CLAT 2025
The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) is a national level entrance exam for admissions to undergraduate (UG) and postgraduate (PG) law programmes offered by 24 National Law Universities in India.
CLAT is organized by the Consortium of National Law Universities, comprising representative universities.
Several affiliate universities and organisations also use the CLAT exam for admissions and recruitment respectively.
All admissions to the 5-year integrated LL.B. and LL.M. programmes that commence in the Academic Year 2025-2026 shall be through the CLAT 2025
Test Highlights |
Details |
Full Form |
CLAT (Common Law Admission Test) |
Test Conducting Body |
The Consortium of National Law Universities |
Test Level |
UG |
Test Frequency |
Once a year |
Test Mode |
Offline |
Test Duration |
120 Minutes |
Test Language |
English |
Test Purpose |
Admissions to BA LLB, BCom LLB, BSc LLB, BBA LLB, BSW LLB, LLM courses |
Event |
Timeline |
Release of CLAT admission notification |
In the month of May 2025 |
Start of online CLAT application form |
Mid-July 2025 |
Last date to submit the CLAT application form |
End of October 2025 |
Release of CLAT 2026 admit card |
Mid-November 2025 |
CLAT Exam date 2026 |
December 7, 2025(Tentative) |
Release of provisional CLAT answer key |
December 7, 2025(Tentative) |
Release of CLAT final answer key |
December 13, 2025(Tentative) |
Declaration of CLAT results |
December 13, 2024(Tentative) |
Commencement of CLAT counseling |
December 15, 2024(Tentative) |
CLAT UG Exam Eligibility
The UG-CLAT would focus on evaluating the comprehension and reasoning skills and abilities of candidates. Overall, it is designed to be a test of aptitude and skills that are necessary for a legal education rather than prior knowledge, though prior knowledge occasionally may be useful to respond to questions in the Current Affairs including General Knowledge section.
The UG-CLAT shall be a 2-hour test, with 120 multiple-choice questions carrying 1 mark each. There shall be negative marking of 0.25 marks for every wrong answer. These questions would be divided across the following 5 subjects:
In this section of the UG-CLAT, you will be provided passages of about 450 words each. These passages will be derived from contemporary or historically significant fiction and non-fiction writing, and would be of a standard that a 12th standard student may be able to read in about 5-7 minutes.
Each passage will be followed by a series of questions that will require you to demonstrate your comprehension and language skills, including your abilities to:
In this section, you will be provided passages of up to 450 words each. The passages will be derived from news, journalistic sources and other non-fiction writing. The questions may include an examination of legal information or knowledge discussed in or related to the passage, but would not require any additional knowledge of the law beyond the passage.
Each passage will be followed by a series of questions that will require you to demonstrate your awareness of various aspects of current affairs and general knowledge, including:
In this section, you will be expected to read passages of around 450 words each. The passages may relate to fact situations or scenarios involving legal matters, public policy questions or moral philosophical enquiries. You will not require any prior knowledge of law to attempt the questions in this section. You will benefit from a general awareness of contemporary legal and moral issues to better apply general principles or propositions to the given fact scenarios.
Each passage would be followed by a series of questions that will require you to:
The Logical Reasoning section of the UG-CLAT will include a series of short passages of about 450 words each. Each passage will be followed by one or more questions that will require you to:
The Quantitative Techniques section of the UG-CLAT will include short sets of facts or propositions, or other textual representations of numerical information, followed by a series of questions. You will be required to derive information from the passages or questions, and apply mathematical operations on such information.
The questions will require you to:
The Consortium plans to publish various preparatory materials for the UG-CLAT, including:
The Consortium will also provide candidates who have successfully completed their application to the UG-CLAT access to a learning platform where you may access the preparatory materials described above, as well as your scores on various exercises and model question papers. The Consortium shall also organise online sessions for such candidates, in which subject experts shall provide guidance on how best to prepare for each of the sections of the UG-CLAT, and how candidates may approach the questions in each section.
In addition, you should develop your capacity to read and understand bodies of text, ensure you stay abreast of news and current affairs by regularly reading quality newspapers and periodicals, and improve your speed of answering questions on quantitative techniques by practising with materials such as 10th standard mathematics textbooks.
CLAT UG Question Format
Maximum Marks120
Duration of CLAT 02:00 Hours
Multiple-Choice Questions 120 questions of one mark each
Negative Marking 0.25 Mark for each wrong answer
Subject Areas with weightage: (approximate number of questions)
English Language: 22-26 questions, or roughly 20% of the paper
Current Affairs, including
General Knowledge: 28-32 questions, or roughly 25% of the paper
Legal Reasoning: 28-32 questions, or roughly 25% of the paper
Logical Reasoning: 22-26 questions, or roughly 20% of the paper
Quantitative Techniques: 10-14 questions, or roughly 10% of the paper
The CLAT exam cutoff is the minimum marks and rankings required for admittance to NLUs. After the counseling rounds, each NLU releases the cut-off in the form of opening and closing rankings. The table below shows the basic expected cut-off based on expert analysis of previous years.
Based on the exam difficulty level of CLAT, below is a snapshot of the top NLUs for CLAT.
Expected NLUs Cutoff 2025 |
|
NLU |
Expected CLAT Cutoff |
Top 3 NLUs |
90+ |
Top 10 NLUs |
87+ |
At least 1 NLU |
85+ |
CLAT UG Instructions
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