Name of the Organization : Gujarat National Law University
Type of Facility : Previous Year’s Question Booklets For CLAT 2014
Location : Gandhinagar
Website :http://clat.ac.in/
Previous Year’s Question Booklets :
Previous Year’s Question Booklets for UG and PG courses will be available at the participating Universities including the Organizing University (i.e. GNLU, Gandhinagar) at a cost of `250/- per booklet. The Question Booklets will also be made available on the CLAT Website (www.clat.ac.in) and can be downloaded by making online/offline payment of `250/- through the website (excluding the bank transaction costs for remitting the charges online/offline). In case, the question papers are to be sent on request through speed post by the Organizing University, the candidate will have to bear an additional cost of `150/- towards the postage charges.
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Pattern of CLAT : (Under-Graduate Programme) :
The different subject areas of the examination are explained as under :
1. English including comprehension :
The English section will test the candidates’ proficiency in English based on comprehension passages and grammar. In the comprehension section, candidates will be questioned on their understanding of the passage and its central theme, meanings of words used therein etc. The grammar section requires correction of incorrect grammatical sentences, filling of blanks in sentences with appropriate words, etc.
2. General Knowledge and Currents Affairs :
As far as general knowledge is concerned, the candidates will be tested on their general awareness including static general knowledge. Questions on current affairs will test candidates on their knowledge of current affairs.
3. Mathematics :
This section will test candidate’s knowledge on elementary mathematics, i.e. maths taught up to Class X.
4. Legal Aptitude :
This section will test candidate’s interest towards study of law, research aptitude and problem solving ability. Questions will be framed with the help of legal propositions (described in the paper), and a set of facts to which the said proposition has to be applied. Some propositions may not be “true” in the real sense (e.g. the legal proposition may be that any person who speaks in a movie hall and disturbs others that are watching the movie will be banned from entering any movie theatre across India for one year). Candidates will have to assume the “truth” of these propositions and answer the questions accordingly.
5. Logical Reasoning :
The purpose of the logical reasoning section is to test the candidate’s ability to identify patterns, logical links and rectify illogical arguments. It will include a wide variety of logical reasoning questions such as syllogisms, logical sequences, analogies, etc. However, visual reasoning will not be tested.
Note :
There shall be a system of Negative Marking wherein 0.25 marks will be deducted for each of the wrong answer.
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