CLAT 2025 Revised Results: The Shocking Impact of One Mark on Your CLAT 2025 Rank

CLAT Revised Results 2025: Understanding Delhi High Court Judgment in 10 Points

The judgment will have implications on your CLAT rank and counselling schedule if the consortium doesn't challenge it in the Supreme Court.

Lets try to understand the judgment and its impact in 10 points

1. The final answer key was challenged. Specifically, question number 14, 27, 67, 68 and 100 from SET A were challenged.

2. From these, on Question no 14, the court agreed with the petitioner that option C was the correct answer, so one mark will be awarded to all those who choose option C.

3. On Question number 100, the court directed the consortium to withdraw the question as the correct answer Sohan was not among the answer options. As per the final answer key released by the consortium, Option D, " Data Inadequate" was the correct answer. Now that the question is withdrawn, candidates who marked option D will lose one mark from their CLAT 2025 score. Candidates who marked any other option other than D will gain 0.25 marks.

4. All remaining objections were rejected. So the marks will be revised only for questions number 100 and 14.

5. Following this judgment, the Consortium has sent an email communication to candidates that the release of the first admission list which was scheduled for December 26 is likely to be delayed. Meanwhile, they are also consulting a team of senior lawyers to decide on the future course of action.

6. As of now, there is no clarity from the consortium on whether the result will be revised. However, in case of revision, it is likely to impact your rank

7. What does one mark mean: given the intense competition among students, one mark can significantly affect your rank in CLAT 2025.

8. If we look at the previous year's merit list, at 89 marks, the candidate got a CLAT rank of 1379, however, if added just one mark, the rank can go 1102. A difference of almost 277 rank, it can place you in an NLU of your choice.

9. Since a majority of students secure below 70 marks, the previous merit lists suggest that one mark can make an impact of around 1000 rank. Let's try to understand this from last year’ example - a candidate who got 65 marks got 15532 rank, whereas, at 66 mark, another candidate got 14626 marks. This is a difference of 906 ranks and can significantly change your NLU admission chances.

10. Finally, the CLAT counselling schedule is likely to be impacted. More candidates are expected to be invited for counselling and the NLU choice filling window may reopen.

Question no 100, which is likely to be removed from the final evaluation will not result in any additional marks for candidates. However, it may reduce the total marks of candidates by 1 mark if they were correct according to the final answer key of CLAT 2025. Further, candidates who got a penalty of 0.25 marks from this question get the benefit of this question removed from the question paper as it will be withdrawn for all candidates.

There is another case in Rajasthan High Court on the grievances not being addressed by the Consortium in a timely manner. The court has sought a response from the consortium on the next hearing scheduled on January 08.