CLAT 2025 to be held on December 1; registration from mid-July

NEW DELHI: The Consortium of National Law Universities (NLUs) has announced that the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2025 will be held on Sunday, December 1, 2024. The CLAT 2025 exam timings will be 2 pm to 4 pm.

The official notification released by the consortium reads, “The Executive Committee and the Governing Body of the Consortium of National Law Universities at its meeting held on April 26, 2024, decided that the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2025 shall be conducted Sunday, December 1, 2024, 2 pm-4 pm. Further details regarding the syllabus, application and counselling process shall be released shortly.”

Earlier, in response to a query by Careers360, the consortium informed that the application form for CLAT 2025 will open in the first or second week of July. The official website for CLAT registration 2025 is consortiumofnlus.ac.in. The CLAT registration fee is as mentioned below.

CLAT 2025 registration fee

CLAT 2025 Eligibility Criteria

Students who have completed their class 12 from a recognized board can appear in CLAT UG exam. They must have scored at least 45% marks in Class 12. In the case of SC/ST category candidates, the qualifying score is 40%.

For the CLAT PG exam, students are required to have an LLB degree with at least 50% marks (45 % in the case of SC/ST candidates) from an institute recognized by the Bar Council of India. Students currently in their final year of LLB are also eligible to apply.

The CLAT exam is conducted once every year for admission to 24 participating NLUs. Apart from the NLUs, more than 60 private and government law schools also accept admissions through CLAT scores. The courses offered by NLUs through CLAT include various types of 5-year integrated LLB programmes and one-year LLM.