CLAT 2025 counselling likely to begin after Delhi HC hearing on March 3; selection process explained

NEW DELHI: The Consortium of National Law Universities (NLUs) has not yet commenced the CLAT counselling process 2025 for the LLB and LLM admissions due to the ongoing legal battles over several alleged errors in the answer key used for result preparation. The Supreme Court has recently transferred all petitions related to CLAT to Delhi High Court to avoid contradictory verdicts.

The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT 2025) was held on December 1 for undergraduate (UG) and postgraduate (PG) law admissions at 24 NLUs in India. After the CLAT answer key was published, several candidates claimed that the provisional answers had 12 errors . Candidates also expressed dissatisfaction on the unreasonably high objection fee of Rs 1,000.

A single-bench of the Delhi High Court instructed the Consortium of NLUs to revise the CLAT results and publish the updated final answer key. The division bench, which heard the petition challenging this decision, refused to interfere. Following this, the Consortium of NLUs approached the Supreme Court “for appropriate relief against this order”.

The top court, which heard the matter, recently instructed to transfer all related cases to Delhi High Court to avoid contradictory judgement. The high court is scheduled to hear the case on March 3.

The single bench in its first verdict asked the Consortium of NLUs to revisit the merit list and revise the results. The Delhi HC directed the officials to revise question number 14 and announced that option C is the correct answer. It accepted the expert committee’s recommendation to exclude question number 100. Based on these corrections, the court asked the Consortium to declare the CLAT revised results .

What is the counselling process after CLAT?

Around 15,000 aspirants had registered for the CLAT 2025 and recorded an overall attendance of 92.13%. The exam was held in 141 exam centres across the states and 4 UTs. Nearly three months after the scheduled CLAT counselling registration date, the admission process has not begun yet. The CLAT counselling registration for UG and PG was slated to commence on December 9.

“The fresh calendar to be announced after our SC appeal process and expected relief,” as per the last notification published at the official website, consortiumofnlus.ac.in.

• Is everyone invited for CLAT counselling? After the revised CLAT counselling dates are announced, only the qualified candidates will receive an email, SMS, and an invitation on their CLAT candidate login portal to participate in admission counselling.

• Is CLAT counselling online or offline? CLAT counselling is conducted in online mode. Candidates will have to login at consortiumofnlus.ac.in using the credentials generated during registration to apply for the counselling process.

• How many preferences can you submit? They are required to submit a minimum of 15 preferences and will be allowed to add or modify the preferences before the registration deadline.

• CLAT counselling fees - Candidates from the general category will have to pay Rs 30,000 and those from the ST, SC, OBC, BC, EWS, and PWD categories are required to pay Rs 20,000.

• How many rounds in CLAT counselling? There will be a total of five rounds of counselling. Candidates who have been allotted seats will be able to ‘freeze’ or ‘float’ options.

• Options in CLAT admission counselling - Those who are satisfied with the CLAT seat allocation and do not wish to participate in the subsequent rounds will have to opt for ‘freeze’. Applicants who are awaiting higher preference will have to choose the ‘float’ option. Candidates will also be given an ‘exit’ option if they wish to not participate in the CLAT UG, PG counselling process after registration.