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CLAT 2026 Exam Analysis by Harsh Gagrani, Co-Founder, LegalEdge by Toprankers

Team Careers360Updated on 07 Dec 2025, 07:39 PM IST

After the roller-coaster that was CLAT 2025, it was natural for aspirants to walk into CLAT 2026 with a mix of hope, anxiety, and uncertainty. CLAT 2025 was far from smooth — what should have been a routine exam cycle turned into months of litigation, urgent hearings, contradictory court orders, revised results, and widespread errors. It is a year remembered for all the wrong reasons, shaking the confidence of thousands of students. Amid this anxiety, the Consortium released two sample papers in the final week before CLAT 2026, signaling a possible shift in difficulty.

LiveCLAT 2026 Answer Key Date (OUT) LIVE: UG, PG provisional key on Dec 10; paper 'moderate' in difficulty levelDec 8, 2025 | 2:13 PM IST

The Consortium of National Law Universities (CNLUs) will release the provisional answer key for the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2026 on December 10 at 5 PM. Candidates can download the answer key from the official website at consortiumofnlus.ac.in.

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CLAT 2026 Exam Analysis by Harsh Gagrani, Co-Founder, LegalEdge by Toprankers
CLAT 2026 Exam Analysis by Harsh Gagrani, Co-Founder, LegalEdge by Toprankers

CLAT 2026 delivered exactly that a moderate-level, balanced exam, noticeably more challenging than the unusually easy CLAT 2025, yet fair and well within the expected pattern.

CLAT 2026 Overall Difficulty Level: Moderate

The CLAT 2026 overall difficulty level was moderate. The section-wise CLAT 2026 difficulty analysis has been given below:

CLAT 2026 Section wise difficulty level

  • GK: Easy
  • Legal Reasoning: Easy to Moderate
  • English Language: Easy to Moderate
  • Quantitative Techniques: Easy
  • Logical Reasoning: Moderate & Tricky
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CLAT 2026 Good Attempts: 105+

CLAT 2026 Section-Wise Exam Analysis

Apart from the difficulty analysis, here is a detailed analysis of each of the five section of CLAT 2026 exam:

CLAT 2026 English Language – Easy to Moderate

What Defined This Section

  • Shift towards vocabulary-heavy questions compared to previous years.
  • Passages were literature-oriented (Sapiens, Animal Farm) instead of news-driven topics.
  • Reading complexity was moderate, but passages required careful interpretation.
  • Question distribution ensures a balance between inference, tone, meaning, and contextual vocabulary.
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CLAT 2026 Logical Reasoning – Moderate & Tricky (Most Challenging Section)

The Game-Changing Twist: Students expected conventional Critical Reasoning. Instead, the section shifted significantly towards Analytical Reasoning, surprising many.

What Questions were asked in CLAT 2026 Logical Reasoning

  1. Blood relations
  2. Ordering & sequences
  3. Coding–decoding
  4. Caselist-style logic
  5. Deductive reasoning puzzles
  6. One particularly difficult Tabular Arrangement set, which was:
  7. Time-consuming
  8. Prone to misinterpretation
  9. The single biggest bottleneck in the entire paper
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CLAT 2026 Legal Reasoning – Easy to Moderate

What Worked

  • Very predictable and student-friendly.
  • Covered contemporary themes such as:
  • Same-sex marriage
  • Governance
  • Basic legal principles
  • No unusual or complex passages; clarity of principles mattered most.
  • Direct, traditional CLAT-style questioning.
  • One of the most scoring sections this year.

CLAT 2026 General Knowledge / Current Affairs – Easy

Nature of Questions

  • Direct, predictable, current-affairs driven.
  • Topics included:
  • American taxation
  • SCO
  • Air India
  • Pahalgam
  • Major national/international events

The highest-scoring section of CLAT 2026.

Quantitative Techniques – Easy (Calculative)

  • What Appeared
  • Ratio
  • Percentage
  • Proportion
  • Arithmetic fundamentals

Key Takeaways from CLAT 2026

1. Logical Reasoning defined the exam, especially the difficult Tabular Arrangement set.

2. GK and Legal remained the biggest scoring areas for aspirants.

3. QT was clean, calculation-oriented, and predictable.

4. CLAT 2026 marked a return to a balanced, fair, and structured paper after the turbulent CLAT 2025 cycle.

Conclusion

CLAT 2026 was a balanced, fair, and moderately challenging paper — a significant improvement in structure and quality after the turbulent CLAT 2025 experience. We wish all CLAT 2026 aspirants the very best and extend our warmest wishes to everyone appearing for AILET 2026 this Sunday. Give it your best — the journey continues, and your hard work will carry you through.

Harsh Gagrani,
Co-founder, LegalEdge-Toprankers

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It entirely depends on the university whether the admission for the BA LLB will be based on the 12th board or the national-level entrance exam, or both. The admission exams are below

1. Common Law Admission Test

2. All India Law Entrance Test

3. Symbiosis Law Admission Test

4. Common University Entrance Test

Thank you. Hope this information helps you.

Hello

The best way to cover the important current affairs is to read the newspaper daily. Then try to analyse the newspaper and remember the trending topics. Practice the previous year's question paper and understand the pattern of the question. Summarise all current affairs topics and understand them in brief. If you want more information about current affairs, then you will read the article How to Prepare for CLAT Current Affairs 2026 .

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Hello,

Yes, you can prepare CLAT (Common Law Admission Test) in Hindi Medium and access syllabus in Hindi from mentioned link below:

https://law.careers360.com/hi/articles/clat-syllabus

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Hello there!

Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) is a national level entrance exam for the programs related to engineering. It has two levels known as JEE mains (first level) and JEE advance (second level) . Many colleges from all over India in both government and private sector consider its scores. It is an online computer based test conducted by NTA ( National Testing Agency). Physics , Chemistry and mathematics are the major subjects to be focused in this exam.

Here is the link attached from the official website of Careers360 which will provide you with complete information about JEE.

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NEET ( National Eligibility cum Entrance Test) is a national level examination for admission in undergraduate medical courses. It is also conducted by NTA but in offline mode as in pen and paper test. It includes courses like MBBS, BDS BHMS , BAMS etc. The exam consists of 180 questions in total 45 from each physics , chemistry , zoology and Botany. The total marks for the exam are 720 marks.

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CLAT (Common Law Admission Test) is a national level entrance examination for the admission in national law colleges of India. The test is taken after 12th grade examination for the 5 years integrated programs in law. It tests students knowledge in legal aptitude. It also serves as a basis for public sector undertakings for legal positions.

Here is the link attached from the official website of Careers360 which will provide you with the complete information about the CLAT examination.

https://law.careers360.com/articles/what-is-clat-full-form-all-about-nlus-entrance-exam

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Hello,

The CLAT PG exam pattern consists of 120 questions and 2-hour MCQ exam with negative marking.

Subjects Covered:

  1. Constitutional Law

  2. Jurisprudence

  3. Criminal Law

  4. Contract Law

  5. Other core law subjects

Here are some tricks which you must follow:

  1. Practice Previous Year Papers & Mock Tests
  2. Focus on Constitutional Law & Jurisprudence
  3. Time Management in Exam
  4. Revision Strategy

To know more access below mentioned link:

https://law.careers360.com/articles/how-to-prepare-for-clat-pg-exam

Hope it helps.