How to Prepare for CLAT GK & CA
CLAT has five sections in its 120-question format. Namely – English Comprehension, General Knowledge and Current Affairs (GK&CA), Legal Reasoning, Logical / Critical Reasoning, Quantitative
GK&CA section has 28 questions, making it the section with the second highest number of questions after legal reasoning.
GK&CA is a core and important component in CLAT. It has to be studied and understood systematically.
Like all the other sections, this is also passage-based as of now (changes, if any, we will come to know after the consortium releases its first sample, somewhere in September 2026).
In the chronological order of the CLAT question Paper, it comes as the second section after the English comprehension section.
It is interesting as well as challenging. Simple as well as tricky.
How will this Blog help you with CLAT 2026?
Through this blog, we are trying to give tips and suggestions to all Common law Admission Test -CLAT 2026 aspirants to prepare thoroughly and in a depth manner for the General Knowledge and current Affairs Section of the CLAT 2026 exam.
Let’s get down to the CLAT GK & CA section made easy and interesting through simple steps. Remember – in CLAT, one mark difference is close to 125 ranks. So, 28 marks is really big and it's almost like a game-changer. Let’s approach this section with utmost seriousness.
The Contents in the CLAT GK & CA Section
The topics like the GK & CA section in CLAT examination can probe the student in:
National (about India) and International Current affairs – Political, geopolitical, Indian regional news, day-to-day issues.
Business and economic news, banking, and corporate-level developments
Sports news
Science and technology
Summits and conferences – National and international
New schemes and initiatives, policies, and announcements
Legal Current Affairs
National and global rankings.
Awards and Honours
Similar to other sections of CLAT, each series of questions in GK & CA is preceded by a passage. The number of questions after a passage can be either five or six.
The passage talks about a particular topic, followed by questions related to that topic. Here, please note something very important. The passage introduces you to the topic – let’s say, Delimitation or the ongoing global trade war of the USA.
The questions need not be related to the content given in the passage. So, while the passage is on the China-USA trade war, it can ask about the % of tariffs first imposed by China on the USA on April 2nd 2025, which may not be mentioned anywhere in the passage.
The second question can be something like – When was the first time in the history of international trade that a country introduced punitive tariffs on another country? This is related to the GK part of the topic, or what is better known as static GK.
Therefore, GK&CA in the CLAT section means all the background-level GK related to that particular topic. So, unlike many other Indian competitive exams wherein GK is a separate set with questions like – who was the first, who won the awards, when won the battle of …, etc., CLAT probes the student’s GK knowledge on that particular topic.
Preparing in the Right way for CLAT 2026 GK & CA
CLAT mostly demands a good level of understanding of current affairs topics that are impactful. So, when reading the newspaper daily, the student should understand events that have a national impact. Read and update yourself daily on such topics and go well into the static GK part of the same.
Learn to understand the important topics. What is sometimes regional can be of national importance. For e.g. the recent Tamil Nadu government-governor spat is regional, but being a constitutional issue, has a national level importance to it.
Business and economic news are always important in a globalized world – IMF and World Bank outlook, RBI monetary policies, NITI Aayog announcements, World Economic Forum, merger of two corporate entities, etc.
Legal CA is core to the CLAT GK & CA section. Obviously, it's a static part as well. In a scenario where the Supreme Court of India has stepped in and given a directive, it is of prime importance. Remember that CLAT is India’s topmost legal entrance exam.
Summits and conferences, especially international ones, have a major impact on the world community. Important decisions are there at most of these summits. Equally important are technology conferences. For e.g., while reading about the AI Paris Summit 2025, one should refer to all static GK aspects, including any other important AI conferences, the Sam Altman resignation issue, etc.
Scan extensively on major international issues. Unless it is something very restrictive, most of the international issues have some sort of long-term impact. For e.g., the Cambodia-Thailand border clash has a geopolitical and global impact.
Editorial analysis is very important. Any topic that finds a space in the editorial section of newspapers like The Hindu, Indian Express, etc, can be taken as important. It is necessary that CLAT students go into the current affairs and statistics of such editorials.
Certain sectors are pivotal to the country, such as Agriculture, Defence, Space, Electric vehicles, Infrastructure, and Education. Any development/news in these sectors is something that one has to be updated on.
New policy and initiatives should be carefully scrutinized – Tribal, gender issues, workplace issues, community and ethnicity-specific issues, pharma and drugs research, etc.
Plan to Study GK & CA
The list above seems very detailed. A typical question that comes to any CLAT aspirant’s mind is whether it is possible to cover all this daily. The answer is an emphatic YES!
Devote at least an hour to CLAT GK & CA. No compromise here! Reading and updating should be done daily. Creating a backlog and then covering it up in one go is a burden.
Current affairs topics typically cover the time frame from November to December next year. Read within that period. For CLAT 2026, it will be from December 2024 till November 3rd week 2025.
There is news that comes to you, and there is news that you have to go towards. The latter requires deep reading. Subscribing to more than one national English daily, in addition to The Hindu, is always advisable.
Do not leave out what you feel is irrelevant news. At the same time, do not spend too much time on what is actually irrelevant news. Once you become a regular current affairs reader, you will learn to bifurcate both.
A very important thing – Not all GK&CA passage content has a relation to the questions asked. Some of them do have. So, read the passage in a comprehension mode just like you do for English, legal, and logical.
Conclusion:
Remember, GKCA is perhaps the only section that requires constant updating. The comprehension-based sections like English, Legal, and Logical demand learning the tricks of the trade, but GK&CA is an ocean, and one has to keep on rowing steadily, daily, to cover the track.
Do not feel that all that I have studied will come. Hundred-plus topics cannot be covered in 28 questions. So, be prepared to face the fact that topics that we have done a deep study on have found no space in the Question paper.
GK& CA section is fast-moving. It takes very little time to complete the section as compared to the other sections. Which means you save precious time for the other sections.
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