CLAT 2024

Common Law Admission Test (CLAT)

About CLAT 2024

The Consortium of NLUs administers the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT), a national-level law entrance test for admission to 5-year integrated LLB (UG) and 1-year LLM (PG) programs. The test is held for admission to 24 NLUs for undergraduate programs and 21 NLUs for graduate programs. Candidates must attempt questions on English, current events and general knowledge (GK), legal reasoning, logical reasoning, and quantitative mathematics for UG courses, as well as questions on constitutional law and other legal topics in the offline, pen-and-paper format of the exam.

Exam Schedule

Dates

Upcoming Exam Dates

1 July 2023 - 3 November 2023

Online Registrations

December 2023

Exam

December 2023 (TBA)

Result

December 2023 (TBA)

Invite List Released

December 2023(TBA)

Counselling

Eligibility Criteria CLAT UG 2024 Eligibility Criteria

Criteria Requirements

Qualification

Class 12 or equivalent exam with at least 45% marks (40% for SC and ST categories)

Age Limit

No age limit

Number of attempts

No limit

CLAT PG Eligibility Criteria 2024

Criteria Requirements

Qualifications

The candidate must have passed the 5-year integrated or 3-year LLB exam

Age Limit

No age limit

Minimum marks

General - 50%
SC/ST - 45%

Number of attempts

No limit

Exam Pattern

UG program

PG program

Duration

2 hours

2 hours

Mode

Offline

Offline

Type of Questions

Objective-type, passage-based questions

Number of Questions

120

120

Subjects 

English Language, Current Affairs, including GK, Legal Reasoning, Logical Reasoning and Quantitative Techniques

Constitutional Law Other Law Subjects including Contract, Torts, Criminal Law, International Law, IPR and Jurisprudence

Total Marks

120 marks

120 marks

Marking scheme

+1 mark for a correct answer
-0.25 marks for an incorrect answer

+1 mark for a correct answer
-0.25 marks for an incorrect answer