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CBSE Board Results 2025: How many CBSE students opt for CLAT and NLUs ?

Sansar Singh ChhikaraUpdated on 13 May 2025, 05:07 PM IST

The Central Board of Secondary Education has announced the CBSE Class 12 results 2025. In the CBSE results class 12, a total of 88.39% students passed the exams. Given the increasing popularity of law courses, the number of CBSE students opting for the CLAT exam have also increased. Careers360 filed a RTI, which revealed that 58% students in the CLAT counselling invite list come from CBSE schools. The data also indicated that CBSE schools have more than six times more students in CLAT compared to other board school students. Read on as we dig deeper into why CBSE school students have high success rate in CLAT exams, year-wise statistics and more.

LiveCLAT 2026 Result (OUT) LIVE: Law admission counselling until December 27; NLU admission process, top collegesDec 19, 2025 | 9:38 AM IST

CLAT 2026 cut-offs for the top NLU’s, as per previous year’s trends, are as follows.

Top NLUs

Expected cut-off marks

UG seats offered, excluding supernumerary NRI seats

NLSIU Bengaluru

100+

300

NALSAR Hyderabad

100+

132

WBNUJS Kolkata

98+

108

NLU Jodhpur

95+

164

GNLU Gandhinagar

95+

172

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CBSE Board Results 2025: How many CBSE students opt for CLAT and NLUs ?
CBSE Board Results 2025: How many CBSE students opt for CLAT and NLUs ?

Total 12827 students from CBSE schools participate in CLAT 2024 counselling

A RTI filed by Careers360 revealed that a total of 12,827 students out of total 22,217 students invited for CLAT 2024 counselling last year hailed from CBSE schools. Comparatively, a total of 9390 students from all other school boards in India were invited for CLAT counselling. The below given table breaks down the number of students invited for CLAT counselling from different school boards:

CLAT UG 2024 Student Break-up

Particulars

No. of students qualified for counselling

Percentage

Candidates from CBSE board

12827

58%

Candidates from state and other boards

9390

42%

Total

22217

100%

CBSE students vs Other students - Success ration in CLAT exam

On a comparative note, students from CBSE board have seen more success in the CLAT exam. It must be noted that only the top performing candidates in the CLAT exam are called for counselling. There is a stark difference between the success ratios of CBSE students and other board students. A total of 28,135 CBSE students appeared for the CLAT 2025 exam, out of which a total of 12,827 students were called for CLAT counselling. The below-given table summarizes the success ratio difference between CBSE and other board students:

CBSE vs Other Boards' Success Rate

Board

Number of schools

No. of candidates qualified

Success rate

CBSE

28135

12827

46%

Other board

121865

9390

8%

When will CLAT 2025 revised results be declared?

Usually the CLAT 2025 results are declared before the CBSE class 12 results as the exam process is over before even starting of the CBSE exam. However, this time around due to the long court trials on the CLAT 2025 results and the subsequent SC jugment to revise CLAT results, the admission process has been delayed by more than four five months. It is expected that the CLAT 2025 revised results will be declared within this week and the consortium will begin CLAT 2025 counselling as soon as the scorecards are out.

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Questions related to CLAT

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Hello,

Based on previous year CLAT cutoff trends , your chances for NLSIU Bangalore are very low .

NLSIU Bangalore has the highest cutoff among all NLUs . In recent years, the final closing rank for General category has been around AIR 100–120 only.

You have:

  • General category AIR: 658

  • Women category rank: 313

  • No Karnataka domicile

Women reservation in NLUs is horizontal , not a separate quota. This means it does not add extra seats . It only helps when candidates are very close to the general cutoff. At a rank of 313 , the gap is too large.

Even in spot or final rounds, NLSIU does not go beyond ~120 rank for General category candidates without domicile.

However, with these ranks, you have good chances in other top NLUs like NALSAR Hyderabad, WBNUJS Kolkata, NLU Jodhpur, GNLU Gandhinagar, and NLIU Bhopal, depending on counselling rounds.

You can also use our CLAT College Predictor Tool to predict which colleges you can get based on your score and rank.

Hope it helps !

Good afternoon,

With 86.7 marks and 1906 rank in CLAT 2026, you have a chance to get admission in mid-tier and the newest NLUs. The list of probable NLUs where you can get admission is mentioned below.

1. RMLNLU Lucknow

2. MNLU Mumbai

3. DSNLU Visakhapatnam

4. NLU Odisha

5. CNLU Patna

Thank you.

Hello,

Yes, a student with CLAT 2026 rank around 12,000 can register for counselling.

However, chances of getting a seat in the top NLUs (like NLSIU Bangalore, NALSAR Hyderabad, WBNUJS Kolkata, NLIU Bhopal) are very low, as their closing ranks are usually below 4,000 for the general category.

For mid-tier NLUs (like NLU Jodhpur, HNLU Raipur, GNLU Gandhinagar, RMLNLU Lucknow), closing ranks generally go up to 5,000–8,000, so it will still be difficult.

Lower-tier NLUs (like NLU Odisha, NUALS Kochi, NUSRL Ranchi, NLUJA Assam, DSNLU Vizag, TNNLU, HPNLU Shimla) sometimes admit candidates with ranks in the 10,000–30,000 range , especially in later counselling rounds or if there are vacancies. State quota reservations can also improve chances.

You can also use our CLAT College Predictor Tool to predict which colleges you can get based on your score and rank.

Hope it helps !

Hello,

A CLAT score of 81.25 places you in the moderate range, where admission to top NLUs becomes difficult, but opportunities may still remain in newer and mid-tier NLUs, depending on your category, seat movement, and round wise cutoffs.

https://law.careers360.com/articles/clat-2026-college-predictor

Hope you understand.

Hello there first of all congratulations on scoreing so well in your CLAT examination

With general AIR 33490 and clat score nearby 96 or 95 , getting admission in RGNUL Patiala under punjab domicile is POSSIBLE but NOT GUARANTEED