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The Consortium of National Law Universities (NLUs) will announce the CLAT 2026 exam date in the CLAT 2026 notification on its official website: consortiumofnlus.ac.in. The CLAT 2026 is expected to be held on the first Sunday of December which falls on December 7, 2025. As per the past year's trend, the Consortium of NLUs conducts the CLAT every year during the first week of December. The exam timings for CLAT 2026 will be from 2 pm - 4 pm.
The eligibility criteria for CLAT UG 2026 remains unchanged. Candidates should have passed Class 12 with 45% marks and SC, ST students should have obtained at least 40%.
For LLM, only LLB graduates with 50% marks or 45% for SC, ST will be eligible to appear.
Around 60,000 candidates are expected to appear for CLAT UG and 10000 candidates are expected to appear for CLAT PG 2026. Candidates can gain admission into 5-year LLB programmes through CLAT 2026 and get admission into LLM programmes by appearing in the Common Law Admission Test-PG. Currently, 24 NLUs are participating in CLAT, which together offer around 3400 seats in 5-year LLB and around 1300 seats in LLM. The table given below provides the dates for CLAT 2026 and the dates given are tentative and will be updated upon release of official notification.
| Particulars | Dates |
|---|---|
Release of CLAT 2026 notification | May 2025 |
CLAT 2026 application opens | July 2025 |
Last date to fill CLAT 2026 application form | November 2025 |
CLAT 2026 exam date | December 7, 2025 (Expected) |
CLAT 2026 provisional answer key | December 7, 2025 (Expected) |
Objection raising window | Will be notified |
CLAT 2026 result | One week after the exam |
CLAT 2026 counselling | Will be notified |
| Particulars | Details |
|---|---|
Name | Common Law Admission Test |
Short name | CLAT, CLAT PG |
Conducting Body | Consortium of NLUs |
Frequency | Once a year |
Mode of exam | Offline |
Duration | 120 minutes |
Type of questions | MCQs |
Courses offered | 5-year LLB, LLM |
Participating NLUs | 24 |
Seats | 5-year LLB - 3400+ LLM - 1300+ |
The Consortium of NLUs prescribes the CLAT eligibility criteria 2026 on its official website. The CLAT 2026 eligibility criteria include requirements about the minimum educational qualification, minimum passing marks, and age limit. If candidates do not fulfil the CLAT eligibility criteria then they will be disqualified.
| Particulars | Details |
|---|---|
CLAT UG 2026 Eligibility Criteria | There is no upper age limit for candidates appearing for CLAT UG 2026. Passed Class 12 with at least 45% marks or 40% marks or equivalent in the case of SC/ ST/ PwD categories. Candidates appearing for Class 12 exams are also eligible to apply and they are required to produce evidence of their passing the qualifying exam at the time of admission. |
CLAT PG 2026 Eligibility Criteria | Passed LLB (3-year LLB or 5-year LLB) with at least 50% marks or its equivalent grade in case of candidates belonging to General/OBC/NRI categories (45% in the case of SC/ ST/ PwD candidates). Candidates appearing for final year graduation exams can also apply. There is no upper age limit for appearing for the CLAT PG 2026. |
The CNLUs will open the CLAT 2026 application form tentatively in the third week of July 2025. Candidates fulfilling the eligibility criteria can fill out the CLAT 2026 application form 2026 on the official website. The application form for CLAT 2026 includes providing personal information, communication, education details, and test centre preferences.
CLAT 2026 Registration: Complete the initial registration to generate CLAT login credentials which is the first step in the CLAT application form 2026 process. The candidates will have to provide their email ID and mobile number to set up their CLAT 2026 account.
Filling out the details in CLAT 2026 application form: Here candidates are required to fill up the details in the application form and these details include: personal details, educational qualification, communication details and uploading documents.
Providing CLAT exam centre preferences: In this step candidates are required to provide the CLAT 2026 exam centre preferences. A candidate can provide a maximum of 3 choices in the order of their preference.
NLU Preferences: The candidates are required to submit their CLAT 2026 NLU preferences at the time of submitting the application form. The candidates would be considered for admission in those NLUs that they have included in their CLAT NLU preference list.
Payment of CLAT 2026 application fee: The very last step of the CLAT 2026 application process in the CLAT 2026 application process is the payment of the prescribed CLAT application fee. The below table includes the CLAT 2026 application fees.
| Category | Fees |
|---|---|
General/ OBC/ PwD/ NRI/ PIO/ OCI category | Rs. 4000 |
SC/ST/BPL category | Rs. 3500 |
The CLAT 2026 syllabus includes five sections namely English, current affairs including GK, legal reasoning, logical reasoning, and quantitative techniques. However, the syllabus of CLAT PG 2026 includes topics on different areas of law. Candidates can go through the syllabus of CLAT 2026 in the below table:
Sections | Weightage | Topics |
|---|---|---|
English language | 20% | Grammar and sentence correction, synonyms & antonyms, tense, voice |
Current affairs including GK | 25% | National and international events, science and technology, science & technology, summits & conferences, sports, awards & honors, arts & culture, important historical events |
25% | Torts, contract Law, IPC, family law, constitutional law, defamation, child rights, writs, cyber law, basic legal terms | |
20% | Analogies, series, seating arrangement, syllogisms, blood relations, logical sequences, and matching, calendars, and clocks. | |
Quantitative techniques | 10% | Ratios and proportions, basic algebra, mensuration, statistical estimation, algebra |
| Particulars | Details |
|---|---|
CLAT LLM topics | Constitutional law, jurisprudence, administrative law, contract law, torts, family law, international law, tax Law, environmental law, labour law, criminal law, property law, company law |
The CLAT exam pattern 2026 will provide important details about the CLAT 2026 exam such as the type of questions, total number of questions, CLAT marks distribution, mode of exam, duration etc. In CLAT paper pattern 2026 there will be a total of 120 multiple-choice questions spread over five sections. The CLAT exam pattern includes 4 to 6 passages in each section which are then followed by multiple-choice questions based on the passage. Each question in CLAT 2026 carries one mark and there will be negative marking of 0.25 for every wrong answer. No marks will be deducted for unanswered questions.
| Particulars | No. of questions | Marks | CLAT 2026 Marking scheme |
|---|---|---|---|
English | 22-26 | 22-26 | 1 mark per question. 0.25 negative mark for every wrong answer and zero for unanswered questions. |
Current affairs including GK | 28-32 | 28-32 | |
Legal reasoning | 28-32 | 28-32 | |
Logical reasoning | 22-26 | 22-26 | |
Quantitative techniques | 10-14 | 10-14 |
On Question asked by student community
Good Morning, Candidate,
It entirely depends on the university whether the admission for the BA LLB will be based on the 12th board or the national-level entrance exam, or both. The admission exams are below
1. Common Law Admission Test
2. All India Law Entrance Test
3. Symbiosis Law Admission Test
4. Common University Entrance Test
Thank you. Hope this information helps you.
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The best way to cover the important current affairs is to read the newspaper daily. Then try to analyse the newspaper and remember the trending topics. Practice the previous year's question paper and understand the pattern of the question. Summarise all current affairs topics and understand them in brief. If you want more information about current affairs, then you will read the article How to Prepare for CLAT Current Affairs 2026 .
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Hello,
Yes, you can prepare CLAT (Common Law Admission Test) in Hindi Medium and access syllabus in Hindi from mentioned link below:
https://law.careers360.com/hi/articles/clat-syllabus
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Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) is a national level entrance exam for the programs related to engineering. It has two levels known as JEE mains (first level) and JEE advance (second level) . Many colleges from all over India in both government and private sector consider its scores. It is an online computer based test conducted by NTA ( National Testing Agency). Physics , Chemistry and mathematics are the major subjects to be focused in this exam.
Here is the link attached from the official website of Careers360 which will provide you with complete information about JEE.
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NEET ( National Eligibility cum Entrance Test) is a national level examination for admission in undergraduate medical courses. It is also conducted by NTA but in offline mode as in pen and paper test. It includes courses like MBBS, BDS BHMS , BAMS etc. The exam consists of 180 questions in total 45 from each physics , chemistry , zoology and Botany. The total marks for the exam are 720 marks.
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CLAT (Common Law Admission Test) is a national level entrance examination for the admission in national law colleges of India. The test is taken after 12th grade examination for the 5 years integrated programs in law. It tests students knowledge in legal aptitude. It also serves as a basis for public sector undertakings for legal positions.
Here is the link attached from the official website of Careers360 which will provide you with the complete information about the CLAT examination.
https://law.careers360.com/articles/what-is-clat-full-form-all-about-nlus-entrance-exam
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The CLAT PG exam pattern consists of 120 questions and 2-hour MCQ exam with negative marking.
Subjects Covered:
Constitutional Law
Jurisprudence
Criminal Law
Contract Law
Other core law subjects
Here are some tricks which you must follow:
To know more access below mentioned link:
https://law.careers360.com/articles/how-to-prepare-for-clat-pg-exam
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