CLAT 2027 Daily Questions Series: 12th November Logical Reasoning and English Answers

CLAT 2027 Daily Questions: English and Logical Reasoning

CLAT 2027 Daily Current Affairs Practice Questions

Q1. Which Supreme Court judgment set the general 50% ceiling on reservation?

A. Kesavananda Bharati
B. Indra Sawhney
C. Maneka Gandhi
D. Minerva Mills

Answer: B

Q2. Can a law placed in the 9th Schedule be challenged in court?

A. No, it has complete protection
B. Only the President can challenge it
C. Yes, if it violates the basic structure of the Constitution
D. No, the 9th Schedule has no legal effect

Answer: C

Q3. Karnataka's reservation hike took the total quota to 56%. What was the main legal issue?

A. It crossed the general 50% reservation limit
B. States cannot make reservation laws
C. SC and ST communities cannot receive reservation
D. Reservation is allowed only in Central government jobs

Answer: A

Q4. What is the main purpose of a credit guarantee fund for micro units?

A. To give free money to every borrower
B. To protect lenders against default risks and encourage loans without collateral
C. To replace banks and financial institutions
D. To fix the prices of all goods

Answer: B

Q5. Under which Article is the Union Council of Ministers collectively responsible to the Lok Sabha?

A. Article 74
B. Article 75(3)
C. Article 78
D. Article 112

Answer: B

Q6. If fertiliser prices rise and the government wants to keep them affordable for farmers, what is likely to happen?

A. Government subsidy spending may increase
B. The fiscal deficit will automatically disappear
C. Farmers will no longer need fertilisers
D. Government spending will remain unaffected

Answer: A

Q7. Which fundamental right is directly affected by a ban on protests and rallies?

A. Right to freedom of religion
B. Right to assemble peacefully under Article 19(1)(b)
C. Right to education
D. Right to constitutional remedies

Answer: B

Q8. Under Article 19(3), the State can impose reasonable restrictions on peaceful assembly on which ground?

A. Public order
B. Political convenience
C. Personal preferences of officials
D. Economic competition

Answer: A

Q9. A government imposes a complete ban on protests for several weeks. What would a court most likely examine?

A. Whether the restriction is reasonable and proportionate to its purpose
B. Whether protesters support the ruling party
C. Whether the protesters are government employees
D. Whether the order was issued on a working day

Answer: A

Q10. Which international agreement mainly deals with the treatment of prisoners of war?

A. Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations
B. Third Geneva Convention
C. Paris Agreement
D. UN Convention on the Law of the Sea

Answer: B

Q11. What is the role of a mediator in an international conflict?

A. To impose a decision on both countries
B. To help the countries reach an agreement through talks
C. To take control of the countries' governments
D. To command the armed forces of both countries

Answer: B

Q12. Russia and Ukraine agree to a prisoner exchange 'in principle'. What does this mean?

A. The exchange has already been completed
B. Both sides agree to the proposal, but the details are yet to be finalised
C. All disputes between the countries have ended
D. The agreement applies to every country in the world

Answer: B

CLAT 2027 Daily Practice Questions: Logical Reasoning

Passage 1

Why are we humans so susceptible to the doom and gloom of the news? Two reasons. The first is what psychologists call negativity bias: we’re more attuned to the bad than the good. Back in our hunting and gathering days, we were better off being frightened of a spider or a snake a hundred times too often than one time too few. Too much fear wouldn’t kill you; too little surely would.

Second, we’re also burdened with an availability bias. If we can easily recall examples of a given thing, we assume that thing is relatively common. The fact that we’re bombarded daily with horrific stories about aircraft disasters, child snatchers and beheadings — which tend to lodge in the memory — completely skews our view of the world.

In this digital age, the news we’re being fed is only getting more extreme. In the old days, journalists didn’t know much about their individual readers. They wrote for the masses. But the people behind Facebook, Twitter and Google know you well. They know what shocks and horrifies you; they know what makes you click. They know how to grab your attention and hold it so they can serve you the most lucrative helping of personalised ads.

This modern media frenzy is nothing less than an assault on the mundane. Because, let’s be honest, the lives of most people are pretty predictable. Nice, but boring. So while we’d prefer having nice neighbours with boring lives, ‘boring’ won’t make you sit up and take notice. ‘Nice’ doesn’t sell ads. And so Silicon Valley keeps dishing us up ever more sensational clickbait, knowing full well, as a Swiss novelist once quipped, that “News is to the mind what sugar is to the body.”

Q1. Which of the following, if true, would most weaken the author’s arguments?

A. Behavioural traits that helped us in the days when we were hunter-gatherers continue to be present in modern-day humans.

B. Behavioural traits that helped us in the days when we were hunter-gatherers are no longer found in modern-day humans.

C. The negativity bias makes us more likely to be affected by depressing or sad news.

D. We have certain behavioural characteristics that affect how we perceive and are affected by sad news.

Answer: B. Behavioural traits that helped us in the days when we were hunter-gatherers are no longer found in modern-day humans.

Q2. Which of the following is the author most likely to agree with?

A. Contemporary media continuously exposes us to exciting news and information, which may be just like the things we usually experience in our lives.

B. Contemporary media continuously exposes us to exciting news and information, which may be very unlike the kinds of things we usually encounter in our lives.

C. Contemporary media continuously exposes us to boring news and information, which may be very unlike the kinds of things we usually encounter in our lives.

D. Contemporary media continuously exposes us to boring news and information, which may be just like the things we usually experience in our lives.

Answer: B. Contemporary media continuously exposes us to exciting news and information, which may be very unlike the kinds of things we usually encounter in our lives.

Q3. Based only on the author’s statement that “we’d prefer having nice neighbours with boring lives”, and the author’s argument about the nature of news that modern media exposes us to, which of the following would the author be most likely to agree with?

A. Constantly being exposed to negative news gives us a warped perspective of the world.

B. In our hunting and gathering days, it was better for us to be unnecessarily scared rather than being scared too little.

C. The news modern media exposes us to is just like our day-to-day experiences.

D. The news modern media exposes us to is very different from our day-to-day experiences.

Answer: D. The news modern media exposes us to is very different from our day-to-day experiences.

Q4. The author’s statements about negativity bias, if true, provide most support for which of the following conclusions?

A. We are more likely to notice a story about a billionaire donating their money to charity than a story about an airplane crash.

B. We are more likely to be attracted to a news article about a rise in life expectancy in our country than a news article about a murder in our city.

C. We are more likely to notice a story about increasing pollution levels than a story about improving educational levels in schools.

D. We are more likely to form our opinion of the world based on the information available to us rather than information we do not have access to.

Answer: C. We are more likely to notice a story about increasing pollution levels than a story about improving educational levels in schools.

Q5. Which of the following would be the most effective way of countering the effects of what the author describes as our ‘availability bias’?

A. Ensuring that we do not seek out news sources and stories that we may not otherwise have been exposed to.

B. Following only one news source and limiting our perspective of the world to that one source.

C. Avoiding all positive news stories, and instead only reading news stories about disasters and tragedies.

D. Ensuring that we seek out news sources and stories that we may not otherwise have been exposed to.

Answer: D. Ensuring that we seek out news sources and stories that we may not otherwise have been exposed to.

Q6. The author says that “The fact that we’re bombarded daily with horrific stories about aircraft disasters, child snatchers and beheadings — which tend to lodge in the memory — completely skews our view of the world.” The conclusion the author draws in this argument follows logically if which of the following is assumed?

A. Our ideas about the world are shaped by the information we are exposed to.

B. Modern media is concerned only with making massive profits.

C. Modern journalists generate news stories much faster than in the old days.

D. Humans once lived as hunter-gatherers.

Answer: A. Our ideas about the world are shaped by the information we are exposed to.

Passage 2 

Students decide to attend college for several reasons. These reasons include career opportunities and financial stability, intellectual growth, a time for self-discovery, norms, obligations, and social opportunities. Outside demands in society, such as technological changes and increased educational demands, also drive the need for more students to attend college.

The students then spend the next few years trying to discover a path and find their way so they can become successful. The transition to college presents students with many new challenges, including increased academic demands, less time with family members, interpersonal problems with roommates and romantic interests, and financial stress. Competitive academic work and uncertainty about future employment and professional career were also noted as sources of stress.

The transition to college represents a process characterized by change, ambiguity, and adjustment across all of life's domains. The transition towards independence and self-sufficiency has been characterized as 'stress-arousing' and 'anxiety-provoking' by many college students. Failure to accomplish and develop these characteristics of development and maintain independence may result in life dissatisfaction.

Emerging adulthood has also been noted to augment college students' vulnerability to stress. Many students experience their first symptoms of depression and anxiety during this time, but a growing problem is that college campuses do not have enough resources to help all of these students. It has been noted that 75% to 80% of college students are moderately stressed and 10% to 12% are severely stressed.

Q1. What, according to you, is the objective of the study in the present paragraph?

A. To map the various stages of pressure points of adulthood in the process of education.

B. To narrate the anti-family agenda in the current education system.

C. To pinpoint the obstacles targeted against meritorious students.

D. All of the above.

Answer: A. To map the various stages of pressure points of adulthood in the process of education.

Q2. Which factors, as per the author, cause more stress amongst college students?

A. Pressure from parents and society towards greater educational needs and increased competitive academic work.

B. Failure to develop successful romantic interests, financial constraints, and interpersonal issues with roommates.

C. Failure to adapt to the transition to college life and to adjust various life domains in tune with the needs and requirements of college life.

D. Inability to manage time constraints and the uncertainty pertaining to their future.

Answer: C. Failure to adapt to the transition to college life and to adjust various life domains in tune with the needs and requirements of college life.

Q3. Which of the following falls closest to the underlying assumption in the present study?

A. Problem-solving ability amongst college students is negatively associated with symptoms of depression and anxiety.

B. Students lean towards unhealthy coping skills in order to try to lower the stress that they experience.

C. Romantic interest is an antidote for stress amongst students in colleges.

D. Stress is subjective for each student.

Answer: A. Problem-solving ability amongst college students is negatively associated with symptoms of depression and anxiety.

Q4. Suggest a suitable title for the paragraph from amongst the given titles.

A. Triumph and Turbulence of College Education System.

B. Negative Impact of College Education System.

C. Negligence of Stress Management by Parents.

D. Unemployment and Mental Instability.

Answer: A. Triumph and Turbulence of College Education System.

Q5. With reference to the above paragraph, which of the following offers the most plausible solutions as a coping mechanism for college students?

A. Individual students should approach counsellors to cope with stress.

B. Keeping in mind that a large number of students are experiencing stress, colleges must take steps to reduce course curriculum and peer pressures.

C. College authorities shall provide access to counselling, and every student experiencing stress must engage in some form of coping mechanism to alleviate stress.

D. The students must learn to differentiate between short-term and long-term stress.

Answer: C. College authorities shall provide access to counselling, and every student experiencing stress must engage in some form of coping mechanism to alleviate stress.

CLAT 2027 Daily Practice Questions: English

Passage 1

I grew up in a small town not far from Kalimpong. In pre-liberalization India, everything arrived late: not just material things but also ideas. Magazines — old copies of Reader’s Digest and National Geographic — arrived late too, after the news had become stale by months or, often, years. This temporal gap turned journalism into literature, news into legend, and historical events into something akin to plotless stories. But like those who knew no other life, we accepted this as the norm.

The dearth of reading material in towns and villages in socialist India is hard to imagine, and it produced two categories of people: those who stopped reading after school or college, and those — including children — who read anything they could find. I read road signs with the enthusiasm that attaches to reading thrillers. When the itinerant kabadiwala, collector of papers, magazines, and rejected things, visited our neighbourhood, I rushed to the house where he was doing business. He bought things at unimaginably low prices from those who’d stopped having any use for them, and I rummaged through his sacks of old magazines. Sometimes, on days when business was good, he allowed me a couple of copies of Sportsworld magazine for free. I’d run home and, ignoring my mother’s scolding, plunge right in — consuming news about India’s victory in the Benson and Hedges Cup.

Two takeaways from these experiences have marked my understanding of the provincial reader’s life: the sense of belatedness, of everything coming late, and the desire for pleasure in language.

Speaking of belatedness, the awareness of having been born at the wrong time in history, of inventing things that had already been discovered elsewhere, far away, without our knowledge or cooperation, is a moment of epiphany and deep sadness. I remember a professor’s choked voice, narrating to me how all the arguments he’d made in his doctoral dissertation, written over many, many years of hard work (for there indeed was a time when PhDs were written over decades), had suddenly come to naught after he’d discovered the work of C.W.E. Bigsby.

This I realised as I grew older, was one of the characteristics of provincial life: that they (usually males) were saying trite things with the confidence of someone declaring them for the first time. I, therefore, grew up surrounded by would-be Newtons who claimed to have discovered gravity (again). There’s a deep sense of tragedy attending this sort of thing — the sad embarrassment of always arriving after the party is over. And there’s a harsh word for that sense of belatedness: “dated.” What rescues it is the unpredictability of these anachronistic “discoveries” — the randomness and haphazardness involved in mapping connections among thoughts and ideas, in a way that hasn’t yet been professionalised.

Extracted, with edits and revisions, from “The Provincial Reader”, by Sumana Roy, Los Angeles Review of Books.

Q1. What use was the kabadiwala (wastepicker) to the author?

A. The kabadiwala bought up all her magazines.

B. The kabadiwala’s stock of books and magazines was of interest to the author.

C. The kabadiwala was about to steal the author’s magazines.

D. The author ordered books online, which the kabadiwala delivered.

Answer: B. The kabadiwala’s stock of books and magazines was of interest to the author.

Q2. What, according to the author, is essential about the experience of being a ‘provincial reader’?

A. Belatedness in the sense of coming late for everything.

B. Over-eagerness.

C. Accepting a temporal gap between what was current in the wider world and the time at which these arrived in the provincial location.

D. None of the above.

Answer: C. Accepting a temporal gap between what was current in the wider world and the time at which these arrived in the provincial location.

Q3. Why did the author feel a sense of epiphany and deep sadness?

A. Because the things that felt special and unique to the author were already established and accepted thoughts in the wider world.

B. Because the author was less well-read than others.

C. Because the author missed being in a big city.

D. All of the above.

Answer: A. Because the things that felt special and unique to the author were already established and accepted thoughts in the wider world.

Q4. What does the word ‘anachronistic’ as used in the passage mean?

A. Rooted in a non-urban setting.

B. Related to a mofussil area.

C. Connected with another time.

D. Opposed to prevailing sensibilities.

Answer: C. Connected with another time.

Q5. Which of the following options captures the meaning of the last sentence best?

A. Though the author feels provincial, she pretends to be from the metropolis.

B. Though the author feels dated in her access to intellectual ideas, her lack of metropolitan sophistication lets her engage with the ideas with some originality.

C. Though the author is aware of the limitedness of her knowledge, she is confident and can hold her own in a crowd. She is also proud of her roots in the small town.

D. All of the above.

Answer: B. Though the author feels dated in her access to intellectual ideas, her lack of metropolitan sophistication lets her engage with the ideas with some originality.

Passage 2

Until the Keeladi site was discovered, archaeologists by and large believed that the Gangetic plains in the north urbanised significantly earlier than Tamil Nadu. Historians have often claimed that large-scale town life in India first developed in the Greater Magadha region of the Gangetic basin. This was during the ‘second urbanisation’ phase. The ‘first urbanisation phase’ refers to the rise of the Harappan or Indus Valley Civilisation. Tamil Nadu was thought to have urbanised at this scale only by the third century BCE.

The findings at Keeladi push that date back significantly. Based on linguistics and continuity in cultural legacies, connections between the Indus Valley Civilisation, or IVC, and old Tamil traditions have long been suggested, but concrete archaeological evidence remained absent. Evidence indicated similarities between graffiti found in Keeladi and symbols associated with the IVC. It bolstered the arguments of dissidents from the dominant North Indian imagination, who have argued for years that their ancestors existed contemporaneously with the IVC.

All the archaeologists I spoke to said it was too soon to make definitive links between the Keeladi site and the IVC. There is no doubt, however, that the discovery at Keeladi has changed the paradigm. In recent years, the results of any new research on early India have invited keen political interest, because proponents of Hindu nationalism support the notion of Vedic culture as fundamental to the origins of Indian civilisation.

The Keeladi excavations further challenge the idea of a single fountainhead of Indian life. They indicate the possibility that the earliest identity that can recognisably be considered ‘Indian’ might not have originated in North India.

That wasn’t all. In subsequent seasons of the Keeladi dig, archaeologists discovered that Tamili, a variant of the Brahmi script used for writing inscriptions in the early iterations of the Tamil language, could be dated back to the sixth century BCE, likely a hundred years before previously thought. So not only had urban life thrived in the Tamil lands, but people who lived there had developed their own script.

“The evolution of writing is attributed to Ashoka’s edicts, but 2600 years ago writing was prevalent in Keeladi,” Mathan Karuppiah, a proud Madurai local, told me. “A farmer could write his own name on a pot he owned. The fight going on here is ‘You are not the one to teach me to write; I have learnt it myself.’ ”

Excerpted from “The Dig”, by Sowmiya Ashok, Fifty-Two.

Q1. What was the assumption about the origin of urban life in India before the Keeladi dig?

A. The origins lay in the northern Gangetic plains, which urbanised earlier than the south.

B. The Indus Valley Civilisation was the first urban civilisation of India.

C. The second urbanisation was known to be in the Magadha Empire.

D. Both A and B.

Answer: A. The origins lay in the northern Gangetic plains, which urbanised earlier than the south.

Q2. “The Keeladi excavations further challenge the idea of a single fountainhead of Indian life.” In elaboration of this sentence, which of these options follows?

A. Dominant theories of how urban and modern life came about in ancient India were proved wrong by the Keeladi archaeological dig.

B. Neither the Indus Valley Civilisation nor the ancient urban civilisation of Magadha are clear explanations of how urban life emerged in the Keeladi region of southern India in the third century BCE.

C. The Keeladi archaeological dig proved that Indian urban and modern life emerged independently in several historical periods and geographies, and no one theory is enough to explain it.

D. None of the above.

Answer: C. The Keeladi archaeological dig proved that Indian urban and modern life emerged independently in several historical periods and geographies, and no one theory is enough to explain it.

Q3. Language, including a script similar to the Brahmi script, emerged in Keeladi in the sixth century BCE. Which of the following is the most convincing conclusion from this statement?

A. Keeladi is a centre of culture and learning far superior to any others in ancient India.

B. People of Keeladi were illiterate and could not use language to inscribe on their pots and pans.

C. Ancient urban history of India, as we know it today, could significantly be altered by the findings of the advances achieved by the Keeladi civilisation.

D. All of the above.

Answer: C. Ancient urban history of India, as we know it today, could significantly be altered by the findings of the advances achieved by the Keeladi civilisation.

Q4. BCE is the acronym for:

A. Before the Common Era.

B. Before Colloquial Era.

C. Before Chapel Eternal.

D. Behind Christ Era.

Answer: A. Before the Common Era.

Q5. “A farmer could write his own name on a pot he owned. The fight going on here is ‘You are not the one to teach me to write; I have learnt it myself.’” These sentences imply:

A. That the Keeladi civilisation was an egalitarian one.

B. That the Keeladi civilisation did not restrict access to education and literacy only for the elite.

C. That the farmers of the Keeladi civilisation were also potters.

D. All of the above.

Answer: B. That the Keeladi civilisation did not restrict access to education and literacy only to the elite.