CLAT 2025 Paper Pattern and Section Counts

The official UG question format gave candidates two hours for the paper. All four booklets contained the same questions, but their order changed from one set to another. A question number from one booklet should therefore be checked only against the answer key for that set.

Legal Reasoning was the largest section, with 32 questions. All questions in English Language, Current Affairs and General Knowledge, and Legal Reasoning were included in the final evaluation. Five Logical Reasoning questions were withdrawn, leaving 19, and two Quantitative Techniques questions were withdrawn, leaving 10.

CLAT 2025 English Language Passages and Questions

English Language used four passages of six questions each. They came from George Orwell's Why I Write, Swami Vivekananda on education, R. K. Narayan's An Astrologer's Day, and J. Krishnamurti on understanding a child. The questions covered direct detail, vocabulary, purpose and inference.

All 24 English questions counted in the final score. In Set A question 14, the An Astrologer's Day passage lists sellers of stolen hardware, so option D was represented in the passage. It mentions an auctioneer of cheap cloth, not auctioneers of cheap bags, which makes option C the correct response. The May revised key records the change from D to C; the same question appears under a different number in the other booklets.

CLAT 2025 Current Affairs and General Knowledge Topics

The 28-question section used five passages: the 16th BRICS Summit, Article 370, the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam, Indian industrialists during the Civil Disobedience Movement, and the Paris Olympics 2024. The first three passages had six questions each; the last two had five each.

Some answers came directly from the passages, while others needed related knowledge about constitutional history, political representation, the national movement and Olympic records. None of the questions in this section was withdrawn.

CLAT 2025 Legal Reasoning Passages

Legal Reasoning had six passages and 32 questions. The passages covered children in the criminal justice system, constitutional duties towards the environment, contract law, Geographical Indications, the Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Act, 2024, and privacy and personal-data protection.

No Legal Reasoning question was withdrawn. Set A question 62 asked whether the duty to protect natural resources lay with the State, citizens, or both. The Supreme Court's 7 May 2025 judgment found support for both option C, which placed the duty on the State and citizens, and option D, which referred to the State's ecological duty and citizens' right against climate change. The revised key therefore awards one mark for either C or D, not an extra mark for the question.

CLAT 2025 Logical Reasoning Questions

Logical Reasoning had four groups on homelessness, business consulting, a circular seating arrangement and the effect of smartphones on young people. Five questions were withdrawn: one from the homelessness group and four from the seating-arrangement group. This left 19 questions in the final evaluation.

The question numbers differ across the four booklets. Use the set-specific panel below when marking the paper instead of transferring a number from another set.

CLAT 2025 Quantitative Techniques Questions

Quantitative Techniques had two data sets with six questions each. The first used wages and gender-pay data for ratios and percentage comparisons. The second used a household budget in which house-rent allowance had to be added to salary before expenses and savings were calculated.

Set A questions 109 and 110 from the wages data set were withdrawn. Question 109 asked candidates to derive women's wages in Goa from a 61% wage gap and a hypothetical male wage of Rs 335. The Supreme Court found that the calculation required more mathematical analysis than was suitable for this objective test. Question 110 depended on that result, while its equivalents in Sets B, C and D also pointed to the wrong question number. The Court removed both wage questions across all four sets so every candidate was scored on the same total. The other 10 Quantitative Techniques questions remained in the final score.

CLAT 2025 Answer-Key Revision Timeline

The maximum score changed from 120 to 116 in December and from 116 to 113 in May. The court-order dates in the timeline explain why a revised final key appeared months after the first result process.

Why the Final CLAT 2025 Score Is Out of 113

Which CLAT 2025 Answers Changed

The May notification made two answer changes. One English Language answer moved from option D to option C. One Legal Reasoning question began accepting either option C or option D. A separate Legal Reasoning challenge was considered but the accepted answer remained option C.

These changes are different from withdrawals. A revised answer can add or remove marks depending on the option a candidate chose. A withdrawn question is removed from both the candidate's score and the maximum score. The set-specific panels below list the affected question numbers for each booklet.

How to Calculate a CLAT 2025 Score After the Revision

First remove the seven withdrawn questions for the booklet being checked. Among the remaining 113 questions, award one mark for every correct answer, deduct 0.25 mark for every wrong answer and give no mark for an unanswered question.

Score = correct answers - (wrong answers × 0.25). For example, 80 correct, 20 wrong and 13 unanswered responses give 80 - 5 = 75 out of 113.

How the Revision Can Change a Raw Score

The same key revision can affect two candidates differently because their original responses may not match. The table shows the change in each common case.

CLAT 2025 Paper and the Published CLAT 2027 Format

The published CLAT 2027 UG format also has 120 questions, a two-hour test and a penalty of 0.25 mark for a wrong answer. Its approximate section ranges include every section count used in the 2025 paper.

A timed attempt should still use all 120 questions in 120 minutes. Apply the May 2025 exclusions only when marking the attempt. Because the four 2025 sets contain the same questions in a different order, another year from the CLAT previous-year question papers gives a genuinely different full paper.

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