In plain words

CLAT PG is one paper of 120 questions in two hours. Most questions sit under a passage: an extract from a judgment, a statute or a scholarly text, followed by about five questions.

About three in four questions test what you know around the passage: the case it comes from, the rule behind it, related cases and sections. The passage is the door; the law is the answer.

120multiple-choice questions, one mark each

2 hoursfor the whole paper

−0.25for each wrong answer

13subjects of the LL.B. programme

Jurisprudence is the theory of law: what law is, why it binds, where it comes from, and how its basic ideas (rights, persons, possession, ownership, precedent, interpretation) work. It has almost no statute of its own, so the paper tests it through passages from jurists (Fuller, Hohfeld, Ehrlich, Waldron, Bentham) and through Indian judgments that use jurisprudence: Common Cause on analytical and normative reasoning, Puttaswamy on natural rights, and the interpretation rules applied in company, labour and criminal cases.

Questions per paper, by subject (2024 to 2026)

Since 2024 every paper has had 24 passages of 5 questions, and all 13 subjects appear every year. Average questions per paper in 2024 to 2026:

Criminal Law12

Constitutional Law11

Jurisprudence11

Property Law10.7

Family Law10

Public International Law10

Law of Contract9.7

Law of Torts9.3

Company Law9.3

Environmental Law8.3

Administrative Law7.3

Labour and Industrial Law6.3

Tax Law5

From the 840 questions in the CLAT PG 2020 to 2026 papers (2026 = the December 2025 paper). Jurisprudence ranks 3 of 13 on this measure. Past counts show where questions have come from; they are not a forecast.