CLAT 2025 Cut-Offs to Shift Drastically? How a Revised Result Could Drastically Change the Game!

Sukriti SahooUpdated on 14 Jan 2025, 02:51 PM IST

The NLU Consortium’s plea against the revision of the CLAT 2025 result order by Delhi HC will be heard on January 15. Meanwhile, there is already a Delhi High Court order directing the NLU Consortium to revise the CLAT merit list. If this judgment is sustained in the Supreme Court, many students will have their ranks changed. A previous CLAT result analysis by Careers360 shows, that some students are likely to gain 1.25 marks from question number 14 of SET A CLAT question paper, whereas, some might gain 0.25 marks from question number 100. Having said this, some students may also lose 1.25 marks or 0.25 marks, depending on the answer options they have given.

CLAT 2025 Cut-Offs to Shift Drastically

Effectively, the CLAT rank list 2025 will be revised for these changes, and so will the CLAT cut-offs. Changing the CLAT marks for 1.25 marks means at the mid-lower range of the CLAT merit list, the rank changes by 1000 or even more.

Whereas, students securing 90-92+ marks may not have a significant change in their CLAT rank. However, even a slight change in the rank will have a significant effect on NLU allotments.

So, let’s try to understand how CLAT cut-offs will be changed if the results are revised.

Changes in Marks - How CLAT ranks are affected?

A majority of students in CLAT secure below 75 marks. However, admissions for all India general categories (no reservation) are closed at much higher marks, around 80-85. A majority of seats are, however, reserved under various categories depending on the reservation policies of NLUs.

Students also need to understand that there is no uniform reservation policy in NLUs. In NLUs based in Maharashtra, up to 60% of seats are reserved for students domiciled in the state. Compare this with NLSIU, it offers 310 seats, of which, around 121 seats are for all India general categories, and the remaining are reserved for SC, ST, and Karnataka domicile categories. NALSAR Hyderabad has also reserved 25% of seats for Telangana-domiciled candidates. Of 132 seats, the university offers 50% of seats to all India unreserved categories. All these calculations play an important role in determining the NLU allotment of seats.

CLAT Marks 90-100 - Changes in CLAT rank and cut-offs?

Given the intense competition for top-ranked NLUs, each mark plays a crucial role in determining the NLU allotment. Within a difference of just one mark, there can be 100 students. So, gaining 1.25 or 2 marks would change the CLAT rank by the same 100 or more.

If a student who got a 500 rank in CLAT results 2025, is now getting 1 mark, it may bring him close to 350 - 400 CLAT rank, giving him a good chance of moving from MNLU Mumbai to NLU Jodhpur.

For students who were getting 1300 rank earlier, if added just one mark, their rank might go up by 200, and place them in the CLAT rank range - of 1000-1200. This means the NLU allotment might change by moving them from NLU Ranchi to Odisha or Kochi.

CLAT marks below 90: A major shift in CLAT rank and cut-offs?

As discussed above a majority of students secure below 80-80 marks. And, this is where a big impact in the CLAT rank list is expected. If you look at the previous year’s CLAT merit list, at CLAT mark 65, a candidate gets a 15,532 rank, adding one mark, the CLAT rank jumps to 14,626. This is a difference of 906 ranks. If we go further down in the rank list, the difference that each mark makes widens. Candidates falling in the rank higher than 15,000 are likely to major changes in their rank in the revised results.

While general category candidates with no reservation will already be out of the NLU race within this rank range, the reserved category candidates will benefit if they gain the marks in the revised list.

Will there be any change in CLAT cut-off ranks?

There will certainly be some changes in CLAT ranks if the results are revised. However, the CLAT cut-off ranks will remain the same since they depend on candidates’ rank and the NLU preferences. Go through the table given below to understand which NLU offers seats at which rank.

CLAT NLU 2024 Cut-Off

NLU	General		EWS		OBC		SC		ST
	Opening rank	Closing rank	Opening rank	Closing rank	Opening rank	Closing rank	Opening rank	Closing rank	Opening rank	Closing rank
NLSIU Bengaluru	1	102	122	523	151	971	372	3007	239	7487
NALSAR Hyderabad	6	167	175	564	189	1116	1604	3574	263	6083
NLIU Bhopal (BA LLB)	311	450	621	1376	1191	1315	4573	5178	8403	11527
NLIU Bhopal (BSc LLB)	187	1047	1248	1777	1112	1959	6497	7622	13905	15219
WBNUJS Kolkata( BA LLB)	140	279	-	-	2610*	23192*	2056	4503	5215	8860
WBNUJS Kolkata (BSc.LLB Hons)	289	1010	-	-	7619*	26986*	4663	8958	10961	11917
NLU Jodhpur	170	379	-		1079	1424	3574	5178	6666	8960
HNLU Raipur	434	791	-	-	1841	2069	3408	6765	9218	12035
GNLU Gandhinagar	210	464	603	1248	1284	1858	4584	6175	7712	11580
GNLU Silvassa Campus	593	1060	1113	1935	2225	2429	8833	10735	11291	-
RMLNLU Lucknow	410	764	1022*	2326*	1170*	3613*	5397*	10340*	20456*	34174*
RGNUL Patiala	502	1250	-	-	-	-	3234	10253	9562	16875
CNLU Patna (BA LLB)	790	1358	1378*	2122*	2139*	2776*	4522*	14864*	23802*	-
CNLU Patna (BBA LLB)	1051	1552	1571*	2703*	2560*	4147*	13550*	16714*	1339*	-
NUALS Kochi	231	1136	6867*	14922*	-	-	12306*	15245*	13117	-
NLU Odisha	591	1205	-	-	-	-	5997	9869	11580	16676
NUSRL Ranchi	637	1594	1468	2255	1837	3005	5972	11124	16161	19635
NLUJA Assam	1344	1704	-	-	7386*	37438*	8824*	17168*	17149*	46899*
DSNLU Visakhapatnam	656	1390	1242	2195	2068	2940	8057	10568	11917	18342
TNNLU Tiruchirappalli BA LLB	806	1628	-	-	1634	3135	9853	11289	38376*	-
TNNLU Tiruchirappalli BCom LLB	821	1711	-	-	2178	3800	10130	12418	16910	21607
MNLU Mumbai	99	590	811*	3932*	2123*	6468*	4506*	11392*	24593*	34264*
MNLU Nagpur - BA LLB	491	1587	3974*	6285*	3089*	17245*	11235*	25115*	29470*	50326*
MNLU Nagpur - BBA LLB	611	1685	6100*	16730*	4790*	14814*	12722*	29474*	42740*	46480*
MNLU Aurangabad- BA LLB	945	1832	4220*	18008*	14714*	18004*	8281*	28813*	41238*	-
MNLU Aurangabad - BBA LLB	681	2115	8662*	18056*	7755*	19003*	21344*	29975*	47604*	-
HPNLU Shimla - BA LLB	885	2102	-	-	-		9061	12158	13213	20412
HPNLU Shimla - BBA LLB	284	2150	-	-	-		9789	12740	16386	23188
MPDNLU Jabalpur	1060	1824	1935	2769	2677	3445	10083	12556	16830	23145
DBRANLU Sonepat	503	2050	1887	2687	2273	3861	9107	12447	17161	23000
NLUT Agartala	1716	2243	-	-	-	-	32520*	-	31488*	-