Exam Pattern - 2015

No of Questions

200

Total Time

2 Hrs

Negative Marking

Yes

Type of Exam

Online

Sections

No of Qs

English including Comprehension

50

General Knowledge and Current Affairs

40

Elementary Mathematics (Numerical Ability)

20

Legal Aptitude

50

Logical Reasoning

40

Total

200

Analysis Important Pointers

The Paper was relatively tougher than last years paper.

The difficulty level was high primarily because of the non-familiar questions, in comparison
to past year papers of CLAT
Cut OFF likely to go slightly lower for top 3 NLUs.
Cut off likely to go down by a big margin for the bottom 5 NLUs
For rest of the eight NLUs, the Cut Off will go down moderately.
One LR question has two same choices.
There were technical problems with some of the students at certain centers.
Calling CLAT aspirants to the centers two hours before the scheduled time, was of no use.

Expected Cut Off for CLAT 2015(first take):

College List
Top 3
Top 6
Top 9
At least 1 NLU
Note: The final take will be published very soon.
* These Cut Offs are expected by the Last List

Expected Cut Off

137 142*
133 138*
127 134*
111 116*

CLAT 2015 First Glance: Section Wise

Topics

Difficulty Level

English
including Comprehension

Above Average

General Knowledge
and
Current Affairs

Elementary Mathematics
(Numerical Ability)

Average

Questions
were not of
familiar
pattern

Topics
Reading Comprehension 8 Questions.
o Questions were lengthy and thoughtful
Grammar based
o Para jumbles
o Sentence Correction
o Analogies
o Vocabulary based questions
o Best fit supplementary word
o Fill in the Blanks
Few vocabulary based questions had above average
to tough difficulty level.
Around 35 40 were from Current Affairs, rest was
from Static GK.
Very less number of sports questions
More news from politics and government
Some of the Question from Current Affairs are:
o Chennai open winner?
o portal to help foreigners abroad
o new naval port city of India
o history - ancient and modern
o who won Malaysian grand prix
o who won well India golf open
o 36th national games venue
o Question Series on Finance Commission
o Gyanpith award winner wrote in which
language
o Astra Missile
o Question on RuPay
o WWF for Human-Elephant conflict
o Farmer Channel
o Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal
o Garuda Shakti from which country
o Name of the Dance form which was originally
a solo performance but is now performed in
groups.
o ISRO award for Mangalyan.
o Give it Up slogan
o Cancer Antigen 125
o Cricket Hall of Fame
o Snickometer
o Capital of Telengana
o Host of BRICKS Summit
o Largest e-commerce venture
o Tyler Price 2015
o Pongal which state
o INS Varsha
A well prepared student should score 35 to 42 marks
Most of the Current Affairs questions were from 2015.
5 questions from Data Interpretation
No questions from Time-Distance-Speed, Percentage,
Profit & Loss, and other known topics
Few questions from Probability, and PnC.
Most questions were based on Numerical Ability.


Legal Aptitude

Average

Logical Reasoning

Tough & Lengthy

All the Best!

There were about 15 questions based on PrincipleFacts

Huge number of Questions from Legal GK
Quite a number of questions from Acts, Amendments
and head of Legal Institutes.
For a well prepared student, this was an easy section
Questions were from the areas of:
o Symbol based Logical Reasoning
o Data Sufficiency
o Venn Diagram
o Puzzles
o Conditionality
o Series
o Family Tree
Most Questions were very tricky
The questions were highly non-familiar