CLAT 2024 Question Paper and Section-wise Questions

CLAT 2024 UG was held on 3 December 2023. Sets A, B, C and D contain the same five subject areas, with questions rearranged within sections. All four booklets use the section ranges below. Keep your set letter with your responses because the answer letters and withdrawn question numbers must match that booklet.

The paper contains 120 printed questions, but the final result uses 118. One English and one Legal Reasoning question were withdrawn. This is why the result notification lists 23 English and 31 Legal questions, while the original booklets contain 24 and 32 respectively. Both descriptions refer to the same examination at different stages of evaluation.

English Language: Reading the Passage Closely

The English section includes passages about character and setting in literature, access to justice, and a character's life in Kasauli. Questions move between a passage's central idea, the significance of a detail, vocabulary and the conclusions supported by the text. A description of a place may explain a character's state of mind rather than simply identify a location.

When a question asks what the passage suggests, compare each option with the author's scope. An option about all people needs stronger evidence than one about some people. For example, an original statement that some commuters prefer a quiet carriage does not establish that every commuter dislikes conversation. A familiar-sounding option can still fail because it makes the claim broader than the passage does.

For vocabulary, read the sentence around the word before choosing its most familiar dictionary meaning. For a summary, look for the idea connecting the passage's examples rather than selecting one example as if it represented the whole argument.

Current Affairs and General Knowledge

The GK passages cover the Jallianwala Bagh episode, Chandrayaan-3, the G20 summit, constitutional ideas and the Israel-Hamas conflict in its 2023 context. These topics belong to the historical paper. A question about an event as described then should not be reinterpreted using a later development.

Separate passage-based questions from those requiring related knowledge. In a space-mission passage, a fact stated in the text can be located directly; a question about another mission may require recall. During review, label the mistake accordingly. Re-reading a passage will not fix a missing background fact, and memorising more facts will not fix a question whose answer you overlooked in the supplied text.

Legal Reasoning: Rules, Exceptions and Facts

The legal passages include juvenile justice, online defamation, press registration, personal data protection and inheritance. Their questions require careful reading of definitions, conditions and exceptions, alongside an understanding of the issue being discussed. Treat these as the legal material supplied in a 2024 examination, not as a guide to the law currently in force.

Break an application question into the rule, the relevant facts and any exception. A rule with two required conditions is not satisfied by proving only one. In an original example, suppose a reading room permits late entry only to registered members carrying a booking confirmation. Membership alone does not meet the stated rule. If the passage provides an exception for staff, check whether the person in the question actually falls within it.

For questions about the author's criticism of a rule, distinguish the rule itself from the author's evaluation. An option can accurately describe a provision yet fail to answer why the passage considers it problematic.

Logical Reasoning: Testing an Argument

The reasoning section discusses topics including artificial intelligence, workplace decisions and social mobility. The task is to identify a claim, examine the evidence for it, and decide what follows or what would strengthen or weaken the argument. The subject of a passage is not necessarily its conclusion.

As an original example, a manager may claim that a new timetable caused productivity to rise. If new equipment arrived during the same period, it offers an alternative explanation and weakens the claim that the timetable alone caused the improvement. It does not prove that the timetable had no effect. This distinction helps with options that overstate what new evidence establishes.

For an assumption question, ask which unstated link the argument needs. For a supported-conclusion question, avoid adding a new cause, a universal claim or a certainty that the passage does not establish.

Quantitative Techniques: Ratios and Percentages

The two data sets concern vehicles across states and employment groups in urban and rural areas. They combine totals, percentage shares and ratios. First find the size of the relevant group; then apply the ratio or percentage within that group. Applying every percentage to the grand total produces the wrong denominator.

Original example: a survey contains 1,200 vehicles, with 25% in one district. That district has 300 vehicles. If its diesel, petrol and electric vehicles are in the ratio 2:3:1, the six ratio parts represent 50 vehicles each, giving 50 electric vehicles. The electric share is one-sixth of the district total, not one-sixth of all 1,200 vehicles.

Percentage increase also needs a named starting value. A rise from 200 to 220 is 10%, because the increase of 20 is divided by 200. Reversing the comparison gives a different percentage. For the employment data, calculate each urban or rural group from its own population before combining the figures.

CLAT 2024 Final Answer Key and Withdrawn Questions

The Consortium's 9 December 2023 final-key notice withdrew two UG questions and changed one Legal Reasoning answer from D to C. Use the following mapping for your booklet:

The Set A answer key, Set B answer key, Set C answer key and Set D answer key provide the matching answer letters. The paired Solutions actions below lead to these answer-key resources; they are not detailed explanations of every question.

Remove both withdrawn questions before counting correct, wrong and unanswered responses. Do not award yourself a bonus mark for a withdrawn item. For the corrected Legal question, use C rather than the provisional D. The PG corrections in the same notice concern a different paper.

How to Calculate Your CLAT 2024 Practice Score

After excluding the two withdrawn questions, calculate correct answers - (wrong answers × 0.25), out of 118. For example, 85 correct, 20 wrong and 13 unanswered responses give 85 - 5 = 80 marks out of 118. These response counts add up to the 118 evaluated questions.

Accuracy among attempted questions is different: 85 correct out of 105 attempted is 80.95%. Keep the raw score and attempted accuracy separate when comparing practice sessions. The result notification reported a highest UG score of 108; this was a topper's score, not an admission cutoff or a guaranteed mark for a particular NLU.

Using CLAT 2024 for CLAT 2027 Preparation

Use 120 minutes for a standard full-paper attempt. The historical result notice records 160 minutes for candidates eligible for compensatory time. Complete a timed attempt before opening the key, and record any pauses or answer lookups so that you do not compare unlike sessions.

The published CLAT 2027 format also has 120 questions and a two-hour duration. Its subject allocations are approximate, however, so the exact 2024 split is one past example rather than a fixed promise for the next examination.

Record time by passage group: the first question may include the reading needed for several answers. After marking, identify whether each error came from a missed detail, an overbroad inference, a misapplied condition, missing background knowledge or a calculation. Use another year from the CLAT previous-year paper archive for a fresh full-length attempt; a different set of this same examination will contain familiar material.

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