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CLAT 2026 Exam Analysis
Exam Date:7th December 2025, 2 PM - 4 PM, 141 test cities
Total No. of Questions:120 MCQs
Marking:+1 for correct, -0.25 for wrong, 0 for unattempted
Overall Difficulty:Moderate - more challenging than the unusually easy CLAT 2025
Good Attempts:105+ with high accuracy
CLAT 2026 Section-wise Analysis
- English Language: Easy but Lengthy / Easy to Moderate
- Shift towardsvocabulary-heavyquestions compared to previous years
- Passages wereliterature-oriented- Sapiens, Animal Farm instead of news-driven
- Reading complexity moderate but required careful interpretation of tone, inference, meaning
- Students said English was the easiest section but had long questions
- Logical Reasoning: Moderate & Tricky - Most Challenging Section
- Game-changing twist - shift from conventional Critical Reasoning toAnalytical Reasoning
- Topics: Blood relations, Ordering & sequences, Coding-decoding, Caselist-style logic, Deductive reasoning puzzles
- OneTabular Arrangement setwas the biggest bottleneck - time-consuming and prone to misinterpretation
- Student feedback: Max time went in this section
- Legal Reasoning: Easy to Moderate - Most Scoring
- Very predictable and student-friendly
- Covered contemporary themes:Same-sex marriage, Governance, Basic legal principles
- Direct, traditional CLAT-style questioning, clarity of principles mattered
- General Knowledge / Current Affairs: Easy
- Direct, predictable, current-affairs driven
- Topics included:American taxation, SCO, Air India, Pahalgam, Major national/international events
- Highest-scoring section of CLAT 2026
- Quantitative Techniques: Easy (Calculative) but Tricky for students
- Topics: Ratio, Percentage, Proportion, Arithmetic fundamentals
- Experts rated it Easy and predictable, but student reaction wasQuant was toughest and longest, arithmetic was challenging
Summary Table - CLAT 2026 Difficulty
|
Sections |
Difficulty Level |
Good Attempts |
Nature |
|
English Language |
Easy but lengthy |
20+ |
Vocabulary heavy |
|
Current Affairs including GK |
Tricky but moderate / Easy |
24+ |
Direct |
|
Logical Reasoning |
Tough |
20-22 |
Analytical Reasoning dominated |
|
Legal Reasoning |
Moderate |
28+ |
Scoring |
|
Quantitative Techniques |
Tough / Easy calculative |
8-10 |
Time consuming |
CLAT 2026 Pattern vs Previous Years
|
CLAT Sections |
% in CLAT 2026 |
No. of Questions 2026 |
No. of Questions 2024 |
No. of Questions 2022 |
|
English Language |
20% |
24 |
31 |
30 |
|
Current Affairs including GK |
25% |
28 |
34 |
35 |
|
Logical Reasoning |
20% |
24 |
28 |
30 |
|
Legal Reasoning |
25% |
32 |
40 |
40 |
|
Quantitative Techniques |
10% |
12 |
17 |
15 |
|
Total |
100% |
120 |
150 |
150 |
CLAT 2025 Exam Analysis
Total No. of Question - 120
Difficulty Level – Easy to Moderate
Question Type –Multiple choice question (MCQs)
|
CLAT Sections |
% of Questions in CLAT |
No. of Questions in CLAT 2024 |
|
English Language |
20% |
24 |
|
Current Affairs including General Knowledge |
25% |
28 |
|
Logical Reasoning |
20% |
24 |
|
Legal Reasoning |
25% |
32 |
|
Quantitative Techniques |
10% |
12 |
|
Total |
100% |
120 |
CLAT 2024 Exam Analysis
Total No. of Question - 150
Difficulty Level – Easy to Moderate
Question Type –Multiple choice question (MCQs)
|
Sections of Exam |
No. of Questions |
No. of Passages |
|
English |
31 |
6 |
|
Current Affairs, Including GK |
34 |
7 |
|
Legal Reasoning |
40 |
8 |
|
Logical Reasoning |
28 |
6 |
|
Quantitative Techniques |
17 |
3 |
|
Total |
150 |
30 |
CLAT 2022 Exam Analysis
Total No. of Question - 150
Difficulty Level – Moderate
Question Type –Multiple choice question (MCQs)
|
Sections of Exam |
No. of Questions |
No. of Passages |
|
English |
30 |
6 |
|
Current Affairs, Including GK |
35 |
7 |
|
Legal Reasoning |
40 |
8 |
|
Logical Reasoning |
30 |
6 |
|
Quantitative Techniques |
15 |
3 |
|
Total |
150 |
30 |
Difficulty Level of CLAT 2022 Exam
|
Sections of Exam |
Difficulty Level |
|
English |
Moderate-Lengthy |
|
Current Affairs, including General Knowledge |
Easy-Moderate |
|
Legal Reasoning |
Moderate |
|
Logical Reasoning |
Moderate |
|
Quantitative Techniques |
Moderate-Difficult |
|
Overall |
Moderate |
CLAT CUT OFF 2026 - Expected
For 2026, paper was moderate, so cutoffs are expected slightly lower than CLAT 2025. Based on trends:
|
Top NLUs |
Expected cut-off marks out of 120 |
Expected Closing Rank (General) |
|
NLSIU Bangalore |
95+ |
1-150 |
|
NALSAR Hyderabad |
90+ |
150-350 |
|
NLU Kolkata / NLU Jodhpur / NLIU Bhopal |
85+ |
159-463 |
|
GNLU Gandhinagar |
85+ |
400-600 |
|
NLU Lucknow, HNLU Raipur, MNLU Mumbai |
80+ |
700-1300 |
|
Mid-tier NLUs (Odisha, Patna, Kochi etc) |
75+ |
900-1600 |
CLAT CUT OFF 2023
|
NLUS |
General (Opening Rank - Closing Rank) |
OBC (Opening Rank - Closing Rank) |
SC (Opening Rank - Closing Rank) |
ST (Opening Rank - Closing Rank) |
|
NLU Bangalore Cut off |
1-114 |
171-923 |
181-2674 |
1781-4059 |
|
NALSAR Hyderabad |
25-177 |
931-1116 |
702-3388 |
4600-6174 |
|
NLU Kolkata Cut off |
136-260 |
- |
588- 4217 |
6121- 7792 |
|
NLIU Bhopal |
186-463 |
591-1268 |
4505- 5311 |
8143- 10960 |
|
NLU Jodhpur Cut off |
70-383 |
- |
2360- 4457 |
6615- 8076 |
|
HNLU Raipur |
425 -805 |
1877 - 2061 |
6710 - 7137 |
10117 -11277 |
|
GNLU Gandhinagar |
147 - 462 |
1150 - 1878 |
3680 - 5683 |
7852 -10837 |
|
NLU Lucknow Cut off |
432- 749 |
- |
- |
- |
|
RGNLU Punjab |
537 -1307 |
- |
5693-8856 |
10300 - 15585 |
|
CNLU Patna |
628 -1541 |
- |
- |
- |
|
NUALS Kochi Cut off |
552 -1461 |
- |
- |
- |
|
NLU Odisha |
504 -1207 |
- |
5789 - 7957 |
12030 -16910 |
|
NUSRL Ranchi Cut off |
939 -1895 |
1888- 2756 |
7695 - 10032 |
16626 -18477 |
|
TNNLS Tiruchirappalli |
577- 2045 |
2509 - 4119 |
5122- 10557 |
14452 |
|
DSNLU Vishakhapatnam |
538 - 2080 |
- |
- |
- |
|
MNLU Mumbai |
325- 590 |
- |
- |
- |
|
MNLU Nagpur |
606 - 2102 |
- |
- |
- |
|
MNLU Aurangabad |
1578 -2655 |
- |
- |
- |
|
NLUJAA Assam |
1102- 2569 |
- |
- |
- |
|
HPNLU Shimla |
822- 2816 |
- |
8337 -11982 |
13021 -20699 |
|
DNLU Jabalpur |
1521 - 2698 |
3021 - 4318 |
10030 - 12073 |
17883 - 23002 |
|
NLU Sonipat |
767- 2713 |
2931 -4515 |
8628 -10841 |
10923- 21673 |
|
GNLU, Silvassa |
810- 1820 |
2435-3992 |
8339 - 10104 |
13276- 14846 |
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