CLAT 2027 Last 45 Days Preparation Plan: Mocks and GK Revision

Last verified: 12 October 2026 against the Consortium of National Law Universities (the CLAT 2027 press release, UG question paper format, UG syllabus guide, UG instructions and FAQs on consortiumofnlus.ac.in).

CLAT 2027 will be held on Sunday, 6 December 2026, from 2 PM to 4 PM, as an offline paper. Counted from Thursday 22 October, that leaves 45 days. (It's called CLAT 2027 because it's for admissions in the 2027–28 academic year.) This plan is written for Class 12 students fitting CLAT around school and for droppers who can give it the whole day.

One idea sits under every row below. This late, your marks rise because you read faster, reason strictly from the passage and throw away fewer answers on guesses, not because you open new books. Full mocks under exam conditions, honest analysis and steady current-affairs revision are what the 45 days are for.

What does the CLAT 2027 UG paper look like?

The UG paper has 120 multiple-choice questions of one mark each, answered in 2 hours, with 0.25 marks deducted for each wrong answer. The Consortium lists five sections and gives an approximate range of questions for each, not an exact count.

Three planning facts follow from the official format:

• The clock is tight. 120 questions in 120 minutes is one minute per question on average, and that minute includes reading the passage. The syllabus guide says a 12th-standard student may be able to read an English passage in about 5–7 minutes, so reading speed decides how much of every section you even reach.
• Wrong answers are expensive. Four wrong answers wipe out one right answer (4 × 0.25 = 1). The format page doesn't say how many options each question has, so there's no official break-even rule for guessing. What you can measure is your own record: tag every guess in your mocks, and if your tagged guesses lose marks overall, guess less.
• Legal Reasoning matters twice over. It's about a quarter of the paper, and the Consortium's tie-break rule looks first at marks in the legal section, then at age, then at a computerised draw of lots.

What the Consortium hasn't published for 2027: an exact question count per section, the number of passages or the order of sections. For the question paper pattern, its FAQ simply points back to the question-format page. We also couldn't find test-day instructions for CLAT 2027 on the Consortium's site when we checked on 12 October 2026. If a coaching handout quotes exact passage counts, treat them as that institute's estimate. Our CLAT syllabus summary groups the official topics section by section.

How should you split the 45 days?

Use six weeks that build up to two or three full mocks a week, then a short taper. Each week here runs Thursday to Wednesday, starting on 22 October, and each one includes a Sunday: take that week's main mock at 2 PM on that Sunday, the same slot as the real exam.

The mock counts are our planning assumptions, with a lighter track for Class 12 students and a heavier one for droppers. Each full mock is 2 hours, matching the official duration. The current-affairs blocks assume you prioritise news from December 2025 to November 2026; the next section explains why that window is our choice and not an official rule.

That's 9 full mocks on the Class 12 track and 15 on the dropper track. If a week goes wrong, cut a mock rather than its analysis: a mock you never review mostly tells you that two hours went by.

Use the Consortium's own past papers for some of these mocks. Its UG instructions list previous years' question papers at ₹500, which isn't included in the application fee. And because CLAT 2027 is offline, sit some mocks on paper, marking answers by hand inside the 2 hours, instead of only on a screen.

Which months of current affairs should you revise?

The Consortium doesn't set a window. Its FAQ says there is no specific time frame for the Current Affairs including General Knowledge section, so any "last 6 months" or "last 12 months" rule you hear is someone's estimate, ours included.

Our planning assumption is to prioritise December 2025 to November 2026, the year before the exam, with most attention on the latest six months. Two things in the official syllabus guide push you to look a little wider. First, the passages come from news, journalistic sources and other non-fiction writing, so you need context, not just headlines. Second, the guide lists historical events of continuing significance next to contemporary events, arts and culture and international affairs. When a recent story has deep roots, such as a long-running dispute or a landmark anniversary, add two lines of background to your note.

A daily routine that fits the table, using our assumed hour a day for current affairs:

1. 30 minutes of new reading. The main news and editorial pages of a newspaper, or your monthly compilation for the block you're on.
2. 30 minutes of revision. Go back through older pages of your notes, aiming for three passes before the exam (weeks 4, 5 and 6 in the table).
3. Write as you go. One page per month, in your own words: the event, the people and bodies involved, and why it matters. Legal developments go on the same page: the syllabus guide says questions may examine legal information discussed in or related to a passage, though they won't need legal knowledge beyond it. Knowing the background just makes those passages faster to read.

Spacing those three passes out, instead of rereading everything in the final week, is what makes facts stay; our post on spaced repetition for competitive exams explains why.

How do you analyse a CLAT mock?

Review each mock the same day or the next, for at least as long as you spent writing it, and log your answers passage by passage rather than question by question. CLAT is built on passages, so that's where your time and marks go.

Start with your net score: correct answers minus 0.25 for every wrong one. Suppose (illustrative numbers) you attempt 100 questions and get 80 right and 20 wrong. Your net score is 80 − 5 = 75: those 20 wrong answers didn't just score zero, they took five marks away. Then, for each passage, record four things: minutes spent, questions attempted, questions wrong, and the reason for each wrong answer. Most CLAT errors fall into a handful of types:

• Outside knowledge in Legal Reasoning. You answered from what you believe the law is, not from the principle in the passage. The syllabus guide says no prior knowledge of law is needed, so the passage always wins.
• True, but not supported. In Logical Reasoning and English, you chose an option that's true in the world but doesn't follow from the passage.
• Inference too far. You stretched the passage's claim beyond what it actually says.
• Fact gap. In Current Affairs, you didn't know the fact, as opposed to misreading a passage that contained it. Fact gaps go into your notes; misreads go into your reading practice.
• Slip. In Quantitative Techniques, an arithmetic or data-reading mistake on a method you already know.

Choose one fix per section for the coming week and practise it every day. Questions you got right but slowly matter too: those passages squeeze other questions out of your two hours.

The same log settles your section order before week 5. In weeks 3 and 4, try two orders, for example strongest section first against working straight through the paper, in at least two mocks each. Keep the order with the better net score, and set a skip rule to match, such as leaving a passage when its first question has taken you more than two minutes. Both the order and the two-minute cut-off are planning choices, not official rules.

What does a week look like for a Class 12 student? (Worked example)

In this example, a hypothetical Class 12 student has 24 study hours a week. Two mocks and their analysis take 8 of them, current affairs takes 7, and the remaining 9 go to sectional practice weighted towards Legal and Logical Reasoning.

The inputs are our planning assumptions: 3 focused hours after school on each of six weekdays, and 6 hours on Sunday. The week shown is one of weeks 3 to 5 in the table, on the Class 12 track.

• Weekly budget: 6 × 3 + 6 = 24 hours.
• Two full mocks: 2 × 2 hours = 4 hours, one of them on Sunday at 2 PM.
• Analysis: 2 × 2 hours = 4 hours.
• Current affairs: 1 hour × 7 days = 7 hours.
• Left for sectional practice: 24 − 4 − 4 − 7 = 9 hours.

The split follows the official weightage and this student's mock log, not a fixed rule. If Quantitative Techniques keeps costing marks, move an hour there from English for a week and see whether the next two mocks change. A dropper with, say, 6 focused hours a day (also our assumption) has 42 hours a week: the third mock and its analysis use 4 of the extra 18, and the rest goes to the weakest section in the log and a second daily current-affairs session. To test your own numbers, the study hours calculator takes your exam date, topics left and daily hours and checks whether they add up.

What should you sort out before 6 December?

Apply by 31 October if you haven't yet, download your admit card from your CLAT account as soon as the Consortium releases it, and read the official test-day instructions once the Consortium posts them. None of this should wait for the final weekend.

• Application. Applications close on 31 October 2026 at 11:59 PM and are accepted online only. Once you submit and pay, you can't change the programme, category or BPL field.
• Admit card. The UG instructions say you download it by logging into your account, and that the exact date will be announced on the website. No date had been announced when we checked.
• Timing. The exam runs from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM, subject to revision if necessary, according to the instructions. Eligible candidates in the PwD category get 2:00 PM to 4:40 PM.
• Test centre. The Consortium reserves the right to cancel a test city or centre and move candidates to another. For CLAT 2026, a notification dated 28 November 2025 changed one Lucknow centre and asked affected candidates to download a revised admit card. Download yours again in the final week and recheck the address.
• Help. The Consortium's help desk for registration queries is clat@consortiumofnlus.ac.in or 080-47162020, from 10 AM to 5 PM on working days.

On the day, follow the official instructions and your admit card over any checklist, this one included. Keep your sleep and lunch times normal in the last week: with a 2 PM start, your sharpest reading has to come after lunch, which is one more reason to take Sunday mocks at that hour.

How do you keep the 45 days on track?

Write down three things every Sunday evening: days left, your latest net score in each section, and the one fix per section you'll work on next. A notebook is enough.

Prefer an app? Kalnehi Daily, which we make, has a Mock Test Tracker where you log each mock with subject-wise scores and watch how each one trends. Our CLAT 2027 countdown shows the days left alongside a condensed phase-by-phase plan, and the CLAT preparation hub gathers our other CLAT pages.