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    CLAT 2026 Clashes with AILET — Tough Choice or Date Change Ahead?

    CLAT 2026 Clashes with AILET — Tough Choice or Date Change Ahead?

    Sansar Singh ChhikaraUpdated on 21 Jul 2025, 01:09 PM IST

    The Consortium of NLUs has published the CLAT 2026 notification on July 21, 2025. The CLAT 2026 exam date has been announced as December 8, 2025. CLAT registration 2026 will open on August 1 and go on till October 31, 2025. The announcement of the CLAT 2026 exam date has brought a small trouble for law aspirants as the date clashes with AILET 2026 exam date. The AILET 2026 exam is also scheduled to be held on December 8, 2025. Common Law Admission Test is conducted for admission to 24 National Law Universities, while the All India Law Entrance Test (AILET) is conducted for admission to National Law University, Delhi. Read the complete article to know about the clash, will there be reschedulement of one of the exams or candidates will have to make a tough choice.

    CLAT 2026 Clashes with AILET — Tough Choice or Date Change Ahead?
    CLAT 2026 Clashes with AILET

    CLAT 2026 vs AILET 2026 - Schedule Clash

    Event

    CLAT 2026 date

    AILET 2026 date

    Release of application form

    August 1, 2025

    August 1, 2025

    Last date of filling application form

    October 31, 2025

    To be notified

    Exam Date

    December 7, 2025

    December 7, 2025

    Will one of the exams be rescheduled or students have to make a tough choice?

    CLAT and AILET exams are crucial ones for law aspirants given the fact that they provide admissions to the best law schools of the country. Undergraduate law aspirants mostly appear for both the exams. NLU Delhi is the second ranked law school in India which makes the AILET exam also very important. With the clash of both the exam dates, students might have to make a difficult decision of choosing one from the both exams. However, chances of this happening are very unlikely given the importance of both the exams. One of the both exams is very likely to be rescheduled. Candidates can also request both the conducting body over email to consider rescheduling of the exams.

    CLAT and AILET registrations begin on August 1

    The application window of both CLAT 2026 and AILET 2026 will open on August 1, 2025. The CLAT 2026 registration window will remain open for a period of three months. Interested candidates can apply for CLAT 2026 till October 31, 2025. The AILET 2026 application last date has not been notified yet. The CLAT 2026 registration fee for general category is Rs 4000 and Rs 3500 for SC, ST and BPL candidates. Meanwhile, the AILET 2026 registration fee is Rs 3500 for General, OBC and EWS categories, and Rs 1500 for SC, ST and PwD categories.

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    Several top law colleges are accepting the CLAT score, other than the NLUs. These include:

    • Siksha ‘O’ Anusadhan University, Bhubaneswar
    • Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Science, Chennai
    • Lovely Professional University
    • Institute of Law, Nirma University

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    Hi,

    You can refer to books like AP Bhardwaj for legal aptitude, RS Aggarwal for reasoning, and dedicated guides like CULET Guide by Dipanjan Mitra for best preparation for CULET. Additionally, you can refer to the CULET previous year question papers .

    SASTRA Deemed University accepts CLAT scores for admission. They admit students based on CLAT scores as well as class 12 marks, with an aggregate score of 50% in English. Based on these scores, a merit list is published by the university.