Submitted CLAT 2025 Grievances? Will They Change Your CLAT Results Now?

The consortium of NLUs recently announced CLAT results on December 07, and like every year, it also released a portal for grievance submission. Given the large number of objections, the students reported in CLAT 2025 this year, it was expected that the final answer key could sustain some more objections than it actually did. However, while 4 questions were withdrawn from CLAT UG, only 3 were modified in logical reasoning. Objections raised in other sections such as General knowledge, legal reasoning and English were not accepted.

A petition was also filed against the discrepancies in the exam centres and answer keys in the Supreme Court. While nothing came out of this, and the petition was rejected, the grievance submission portal was the last opportunity for students to raise their concerns.

However, it is important to understand why the Grievance submission portal is provided after every CLAT, what happens after the submissions are made by students and more importantly, whether will there be any change in the CLAT results after the grievances submitted by students or is it just a superficial activity with no clear end?

Let's try to understand all these points one by one;

So, the first question is; why is there a grievance submission portal after CLAT result declaration?

After every CLAT, the NLU Consortium provides a grievance submission portal on its website; Students are asked to submit complaints if they have any with respect to the objection committee’s decision to sustain or overturn the objections raised by students. Or, complaints against any technical or non-technical discrepancies while conducting CLAT. The grievance portal offers the students a final attempt to raise the issues against the CLAT exam.

Coming to the second question – What happens after the submissions are made by students?

These objections are reviewed by a grievance redressal committee under the chairmanship of a former judge. This year, Justice Sri G Raghuram, Former Judge, of Andhra Pradesh High Court is the chairman of the grievance submission committee. Unlike last year, when notification mentioned that grievances against the Final Answer Key may be raised only by candidates who have submitted objections, this year's notification has no such mention. Anyone who has appeared in the exam can submit the objections. The official notification has mentioned the opening date of grievances, but there is no closing date. So, It is not clear what is the deadline for grievances, or when the grievances will be reviewed by the committee.

Finally, Will the CLAT result be revised? The 2020 CLAT case

At this moment, it is unlikely that the consortium will revise the CLAT result even if you feel that your objections were valid.

In 2020 CLAT, when it was held online on account of COVID-19, multiple complaints were raised against incorrect answers and software problems. The matter eventually went to the Supreme Court and the Consortium later revealed that 4,839 objections were received and the final answer key was prepared after reviewing these objections. However, despite all kinds of complaints, neither the CLAT exam was re-conducted nor the results revised. Only an extended grievance submission window was provided.

Findings of the CLAT Grievance committee are not disclosed

Unfortunately, the findings of this committee are not made public, so no one actually knows the type of grievances raised by the students, and what action is taken by the Consortium to address those. The counselling and NLUs admission process goes on as per the schedule. The grievance submission mechanism in CLAT remains a postmortem with no substantial effect on the results or counselling. This also defeats the purpose of having a grievance mechanism in CLAT.

The CLAT 2025 counselling registration has started without any delay, and the allotment of seats will be based on the existing rank declared at the time of result and the NLU preferences given by candidates. You can check a detailed discussion on CLAT counselling from the i button above. Meanwhile, if you haven’t got the counselling invite, you should look for other law entrance exams such as CUET, MH CET Law, TS LAWCET and others.