The Common Law Admission Test for 2020 is just around the corner. It becomes very important for the students to get idea about the pattern, difficulty level and analysis of the CLAT exam as concluded from previous years. This entrance exam is conducted every year for admission to various reputed law schools of India.The consortium of NLUs is going to conduct the entrance exam for CLAT 2020. The aim of this exam is to provide students with highest standards of legal education to make Indian legal studies comparable with the highly reputed international institutions for law. Not only the NLUs, but several private colleges and universities also accept the CLAT Score.
CLAT 2020 is being conducted for the admission of students to UG & PG law programs across 22 NLUs and nearly 52 private-aided and private-unaided institutions. The competition is moderately tough with almost 50k students appearing annually for 2300 seats across the national law schools of country. For current year, the date for CLAT 2020 exams has been postponed due to the pandemic outbreak. The old date for exam was on May 10, 2020 which is extended till further notice by the consortium of NLUs. Most likely, the CLAT exam is going to be conducted by the second or third week of August and the CLAT Result Date is yet to be notified. All you need is to keep a regular check at the official website of CLAT for the notification of exam date.
The eligibility criteria and exam paperpattern for CLAT UG & CLAT PG will help you understand the intricacies of this national level competitive exam.
The questions in the CLAT UG paper will be of MCQ type, based on a 400-450 words passage. The examination pattern for CLAT UG 2020 is given below in the table -
Exam Name | CLAT UG, Common Law Admission Test |
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Exam Mode | Offline |
Question Type | MCQ |
Exam Duration | 2 Hours |
Total Marks | 150 |
Negative Marking | Yes (0.25) |
Exam Paper language | English only |
Syllabus | English, GK, Legal & Logical Reasoning |
Official Website | Consortiumofnlus.ac.in |
Exam Name | CLAT PG, Common Law Admission Test |
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Exam Mode | Offline |
Question Type | MCQ + Passage writing |
Exam Duration | 2 Hours |
Total Marks | 150 |
Negative Marking | Yes (0.25) |
Exam Paper language | English only |
Syllabus | Constitutional & Other Laws |
Official Website | Consortiumofnlus.ac.in |
Note: The candidates who will secure at least 40% (35% for SC/ST) in the objective section will be qualified for evaluation in the passage writing section for CLAT PG.
The results for this year are going to be declared by the DNLU, Jabalpur in August tentatively according to the last notification.The CLAT 2020 Results will be published on the official website of The consortium. The website will firstly release a provisional answer key for the candidates to cross-check their responses in the exam.The results will be displayed after the final drafting of answer key. Candidates can check results anytime thereafter. The NLUs will release the cut-off on their official website once the result is declared.
CLAT Exam Centers | ||||
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Hyderabad | Ahmedabad | Srinagar | Mumbai | Bhubaneswar |
Kota | Varanasi | Gandhinagar | Vishakhapatnam | Jamshedpur |
Navi | Cuttack | Bardang | Kanpur | Vijayawada |
Faridabad | Ranchi | Nagpur | Amritsar | Gangtok |
Lucknow | Guwahati | Gurgaon | Bangalore | Thane |
Mohali | Chennai | Dehradun | Muzzafarpur | Hisar |
Mysore | Pune | Patiala | Madurai | Haldwani |
Patna | Kangra | Kochi | Imphal | Jalandhar |
Coimbatore | Nainital | Bilaspur | Shimla | Bhopal |
Shillong | Jaipur | Agra | Kolkata | Raipur |
Jammu | Indore | Delhi | Jodhpur | Noida |
For detailed information about CLAT Exam visit consortiumofnlus.ac.in and contact IESOnline.
Apart from CLAT, which is the gateway to the 18 National Law Schools in India' certain other entrance exams which any law aspirant should keep in mind and appear for are:
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