CLAT reading speed test
Read one legal reasoning passage in the style of the CLAT, then answer five questions on it. You get your reading speed in words per minute, your accuracy, and a combined speed that only counts what you understood.
- About five minutes.
- No sign-up. Nothing you do here is saved or sent anywhere.
- Read the way you would in the exam, not as fast as you can.
Read at your normal pace. Click the button as soon as you have finished.
Five questions
The passage is hidden now. Answer from what you read.
Your result
Effective speed is your words per minute multiplied by your accuracy. Reading fast without understanding does not score in CLAT, so this is the number to watch.
The test always uses the same passage, so taking it again is not a fair comparison. To keep measuring, practise new passages: CLAT Champ shows your speed and accuracy after every set.
The comparison under your speeds uses 238 words per minute as the average. A review of 190 studies found that adults read English non-fiction silently at about that speed, with most between 175 and 300 (Brysbaert, 2019). There is no official CLAT reading-speed target. Five questions on one passage is a rough check, not a measurement, and legal text is denser than ordinary prose, so read your number as a starting point.
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Words per minute is the passage length divided by the time you took. Accuracy is how many of the five questions you got right. If your accuracy is low, slow down: speed built on misreading does not help. If your accuracy is high and your speed is low, practise reading passages under a time limit.
Our guide to improving reading speed for CLAT explains how to build speed without losing accuracy, and how to practise reading comprehension gives a daily routine.