Candidates can check CLAT previous year’s cutoff to get an idea about their admission chances in the top five NLUs.
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NEW DELHI: The Consortium of NLUs will conduct the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2023 on December 18, 2022, in offline mode. Candidates who will qualify for the CLAT 2023 exam will become eligible for admission to the five-year integrated LLB and LLM programmes offered by the CLAT participating NLUs. CLAT cut-off marks are the minimum qualifying score that a candidate must secure to get admission to law courses offered by (NLUs).
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The cut-offs for CLAT exam are made available during the counselling and seat allotment. CLAT cut-off changes every year depending on several factors. The parameters on which CLAT cutoff would depend are
Number of candidates appearing for CLAT 2023
Difficulty level of CLAT 2023 exam
Marks and rank obtained by the candidates
College preference given by the candidates
Number of seats offered by the national law universities
Reservation policy of NLUs.
Candidates should refer to the previous year's CLAT cut-offs to get an idea about the expected cut-off for CLAT 2023. The top ranked NLUs are most preferred. As a result, they have higher cut-offs compared to remaining NLUs. For top 5 NLUs, the category wise cut-offs are mentioned below.
Name of NLU | General (All India) | OBC | SC | ST | ||||
Opening rank | Closing rank | Opening rank | Closing rank | Opening rank | Closing rank | Opening rank | Closing rank | |
NLSIU Bangalore | 1 | 85 | 88 | 638 | 431 | 2224 | 554 | 3428 |
NALSAR Hyderabad | 8 | 162 | 505 | 7849* | 1252 | 2761 | 3818 | 5158 |
WBNUJS Kolkata | 117 | 257 | 1989* | 11472 * | 2503 | 4933 | 5084 | 7238 |
NLIU Bhopal | 241 | 451 | 774 | 1510 | 3618 | 4793 | 6076 | 10189 |
NLU Jodhpur | 155 | 378 | - | - | 2318 | 5881 | 1727 | 7620 |
*State category
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Name of NLU | General (All India) | OBC | SC | ST | ||||
Opening rank | Closing rank | Opening rank | Closing rank | Opening rank | Closing rank | Opening rank | Closing rank | |
NLSIU Bangalore | 14 | 163 | 138 | 549 | 353 | 1388 | 511 | 790 |
NALSAR Hyderabad | 25 | 240 | 204 | 664 | 1014 | 1618 | 669 | 5158 |
WBNUJS Kolkata | 82 | 579 | 1498* | 3997* | 661 | 3172 | 1806 | 3113 |
NLIU Bhopal | 215 | 379 | 645* | 1609* | 1466 | 3154 | 3135 | 4757 |
NLU Jodhpur | 116 | 666 | - | - | 1433 | 2626 | 2037 | 4800 |
*State category
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