Critical Reasoning in CLAT 2025: Topics and Important Questions

To get the desired score in the exam, all aspirants must know about critical reasoning in CLAT 2025 important topics and important questions so that they can focus more on the crucial topics. It will also assist students understand how the questions and answer choices are framed in order to adopt a CLAT preparation strategy in the right direction.

The critical reasoning in CLAT 2025 roughly covers 20% of the entrance test with a minimum of 22 to 26 questions in the form of comprehension passages with 4 to 5 questions each. This section evaluates a candidate’s logical reasoning skills along with their analytical ability and problem solving skills. 

Read the article given below to get a clear understanding of critical reasoning in CLAT 2025 important topics and important questions along with their answers. Whether you are about to begin with your CLAT 2025 preparation or looking to refine your skills, this information will add value by navigating through the complexities of critical reasoning in CLAT 2025, ensuring you are well-prepared for the upcoming exam.

CLAT 2025 Critical Reasoning Section Highlights

Before being acquainted with the important topics and questions of critical reasoning in CLAT 2025, candidates must first go through the highlights of this section to understand the demands in order to strategise their study plan accordingly.

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Critical Reasoning in CLAT 2025: Important Topics 

It is very important to be aware of critical reasoning in CLAT 2025 important topics so that individuals can practise these key chapters while preparing for the upcoming exam. One can know about the important topics by evaluating previous year question papers and looking out for topics that are repeated multiple times.

Some of the important topics from the critical reasoning in CLAT 2025 are listed below: 

• Assumptions
• Inferences
• Strengthening & Weakening Arguments
• Premises & Conclusions
• Syllogisms
• Cause & Effect
• Courses of Action

Critical Reasoning in CLAT 2025: Important Questions

The critical reasoning in CLAT 2025 is designed to test one’s critical thinking skills which are fundamental to practicing law.

The following skills are assessed through this section:

• To interpret the arguments and draw conclusions.
• To identify strengths and weaknesses in a series of statements.
• To understand the structure of relationships and to deduce new information from them.
• To apply logic to complex scenarios typical of critical reasoning. 

Some of the important questions asked from the critical reasoning in CLAT 2025 are as follows:

Passage 1:

The depreciation of an economy’s currency is not a matter of concern in itself. The decline in value against major currencies has to be viewed within a set of macroeconomic factors. The recent depreciation of the Indian rupee is a case in point. The rupee has been depreciating for a long time. What are of concern now are the rate at which the depreciation is occurring and the underlying factors causing the change. The Russia-Ukraine war has disrupted supply chains causing commodity prices to rise, leading to a worldwide hardening of inflationary trends. This, in turn, has caused major central banks to raise interest rates, forcing investors back to the safe haven of the US dollar. For India, these headwinds from the global economy have caused several problems. The rise in international prices, especially of crude oil, has led to a higher import bill and, hence, a greater demand for dollars. Higher interest rates in developed country markets have caused a significant outflow of portfolio investments from India, aggravating the already climbing demand for dollars from a rising import bill. By May 2022, foreign institutional investors had pulled out Rs. 1.50 lakh crore from Indian markets.

In the face of these pressures, the rupee, left to itself, would decline in value as the rupee-price of a dollar would increase substantially. One way the Reserve Bank of India could stem the tide would be to sell off dollars in the market to ease the supply situation. However, this would mean that while the value of the rupee could be contained, the nation’s foreign exchange kitty would start to erode further. The RBI has been doing exactly that. The challenge before the RBI is this: how much to let the rupee depreciate and how much to intervene to prop it up? Too much depreciation would raise domestic inflation rates as the rupee-price of imports, especially oil, would raise costs of production. It could trigger a rise in policy-controlled interest rates while closely monitoring inflationary expectations. The biggest challenge is to navigate unpredictable international economic shocks in the near future. The Indian economy’s health is not exactly at its best. Exports may not be able to take advantage of a falling rupee since international demand is expected to stagnate. India’s growth and employment situations are yet to stabilise to what they were about a decade ago. The RBI has difficult choices: controlling inflation versus stimulating growth and stabilising the rupee without severely diminishing the economy’s foreign exchange kitty.

[Extracted, with edits and revisions, from “Stiff test: Editorial on depreciation of rupee & challenges before RBI”, The Telegraph]

Q1. Which of the following is the author most likely to agree with?

1. It is a major cause for concern if an economy’s currency is depreciating.
2. Currency depreciation is not a reason for worry in itself, but if macroeconomic factors are not good, there may be a cause for concern.
3. The fact that the Indian rupee is witnessing a decline in value against major currencies is very worrisome.
4. A central bank must always do everything in its power to stem the slightest depreciation of an economy’s currency.

Q2. Based on the author’s arguments, which of the following, if true, would reduce the decline in value of the rupee?

1. Appointing a new Governor for the RBI who has a better sense of how to control inflationary trends.
2. A steep increase in commodity prices and the continued disruption of supply chains.
3. A reduction in worldwide inflationary trends and the reduction of interest rates in developed country markets.
4. The RBI buying as many dollars as possible from the market.

Q3. Which of the following, if true, would most weaken the author’s arguments?

1. The Indian economy has been affected by global inflationary trends and the increase of interest rates in developed country markets.
2. Since developed country markets have increased their interest rates, global investors have pulled their investments out of other economies, and routed them to such developed country markets.
3. As the demand for US dollars increases, it is likely the rupee-price of a dollar would increase substantially.
4. The Indian economy and currency are highly protected and have been insulated from the effects of global inflationary trends and the increase of interest rates in developed country markets.

Q4. Which of the following, if true, would most strengthen the author’s arguments for why Indian exports may not be able to take advantage of a falling rupee?

1. Economies across the world are witnessing a slowdown, and in such economies, demand for imports decreases substantially.
2. Economies across the world are booming, and there is an increasing demand for Indian exports.
3. A reduction in the volume of exports would be more than offset by the increased value of dollars that Indian exporters would earn.
4. Countries across the world have managed to find ways to insulate themselves from the effects of the Russia-Ukraine war and will need a lot of Indian imports to sustain their new growth models.

Q5. Based on the author’s arguments, which of the following must necessarily be true?

1. The continuing depreciation of the Indian rupee at its current rate, coupled with worldwide inflationary trends, would result in immense political instability in India, and consequently, in all of South Asia.
2. If nothing else is done, the rise of interest rates in developed country markets, coupled with hardening of inflationary trends across the world, will result in a fall in the value of the rupee against the dollar.
3. If inflationary trends continue to harden across the world, and if interest rates in developed country markets continue to rise, portfolio investors will increase their investments in India, and this will have a positive impact on India’s foreign exchange reserves.
4. If nothing else is done, the rise of interest rates in developed country markets, coupled with hardening of inflationary trends across the world, will result in a rise in the value of the rupee against the dollar.

Q6. Which of the following is the author most likely to agree with?

1. The RBI must not focus solely on preventing the depreciation of the rupee, as that may result in negative impacts on other aspects of the economy.
2. The RBI must focus solely on preventing the depreciation of the rupee at all costs, since it is by far the most important indicator of the health of the Indian economy.
3. Periodic inflationary trends are normal in any economy, and the RBI need not worry about the inflationary effects in the Indian economy caused by the depreciation of the rupee.
4. The RBI need not do anything to reduce the rate of depreciation of the rupee, since the depreciation of an economy’s currency is not a matter of concern in itself.

Passage 2:

The post-truth era is, expectedly, marked by a discerning erosion of public trust in sources of information. Mass media — both traditional and new-age avatars — has borne the brunt of this mistrust. And for good reasons too. Social media, its most popular platform, is a harbinger of falsity. It is thus encouraging to see that at least the old guard of the media ecosystem — the newspaper — continues to defy this discouraging trend. A pan-India survey of media consumption by Lokniti found that print media remains the most trusted source of information. The finding is consistent with the heartening surge in public endorsement of the reliability of newspapers since the pandemic. An earlier survey, which attempted to examine the impact of the lockdown on ‘reading patterns’, had found that the number of readers who used to spend over an hour on newspapers every day had risen to 38%, up from 16% in the pre-lockdown period. The increased trust in newspapers is because the lockdowns coincided with the dissemination of the crudest kinds of misinformation about the pandemic in India and around the world and newspapers played a pivotal role in exposing these lies.

But that is where the good news ends — for the print media, at least. Among other things, the data collated by the survey found deepening footprints of social media in rural and urban constituencies while television continues to dominate the screen. These developments are consistent with global trends that reveal that the newspaper industry is struggling to contain the migration of readers and revenue to other formats, especially digital media. Ironically, the pandemic, which saw a resurgence in collective trust in newspapers, adversely affected the print media as traditional advertisers, reeling under the economic fallouts of Covid-19, cut back on advertisements. But the crisis in print precedes the pandemic. Newspapers have been outpaced by speedier, but also spurious, sources of information. The dominance of the image over text as a cultural phenomenon is another formidable challenge. The print media’s hopes of remaining competitive and profitable must, therefore, centre on using this collective trust as a form of capital. Survival strategies, especially the revenue model, must be re-explored and the emphasis shifted to in-depth analyses of news as well as eyecatching layouts now that newspapers are slower to reach news to the audience.
[Extracted, with edits and revisions, from “Good news: Editorial on print media remaining the most trusted source of information”, The Telegraph]

Q7. Which of the following is the author most likely to agree with?

1. The Covid-19 pandemic was an unmitigated disaster for the newspaper industry.
2. The Covid-19 pandemic had negative as well as positive effects on the newspaper industry.
3. The Covid-19 pandemic only had good effects on the newspaper industry.
4. The Covid-19 pandemic had no effect at all on the newspaper industry.

Q8. Which of the following, if true, would most weaken the author’s arguments?

1. Social media is a reliable source of true and accurate news and information.
2. Social media is a highly unreliable source of news and information and should not be trusted.
3. Social media is a good way for people to stay connected with each other.
4. Social media is a speedier source of information than newspapers.

Q9. Which of the following would be an effective way of making print media more competitive?

1. Slowing down the process of print media production.
2. Using more expensive printing methods that achieve better print quality, even if it results in newspapers becoming more expensive.
3. Only publishing newspapers on alternate days.
4. Developing ways of ensuring that print media can reach readers more speedily.

Q10. Based on the author’s arguments, which of the following, if true, would have resulted in the weakening, rather than deepening of public trust in newspapers since the pandemic?

1. Newspapers were very careful in ensuring they reported accurate and true news during the lockdowns.
2. Newspapers played a leading role in exposing lies and misinformation spread during the lockdown.
3. Newspapers actively disseminated misinformation during the lockdowns and made no efforts to expose lies spread by others.
4. Newspapers alerted the public to the fact that a number of sources were spreading crude forms of misinformation during the pandemic.

Q11. What would be the impact on the readership and revenues of the print media if the image were not dominant over text as a cultural phenomenon?

1. Print media would not suffer as much of a reduction in readership and revenue as readers shifted to other formats.
2. Print media would suffer a greater reduction in readership and revenue as readers shifted to other formats.
3. There would be no impact on the readership and revenues of the print industry.
4. There would be an increased demand from readers that newspapers carry more images and less text.

Q12. How does the author suggest newspapers can overcome the problem of being outpaced by speedier sources of information?

1. They offer direct means by which newspapers can become faster to publish and deliver to readers.
2. They encourage a complete and immediate shift to digital media as a way of ensuring newspapers are not outpaced by other sources of information.
3. They offer ways to reduce production costs, which would offset the losses caused by readers shifting allegiance to faster sources of information.
4. They offer alternative means for newspapers to become competitive and profitable, but do not solve the problem of how newspapers can become faster sources of information.

Passage 3:

In this moment, the developed countries — I point to them, because these countries have already burnt massive amounts of carbon dioxide for energy to build their economies — are faced with a real energy conundrum. On the one hand, developed countries are battered because of a fast-heating planet; temperatures have gone through the roof; droughts and extreme weather events are hitting them as well. On the other hand, ordinary people in these countries are worried, not just because of climate change but because of the lack of energy to heat their homes this coming winter. In the US, gas prices went up in summer, so much so that people travelled less and consumption of fuel dropped. But now prices are down and it is business as usual.

The fact is that this energy disruption has provided the much-needed vault to the beleaguered fossil fuel industry. Governments are asking this industry to supply more. Europe has baptised natural gas, a fossil fuel less polluting than coal but still a major emitter of carbon dioxide, as “clean”. The US has passed a climate bill, which will invest in renewable energy but conditional to increased spends on oil and gas and the opening up of millions of hectares of federal land for drilling. Through this bill the US will do more than ever before to build a manufacturing base for renewable energy, particularly solar. Europe, even in this desperate scramble for gas, is working to ramp up its investment in renewable power. So, it is the worst of times. It could be the best of times, but there are some caveats. One, this renewed interest in fossil fuels must remain temporary and transient. Given the nature of economies, once the investment has been made in this new infrastructure or the supply of fossil fuel has increased from new oil and gas discoveries, it will be difficult to wean off. Two, these countries should not be entitled to more use of fossil fuels in our world of shrunk carbon budgets. They need to reduce emissions drastically and leave whatever little carbon budget space that is remaining to poorer countries to use, thereby satisfying such poorer countries’ demands.

[Extracted, with edits and revisions, from “New energy conundrum”, by Sunita Narain, DownToEarth]

Q13. Which of the following is the author most likely to agree with?

1. People in the US are not worried at all about climate change.
2. People in the US are worried about climate change, and these concerns affect their energy consumption habits more than anything else.
3. Climate change has resulted in the increase of energy prices across the world, and as a result, governments have had to invest in finding newer sources of renewable energy.
4. Changes in the energy consumption habits of people in the US are affected more by energy prices than concerns of climate change.

Q14. Which of the following is most similar to the author’s statements about developed countries’ renewed interest in fossil fuels?

1. Developed countries should not, under any circumstances, invest any resources in fossil fuel energy extraction, and must immediately put a halt to all fossil fuel consumption.
2. Things could improve if developed countries recognise the difficulty of moving away from reliance on such sources of energy and make a conscious effort to move to alternate or renewable energy sources quickly.
3. Since investments in energy extraction of any kind are very expensive, developed countries must ensure that they make permanent and continuing investments in fossil fuels.
4. Developing countries must not, under any circumstances, consume fossil fuels, and leave whatever carbon budget space is remaining to richer countries to use.

Q15. If the information in the passage above is correct, which of the following must necessarily be true?

1. The fossil fuel industry in developing countries will face reduced sales in the short term, with increased sales in the long term.
2. The cost of making, installing, and using solar panels will reduce substantially in the coming years.
3. Passing a bill in the US is a huge effort, and it would not have been possible to pass the new climate bill unless the current energy crisis had compelled lawmakers to do so.
4. The fossil fuel industry in developing countries will see an increase in business, at least in the short term.

Q16. Which of the following, if true, would most weaken the author’s argument about why travel and fuel consumption in the US reduced in summer?

1. People like to travel regardless of season, and the only thing that would prevent them from travelling at any time of the year would be high costs.
2. Airlines raised ticket prices as a response to increase in fuel prices, and therefore, fewer people were able to buy air tickets to travel.
3. Strict lockdowns were imposed in the US in summer, because of which people travelled less; further, temperatures were moderate, and this meant people had to use less fuel to heat or warm their homes.
4. Widespread geopolitical tensions in the first half of the year meant that fuel prices were at an all-time high in summer; but prices have now eased off somewhat, making fuel slightly more affordable in the US.

Q17. Which of the following, if true, would resolve the ‘conundrum’ the author says developed countries face now?

1. The development of adequate renewable power sources in the near term that would lead to a reduction in consumption of fossil fuels.
2. Finding new sources of fossil fuels that will ensure there is no shortage of energy to heat homes in the winter.
3. Switching immediately to renewable power sources, even if it leads to a shortage in energy supply for people.
4. Providing adequate aid to poorer countries so that they can develop renewable power sources for their use.

Q18. Assuming the aim of the US climate bill is to reduce fossil fuel consumption, which of the following would be the strongest argument that it will fail to achieve such an aim?

1. The bill promotes investments in renewable energy but does not provide for enough increase in investments in developing more sources of fossil fuel-powered energy.
2. The bill is written in technical language, which ordinary people cannot easily understand.
3. The bill is self-defeating, since it makes investments in renewable energy conditional to more expenditure on oil and gas and making millions of hectares of federal land available for drilling, which would lead to an increased consumption of fossil fuels.
4. The bill does not provide any means of increasing carbon budgets, thereby making more room for fossil fuel consumption.

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Preparation Tips for Critical Reasoning Section of CLAT 2025

Some of the best preparation tips for critical reasoning in CLAT 2025 are listed below.

• The best way to prepare for critical reasoning in CLAT 2025 is to practice multiple times.You can solve as many as CLAT sample papers and CLAT mock tests to improve your score. 
• It has been observed that this section takes a lot of time so students can practice CLAT previous year question papers to learn time management skills, and to answer with accuracy and precision.
• For solving questions from critical reasoning in CLAT 2025, candidates need to identify the conclusion, inferences and premises. While answering questions, they should not answer logically but take reference from what is given in the passage.
• Students can get help from various coaching institute websites and YouTube videos to develop conceptual clarity in topics which are essential for critical reasoning in CLAT 2025.

Best Books for Critical Reasoning of CLAT 2025

Some of the best books to prepare for critical reasoning in CLAT 2025 are listed below. Candidates must not bombard themselves with a lot of books but be limited to one basic and one advanced level book and revise multiple times. Moreover, they should study from the latest editions of trustable authors and publication houses and select only those which are in sync with the syllabus and contain practice papers with solutions.

• Modern Approach to Verbal and Non-Verbal Reasoning by R.S. Aggarwal
• A Modern Approach to Logical Reasoning by R.S. Aggarwal
• Analytical Reasoning by MK Pandey
• 501 Challenging Logical Reasoning Practice Books

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