CLAT 2020 Analysis

Evaluation: This section had 30 questions .The level of questions in this section was easy. There were 6 reading comprehension passages. The passages were from mixed areas like Climate change, ‘Bois Locker Room’ controversy, The Cat by Mary E Freeman, Short story by Kate Chopin, The Case for the Defence by Graham Greene, Editorial from The Hindu based on Telemedicine. The passages were easy to moderate in terms of understanding and had 5 questions each.

This was a scoring section for students and the main skill required was good reading speed and understanding of diverse areas.

Evaluation: This year, this section of CLAT was passage based. The passages asked were quite predictable or remained in the news for 7-8 months. The level of difficulty of questions range between moderate to tough. The questions were mainly current based and inside out of the news was framed in the exam. The area was quite manageable as no passages which was only for reference. The passages asked covered wide areas like Economy, International relations, National Policies and Agreements. However, Static areas like History, Geography, Polity and Art and Culture were not touched. There were 36 questions in the Gk section.

Evaluation: The level of difficulty of the Legal Reasoning Section can be considered as moderate this year. There were 39 questions in this area; the level of questions was between easy and moderate. This area was quite lengthy. The passages were based mostly on the important current events from the last 6 months such as the Vizag gas leak case, force majeure in contract, Palghar mob lynching and so on. The questions were based on legal reasoning rather than static knowledge.

Evaluation: This section had 30 questions which included 5 passages (25 questions), 3 questions from ‘Statement and Conclusion and Assumption’,1 question from Matrix (puzzle) and 1 question from Coding – Decoding. The level of questions in this section was easy to moderate. This section contained questions mainly from Critical Reasoning.. This was again a reading-based section like English section with passages from diverse areas like Social Journalism, Anti Alcohol movement, Class XII CBSE result, Work from home during Corona Pandemic and Online classes. The articles were mainly picked from the leading newspapers like The Hindu, Indian Express and Times of India. This was also a scoring section like English for students as the section was reading based and the passages were easy to moderate in terms of understanding. There were few tricky questions checking the reasoning skills. The main skill required was again a good reading speed.

Evaluation:  This section had 3 sets one bar graph, one table and one set on area of semicircle whose options were inconsistent with the information given in the question. Overall the difficulty level of this section was easy to moderate.