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

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    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? How a Revised Result Could Drastically Change the Game!
    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.

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    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*

    -

    *state category reservation

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