All the entrance exams nowadays have everything online. CLAT is an entrance test to get admission to various undergraduate and postgraduate law Colleges. Candidates who have completed 10 + 2 are eligible to apply. You are supposed to register in the official website and complete the application form. After that you will be informed the exam date and you can download your admit card from your profile. You can login to your profile by using your application number and password.

Its okay if you lost your admit card. You can download it from the website by login in your profile using your application ID and password. After downloading the PDF you can take a print out. Don't worry.

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Dear Sakshi,

Clat counselling is done by the CLAT Consortium after the CLAT examination. Students who qualified CLAT can get their university through this process.

Selection through CLAT counselling will depend on your rank, your college preference, as well as the specific reservation parameters of specific universities which include both horizontal and vertical reservations .

For example: NLSIU, Bangalore offers reservations for Karnataka domicile students while other universities may provide special reservation for women etc. Apart from this, you have your caste based and EWS reservations. Therefore, whether or not a candidate is selected through counselling and for which university depends on a lot of factors.

Best of luck! I hope this helps!

Dear Janit,

You may not get an NLU at a rank of 2911 if you belong to the general category .

According to past trends, the last rank in 2021 to get admission to a National Law University was rank 2040 for NLU Sonipat. You can read more about CLAT cut-offs here:

https://law.careers360.com/articles/clat-marks-vs-rank

However, that should not stop you from going for the counselling process. The fees you submit for counselling will be returned to you if you are not selected.

Also, please do not be disheartened! There are many good private institutes like Nirma which provide admission based on CLAT rank. Here is a list of such university, please follow the link posted below:

https://law.careers360.com/colleges/list-of-private-law-colleges-in-india-accepting-clat

Best of luck!

Dear Bhoomi,

When should you start preparing : if you want to appear for CLAT 2023, you have approximately one year to prepare and thus you should start with your preparations right away .

How to prepare for the new CLAT pattern :

The new pattern, which was introduced in 2020, requires you to think critically in all five subjects.

Reading comprehension : To prepare for this skill, an aspirant will need to read a reputed English language newspaper regularly. The Hindu or The Indian Express are good newspapers for this. This will increase the comprehension speed and ability of the aspirant, which is non-negotiable for a lengthy exam like CLAT. Reading newspapers will also help with current affairs and general knowledge .

Current affairs : apart from reading newspapers daily, for static questions, one can look for such websites as Gktoday. Try to write down important events and revise them frequently.

Logical comprehension : to read critically, one needs to read good quality editorial and opinion pieces from the newspapers and attempt the questions of similar exams like LSAT or GMAT.

Quantitative aptitude : for quantitative aptitude, use questions from standard exams like SBI PO and standard competitive books like Arun Sharma or R.S Aggarwal.

Legal reasoning: read current legal issues such as Roe v Wade being overturned by the Supreme Court of the USA, electoral bonds, anti-defection law etc. You will find these covered in the newspapers. According to CLAT Consortium , PRIOR LEGAL KNOWLEDGE ABOUT SUBJECTS LIKE TORTS, CONTRACTS and IP LAW IS NOT REQUIRED. You simply need to be legally aware especially about the Constitution and Constitutional matters.

Solving the previous year questions and several mocks is a must. Overall, focus on reading newspapers and solving mocks and PYQs. (Similar strategies also work for AILET, SLAT, MHCET, BHU, LSAT India etc).

I hope this information helps!

Hi Rohini,

Solving mocks and Previous Year Papers is essential to ace any competitive examination.

You can get Previous Year Question Papers (PYPs) from many websites. For example you can use the following link to get the PYPs of 2021, 2020, 2019 and 2018. These are provided along with the answer keys.

https://law.careers360.com/articles/clat-sample-papers

I hope this helps!

Hello,

The Consortium of National Law Universities (NLUs) will conduct the CLAT 2022 counselling. Candidates who are eligible to appear for counselling will get an invitation sent in CLAT login account. Invitation for the counselling will be sent to approximately five times the number of seats in each category. After receiving the invitation the candidates need to register for the counselling. The registration window will be open from June 25, 2022, to June 27, 2022 till midnight. Candidates need to register and select minimum five preference of institutes. The seat allotment will be released on June 30, 2022. Payment of fee to the respective NLUs, Accepting/Locking the seat and uploading documents and pay or Applying for Revise and submitting documents and paying fee to the NLUs or Exiting admission process can be done from June 30, 2022 to July 2, 2022. To check the schedule and relevant information click on the link below

https://law.careers360.com/articles/clat-counselling

If you seeking admission to UG course you may use our CLAT college predictor tool to know the list of institutes in which you may get seat based on your rank

https://law.careers360.com/clat-college-predictor?utm_source=qna&utm_medium=clat_cp

Dear Rohini,

Yes! You can definitely prepare for CLAT without coaching . Many successful have done so in the past.

For CLAT, the most inexpensive study material is a daily English newspaper which will help you in reading comprehension, logical reasoning and current affairs. The Indian Express or the Hindu will be an ideal fit.

You must solve past year question papers (especially after 2020). These PYPs are available for free on the internet. You can follow the link below to get them:

https://law.careers360.com/download/clat-sample-papers-previous-years

For Maths, you can solve PYPs and use standard maths textbooks for competitive exams like the ones from RS Agarwala and Arun Sharma. You can also subscribe to mock series of any coaching institute for practice.These mock series are quite inexpensive as compared to offline classroom programmes.

For free mock test, go to the link below:

https://learn.careers360.com/test-series-clat-free-mock-test/

Also try to solve question papers of comparable exams like SLAT, LSAT etc. Practicing a lot of questions and being consistent with your preparation will surely result in a success!

I hope this helps!

Hello Tanushree!

If you want to pursue the five year BA.LLB (Hons.) then writing the CLAT examination will be helpful.There are private colleges which take admission through CLAT.

Below is a list of best private colleges for law in India:

1. Jindal Global Law School, Sonipat :

Pros: JGLU boasts of excellent infrastructure and has great Professors.

Cons: can be considered expensive (around 41.5 lakhs for five years).

Admission: through LSAT India.

2. Symbiosis Law School, Pune :

Pros: reputable college, inexpensive compared to JGLU.

Cons: the facilities are not comparable to JGLU but are still quite decent.

Admission: through SLAT.

3. Army Institute of Law, Mohali :

Admission: conducts its own exam called AIL LET

4. I nstitute of Law, Nirma University, Ahmedabad :

Admission: through CLAT

5. Symbiosis Law School, Noida :

Admission: through SLAT.

For more information on private law colleges, you can follow the link posted below:

https://law.careers360.com/colleges/list-of-private-law-colleges-in-india

For private colleges which accept CLAT marks, you can follow the link posted below:

https://law.careers360.com/colleges/list-of-private-law-colleges-in-india-accepting-clat

I hope this helps!

Dear Rohini,

Coaching for CLAT is not compulsory and a lot of aspirants who are successful do not take coachings.

However, as you want to opt for inexpensive coaching, you may take standard All India Scholarship Tests organised by different coaching institutes such as Clatprep, LawPrep, LegalEdge, CLATPossible etc. They offer good scholarships and fee deductions based on your performance in these tests.

Apart from this you can check IDIA (Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access to Legal Education) which offers rigorous training for CLAT entrance test based on your performance in its basic aptitude test.

You can also take the FREE mock test provided by Careers360. Please follow the link posted below for this.

https://learn.careers360.com/test-series-clat-free-mock-test/

Hello Aspirant,

See if you belongs to General category then on such All India rank in CLAT 2022 you have almost no chances of any of the NLUs or any good government law colleges but you can try for some private law colleges that take admission on the basis of CLAT score.

Note that above prediction is based on previous year's data of cut-offs of different institutions and the cut-offs are bound to change every year depending upon the various factors which keeps on varying every year.

So don't assume it as final call. You should appear for seat allotment process.

And you can get all details about CLAT seat allotment process from the link given below :-

https://law.careers360.com/articles/clat-seat-allotment

You can check out the previous year's CLAT cut-off data from the link given below :-

https://law.careers360.com/articles/clat-cutoff

Also you can predict the colleges on your own using your CLAT score by using CLAT College Predictor which you can access from the link given below :-

https://law.careers360.com/clat-college-predictor?icn=QnA&ici=qna_answer

I hope this information helps you.

Good Luck for your future!!