1.    English including Comprehension
This section will test your aptitude in English through comprehension passages and grammar. In the comprehension section, you will be assessed on your 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.

2.    General Knowledge and Currents Affairs
This section will evaluate your general knowledge including static general knowledge.  Questions on current affairs will test your knowledge in current affairs that took place mainly in the last one year.

3.    Mathematics
Questions will test your knowledge in elementary mathematics (mathematics taught till 10th standard).

4.    Legal Aptitude
This section will test your 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 you 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.

5.    Logical Reasoning
The purpose of the logical reasoning section is to assess your skill to identify patterns, logical links and correct 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.
 
Tie-Breaking
If two or more candidates in the CLAT 2015 score equal marks, the tie will be broken by the following procedure and order:

• Higher marks in the legal aptitude section of CLAT-2015
• Higher age
• Computerized draw of lots

Exam pattern for CLAT 2015 (for admission to post graduate programmes):

Long Essay Type Descriptive Questions (for 100 marks) were asked till CLAT 2014, but from CLAT 2015 onwards, only MCQs (multple choice questions) will be included. The number of MCQs have increased from 50 to 150: