Important Topics For CLAT 2024 [Redirects to CLATalogue]

CLAT 2024 is tentatively scheduled to be held in December 2023. If CLAT 2023’s pattern is to be analyzed, one can see that there is an increased emphasis on the need to improve reading and comprehension skills. But what about other subjects?

Read this post to figure out important topics from each subject that you should place extra emphasis on during your preparation. 

Before we begin, let’s take a look at a few details about CLAT 2024.

CLAT 2024 is divided into 5 sections:

Each section carries different weightage in the examination.

Based on this as well as the previous year paper’s thorough analysis, we have come up with important topics from each subject that you need to practice more to secure a seat in the college of your dreams!

Important Topics for CLAT 2024: Legal Reasoning

In this section, there will be questions from passages around 400-450 words. These passages may relate to factual situations depicting legal matters, public policy questions or moral philosophical situations. Although no prior knowledge of law is required to solve these questions, you will need to have a general awareness of contemporary legal developments. Each passage would be followed by a series of questions that will require you to:

• Identify and infer the rules and principles set out in the passage;
• Apply such rules and principles to various factual situations in the passage;
• Understand how changes to the rules or principles may alter their application to various fact situations.

Here are a few topics from legal reasoning that you need to place extra emphasis on:

Important Topics for CLAT 2024: Logical Reasoning

Questions from CLAT 2023 Logical Reasoning Section were primarily straightforward. However, it was the length of the passages, contextual understanding and critical analyses that the candidates struggled with a bit.

The Logical Reasoning section of CLAT usually includes a series of short passages of about 300 words each. Each passage is followed by one or more questions that will require you to:

• Recognize an argument, its premises and conclusions;
• Read and identify the arguments set out in the passage;
• Critically analyze patterns of reasoning, and assess how conclusions may depend on particular premises or evidence;
• Infer what follows from the passage and apply these inferences to new situations;
• Draw relationships and analogies, identify contradictions and equivalence, and assess the effectiveness of arguments.

Here are a few important topics of Logical reasoning that you need to practice more: 

Important Topics for CLAT 2024: Current Affairs including GK

In the CLAT 2023 Paper Current Affairs section, though the passages ranged from current affairs topics like FIFA World Cup to supercomputers and AI, the students were troubled with a myriad of Static GK questions. This unprecedented focus on Static GK makes this section harder than what most students might have expected. Students who had read newspapers throughout the year were sure to find themselves in an advantageous position.

In this section, passages of up to 450 words each are provided followed by questions related to them. These passages are usually derived from news, journalistic sources and other non-fiction works. The questions may include an examination of legal information or knowledge discussed in or related to the passage, but do not require any additional knowledge of the law beyond the passage.

Here are a few important topics of Current Affairs and GK that you need to practice more:

Important Topics for CLAT 2024: Quantitative Techniques

While CLAT 2021 and 2022 had relatively easier questions, questions in CLAT 2023 were moderate in nature. In Quantitative Techniques section, questions include short sets of facts or propositions, graphs, or other textual, pictorial or diagrammatic representations of numerical information, followed by a series of questions. Candidates are required to derive information from such passages, graphs, or other representations, and apply mathematical operations on such information.

The candidates need to :

• Derive, infer, and manipulate numerical information set out in such passages, graphs, or other representations;
• Apply various 10th standard mathematical operations on such information, including from areas such as ratios and proportions, basic algebra, mensuration and statistical estimation.

Here are a few important topics of Quantitative Techniques Section that you need to practice more:

To brush up your knowledge of these important topics, you can take a look at the previous year questions as well.

Source: Lawctopus