CLAT 2027 Daily Questions Series: 14th November Math and English Answers

CLAT 2027 Daily Questions: Math & English

CLAT 2027 Daily Current Affairs Practice Questions

Q1. What is the main effect of a tariff on imported goods?

A. It reduces their price
B. It raises their price and can protect domestic producers
C. It stops all imports
D. It fixes exchange rates

Answer: B

Q2. What is the purpose of a clause that allows either country to change its commitments if the other changes tariffs?

A. To make the agreement permanent and unchangeable
B. To keep the trade deal balanced if either side changes its terms
C. To remove all import duties
D. To make the deal apply to other countries

Answer: B

Q3. Why does GRAP introduce stricter measures as the AQI rises?

A. To match pollution-control steps with the severity of air pollution
B. To apply the same restrictions at every AQI level
C. To allow only the Centre to control pollution
D. Because pollution occurs only during winter

Answer: A

Q4. What does the “polluter pays” principle mean?

A. The public must pay for all pollution
B. Those causing pollution must bear the cost of the damage and its remedy
C. Only the government must pay pollution fines
D. Industries can pollute freely by paying a fixed fee

Answer: B

Q5. Which Article allows the Supreme Court to grant special leave to appeal against a decision of a court or tribunal?

A. Article 131
B. Article 132
C. Article 136
D. Article 143

Answer: C

Q6. What is the minimum number of judges required for a Constitution Bench to decide a substantial question of constitutional law?

A. Two
B. Three
C. Five
D. Nine

Answer: C

Q7. What is the main concern about splitting the Supreme Court into regional courts?

A. It would end judicial review
B. It could weaken the authority of one final court of appeal
C. The Constitution completely bans regional Benches
D. It would end the right to appeal

Answer: B

Q8. What is the main role of a Joint Parliamentary Committee examining a Bill?

A. To pass the Bill into law
B. To examine the Bill and submit a report to Parliament
C. To cancel the Bill
D. To decide whether the Bill is constitutional

Answer: B

Q9. Which Articles protect religious freedom and the right of religious groups to manage their affairs?

A. Articles 14 and 15
B. Articles 25 and 26
C. Articles 29 and 30 only
D. Articles 32 and 226

Answer: B

Q10. What can happen when an offence is added to the list of scheduled offences under the PMLA?

A. It becomes a civil dispute
B. Its proceeds can be examined under money-laundering laws
C. It can no longer be prosecuted
D. It becomes a subject under the State List

Answer: B

Q11. Under which law can the government set up a Commission of Inquiry?

A. Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1952
B. Indian Evidence Act, 1872
C. Right to Information Act, 2005
D. Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993

Answer: A

Q. Which Article of the Constitution provides for President's rule in a State?

A. Article 352
B. Article 356
C. Article 360
D. Article 370

Answer: B

CLAT 2027 Daily Question Series: Math

Passage 1

A newly formed state government wants to promote development in the state by launching various welfare programmes. Before introducing these programmes, the government intends to understand the population distribution across different age groups so that it can plan its initiatives accordingly.

The state government found that 30% of the state's population comprises children between the ages of 0 and 15. Following this, 17.75% of the population comprises adolescents between the ages of 16 and 25. The early adult population accounts for 17.25% in the 26–35 age group and 14.50% in the 36–45 age group.

People between the ages of 46 and 55 constitute 14.25% of the population. The elderly population is comparatively smaller, with 5.12% belonging to the 56–65 age group and 1.13% aged 66 years and above.

To gain a better understanding of the population distribution, the state government seeks answers to the following questions.

Q1. Out of every 5,600 persons, what is the number of persons below the age of 26 years?

A. 2,515

B. 1,746

C. 1,660

D. 2,674

Answer: D. 2,674

Q2. There are 400 million people below 36 years of age. How many million people (approximately) belong to the 56–65 age group?

A. 32.72 million

B. 25.75 million

C. 31.50 million

D. 59.30 million

Answer: C. 31.50 million

Q3. If there are 20 million people in the age group of 56–65 years, what is the difference between the number of people in the age groups of 16–25 and 46–55 years?

A. 15.6 million

B. 12.18 million

C. 28.4 million

D. 34.7 million

Correct answer: No correct option provided.

Q4. If the difference between the number of people in the age groups of 46–55 and 26–35 years is 15.75 million, what is the approximate total population of the state?

A. 360.23 million

B. 390 million

C. 400 million

D. 525 million

Answer: D. 525 million

Q5. Which age group accounts for the maximum population in the state?

A. 16–25 years

B. 26–35 years

C. 36–45 years

D. None of the above

Answer: D. None of the above

Passage 2

The COVID-19 pandemic turned life upside down for many families across the world.

Mr Abhishek was working as a sales executive at a well-known marketing company. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, lockdowns and restrictions prevented him from achieving his monthly targets, resulting in a reduction in his salary.

Until then, he had spent his income lavishly without proper planning or calculations. However, the prevailing situation compelled him to plan his expenditure and adjust his lifestyle to his reduced income. Therefore, he analysed his spending during the previous year, 2019, to plan his expenditure for 2020.

Through his analysis, he found that in 2019, he spent 23% of his income on food, 15% on housing and 12% on his child's education. He spent 10% on transport and another 10% on clothing for his family. Meanwhile, Mr Abhishek saved 15% of his income, while the remaining 20% was allocated to other expenses.

Answer the following questions to gain a better understanding of Mr Abhishek's income and expenditure.

Q1. If the total amount spent during the year 2019 was Rs 56,000, what was the amount spent on food?

A. Rs 12,000

B. Rs 12,880

C. Rs 23,880

D. Rs 23,000

Answer: B. Rs 12,880

Q2. If the total amount spent was Rs 56,000, how much money was spent on clothing and housing together?

A. Rs 11,500

B. Rs 12,500

C. Rs 14,000

D. Rs 15,000

Answer: C. Rs 14,000

Q3. What was the ratio of the total amount of money spent on housing to that spent on education?

A. 5:2

B. 2:5

C. 4:5

D. 5:4

Answer: D. 5:4

Q4. If the total expenditure of the family for the year 2019 was Rs 56,000, what was the amount saved by the family during the year?

A. Rs 8,400

B. Rs 5,600

C. Rs 6,900

D. Rs 3,067

Answer: A. Rs 8,400

Q5. If the total amount spent during the year 2019 was Rs 56,000, the amount spent on other expenses and clothing together was higher than:

A. Housing and child education

B. Food and transport

C. Food and housing

D. Housing and savings

Answer: A. Housing and child education

CLAT 2027 Daily English Practice Questions

Passage 1

The call of self-expression turned the village of the internet into a city, which expanded at time-lapse speed, social connections bristling like neurons in every direction. At twelve, I was writing five hundred words a day on a public LiveJournal. By twenty-five, my job was to write things that would attract, ideally, a hundred thousand strangers per post. Now I’m thirty, and most of my life is inextricable from the internet, and its mazes of incessant forced connection—this feverish, electric, unliveable hell.

The curdling of the social internet happened slowly and then all at once. The tipping point, I’d guess, was around 2012. People were losing excitement about the internet, starting to articulate a set of new truisms. Facebook had become tedious, trivial, exhausting. Instagram seemed better, but would soon reveal its underlying function as a three-ring circus of happiness and popularity and success. Twitter, for all its discursive promise, was where everyone tweeted complaints at airlines and moaned about articles that had been commissioned to make people moan.

The dream of a better, truer self on the internet was slipping away. Where we had once been free to be ourselves online, we were now chained to ourselves online, and this made us self-conscious. Platforms that promised connection began inducing mass alienation. The freedom promised by the internet started to seem like something whose greatest potential lay in the realm of misuse.

Even as we became increasingly sad and ugly on the internet, the mirage of the better online self continued to glimmer. As a medium, the internet is defined by a built-in performance incentive. In real life, you can walk around living life and be visible to other people. But on the internet—for anyone to see you, you have to act. You have to communicate in order to maintain an internet presence.

And, because the internet’s central platforms are built around personal profiles, it can seem—first at a mechanical level, and later on as an encoded instinct—like the main purpose of this communication is to make yourself look good. Online reward mechanisms beg to substitute for offline ones, and then overtake them. This is why everyone tries to look so hot and well-travelled on Instagram; why everyone seems so smug and triumphant on Facebook; and why, on Twitter, making a righteous political statement has come to seem, for many people, like a political good in itself.

The everyday madness perpetuated by the internet is the madness of this architecture, which positions personal identity as the centre of the universe. It’s as if we’ve been placed on a lookout that oversees the entire world and given a pair of binoculars that makes everything look like our own reflection.

Extracted, with edits and revisions, from Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, by Jia Tolentino, Random House, 2019.

Q1. Which of the following statements can be inferred from the above passage?

A. The internet expanded very slowly.

B. The internet can be used to cause harm.

C. The internet is addictive.

D. The main purpose of social media platforms is to dissuade people from showing off.

Answer: B. The internet can be used to cause harm.

Q2. All the following statements are ‘truisms’, except:

A. The internet has changed the way the world works.

B. A preference for cat videos can reveal a lot about your personality.

C. Like with any tool, digital technology has both advantages and disadvantages.

D. Only time can tell what the future holds.

Answer: B. A preference for cat videos can reveal a lot about your personality.

Q3. Which of the following comes closest to the underlined sentence in the passage?

A. The way we use the internet says a lot about who we are.

B. The internet has reduced the distance between people living across the world.

C. The internet has the ability to customise what we access based on our identity.

D. The internet only shows us what we don’t want to see.

Answer: C. The internet has the ability to customise what we access based on our identity.

Q4. Which of the following is a metaphor?

A. The village of the internet.

B. This feverish, electric, unliveable hell.

C. Three-ring circus of happiness and popularity and success.

D. All the above.

Answer: D. All the above.

Q5. Which of the following categories best describes this piece of writing?

A. Non-fiction essay.

B. Fiction.

C. Academic paper.

D. Poem.

Answer: A. Non-fiction essay.

Passage 2

Down by the sandy banks of the Yamuna River, the men must work quickly. At a little past 12 a.m. one humid night in May, they pull back the black plastic tarp covering three boreholes sunk deep in the ground. They then drag thick hoses towards a queue of 20-odd tanker trucks idling quietly with their headlights turned off.

The men work in a team: while one man fits a hose’s mouth over a borehole, another clambers atop a truck at the front of the line and shoves the tube’s opposite end into the empty steel cistern attached to the vehicle’s creaky frame. ‘On kar!’ someone shouts in Hinglish; almost instantly, his orders to ‘switch it on’ are obeyed.

Diesel generators, housed in nearby sheds, begin to thrum. Submersible pumps, installed in the borehole’s shafts, drone as they disgorge thousands of gallons of groundwater from deep in the earth. The liquid gushes through the hoses and into the trucks’ tanks.

The full trucks don’t wait around. As the hose team continues its work, drivers nose down a rutted dirt path until they reach a nearby highway. There, they turn on their lights and pick up speed, rushing to sell their bounty to factories and hospitals, malls and hotels, apartments and hutments across this city of 25 million.

Everything about this business is illegal: the boreholes dug without permission, the trucks operating without permits, the water sold without testing or treatment. ‘Water work is night work,’ says a middle-aged neighbour who lives near the covert pumping station and requested anonymity. ‘Bosses arrange buyers, labour fills tankers, the police look the other way, and the muscle makes sure that no one says nothing to nobody.’

Teams like this one are ubiquitous in Delhi, where the official water supply falls short of the city’s needs. A quarter of Delhi’s households live without a piped-water connection; most of the rest receive water for only a few hours each day. So residents have come to rely on private truck owners—the most visible strands of a dispersed web of city councillors, farmers, real estate agents, and fixers who source millions of gallons of water each day from illicit boreholes, and sell the liquid for profit.

The entrenched system has a local moniker: the water-tanker mafia. A 2013 audit found that the city loses 60 percent of its water supply to leakages, theft, and a failure to collect revenue.

The mafia defends its work as a community service, but there is a much darker picture of Delhi’s subversive water industry: one of a thriving black market populated by small-time freelance agents who are exploiting a fast-depleting common resource and in turn threatening India’s long-term water security.

Extracted, with edits and revisions, from “At the Mercy of the Water Mafia”, by Aman Sethi, Foreign Policy.

Q1. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?

A. The water-tanker mafia’s operations, though illegal, are justified given the vital service they provide to the people of Delhi.

B. The water supplied by the water-tanker mafia is potentially contaminated.

C. Private truck owners play the most important role in the operations of the water-tanker mafia.

D. The water supplied by the water-tanker mafia is meant primarily for residential use.

Answer: B. The water supplied by the water-tanker mafia is potentially contaminated.

Q2. Which of the following, used in the passage, suggests that the illegal supply of groundwater is not a recent phenomenon?

A. Entrenched.

B. Ubiquitous.

C. Long-term water security.

D. Fast-depleting common resource.

Answer: A. Entrenched.

Q3. Which of the following seems to be the author’s main concern in the passage?

A. Delhi’s water supply infrastructure does not adequately cater to all its residents.

B. The illegal operations of the water-tanker mafia do not depend on the complicity of a range of actors, including the police and city councillors.

C. The petty profiteering of a few actors comes at the immense cost of India’s sustainable access to water.

D. All the above.

Answer: C. The petty profiteering of a few actors comes at the immense cost of India’s sustainable access to water.

Q4. All of the following are sounds you can hear as the water tankers are filled, except:

A. Creaking.

B. Thrumming.

C. Droning.

D. Gushing.

Answer: D. Gushing.

Q5. Which of the following words from the passage means ‘hidden’?

A. Illicit.

B. Idling.

C. Subversive.

D. Covert.

Answer: D. Covert.