Critical Reasoning — CLAT Previous Year Questions

How many CLAT questions come from Critical Reasoning?

Critical Reasoning has contributed 90 questions to Common Law Admission Test papers between 2016 and 2026 — an average of about 8 questions a year. That count is measured from EByAi’s bank of 19,890 CLAT questions, not estimated from a syllabus. Every one of the 90 questions carries a written, step-by-step solution, and each is tagged to Critical Reasoning within Logical Reasoning, so you can drill this chapter across every year at once instead of hunting through paper PDFs. Practising a chapter’s full PYQ history is the fastest way to learn the patterns examiners reuse.

Sample Critical Reasoning questions from real CLAT papers

These are 5 real questions from the bank — exactly as asked, with the answer one tap away. All 90 Critical Reasoning questions (with full written solutions) are available in practice.

1. Question 1 · CLAT 2023

   Which of the following are the key facts in A Rajan?
   1. (A)The respondent sold the shares of the company about which he had unpublished price sensitive information (“UPSI”) after the rise in price of the shares consequential to the disclosure of the UPSI.
   2. (B)The respondent did not possess any UPSI about the company whose shares he sold.
   3. (C)The respondent sold the shares of the company about which he had UPSI before the rise in price of the shares consequential to the disclosure of the UPSI in his possession.
   4. (D)The respondent did not sell any shares of the company about which he had UPS
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   Answer: (C) The respondent sold the shares of the company about which he had UPSI before the rise in price of the shares consequential to the disclosure of the UPSI in his possession.

2. Question 2 · CLAT 2023

   What was the latent ambiguity in the contract discussed in the case excerpted above?
   1. (A)if the parties had capacity to perform the contract
   2. (B)if the parties intended to execute the contract
   3. (C)whether the term 'charges' was exclusive of liability for demurrages
   4. (D)whether the Corporation can recover charges under the contract
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   Answer: (C) whether the term 'charges' was exclusive of liability for demurrages

3. Question 3 · CLAT 2021

   From the failure of New Coke, the company learnt that
   1. (A)Tested and tried strategies are essential for success.
   2. (B)Surveys and data calibration are a sheer waste of time.
   3. (C)Consumers change brand preferences too frequently.
   4. (D)Changes in consumers’ habits should not be taken for granted.
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   Answer: (D) Changes in consumers’ habits should not be taken for granted.

4. Question 4 · CLAT 2021

   Which of the following can be inferred as a caution by the author?
   1. (A)Central and state governments must ensure management of public health, education, insurance and food security, anxieties of gig workers.
   2. (B)Expecting treatment of gig workers as regular employees could impede innovation and investment.
   3. (C)If educational and health infrastructure support is not strengthened, gig economy will fail.
   4. (D)It is critical to create the socio-political framework that can support gig jobs. CORRECT OPTION: B
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   Answer: (B) Expecting treatment of gig workers as regular employees could impede innovation and investment.

5. Question 5 · CLAT 2019

   Test of directness for determining remoteness of damage was laid down in:
   1. (A)Wagon Mound 1
   2. (B)Wagon Mound 2
   3. (C)Re Polemis
   4. (D)Rylands v. Fletcher
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   Answer: (C) Re Polemis

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