CLAT Exam Analysis 2026 By Karan Mehta, Co-Founder – LegalEdge By Toprankers

In my years of experience, CLAT 2026 was different — the kind of paper that looks simple at first glance but creates uncertainty the moment you start reviewing your answers.

The difficulty across sections was largely easy to moderate, yet the shifts in pattern—especially in Logical Reasoning—made the exam distinct from previous years.

Unlike CLAT 2025, which was replete with errors and inconsistencies, this year’s paper was cleaner, structured, and more predictable, with the only major disruption coming from the Logical Reasoning section.

Section Wise Analysis

English was easy to moderate, driven by literature-style passages resembling works like Sapiens and Animal Farm, with answers that demanded close attention to vocabulary and context.

Current Affairs continued its recent trend and stayed easy to moderate, dominated by predictable, well-known topics such as taxation, SCO, Air India, and Pahalgam — rewarding students who had revised consistently throughout the year through their self study or CLAT Online Coaching.

Legal Reasoning was balanced and accessible, a mix of principle-based questions and a few direct legal-knowledge prompts around themes like same-sex marriage and governance; nothing out of scope and scoring for anyone with strong fundamentals.

Quantitative Techniques was also easy to moderate but slightly calculative, with questions driven by percentages, ratios, and proportions — straightforward for students comfortable with arithmetic.

The biggest shift — and the single largest differentiator — was Logical Reasoning. Instead of the traditional CLAT-style critical reasoning passages, the section tilted heavily toward Analytical Reasoning, with puzzles, seating arrangements, blood relations, sequences, caselets, and data-arrangement sets.

This made the section moderately difficult and significantly more time-consuming than others, creating clear score variability. Overall, CLAT 2026 can be classified as a moderate paper with one tough section. Good attempts this year stand around 105+.

Overall, CLAT 2026 turned out to be a balanced, fair, and moderately challenging paper — a clear step up in structure and quality after the error-ridden CLAT 2025 cycle.

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