CLAT PG Previous Year Question Papers With Solution PDF [2020 - 2026] Download Here

Solving CLAT PG question papers from previous years is one of the most important aspects of strategic preparation for the Consortium's entrance test.  

• CLAT PG is a 2-hour, 120-mark postgraduate law entrance exam conducted by the Consortium of NLUs for admission to LL.M. programmes at 25+ National Law Universities. 
• Previous year question papers are the single most reliable way to understand what this exam tests.  
• Remember, practising them the right way matters more than practising them a lot.

This article includes CLAT PG question papers from 2020 to 2026, the importance of the question paper, subject-wise weightage, the best way to practice using the question papers, and types of questions. 

CLAT PG Question Paper PDF Download Link [2020-2026]

You can download CLAT PG question papers from 2020 to 2026, along with the CLAT PG answer key for the respective years, in the table below.  

Particulars	Download Link
CLAT PG 2026 Question Paper | Set A	Download PDF
CLAT PG 2026 Question Paper | Set B	Download PDF
CLAT PG 2026 Question Paper | Set C	Download PDF
CLAT PG 2026 Question Paper | Set D	Download PDF
CLAT PG 2025 Question Paper with Solutions	Download PDF
CLAT PG 2024 Question Paper with Solutions	Download PDF
CLAT PG 2023 Question Paper with Solutions	Download PDF
CLAT PG 2022 Question Paper with Solutions	Download PDF
CLAT PG 2021 Question Paper with Solutions	Download PDF
CLAT PG 2020 Question Paper with Solutions	Download PDF

CLAT PG Question Paper Analysis for Previous Years [2020-2026]

Here's a brief look into the CLAT PG exam analysis for previous years.  

Year	Total Questions	Total Marks	Duration	Negative Marking	Most-Weighted Subject	Overall Difficulty
CLAT PG 2026	120	120	2 hours	-0.25 per wrong answer	Constitutional Law	Moderate
CLAT PG 2025	120	120	2 hours	-0.25 per wrong answer	Constitutional Law	Moderate
CLAT PG 2024	120	120	2 hours	-0.25 per wrong answer	Constitutional Law	Moderate-High
CLAT PG 2023	120	120	2 hours	-0.25 per wrong answer	Jurisprudence	Moderate
CLAT PG 2022	120	120	2 hours	-0.25 per wrong answer	Constitutional Law	Moderate
CLAT PG 2021	120	120	2 hours	-0.25 per wrong answer	Constitutional Law	Moderate
CLAT PG 2020	120	120	2 hours	-0.25 per wrong answer	Jurisprudence	Moderate

Most important observations based on these CLAT PG previous year question papers:  

• Exam pattern and format have stayed stable: Every year from 2020-2026, CLAT PG exam pattern had followed 120 questions, 120 marks, a 2-hour duration, and -0.25 negative marking. It means your practice conditions should mirror this exact format every single time, with no guesswork about timing.  
• Constitutional Law and Jurisprudence are the highest-weightage subjects: Across the years (2020-2026), these two subjects have taken turns as the single highest-weighted area. If you're allocating revision hours, this is where the largest share should go.  
• The exam keeps getting fairly difficult: The difficulty continued to shift from "Moderate" to "Moderate-High" over the years. More application-based questions were asked rather than a jump in syllabus breadth.  
• New criminal law codes are the main difference: Papers before July 2024 test the old IPC/CrPC/Indian Evidence Act numbering. From 2024 onward, there's been an increasing overlap with the BNS/BNSS/BSA framework. Treat pre-2024 papers as good for testing concepts, not for memorising section numbers verbatim.  

Importance of CLAT PG Previous Year Question Paper Practice

If you're preparing for CLAT PG 2027, here’s how practising previous years' question papers majorly contributes to your exam readiness.  

It Shows You the Exam's Actual Difficulty   

Mock questions are mostly written based on a guessed difficulty level. Solving previous years' CLAT PG question papers is the only way to know, with certainty, what "hard" means for this specific exam.  

You Get a Better Understanding of Topic-wise Weightage  

Question paper practice helps you understand what are the important topics for CLAT PG and which of them consistently appear on the question paper.  

Trains You for Time-Management During Actual Exam  

With 120 questions in 120 minutes, you have exactly one minute per question on average. You can treat these CLAT PG question papers as some of the best mock tests to simulate exam conditions.  

Builds Pattern Recognition for Question Framing   

CLAT PG tends to reuse certain question structures across years. Recognising the phrasing pattern saves a few seconds off every question, and you can perform better.  

CLAT PG Subject-wise Weightage

You can check the subject-wise weightage of the topics included in the CLAT PG Syllabus in the table below.

Subjects	Weightage (Out of 120 Marks)
Constitutional Law	20–25 Marks
Jurisprudence	10–15 Marks
Criminal Law	10–15 Marks
Law of Contract	8–10 Marks
Administrative Law	5–8 Marks
Law of Torts	5–8 Marks
Family Law	5 Marks
Property Law	5 Marks
Company Law	5–8 Marks
Public International Law	5–8 Marks
Tax Law	3–5 Marks
Environmental Law	5–8 Marks
Labour & Industrial Law	5 Marks

Best Way to Practice Using These CLAT PG Question Papers

Simply solving these question papers and checking their solutions from the answer key is not enough. You need to be strategic. Here's the best method to improve your performance with previous year question paper practice.  

Step 1: Solve Under Actual Exam Conditions  

Solve one full previous year question paper in a single 2-hour sitting. Make sure you take no pauses, there’s no phone, and no reference material. This should be just like a real exam. Do this before you review anything about that paper.  

Step 2: Score Yourself Honestly with Negative Marking Applied 

Apply the actual -0.25 negative marking scheme when scoring yourself. Aspirants who skip this step end up overestimating their real preparation. You would never realise your actual mistakes. 

Step 3: Categorise Every Wrong Answer 

Categorise the wrong answers to improve them accordingly:  

• Knowledge gap: You didn't know the concept at all  
• Misread/careless error: You knew it but answered wrong due to time pressure or misreading  
• Guessed wrong: You eliminated some options but guessed between the rest  

Learn from your mistakes and try to fix them in the future.  

Step 4: Maintain a Running Error Log by Subject  

Track every "knowledge gap" error subject-wise across every paper you solve. After 3-4 papers, this log becomes your most accurate revision priority list.  

Step 5: Re-attempt Only the Questions You Got Wrong, One Week Later  

A week after solving a full paper, go back and re-attempt only the questions you got wrong the first time, without looking at the answer key. This tests whether the "knowledge gap" has closed, or whether you simply memorised the answer key.  

Step 6: Solve One Question Paper at a Time  

Solve one previous year paper every 5-7 days instead of several papers back-to-back in a single week. Maintaining a gap between them gives you time to analyse your performance before moving to the next attempt. Clustering papers turns this into a checkbox exercise instead of learning.  

Step 7: Attempt Mock Tests Once You've Cleared All Available Papers 

After you have done all the CLAT PG question papers, go on to try full-length mock tests. This enables you to practice with new questions under the same time pressure.

CLAT PG Exam Pattern 

You can check the exam pattern for the CLAT PG exam in the table below. 

Particulars	Details
Exam Name	CLAT PG (Common Law Admission Test for Postgraduate)
Conducting Authority	Consortium of NLUs
Purpose	Admission to 29 NLUs for the LLM program
Exam Level	National-level entrance exam
Mode of Exam	Pen-and-paper-based
Question Type	MCQs
Number of Questions	120
Total Marks	120
Duration	2 hours
Marking Scheme	+1 for a correct answer  -0.25 for a wrong answer

Types of Questions in CLAT PG

You can check the types of questions asked in the CLAT PG exam below. 

• You will be asked principle-based legal questions to test your conceptual clarity and interpretation skills. 
• Many of the questions are inspired by recent judgments of the Supreme Court or High Courts.
• You will be asked conceptual theory questions to test your knowledge of doctrines, definitions, and legal theories.
• There will be statutory interpretation questions where you need to interpret the statutory term meaning.
• Questions will match case names with principles, legal doctrines with examples, and articles with rights.
• There can be recent legal development questions. 

Example 1: The present system of appointments, as envisaged by the Constitution and as elucidated in the Collegium system, makes it clear that the ſrst step is a recommendation from a Collegium of four senior-most judges, presided over by the Chief Justice. this process in turn requires wide consultation by the Chief Justice of the High Court to identify the requisite talent, so as to make the recommendations. Contrary to some portrayed beliefs as if this is an extremely subjective system, every Chief Justice is actually required to solicit names from different sources whether it be sitting judges, retired judges, or prominent members of the bar. it is from this pool of talent that he selects, after a discussion in the collegium, the most suitable candidates. It is thus of utmost importance that the ƀow of recommendations continues for the appointment process to work successfully. the current situation of vacancies, especially in some of the larger courts with very few recommendations in the pipeline seems to be the genesis of this problem. the data placed before us, as drawn from the National Judicial data Grid (NJDG) shows that ſve (5) High Courts alone are responsible for 54% of the pendenc[ of over 57,51,312 cases i.e., the High Courts of Allahabad, Punjab & Haryana, madras, bombay, and rajasthan. the madras High Court has among the highest arrears in the country of 5.8 lakh cases despite having fewer vacancies than most other High Courts (i.e., 7%). This does not take away from the requirement of appointing ad hoc Judges but supports the view that even if the existing vacancies are few, a situation may arise requiring the expertise of experienced Judges to be appointed as ad hoc Judges.
Q1. The above excerpt has been taken from which of the following judgments, where the Supreme Court of India sought to activate a dormant provision of the Constitution of India for the appointment of ad hoc Judges to deal with the unprecedented backlog of cases pending before the High Courts ?

(A) devendra Kumar Saxena v. Central bureau of investigation (Cbi), 2021 SCC OnLine SC 330.

(b) m.K. ranjitsinh v. union of india, 2021 SCC OnLine SC 326.

(C) Lok Prahari through its General Secretary S.N. Shukla, iAS (retd.) v. union of india, 2021 SCC OnLine SC 333.

(d) Justice V. eswaraiah (retd.) v. union of india, 2021 SCC OnLine SC 310.

Q2. Which of the following dormant provision of the Constitution of india has been invoked by the Supreme Court of india for the appointment of ad hoc Judges to deal with the backlog of cases before the High Courts?

(A) Article 224A (b) Article 217 (C) Article 224 (d) Article 217A

Q3. In Supreme Court Advocates on Record Association v. Union of India, (2016) 5 SCC 1, the Supreme Court of india, by a ______ majority, restored the collegium system of appointment of judges by holding that the National Judicial Appointments Commission Act, 2014 is ultra vires the Constitution of india.

(A) 3:2 (b) 4:1 (C) 6:1 (d) 4:3

Example 2: the Supreme Court of india observed that, while appreciating the existence of the right to peaceful protest against a legislation ……., we have to make it unequivocally clear that public wa[s and public spaces cannot be occupied in such a manner and that too indeſnitel[. democracy and dissent go hand in hand, but then the demonstrations expressing dissent must be in designated places alone. the present case was not even one of protests taking place in an undesignated area but was a blockage of a public way which caused grave inconvenience to commuters. We cannot accept the plea of the applicants that an indeterminable number of people can assemble whenever they choose to protest.

Q1. Which of the following judgments relating to right to peaceful protest has the above excerpt been taken from?

(A) m.C. mehta v. union of india, 2020 SCC OnLine SC 648.

(b) Association for democratic reforms v. union of india, 2021 SCC OnLine SC 266.

(C) Anuradha bhasin v. union of india, (2020) 3 SCC 637.

(d) Amit Sahni v. Commissioner of Police, (2020) 10 SCC 439.

Q2. Which of the following judgments is not related to right to assemble as enshrined under the Constitution of india? (A) mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan v. union of india, (2018) 17 SCC 324.

(b) Sampurna behura v. union of india, (2018) 4 SCC 433.

(C) bimal Gurung v. union of india, (2018) 15 SCC 480.

(d) Anita thakur v. State of Jammu and Kashmir, (2016) 15 SCC 525. 

Q3. As per the judgment of In Re Ramlila Maidan Incident, (2012) 5 SCC 1, which of the following statement is not correct?

(A) right to sleep is not a part of Article 21 of the Constitution of india.

(b) An individual is entitled to sleep as comfortably and as freely as he breathes.

(C) Sleep, is a fundamental and basic requirement without which the existence of life would be in peril.

(d) State’s compelling interest in regulation of subject was discussed in this case.

CLAT PG Question Papers vs. Mock Tests: Which Should You Prioritise? 

To prepare for CLAT PG 2027, you need to prioritise mock test and previous year question papers strategically. The table below helps you understand the difference between the two and why each of them is important.  

Factor	Previous Year Papers	Mock Tests
Best for	Learning real exam difficulty & recurring weightage	Simulating fresh, unseen questions under time pressure
Question source	Actual past CLAT PG papers	Newly created, pattern-based on the real exam format
Ideal usage stage	First 60-70% of your preparation timeline	Final 6-8 weeks before the exam
Analytics/Percentile	Not available	Available (with Judiciary Gold/LEAC test series)
Recommended frequency	One paper every 5-7 days, using the 7-step method above	Weekly, increasing in frequency as the exam approaches

Here's what we recommend:  

Use these previous year papers first, following the practice method above, to accurately picture the exam's real difficulty and analyse your own error patterns.  

Once you've solved all available papers, move to the CLAT PG mock tests for fresh questions and percentile-based benchmarking in the final stretch.  

Here are the key takeaways:  

• CLAT PG question papers from 2020-2026 are available for free download on this page, along with answer keys, giving you six-plus years of real exam material.  
• A collective analysis of these papers shows a stable format (120 questions, 120 marks, 2 hours, -0.25 negative marking) with Constitutional Law and Jurisprudence consistently carrying the highest weightage.  
• Solving previous year papers matters because it reveals the exam's actual difficulty and topic weightage.  
• The most effective practice method isn't "solve and check". It's timed attempt → honest negative-marking-applied scoring → error categorisation → a running error log → spaced-out re-attempts, followed by a shift to mock tests once all years are covered.