About CLAT 2024
CLAT 2024 – The Consortium of National Law Universities (NLUs) has released the CLAT application form 2024 on July 1, 2023. Candidates can register and fill out the online CLAT 2024 application form by November 03, 2023. The official website for CLAT exam 2024 is consortiumofnlus.ac.in. The revised syllabus of CLAT 2024 has also been released. The number of questions in CLAT 2024 has been reduced from 150 to 120. CLAT exam 2024 will be conducted on December 3, 2023, in offline mode. The law entrance exam will be held in over 127 exam centres across the country. The exam duration will be two hours.
CLAT 2024 Syllabus Revised
The Consortium of NLUs has reduced the total number of questions asked in the CLAT exam. The total number of questions in the CLAT exam has been cut down to 120, which was earlier 150. The section-wise distribution of questions is given below.
| Subject Areas with weightage: | (approximate number of questions) |
|---|---|
| English Language | 22-26 questions, or roughly 20% of the paper |
| Current Affairs, including General Knowledge | 28-32 questions, or roughly 25% of the paper |
| Legal Reasoning | 28-32 questions, or roughly 25% of the paper |
| Logical Reasoning | 22-26 questions, or roughly 20% of the paper |
| Quantitative Techniques | 10-14 questions, or roughly 10% of the paper |
What is CLAT Exam?
The Common Law Admission Test, also known as CLAT is a national-level law entrance exam for admission to 24 national law universities and more than 61 affiliated colleges. The exam is conducted by the Consortium of National Law Universities (NLUs) in offline, pen and paper format. Candidates who pass the examination will be eligible for admission to 5-year integrated LLB and LLM programmes offered by the participating national law universities.
CLAT 2024 exam events
CLAT 2024 – Events | Details |
|---|---|
CLAT 2024 official notification | The consortium has released the CLAT 2024 admission notification. The official notification informs candidates about eligibility criteria and CLAT important dates. |
CLAT application form 2024 | Registration for CLAT 2024 has begun at the official website – consrotiumofnlus.ac.in. |
CLAT 2024 admit card | The CLAT admit card 2024 will likely be released in the last week of November 2023 |
CLAT 2024 exam date | The offline-based CLAT 2024 will be conducted on December 03, 2023. CLAT question paper will have multiple-choice questions on subjects like general knowledge, current affairs, legal and logical reasoning and quantitative ability. The PG-CLAT will have questions on common subjects of the LLB programme. |
CLAT post-exam activities | After the conduct of the examination, the consortium will release the CLAT 2024 answer key and result. candidates shortlisted based on CLAT results are invited for counselling. |
CLAT Highlights: Registered candidates, intake, NLUs (Updated)
Being a national-level law entrance exam, CLAT is attended by thousands of candidates every year. It is one of the most competitive law entrance exams in India at present. Mentioned below are the details of the CLAT exam in the previous three years.
CLAT exam highlights
| Particular | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 |
| CLAT Registration | CLAT UG – 60,000 CLAT LLM – 10,000 | Number of candidates registered – 60,895 Number of candidates appeared – 56,472 | Number of Registered Candidates – 70,277 Number of appeared candidates – 62,107
| Number of Registered Candidates – 75,183 Number of appeared candidates – 59,443
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| Number of seats offered | CLAT UG – 2,860+ CLAT LLM – 1,160+ | CLAT UG – 2,801 CLAT LLM – 1,072 | 5-year integrated LLB programs – 2622 seats LLM program – 808 seats | 5-year integrated LLB programs – 2622 seats LLM program – 808 seats |
| Participating institutes | CLAT UG – Undergraduate courses are offered by all the twenty-four (24) participating NLUs CLAT PG – Postgraduate courses are available at nineteen (19) NLUs. To check the list of national law universities – Click here To check the NLU-wise list of courses – Click here | |||
| Highest marks | CLAT UG – 116.75 CLAT PG – 95.25 | CLAT UG – 121 CLAT PG – 94 | CLAT UG – 125.5/150 CLAT PG – 85.75/120 | CLAT UG – 127.25/150 CLAT PG – 72/120 |
How was CLAT last year?
According to several students and experts, CLAT exam held on December 18, was moderate difficulty and a lengthy paper. Comparatively, the English section was the easiest of all the sections. The CLAT question paper had comprehension-based questions, each paragraph followed by 4-5 multiple choice type questions. A total of 150 questions were asked in the examination.
