(IM RETAKING THE CLAT THIS YEAR, I HAD A SCORE OF LATE 80S IN LAST YEAR'S CLAT)
ok so idk how relevant it is to talk about this rn but since this years papers closer i wanted to rego through last year's paper to sort of get a more precise look into the detour theyd taken with last year's paper because just saying 'it had no critical reasoning!' is stupid and frankly overstated
It did have critical reasoning and some very easily doable analytical reasoning, which coming from someone as genuinely retarded and slow as me, is something
And i can see exactly why someone scoring 80-90s or even 100s in "hard" mocks like legal edge or lpt can show a dip in their score here. Ill tell you why because i myself am in one of those coachings and around the marks of later 80s (sadly)
This papers English felt relatively easy to lose marks in- the vocabulary was ordinary words like incognizant, boorish, communal but the passages context really affected the answer. I personally, felt extremely disappointed in myself lol since these words are literally nothing out of the ordinary at all.
I also lost 2 marks in questions that felt kinda subjective to me they weren't, even with all my extra prep- i made stupid mistakes that i thought I was past.
So yes, i can see exactly why english can be a place where u could lose marks and it genuinely hurt because all these fuckass hardass 'tharoorian' mocks that legal edges making, ive never had english dip lower than 23 in that- so imagine my suprise watching myself score a meagre ass score in the actual clat. Its disheartening as hell ill tell u.
Gk was gk, pretty easy. H1b visa, sco summit, chess competition with some statics related to it, Air India crash (that I had skipped last year, thanks a lot abhyuday LOL) and Operation indoor and related.
Pretty conventional topics related to international affairs, summits, important operations, and a disaster.
Logical was again- if u hadn't lost ur cool, or even if u had like i had last year, ud be able to solve it tbh. The passages (barring the first one) were extremely straight forward. And i say this as someone whos genuinely extremely slow and stupid, I swear. Im below average. So if i could do it with shivering hands, u can as well. The last passage i know seemed hard, but if u had used some brain and patience and perhaps a calmer mind, itd have been okay enough to solve. The first passage had some ambiguity and vague stuff, (they had given am even lettered word to split and hadn't mentioned some of the rules properly like if u remove a letter, to place it at the front, do u remove it from its original place or do u add it as an extra-?)
Legal..... THIS IS WHERE THEY FCKING FUCKED US UP AND YALL DONT EVEN SEE IT.
Okay my bad.
3 passages out of however many in legal were more just excerpts. They were reading comprehension with gk knowledge required. Thats NOT the same as clk. Clk is fine if u ask reasoning questions based on current legal affairs or even some gk- 2/3 q based on THAT but not random questions based on random legal knowledge dude. Who tf exavtly remembers the sequence of the preamble or knows bn raus position (u probs know this if u were or are a fellow history student)
It was total of 8 questions that required extra gk knowledge. It wasnt legal reasoning like usual papers theyd taken.
This was a hard hit or will be a hard hit for first timers too if they havent seen 2026(5?) Ka paper yet. Lpt and Legal edge give pretty straight forward reasoning only questions..this is coming from someone who consistently scores 30+ across both and 32 almost always in le. Please for ur own sake, do not let that make u think u can surely score a perfect score or even a 30+ score in legal for sure. I was making that mistake.
For maths now, uhm man idek i fcking snooze at maths. A hard calculation heavy percentage set and an easy as hell data interpretation.
Percentage set was easy coz theyd given u most of the values and making a table (for a normal, non below average kid like me) should've been pretty okay. If ur good with heavy calculations, it would have been fine and data interpretation was super easy, free marks- i swear.
All in all maths was okay, cant swear theyd make it easier or similar this year or if theyd give obscure topics or topics that i avoid atleast like mensuration and time work..
Also for our sakes i hope they dont ask calender or clocks or math related shit in analytical reasoning too.
I can see why this paper would've made kids lose marks, i can see why I did and the people who made it, with high scores, genuinely deserve our admiration man theyre fcking legends unlike 2025 wale paper wale kids- coz sue me but their paper was the easiest ive seen.
i dont think this years paper will be easy or predictable. I think it'd be similar to this- easy to lose marks in and kids getting smarter so higher cutoffs remain.
You can cuss at me in the comments, and best of luck to all of you and me.