CLAT Previous Year Question Paper - 2025 | CLAT Mock Test Series 2026 PDF Download

 Page 1


Instruct Ions  to  c and Idates  
 d uration of t est : 2 h ours (120 minutes) Maximum Marks : 120
Quest Ion Booklet  n o.
 1. This Question Booklet (QB) contains 120  
(One hundred and Twenty) Multiple Choice 
Questions across 40 (Forty) pages including  
2 (Two)  blank pages for rough work. No 
additional sheet(s) of paper will be supplied 
for rough work.
 2. You have to answer ALL questions in the 
separate carbonised Optical Mark Reader 
(OMR) Response Sheet supplied along 
with this QB. You must READ the detailed 
instructions provided with the OMR 
Response Sheet on the reverse side of this 
packet BEFORE you start the test.
 3. No clarification can be sought on the QB 
from anyone. In case of any discrepancy 
such as printing error or missing pages, in  
the QB, request the Invigilator to replace the 
QB and OMR Response Sheet. Do not use  
the previous OMR Response Sheet with the 
fresh QB.
 4. You should write the QB Number, and the 
OMR Response Sheet Number, and sign in 
the space/column provided in the Attendance 
Sheet.
 5. The QB for the Under Graduate Programme 
is for 120 marks. Every r ight answer secures  
1 mark. Every Wrong answer results in the 
deduction of 0.25 mark. There shall be no 
deductions for Unanswered Questions.
 6. You may retain the QB and the Candidate’s 
copy of the OMR Response Sheet after the 
test.
 7. The use of any unfair means shall result in 
your disqualification. Possession of Electronic 
Devices such as mobile phones, headphones, 
digital watches etc., is/are strictly prohibited 
in the test premises. Impersonation or any 
other unlawful practice will lead to your 
disqualification and possibly, appropriate 
action under the law.
*
 
1
*
   
u G 2025
1.  n ame of c andidate        :  
2. a dmit c ard n umber       :     
??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
?????????????????????????????????????????????????
??????????????????????????????????????????????
??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Page 2


Instruct Ions  to  c and Idates  
 d uration of t est : 2 h ours (120 minutes) Maximum Marks : 120
Quest Ion Booklet  n o.
 1. This Question Booklet (QB) contains 120  
(One hundred and Twenty) Multiple Choice 
Questions across 40 (Forty) pages including  
2 (Two)  blank pages for rough work. No 
additional sheet(s) of paper will be supplied 
for rough work.
 2. You have to answer ALL questions in the 
separate carbonised Optical Mark Reader 
(OMR) Response Sheet supplied along 
with this QB. You must READ the detailed 
instructions provided with the OMR 
Response Sheet on the reverse side of this 
packet BEFORE you start the test.
 3. No clarification can be sought on the QB 
from anyone. In case of any discrepancy 
such as printing error or missing pages, in  
the QB, request the Invigilator to replace the 
QB and OMR Response Sheet. Do not use  
the previous OMR Response Sheet with the 
fresh QB.
 4. You should write the QB Number, and the 
OMR Response Sheet Number, and sign in 
the space/column provided in the Attendance 
Sheet.
 5. The QB for the Under Graduate Programme 
is for 120 marks. Every r ight answer secures  
1 mark. Every Wrong answer results in the 
deduction of 0.25 mark. There shall be no 
deductions for Unanswered Questions.
 6. You may retain the QB and the Candidate’s 
copy of the OMR Response Sheet after the 
test.
 7. The use of any unfair means shall result in 
your disqualification. Possession of Electronic 
Devices such as mobile phones, headphones, 
digital watches etc., is/are strictly prohibited 
in the test premises. Impersonation or any 
other unlawful practice will lead to your 
disqualification and possibly, appropriate 
action under the law.
*
 
1
*
   
u G 2025
1.  n ame of c andidate        :  
2. a dmit c ard n umber       :     
??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
?????????????????????????????????????????????????
??????????????????????????????????????????????
?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? *
 2 
u G
c ontents of Quest Ion Pa Per
s ubject Q. n os. Page n o.
English Language 1 – 24 3 – 8
Current Affairs Including General Knowledge 25 – 52 9 – 17
Legal Reasoning 53 – 84 18 – 27
Logical Reasoning 85 – 108 28 – 34
Quantitative Techniques 109 – 120 35 – 38
*
Page 3


Instruct Ions  to  c and Idates  
 d uration of t est : 2 h ours (120 minutes) Maximum Marks : 120
Quest Ion Booklet  n o.
 1. This Question Booklet (QB) contains 120  
(One hundred and Twenty) Multiple Choice 
Questions across 40 (Forty) pages including  
2 (Two)  blank pages for rough work. No 
additional sheet(s) of paper will be supplied 
for rough work.
 2. You have to answer ALL questions in the 
separate carbonised Optical Mark Reader 
(OMR) Response Sheet supplied along 
with this QB. You must READ the detailed 
instructions provided with the OMR 
Response Sheet on the reverse side of this 
packet BEFORE you start the test.
 3. No clarification can be sought on the QB 
from anyone. In case of any discrepancy 
such as printing error or missing pages, in  
the QB, request the Invigilator to replace the 
QB and OMR Response Sheet. Do not use  
the previous OMR Response Sheet with the 
fresh QB.
 4. You should write the QB Number, and the 
OMR Response Sheet Number, and sign in 
the space/column provided in the Attendance 
Sheet.
 5. The QB for the Under Graduate Programme 
is for 120 marks. Every r ight answer secures  
1 mark. Every Wrong answer results in the 
deduction of 0.25 mark. There shall be no 
deductions for Unanswered Questions.
 6. You may retain the QB and the Candidate’s 
copy of the OMR Response Sheet after the 
test.
 7. The use of any unfair means shall result in 
your disqualification. Possession of Electronic 
Devices such as mobile phones, headphones, 
digital watches etc., is/are strictly prohibited 
in the test premises. Impersonation or any 
other unlawful practice will lead to your 
disqualification and possibly, appropriate 
action under the law.
*
 
1
*
   
u G 2025
1.  n ame of c andidate        :  
2. a dmit c ard n umber       :     
??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
?????????????????????????????????????????????????
??????????????????????????????????????????????
?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? *
 2 
u G
c ontents of Quest Ion Pa Per
s ubject Q. n os. Page n o.
English Language 1 – 24 3 – 8
Current Affairs Including General Knowledge 25 – 52 9 – 17
Legal Reasoning 53 – 84 18 – 27
Logical Reasoning 85 – 108 28 – 34
Quantitative Techniques 109 – 120 35 – 38
*
 3 
*
u G
 
 I. From a very early age, I knew that when I grew up, I should be a writer. I had the lonely 
child’s habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, 
and I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling 
of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with words and a power 
of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which 
I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life. I wanted to write enormous 
naturalistic novels with unhappy endings, full of detailed descriptions and arresting 
similes, and also full of purple passages in which words were used partly for the sake 
of their sound. I give all this background information because I do not think one can 
assess a writer’s motives without knowing something of his early development. 
  His subject-matter will be determined by the age he lives in – at least this is true in 
tumultuous, revolutionary ages like our own – but before he ever begins to write he 
will have acquired an emotional attitude from which he will never completely escape. 
It is his job to discipline his temperament, but if he escapes from his early influences 
altogether, he will have killed his impulse to write. I think there are four great motives for 
writing, at any rate for writing prose. They are:  (i) Sheer egoism: Desire to seem clever, 
to be talked about, to be remembered after death, to get your own back on grown-ups 
who snubbed you in childhood; (ii) Aesthetic enthusiasm: Desire to share an experience 
which one feels is valuable and ought not to be missed (iii) Historical impulse: Desire to 
see things as they are, to find out true facts and store them up for the use of posterity  
(iv) Political purpose : Desire to push the world in a certain direction, to alter other 
people’s idea of the kind of society that they should strive after.
  [Extracted with edits from George Orwell’s “Why I Write”]
 1. For the author, aesthetic enthusiasm is an important motive for writing because it ...
 (A) Shapes the thoughts
 (B) Creates an artistic piece
 (C) Becomes invaluable
 (D) Non-utilitarian
 2.  The author strongly advocates the writers to:
 (A) Avoid any egoistic impression in their work 
 (B) Be apolitical in their approach 
 (C) Be contemporary in their treatment of their work
 (D) None of the above
 3. Which of the following is a synonym for the word “tumultuous”?
 (A) Chaotic
 (B) Turbulent 
 (C) Disorderly
 (D) All of the above
e nglish l anguage
*
Page 4


Instruct Ions  to  c and Idates  
 d uration of t est : 2 h ours (120 minutes) Maximum Marks : 120
Quest Ion Booklet  n o.
 1. This Question Booklet (QB) contains 120  
(One hundred and Twenty) Multiple Choice 
Questions across 40 (Forty) pages including  
2 (Two)  blank pages for rough work. No 
additional sheet(s) of paper will be supplied 
for rough work.
 2. You have to answer ALL questions in the 
separate carbonised Optical Mark Reader 
(OMR) Response Sheet supplied along 
with this QB. You must READ the detailed 
instructions provided with the OMR 
Response Sheet on the reverse side of this 
packet BEFORE you start the test.
 3. No clarification can be sought on the QB 
from anyone. In case of any discrepancy 
such as printing error or missing pages, in  
the QB, request the Invigilator to replace the 
QB and OMR Response Sheet. Do not use  
the previous OMR Response Sheet with the 
fresh QB.
 4. You should write the QB Number, and the 
OMR Response Sheet Number, and sign in 
the space/column provided in the Attendance 
Sheet.
 5. The QB for the Under Graduate Programme 
is for 120 marks. Every r ight answer secures  
1 mark. Every Wrong answer results in the 
deduction of 0.25 mark. There shall be no 
deductions for Unanswered Questions.
 6. You may retain the QB and the Candidate’s 
copy of the OMR Response Sheet after the 
test.
 7. The use of any unfair means shall result in 
your disqualification. Possession of Electronic 
Devices such as mobile phones, headphones, 
digital watches etc., is/are strictly prohibited 
in the test premises. Impersonation or any 
other unlawful practice will lead to your 
disqualification and possibly, appropriate 
action under the law.
*
 
1
*
   
u G 2025
1.  n ame of c andidate        :  
2. a dmit c ard n umber       :     
??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
?????????????????????????????????????????????????
??????????????????????????????????????????????
?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? *
 2 
u G
c ontents of Quest Ion Pa Per
s ubject Q. n os. Page n o.
English Language 1 – 24 3 – 8
Current Affairs Including General Knowledge 25 – 52 9 – 17
Legal Reasoning 53 – 84 18 – 27
Logical Reasoning 85 – 108 28 – 34
Quantitative Techniques 109 – 120 35 – 38
*
 3 
*
u G
 
 I. From a very early age, I knew that when I grew up, I should be a writer. I had the lonely 
child’s habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, 
and I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling 
of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with words and a power 
of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which 
I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life. I wanted to write enormous 
naturalistic novels with unhappy endings, full of detailed descriptions and arresting 
similes, and also full of purple passages in which words were used partly for the sake 
of their sound. I give all this background information because I do not think one can 
assess a writer’s motives without knowing something of his early development. 
  His subject-matter will be determined by the age he lives in – at least this is true in 
tumultuous, revolutionary ages like our own – but before he ever begins to write he 
will have acquired an emotional attitude from which he will never completely escape. 
It is his job to discipline his temperament, but if he escapes from his early influences 
altogether, he will have killed his impulse to write. I think there are four great motives for 
writing, at any rate for writing prose. They are:  (i) Sheer egoism: Desire to seem clever, 
to be talked about, to be remembered after death, to get your own back on grown-ups 
who snubbed you in childhood; (ii) Aesthetic enthusiasm: Desire to share an experience 
which one feels is valuable and ought not to be missed (iii) Historical impulse: Desire to 
see things as they are, to find out true facts and store them up for the use of posterity  
(iv) Political purpose : Desire to push the world in a certain direction, to alter other 
people’s idea of the kind of society that they should strive after.
  [Extracted with edits from George Orwell’s “Why I Write”]
 1. For the author, aesthetic enthusiasm is an important motive for writing because it ...
 (A) Shapes the thoughts
 (B) Creates an artistic piece
 (C) Becomes invaluable
 (D) Non-utilitarian
 2.  The author strongly advocates the writers to:
 (A) Avoid any egoistic impression in their work 
 (B) Be apolitical in their approach 
 (C) Be contemporary in their treatment of their work
 (D) None of the above
 3. Which of the following is a synonym for the word “tumultuous”?
 (A) Chaotic
 (B) Turbulent 
 (C) Disorderly
 (D) All of the above
e nglish l anguage
*
*
 4 
u G
 4. George Orwell’s loneliness during childhood led to 
 (A) Estrangement with his father
 (B) Unhappy days
 (C) Making up stories
 (D) Unpleasant incidents
 5. Why does Orwell give background information? 
 (A) He had the lonely child’s habits
 (B) It is essential to know about motives of writers
 (C) Because of his historic impulse
 (D) Due to the aesthetic enthusiasm
 6. If writer escapes from early impulses, he will ...
 (A) Lose his urge to write
 (B) Be unable to imagine creatively
 (C) Be able to converse with imaginary characters
 (D) Be able to influence others
 II. Education is not the amount of information that is put into your brain and runs riot there, 
undigested, all your life. We must have life-building, man-making, character-making 
assimilation of ideas…. If education were identical with information, the libraries are 
the sages in the world and encyclopaedias are the rishis. Getting by heart the thoughts 
of others in a foreign language and stuffing your brain with them and taking some 
University degree, you consider yourself educated. Is this education? What is the goal 
of your education? Open your eyes and see what a piteous cry for food is rising in the 
land of Bharata, proverbial for its food. Will your education fulfill this want? 
  We want that education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, 
the intellect is expanded and by which one can stand on one’s own feet. What we need 
to study independent of foreign control, different branches of the knowledge that is our 
own, and with it the English language and Western science; we need technical education 
and all else that will develop industries so that men instead of seeking for service may 
earn enough to provide for themselves and save against a rainy day. The end of all 
education, all training, should be man-making. The end and aim of all training are to 
make the man grow. The training by which the current expression of will are brought 
under control and become fruitful, is called education. What our country now wants 
are muscles of iron and nerves of steel, gigantic wills, which nothing can resist, which 
can penetrate into the mysteries and secrets of the universe and will accomplish their 
purpose in any fashion, even if it meant going down to the bottom of the ocean, meeting 
death face to face.
*
Page 5


Instruct Ions  to  c and Idates  
 d uration of t est : 2 h ours (120 minutes) Maximum Marks : 120
Quest Ion Booklet  n o.
 1. This Question Booklet (QB) contains 120  
(One hundred and Twenty) Multiple Choice 
Questions across 40 (Forty) pages including  
2 (Two)  blank pages for rough work. No 
additional sheet(s) of paper will be supplied 
for rough work.
 2. You have to answer ALL questions in the 
separate carbonised Optical Mark Reader 
(OMR) Response Sheet supplied along 
with this QB. You must READ the detailed 
instructions provided with the OMR 
Response Sheet on the reverse side of this 
packet BEFORE you start the test.
 3. No clarification can be sought on the QB 
from anyone. In case of any discrepancy 
such as printing error or missing pages, in  
the QB, request the Invigilator to replace the 
QB and OMR Response Sheet. Do not use  
the previous OMR Response Sheet with the 
fresh QB.
 4. You should write the QB Number, and the 
OMR Response Sheet Number, and sign in 
the space/column provided in the Attendance 
Sheet.
 5. The QB for the Under Graduate Programme 
is for 120 marks. Every r ight answer secures  
1 mark. Every Wrong answer results in the 
deduction of 0.25 mark. There shall be no 
deductions for Unanswered Questions.
 6. You may retain the QB and the Candidate’s 
copy of the OMR Response Sheet after the 
test.
 7. The use of any unfair means shall result in 
your disqualification. Possession of Electronic 
Devices such as mobile phones, headphones, 
digital watches etc., is/are strictly prohibited 
in the test premises. Impersonation or any 
other unlawful practice will lead to your 
disqualification and possibly, appropriate 
action under the law.
*
 
1
*
   
u G 2025
1.  n ame of c andidate        :  
2. a dmit c ard n umber       :     
??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
?????????????????????????????????????????????????
??????????????????????????????????????????????
?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? *
 2 
u G
c ontents of Quest Ion Pa Per
s ubject Q. n os. Page n o.
English Language 1 – 24 3 – 8
Current Affairs Including General Knowledge 25 – 52 9 – 17
Legal Reasoning 53 – 84 18 – 27
Logical Reasoning 85 – 108 28 – 34
Quantitative Techniques 109 – 120 35 – 38
*
 3 
*
u G
 
 I. From a very early age, I knew that when I grew up, I should be a writer. I had the lonely 
child’s habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, 
and I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling 
of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with words and a power 
of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which 
I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life. I wanted to write enormous 
naturalistic novels with unhappy endings, full of detailed descriptions and arresting 
similes, and also full of purple passages in which words were used partly for the sake 
of their sound. I give all this background information because I do not think one can 
assess a writer’s motives without knowing something of his early development. 
  His subject-matter will be determined by the age he lives in – at least this is true in 
tumultuous, revolutionary ages like our own – but before he ever begins to write he 
will have acquired an emotional attitude from which he will never completely escape. 
It is his job to discipline his temperament, but if he escapes from his early influences 
altogether, he will have killed his impulse to write. I think there are four great motives for 
writing, at any rate for writing prose. They are:  (i) Sheer egoism: Desire to seem clever, 
to be talked about, to be remembered after death, to get your own back on grown-ups 
who snubbed you in childhood; (ii) Aesthetic enthusiasm: Desire to share an experience 
which one feels is valuable and ought not to be missed (iii) Historical impulse: Desire to 
see things as they are, to find out true facts and store them up for the use of posterity  
(iv) Political purpose : Desire to push the world in a certain direction, to alter other 
people’s idea of the kind of society that they should strive after.
  [Extracted with edits from George Orwell’s “Why I Write”]
 1. For the author, aesthetic enthusiasm is an important motive for writing because it ...
 (A) Shapes the thoughts
 (B) Creates an artistic piece
 (C) Becomes invaluable
 (D) Non-utilitarian
 2.  The author strongly advocates the writers to:
 (A) Avoid any egoistic impression in their work 
 (B) Be apolitical in their approach 
 (C) Be contemporary in their treatment of their work
 (D) None of the above
 3. Which of the following is a synonym for the word “tumultuous”?
 (A) Chaotic
 (B) Turbulent 
 (C) Disorderly
 (D) All of the above
e nglish l anguage
*
*
 4 
u G
 4. George Orwell’s loneliness during childhood led to 
 (A) Estrangement with his father
 (B) Unhappy days
 (C) Making up stories
 (D) Unpleasant incidents
 5. Why does Orwell give background information? 
 (A) He had the lonely child’s habits
 (B) It is essential to know about motives of writers
 (C) Because of his historic impulse
 (D) Due to the aesthetic enthusiasm
 6. If writer escapes from early impulses, he will ...
 (A) Lose his urge to write
 (B) Be unable to imagine creatively
 (C) Be able to converse with imaginary characters
 (D) Be able to influence others
 II. Education is not the amount of information that is put into your brain and runs riot there, 
undigested, all your life. We must have life-building, man-making, character-making 
assimilation of ideas…. If education were identical with information, the libraries are 
the sages in the world and encyclopaedias are the rishis. Getting by heart the thoughts 
of others in a foreign language and stuffing your brain with them and taking some 
University degree, you consider yourself educated. Is this education? What is the goal 
of your education? Open your eyes and see what a piteous cry for food is rising in the 
land of Bharata, proverbial for its food. Will your education fulfill this want? 
  We want that education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, 
the intellect is expanded and by which one can stand on one’s own feet. What we need 
to study independent of foreign control, different branches of the knowledge that is our 
own, and with it the English language and Western science; we need technical education 
and all else that will develop industries so that men instead of seeking for service may 
earn enough to provide for themselves and save against a rainy day. The end of all 
education, all training, should be man-making. The end and aim of all training are to 
make the man grow. The training by which the current expression of will are brought 
under control and become fruitful, is called education. What our country now wants 
are muscles of iron and nerves of steel, gigantic wills, which nothing can resist, which 
can penetrate into the mysteries and secrets of the universe and will accomplish their 
purpose in any fashion, even if it meant going down to the bottom of the ocean, meeting 
death face to face.
*
 5 
*
u G
  There is only one method of attaining knowledge. It is by concentration. The very essence 
of education is concentration of mind. From the lowest to the highest man, all have to 
use the same method to attain knowledge. The chemist who works in the laboratory 
concentrates on elements to analyze them. Knowledge is acquired by concentration.
  [Extracted with edits from “Education” by Swami Vivekananda]
 7. According to the author, we need to study:
 (A) English Language
 (B) Technical Education
 (C) Western Science
 (D) All of the above
 8. According to the author, which among the following is key to attain knowledge?
 (A) University Degrees 
 (B) Library
 (C) Concentration of mind
 (D) Hard work and sports training
 9. Which of the following words is related to the word “assimilation”?
 (A) Integration
 (B) Adjustment
 (C) Acclimatization
 (D) All of the above
 10. Education, as described by the author means: 
 (A) Information   
 (B) Library
 (C) Degrees   
 (D) None of the above
 11. As per the author, the aim of education should be:
  (A) To help a person build his/her character 
  (B) To help a person earn his/her livelihood 
  (C) To help a person develop his/her intellect
  (D) All of the above
 12. According to the author the country wants:
 (A) Massive will power
 (B) Spirit of philanthropy
 (C) Iron and steel industries
 (D) All of the above
*