CLAT UG question bank
CLAT UG Logical Reasoning questions 239-262 of 310, with answer keys and explanations covering conclusions, assumptions, inferences, flaws, analogies, and arguments strengthened or weakened by evidence.
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Practice passage-based CLAT UG questions with answers for English, current affairs, legal reasoning, logical reasoning, and quantitative techniques.
A government releases free digital textbooks and reports millions of downloads. It treats the total as proof that access and learning have improved. A download may represent repeated attempts, automated traffic, or a file never opened. Learners may lack suitable devices, storage, electricity, or accessible formats. Downloads remain useful for measuring distribution. To assess access and learning, officials should examine unique users, successful opening, reading patterns, disability access, offline availability, and educational outcomes. Distribution is a necessary step, but counting delivery events is not the same as measuring whether a resource can be used effectively.
Distribution data can be useful without proving effective use.
Downloads should never be counted.
Every delivered file is read.
Learning cannot be measured.
Correct answer: A. Distribution data can be useful without proving effective use.
A reflects the qualified role of download data.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 24, prepared in the official passage-based format.
Count only total server requests.
Track unique use, accessibility, offline access, and learning outcomes.
Remove accessible formats.
Ignore device availability.
Correct answer: B. Track unique use, accessibility, offline access, and learning outcomes.
B matches the multi-part evaluation proposed.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 24, prepared in the official passage-based format.
A city promotes a restored wetland and reports success because visitor numbers double. More visitors can build support for conservation, but they can also disturb nesting, increase waste, and strain paths. Visitor growth does not itself show ecological recovery. A wetland may attract people because of marketing while water quality or habitat declines. The city should track species, water, seasonal carrying capacity, local livelihoods, accessibility, and visitor behaviour. It may need timed entry or temporary closures in sensitive periods. Public enjoyment and conservation need not conflict, but attendance should remain a means of engagement rather than the sole measure of success.
Visitor growth has no value.
Every wetland should close.
Attendance should be assessed alongside ecological and social outcomes.
Marketing proves restoration.
Correct answer: C. Attendance should be assessed alongside ecological and social outcomes.
C captures the balanced conclusion.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 25, prepared in the official passage-based format.
Marketing may attract visitors even while habitat conditions decline.
Water quality always rises with attendance.
Visitors cannot see wetlands.
Species counts equal ticket sales.
Correct answer: A. Marketing may attract visitors even while habitat conditions decline.
A follows from the second paragraph.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 25, prepared in the official passage-based format.
Only advertising increases.
Water quality and native species improve while managed access supports local livelihoods.
Waste rises and nesting falls.
No ecological data is collected.
Correct answer: B. Water quality and native species improve while managed access supports local livelihoods.
B provides ecological and social evidence.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 25, prepared in the official passage-based format.
Unlimited entry during nesting
Measuring tickets only
Removing every path
Using carrying capacity, timed entry, and sensitive-period controls
Correct answer: D. Using carrying capacity, timed entry, and sensitive-period controls
D applies the management recommendations.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 25, prepared in the official passage-based format.
Conservation and access can be managed together.
Every visitor causes irreversible damage.
Attendance is the only valid metric.
Local livelihoods are irrelevant.
Correct answer: C. Attendance is the only valid metric.
C reflects the final paragraph.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 25, prepared in the official passage-based format.
A legal-aid office praises a lawyer for closing more cases than colleagues. The count may reflect efficiency, but it may also reflect easier assignments, rapid pleas, or clients losing contact. Cases differ in evidence, urgency, language needs, and required investigation. A raw total treats these differences as irrelevant. Evaluation should consider case complexity, client communication, preparation, outcomes, appeals, and workload. Speed remains important where delay harms clients, but it should not reward inadequate attention. A performance measure should encourage timely and competent representation, not merely the fastest reduction of an open-case list.
Case closure should never be measured.
Every rapid plea is improper.
All cases require identical work.
Performance requires measures of timeliness, quality, complexity, and client service.
Correct answer: D. Performance requires measures of timeliness, quality, complexity, and client service.
D captures the broader evaluation proposed.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 25, prepared in the official passage-based format.
The office records dates.
The lawyer received easier cases.
Clients need communication.
Some cases contain evidence.
Correct answer: B. The lawyer received easier cases.
B is an alternative identified in the first paragraph.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 25, prepared in the official passage-based format.
Timely outcomes with strong preparation and client communication across comparable cases
Repeated reversals
High closure numbers with no client contact
Loss of difficult files
Correct answer: A. Timely outcomes with strong preparation and client communication across comparable cases
A combines speed and quality across comparable work.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 25, prepared in the official passage-based format.
Closure cannot be counted.
Every case has one page.
It ignores differences in complexity and required work.
Lawyers cannot compare outcomes.
Correct answer: C. It ignores differences in complexity and required work.
C follows from the second paragraph.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 25, prepared in the official passage-based format.
Delay never harms clients.
Quality and speed must always conflict.
Only appeals matter.
A useful metric should not create incentives for inadequate attention.
Correct answer: D. A useful metric should not create incentives for inadequate attention.
D reflects the final warning.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 25, prepared in the official passage-based format.
After a city removed bus fares, ridership rose by 18 percent. Officials called the policy a complete success. The increase matters, but it does not reveal who travelled more or why. During the same period, fuel prices rose and a major parking facility closed. Either change could have shifted commuters towards buses. Evaluation should compare similar routes, examine passenger groups, measure service reliability, and account for operating costs. It should also ask whether former walkers and cyclists switched to buses, or whether car journeys actually declined. Fare-free travel may improve access, especially for low-income passengers. A credible assessment should preserve that possibility without treating one headline figure as proof of every claimed benefit.
Fare-free travel must be abandoned.
Ridership never matters.
The policy requires broader causal and distributional evaluation.
Fuel prices cannot affect travel.
Correct answer: C. The policy requires broader causal and distributional evaluation.
C captures the qualified conclusion.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 26, prepared in the official passage-based format.
Fuel prices rose while a major parking facility closed.
Every passenger became wealthier.
Bus routes disappeared.
Officials stopped counting riders.
Correct answer: A. Fuel prices rose while a major parking facility closed.
A identifies the concurrent changes.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 26, prepared in the official passage-based format.
Cyclists alone shifted to buses.
Comparable corridors show fewer car trips after fare removal while other conditions remained stable.
Fuel prices changed sharply only on treated routes.
No passenger groups were studied.
Correct answer: B. Comparable corridors show fewer car trips after fare removal while other conditions remained stable.
B supplies a comparison and relevant outcome.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 26, prepared in the official passage-based format.
The increase is a percentage.
Buses have seats.
Cities contain roads.
The figure does not establish causes, beneficiaries, costs, or wider transport effects.
Correct answer: D. The figure does not establish causes, beneficiaries, costs, or wider transport effects.
D states the missing evidence.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 26, prepared in the official passage-based format.
Any rise in ridership proves car use fell.
Operating costs are irrelevant.
A policy can improve access even if one statistic cannot prove all its claimed benefits.
Walking and cycling should never be measured.
Correct answer: C. A policy can improve access even if one statistic cannot prove all its claimed benefits.
C reflects the final paragraph.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 26, prepared in the official passage-based format.
A hospital reports that its translation tool is 96 percent accurate and proposes using it for every patient conversation. The figure sounds reassuring, but accuracy averaged across routine phrases may conceal serious errors in rare clinical terms. Consequences also differ. A mistaken cafeteria direction is inconvenient; a mistaken dosage instruction can be dangerous. A single average treats both errors alike. Testing should separate languages, medical specialties, dialects, and levels of urgency. Human review should be concentrated where uncertainty and harm are greatest. Automated translation can widen access and reduce delay. Its value, however, depends on matching oversight to risk rather than converting a high average score into universal trust.
Automated translation has no value.
Every phrase requires identical review.
A 96 percent score proves universal safety.
Use of the tool should be accompanied by oversight proportionate to context and risk.
Correct answer: D. Use of the tool should be accompanied by oversight proportionate to context and risk.
D captures the final recommendation.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 26, prepared in the official passage-based format.
The average accuracy adequately represents performance in high-risk situations.
Patients never use clinical terms.
Human reviewers know no languages.
Cafeterias provide medical treatment.
Correct answer: A. The average accuracy adequately represents performance in high-risk situations.
A identifies the unsupported generalisation.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 26, prepared in the official passage-based format.
Routine phrases are common.
Errors are concentrated in dosage instructions and a low-data dialect.
The tool has a short name.
Some conversations concern parking.
Correct answer: B. Errors are concentrated in dosage instructions and a low-data dialect.
B shows that the average conceals high-risk weaknesses.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 26, prepared in the official passage-based format.
All errors have identical consequences.
Only average accuracy matters.
Oversight should increase with uncertainty and potential harm.
Automation must replace every person.
Correct answer: C. Oversight should increase with uncertainty and potential harm.
C restates the risk-based approach.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 26, prepared in the official passage-based format.
A 96 percent score is meaningless in all contexts.
Translation cannot improve access.
Rare errors can never be measured.
A useful average may still be insufficient for deciding safety in every category.
Correct answer: D. A useful average may still be insufficient for deciding safety in every category.
D follows from the critique of aggregation.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 26, prepared in the official passage-based format.
A city planted trees along one commercial street. A year later, its afternoon temperature was two degrees lower, and officials credited the programme. The comparison is incomplete. Measurements were taken on different dates, and the later day was cloudier and less busy. Shade from trees may have helped, but weather and traffic can also affect street temperature. A stronger study would use sensors on planted and similar unplanted streets, compare the same seasons and times, and track canopy growth, humidity, and surface materials. Urban trees can provide shade and other benefits. Careful evaluation strengthens that case by identifying where cooling occurs rather than treating one before-and-after reading as decisive.
Trees never cool streets.
Temperature cannot be measured.
The cooling claim needs controlled comparison despite the programme's plausible benefits.
Clouds have no effect on temperature.
Correct answer: C. The cooling claim needs controlled comparison despite the programme's plausible benefits.
C captures the qualified conclusion.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 27, prepared in the official passage-based format.
The later measurement occurred on a cloudier, less busy day.
Trees have leaves.
The street contains shops.
Officials announced a programme.
Correct answer: A. The later measurement occurred on a cloudier, less busy day.
A identifies relevant confounding conditions.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 27, prepared in the official passage-based format.