CLAT 2023: Previous year cut-offs for top-ranked national law universities

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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Prashita Mishra | December 6, 2022 | 09:50 AM IST

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.

Previous year CLAT cut-offs for top ranked 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.

UG CLAT cut-off 2022 for 5-year integrated LLB programme

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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CLAT LLM cut-off 2022

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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