CLAT 2026: High-Scoring Topics You Must Prepare

CLAT 2026 Section-Wise High-Scoring Areas

Understanding which sections offer quick and reliable scoring opportunities can significantly improve overall CLAT 2026 performance. While CLAT is a comprehension-based exam, certain types of passages and question patterns consistently provide higher accuracy for well-prepared students.

CLAT 2026 Section-wise Strategy

Here’s how to prepare for CLAT 2026, each section to maximise your score.

English Language Preparation Tips

The CLAT 2026 English section will have 5-6 passages to check candidates’ English communication, comprehension, and vocabulary skills. Here are a few tips for the section’s preparation

• Focus on Reading Comprehension (RCs), as they carry high weightage.

• Improve your vocabulary by reading novels and newspaper editorials

• For reading speed, make a slot for reading novels every day. Reading regularly improves speed, which will eventually help in time management on the D-Day.

• After reading a book or newspaper article, Previous year passage, try to write down the summary or conclusion. This will help candidates in improving their summarising skills.

• Candidates can also make a separate vocabulary diary, where they keep adding all the new words they read along with their meanings, synonyms, and antonyms.

• High-weightage topics: RCs, para-completion, sentence rearrangement, vocabulary in context.

Current Affairs and General Knowledge Preparation Tips

In the CLAT 2026 current affairs and general knowledge section, passages will be given that will be derived from news, articles, and other non-fictional books. From those passages, questions will be given to the candidates. This is to assess if the aspirant has general knowledge or not. Here are a few things that a candidate can do to prepare for this section.

• Read newspaper articles and editorials daily. Stay up to date with news and the world.

• Candidates can also refer to the current affairs booklets provided by various coaching centres. Some examples are Drishti IAS, Vision IAS, Insights on India, etc.

• Aspirants can also refer to the Indian Yearbook, as it covers news from 10-12 months.

• In question papers, generally, basic law knowledge is asked in a passage, so that students can refer to the Bare Act of India and study things like Fundamental Rights, Fundamental Duties, DPSP, Schedules, etc.

Legal Reasoning Preparation Tips

Questions asked in CLAT legal reasoning will be related to various scenarios involving legal or moral-ethical questions. No prior legal knowledge is necessary to attempt this part; however, having basic knowledge of articles will benefit the students. This section is to assess the critical thinking of the aspirants. Below are a few preparation tips that can help candidates in this section

• Practice legal principles from contracts, torts, and constitutional law.

• In this section, having a general knowledge of contemporary laws and modern issues helps. To grasp such knowledge, candidates should read the newspaper daily.

• Apart from having general knowledge, attempting lots of questions and mocks can also help. Attempting questions helps in building critical thinking.

• Analyse various case studies, practice applying relevant laws, and draw logical conclusions.

• Stay up to date with current legal developments and amendments to the constitution.

• Tip: Avoid rote learning of laws; focus on application-based understanding.

Logical Reasoning Preparation Tips

In the CLAT logical reasoning section, questions will be asked from a series of short passages of about 450 words each. It evaluates the problem-solving skills of the students.

• This section now primarily focuses on critical thinking and passage-based questions.

• Candidates can master puzzle practice, seating arrangement, and logical sequencing to improve their analytical skills.

• Practising mock papers can help build problem-solving skills

• Read the questions carefully and understand what has been asked, identify the conclusions and premises.

• Strengthen your deductive reasoning skills.

Quantitative Techniques Preparation Tips

The CLAT 2026 quantitative section in the paper will be at the 10th standard level. This section aims to judge the mathematical skills of the candidate. Even though the weightage of this section is a mere 10% but for students with a maths background, this can be a scoring section. Below are the tips that students can keep in mind while preparing

• Focus on arithmetic topics: percentages, ratios, averages, profit & loss, and time-speed-distance.

• Candidates should maintain a formula diary which they can revise regularly.

• The most important key in studying quantitative is to practice daily and attempt lots of questions and mocks. Solve a wide range of questions and sets

• Aspirants should learn tricks, shortcuts, and speed maths, which will help them save time in the main examination.