The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT), the national level entrance exam for admissions to Undergraduate (UG) and Postgraduate (PG) law programmes offered by 24 National Law Universities in India for 2025, will be held on December 1, 2024.

CLAT is organized by the Consortium of National Law Universities. Several affiliate universities and organisations also may use CLAT result for admissions and recruitment. The list of National Law Universities with link to website of each is available at https://consortiumofnlus.ac.in/clat-2025/. The Programs at each is available at the website of each University.

Eligibility: Indian Nationals/NRIs seeking admission have to appear for CLAT 2025. Foreign Nationals need not appear for the test

For admission to the Under-Graduate Programme (Five Year Integrated Law Degree- BA.LL.B/B.Sc LL.B/B.Com LL.B/BBA.LL.B/BSW LL.B), applicant should have passed 10+2 or equivalent examination with a minimum of 45% marks (40% marks for SC / ST / PwD categories)/its equivalent grade. 

For admission to the Post-Graduate Programme (One Year LL.M. Degree), applicants should have passed LL.B. or an equivalent examination with a minimum of 50% marks (45% marks for SC / ST / PwD categories) or its equivalent grade.

There is no upper age limit for admission to UG or PG Programs.

Those appearing in the final qualifying examination in April / May, 2025, are also eligible to apply for the concerned UG/PG Programs. 

CLAT 2025 will be conducted offline on 01 December 2024 (Sunday) from 2 pm to 4 pm (for eligible candidates of PwD Category, the examination will be from 2 pm to 4.40 pm). 

CLAT Structure: CLAT UG and CLAT PG will have 120 Multiple-Choice Questions of one mark each carrying a maximum of 120 marks. 

CLAT UG will have questions from (i) English Language (22-26 questions or roughly 20% of the paper) (ii) Current Affairs, including General Knowledge (28-32 questions, 25%) (iii) Legal Reasoning (28-32 questions, 25%) (iv) Logical Reasoning (22-26 questions, 20%) (v) Quantitative Techniques (10-14 questions, 10%). 

CLAT PG will have questions from Constitutional Law and Other areas of law such as Jurisprudence, Administrative Law, Law of Contract, Torts, Family Law, Criminal Law, Property Law, Company Law, Public International Law, Tax Law, Environmental Law, and Labour & Industrial Law.

There will be a negative marking of 0.25 for each wrong answer. The detailed syllabus for each is given at https://consortiumofnlus.ac.in/clat-2025/

Application: Applications can be submitted online at https://consortiumofnlus.ac.in/clat-2025/ latest by 11.59 pm on 15th October, 2024. 

Application Fee: Online Application Fee for both UG and PG Programmes will be Rs. 4,000/- (Rs. 3,500/- for SC / ST / PwD / BPL candidates) to be paid online.  In addition to this, the cost of previous years' question papers is Rs.500/-.