Tips and clues to crack CLAT 2013

The Common Law Admission Test 2013 (CLAT) is an all India entrance
examination conducted on rotation by 14 National Law Universities
(NLUs) for admissions to their under-graduate and post-graduate degree
programmes (LL.B & LL.M).
English Including Comprehension

The English section will test the candidates' proficiency in English
based on comprehension passages and grammar. In the comprehension
section, candidates will be assessed on their understanding of the
passage given, its central theme and meanings of the words used
therein, etc. The grammar section will focus on correction of
incorrect grammatical sentences, filling of blanks in the given
sentences with appropriate words, etc.

General Knowledge and Currents Affairs

As far as general knowledge is concerned, the candidates will be
assessed on their general awareness including static general
knowledge. Questions on current affairs will test candidate's
knowledge on current affairs.

Mathematics

This section will test candidate's knowledge on elementary
mathematics, i.e. mathematics taught up to Class X.

Legal Aptitude

This section will test candidate's interest towards study of law,
research aptitude and problem solving ability. Questions asked may
comprise of legal propositions/ principles and a set of facts to which
the said proposition/ principle has to be applied to arrive at a most
reasonable conclusion. Such propositions may or may not be 'true' in
the real sense; yet the candidates will have to assume that the given
propositions are true and answer the questions accordingly. An example
of such legal proposition may be that any person who speaks in a movie
hall and disturbs others who are watching the movie will be banned
from entering any movie theatre across India for one year.

Logical Reasoning

The purpose of the logical reasoning section is to test the
candidate's ability to identify patterns, logical links and rectify
illogical arguments. It will include a wide variety of logical
reasoning questions such as syllogisms, logical sequences, analogies,
etc. However, visual reasoning will not be tested.

Note: There shall be a system of Negative Marking wherein 0.25 mark
will be deducted for each of the wrong answers to multiple choice
questions.