📅 CLAT 2027 is on Sunday 6 December 2026 (2–4 PM). This page will carry our section-wise CLAT 2027 analysis after the exam. Until then, it sets out what CLAT 2026 looked like, because that is the best guide to what you will face.
CLAT 2027 Paper Analysis
Section-wise difficulty, number of passages, good attempts and expected cut-offs for CLAT 2027 will be added here after the paper on 6 December 2026. Use the answer key and score calculator to work out your own score once the Consortium publishes the provisional key.
CLAT 2026 Recap (Exam: 7 December 2025)
120 questions, 120 minutes, +1 / -0.25. Overall difficulty was reported as moderate (LiveLaw) to moderate-to-tough (Hitbullseye), and noticeably harder than CLAT 2025, mainly because of Logical Reasoning.
| Section | Questions | What was reported | Good attempts* |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | 24 (5 passages) | Easy to slightly moderate; vocabulary-heavy literary passages | 20–22 |
| Current Affairs & GK | 28 (5 passages) | Easy (LiveLaw) to moderate (Hitbullseye); topics included US H-1B and tariffs, Pahalgam and the Indus Waters Treaty, the SCO and the Ahmedabad air crash | 22–25 |
| Legal Reasoning | 30 (5 passages) | Easy-moderate (LiveLaw) to moderate-difficult (Hitbullseye) | 26–28 |
| Logical Reasoning | 26 | The hardest section in every report: standalone analytical puzzles instead of the expected critical-reasoning passages | 20–22 |
| Quantitative Techniques | 12 (2 sets) | Reports differ: easy (LiveLaw) to moderate-difficult (Hitbullseye, Careers360) | 8–10 |
*Good attempts as estimated by Hitbullseye; overall about 105 (Careers360, LiveLaw). Compared with CLAT 2025, Logical Reasoning grew from 24 to 26 questions and Legal Reasoning fell from 32 to 30 (Hitbullseye). Sources: LiveLaw, Hitbullseye, Careers360.
CLAT 2026: Key Dates and Numbers
- Candidates: 92,344 registered for CLAT 2026 (UG and PG combined) and 88,657 appeared (96%).
- Provisional answer key: 10 December 2025; objections until 12 December, ₹500 per objection, refunded if accepted.
- Final answer key and results: 16 December 2025. One UG question was withdrawn, so the UG paper was marked out of 119; the top UG score was 112.75.
- Counselling: five allotment lists, the last on 20 May 2026 — see the NLU-wise closing ranks.
Source: Careers360 reports on the CLAT 2026 answer key and results.
What This Means for CLAT 2027
- Practise analytical Logical Reasoning (puzzles, arrangements), not only critical-reasoning passages. CLAT 2026 showed the section can change format without notice.
- Read the paper in two passes. With roughly 105 good attempts in 2026, the toppers did not attempt everything; with -0.25 per wrong answer, accuracy beat volume.
- Current affairs covered the last year and more — tariffs, treaties, the SCO, major accidents. Revise with our daily current affairs quiz.