Know what last year’s paper reveals

The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) UG 2025 syllabus has five sections, including English language, logical and legal reasoning, general knowledge, current affairs, and quantitative techniques to assess candidates' critical thinking and analytical skills necessary for legal education. As per last year’s paper analysis, the paper was moderate in difficulty level.

This year, the Consortium of National Law Universities (NLUs) will conduct the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) on December 7 in a single shift from 2 pm to 4 pm. The CLAT 2026 registration is underway.

Eligible candidates can apply for CLAT 2026 on the official website, consortiumofnlus.ac.in, by October 31. As per the eligibility criteria, candidates seeking admission to LLB courses should have at least 45% in Class 12 to appear for the law entrance examination.

The CLAT 2026 application fee is Rs 4,000, whereas other category candidates have to pay Rs 3,500.

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CLAT 2026: Last year’s exam analysis

According to students’ reactions, the CLAT 2025 paper was easy to moderate. Most of the questions were simple with ‘no unexpected elements’. For a few students, the questions around recent law provisions were challenging.

Also, reasoning questions were easy, but included a VR passage, which was surprising for a few students. There were more than 1-5 good attempts and 11+ safe attempts in last year’s paper.

CLAT: Section-wise paper

As per last year’s trend, CLAT 2026 good score is expected to be around 100+ marks. Last year, 62,832 registered for the CLAT exam, of whom 60,544 appeared. The maximum success rate went up to 6.66%, as per Careers360 analysis.

Also read CLAT 2026: What to study in each section, subject-wise syllabus, marking scheme

CLAT 2026: Section-wise important topics

The section-wise important topics for the CLAT 2026 exam are given below.