CLAT PG 2025 Subjects and Questions

The questions combined legal passages with knowledge of statutes, cases and legal terms. Some asked what a passage established; others required a specific rule or case name. For example, the paper moved from the meaning of an industry under labour law to SEBI’s powers, contract rights and the role of tribunals. These were law questions, not the five subject sections used in CLAT UG.

The question numbers above are for Set A; the other booklets use a different order. The CLAT PG syllabus covers the wider subject list.

Contracts and Property Law

Set A question 29 brought together three statements about transferring contract rights. The revised answer accepts all three statements, including the distinction between a contract that depends on personal skill and a right to receive payment. The next question concerned contracts that cannot be specifically enforced. Its answer changed to the option accepting statements I and II.

The property-law passage compared a mortgage by conditional sale with a sale that allows repurchase. Questions 36–40 went beyond identifying the transaction: they asked about the mortgagee’s remedy, the condition attached to repayment, limitation and whether the debt and right to redeem continued.

Criminal Law, Family Law and Jurisprudence

The remission passage dealt with reducing a sentence and the process for considering an application. Question 54 asked about the opinion sought from the presiding judge under Section 432(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973. The domestic-violence questions covered the people protected by the Act, monetary relief and relationships in the nature of marriage.

Jurisprudence also appeared as a question about who gave a particular definition of a legal right. That became one of the disputed answers. The final decision depended on the source of the definition, rather than a general account of the jurist’s ideas.

CLAT PG 2025 Paper Pattern

The paper had 120 questions worth one mark each. Candidates had two hours to mark their answers on an OMR sheet. A wrong answer lost 0.25 mark; an unanswered question received zero. There was no descriptive writing section.

These details come from the booklet instructions and the Consortium’s examination header included with the paper. The CLAT PG exam pattern page covers the format for the upcoming exam.

CLAT PG 2025 Revised Answer Key

The June revision followed a Consortium Executive Committee meeting and the Delhi High Court’s decision. The 6 June 2025 judgment records that four disputed master-booklet questions had already been resolved at the 4 April meeting. It then deals with the remaining challenges.

The two withdrawals reduced the maximum score from 120 to 118 marks. The five changed answers remained part of the evaluation. The table shows the same affected questions across the four booklets.

The answer tables attached to the papers are provisional. The June changes above are not the full list of corrections to that key; the final key also includes earlier changes.

Why the Disputed Answers Changed

Set A Question 6: The Meaning of Industry

This question followed a passage on Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board v. A. Rajappa. The earlier key chose B, which referred to the dominant function of an establishment. The revised answer is C, about the nature of the activity and the employer’s authority over employees.

In paragraph 8, the Delhi High Court explained that the passage itself focused on the activity and the employer–employee relationship. It did not discuss the dominant-function test. The court also noted that the passage was a commentary or summary, not an extract from the judgment. It found that candidates could not reasonably be expected to look beyond the supplied passage for this answer.

Set A Question 83: Salmond, Not Roscoe Pound

The question asked who described a legal right in terms of an interest recognised and protected by law. The key changed from A, Roscoe Pound, to B, Salmond. In paragraph 17 of the judgment, the court relied on earlier Bombay High Court and Supreme Court decisions that attributed the matching definition to Salmond.

Set A Question 31: Why It Was Withdrawn

This question concerned double taxation in the Mohit Minerals passage. It was withdrawn because the options in the master booklet reviewed by the expert committee differed from those in candidates’ papers. Paragraph 5 of the judgment records the withdrawal across all four sets. This was a mismatch in the options, not a decision to accept one more answer.

How the Revision Changed Scores

A changed answer and a withdrawn question affect marks differently. Under the paper’s +1 and −0.25 marking scheme, an answer changing from wrong to correct adds 1.25 marks: the penalty is removed and one mark is awarded. The reverse change takes away 1.25 marks.

The two withdrawn questions contribute no marks. The final raw score is the number of correct answers minus 0.25 for each wrong answer among the remaining questions. A candidate’s increase or decrease therefore depends on their own responses; the revision does not add the same number of marks to everyone.

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