The CLAT 2025 cycle — marked by errors, ambiguity, last-minute
clarifications, and a general sense of procedural chaos — had created deep
apprehension among students, parents, and institutions alike. The anxiety
heading into this year’s exam wasn’t just about difficulty; it was about trust.
After 2025, everyone walked into CLAT 2026 hoping for stability, predictability,
and a paper that wouldn’t collapse under scrutiny.
In that context, CLAT 2026 came as a relief. It was structured,
coherent, and far more disciplined in its design. While sections like Logical
Reasoning did push students, the paper avoided the unpredictability and
confusion that had defined the previous year. Most importantly, students did
not have to battle avoidable errors — a significant improvement given how the
2025 experience had shaped expectations.
Yes, pressure was extremely high this year, but it was pressure
created not by the exam itself, rather by the shadow of CLAT 2025. And in that
sense, CLAT 2026 restored confidence. It reassured students that their effort
either during self study or at their CLAT
Coaching would be evaluated fairly and that the exam
could still deliver a transparent, academically sound test.
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.
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.
