CLAT SYLLABUS| 2025| LEGAL|LOGICAL REASONING

.Logical Reasoning

The Logical Reasoning section of the UG-CLAT 2025 will include a series of short passages of about 450 words each. Each passage will be followed by one or more questions that will require you to:

• Recognise an argument, its premises and conclusions;
• Read and identify the arguments set out in the passage;
• Critically analyse patterns of reasoning, and assess how conclusions may depend on particular premises or evidence, and how conclusions may be strengthened or weakened as a consequence of an alteration in premises or supporting facts;
• 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.

Details of topics

• Time & Sequence
• Ranking
• Syllogism
• Coding-Decoding
• Blood Relations
• Distance and Direction
• Classification
• Analogy
• Statement & Assumption
• Argument
• Conclusion
• Course of action
• Series
• Number Test
• Alphabet Test

Legal Reasoning

In this section, you will be expected to read passages of around 450 words each. The passages may relate to fact situations or scenarios involving legal matters, public policy questions or moral philosophical enquiries. You will not require any prior knowledge of law to attempt the questions in this section. You will benefit from a general awareness of contemporary legal and moral issues to better apply general principles or propositions to the given fact scenarios.

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 fact situations; and
• Understand how changes to the rules or principles may alter their application to various fact situations.

(A)Legal General Knowledge  

• current affairs in Legal development
• Important and recent acts and amendments of the legislature

 (B)Topic related to Law

• Contract law
• Constitutional law
• Important Supreme Court Judgments
• Criminal law
• International treaties and conventions affecting national legal framework