The CLAT 2025 results were announced on December 7, 2024. As soon as the results of CLAT were announced, students were nervous as well as excited about the CLAT 2025 cutoff. One major thing that every student is thinking right now is will the CLAT 2025 cut off go high this time. Given the moderate difficulty paper, number of withdrawn questions and other factors it is expected that the CLAT 2025 cut off will go lower this year. As four questions have been withdrawn from the CLAT 2025 question paper, the cutoff will now be calculated out of 116 marks instead of 120. CLAT 2025 was conducted on December 1, 2024. Read the complete article to get insightful information on CLAT 2025 cutoff, chances of CLAT 2025 cutoff to go lower, NLU-wise expected cutoff and more.
The expected cutoff marks for some of the top NLUs have been given in the table below
NLU Name | General | EWS | OBC | SC | ST | NRI |
100+ | 95+ | 90+ | 83+ | 78+ | - | |
100+ | 95+ | 90+ | 82+ | 78+ | - | |
98+ | - | 56+* | 80+ | 74+ | 89+ | |
95+ | - | 88+ | 79+ | 74+ | 88+ | |
95+ | 90+ | 87+ | 77+ | 70+ | 84+ | |
93+ | 81+ | 77+* | 71+* | 41+* | 43+ | |
91+ | 85+ | 82+* | 53+* | 41+* | 72+ |
*state category reservation
Apart from the cutoff marks, candidates can check expected rank-wise CLAT 2025 expected cutoff for all categories in the table below:
Category | NLSIU Bengaluru | NALSAR Hyderabad | WBNJUS Kolkata | NLU Jodhpur | GNLU Gandhinagar | MNLU Mumbai | RMNLU Lucknow |
100 | 150 | 250 | 350 | 450 | 600 | 750 | |
500 | 550 | - | - | 1200 | 3900* | 2300* | |
950 | 1100 | 23000* | 1400 | 1850 | 6400* | 3600* | |
3000 | 3500 | 4500 | 5000 | 6000 | 10000* | 25000* | |
6000 | 6000 | 8000 | 8000 | 11000 | 34000* | 34000* | |
- | - | 1250 | 1400 | 2800 | 33000 | 9500 |
*state category reservation
The below given factors will determine the CLAT 2025 cutoff based on the below given factors:
Total number of candidates who appeared for the CLAT exam
Difficulty level of the CLAT exam
Objections sustained after CLAT final answer key
Total number of seats available for admissions
The CLAT 2025 counselling registration commenced on December 9, 2024. Candidates who have been invited for CLAT 2025 counselling can register till December 20, 2024. The first CLAT 2025 seat allotment will be published on December 26, 2024. The CLAT seat allotment 2025 will be announced for five rounds. During the counselling process, candidates will have the options of ‘Freeze’, ‘Float’ and ‘Exit’. Candidates who meet the CLAT 2025 cutoff will be offered seats in their preferred NLUs. Such candidates will be required to pay the admission confirmation fee and complete the admission formalities.
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Hello Dear Student,
You can get CLAT PG Previous Year Question Papers (last 10 years) including answers from the Careers360 page below:
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Hi there,
The CLAT 2026 cut-off is not a single score because it varies for every National Law University (NLU), category, domicile quota, and counselling round. For top NLUs such as NLSIU Bengaluru, NALSAR Hyderabad, and WBNUJS Kolkata, the General category closing ranks were among the most competitive, typically closing
Hello Dear Student,
With a CLAT AIR of 19,688 , getting admission through the regular counselling rounds at most NLUs is difficult. However, as a Tamil Nadu domicile candidate under the BCO category , your best opportunity is usually Tamil Nadu National Law University , which has seats reserved for
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