CLAT Notification 2020: Application,Syllabus & Exam Dates

The CLAT full form is the 'Common Law Admission Test'. There total of 19 Law Universities which are participating to conduct the exam as per the official website. The Exam takes place in order to offer admissions to the aspirants into the Undergraduate and PostGraduate Law Programs. Through this paper, the students can get admissions in different universities across India. 

• CLAT Notification 2020 will be out soon and will include all the information related to the test. For example, the instructions to the application form, syllabus, exam dates, etc.
• The application form will be available either in the last week of December 2019 or the first week of January 2020, check CLAT Exam Dates
• Attempting this paper will prove to be one of the best decisions of the students because it can get you into the best National Law University
• Considering the CLAT Syllabus, students are supposed to complete all 4 sections in the paper in order to qualify it
• It is important for the students to have cleared their 12th class from a recognized educational board, as to fulfill the basic CLAT Eligibility Criteria
• This Exam is going to be conducted in May 2020
• Attempting one CLAT Mock Test daily can help candidates improve their skills and understand the question paper pattern in a better way. Not only that, it will help the student crack the exam by acquiring the desired marks

CLAT 2020 Highlights

CLAT Exam Date 2020

The candidates can check the dates for this law entrance exam as follows:

CLAT 2020 Eligibility Criteria

To apply for the paper, one needs to check the Eligibility Criteria first because there is no point filling the form if one does not satisfy the eligibility criteria. It will only lead to form cancellation:

The citizens of India and NRIs who are below the age of 20 and who completed 10+2 or equivalent education with 45% of marks can apply.

CLAT Eligibility for UG Program

The students have to fulfill the complete CLAT Eligibility Criteria to appear for LLB Entrance Exam. Read the following for the same:

• There is no upper age-limit applicable to appear in this exam
• It is mandatory that the students must have completed their 12th standard or an equal level of the exam from a recognized board or university
• Candidates must provide the original certificates that show that they have successfully cleared their 12th class during the time of the admission. Candidates who fail to display the same will be disqualified from the admission procedure.

CLAT Eligibility Criteria for PG Program

Check the eligibility conditions for PG Program as follows:

• There is no application of upper age limit for the PG Program
• The students must have a minimum percentage in the L.L.B Program (or any other exam of equal level) which is the qualifying exam in order to sit in the PG Course
• The candidates who belong to the Unreserved category and OBC category must have acquired 55% as minimum marks in the Bachelor's Degree and other categories (SC/ST) are compulsory to get at least 50% marks 
• It is important that the aspirant must have cleared their final semester or final year of the qualifying paper on the admission date

CLAT 2020 Application Form

The CLAT Registration form will be released in December 2019. Before filling the form, one shall check the Eligibility Criteria because any candidate who does not meet the criteria for eligibility cannot apply for the exam. The candidates can follow the steps below in order to fill the CLAT 2020 form:

• Visit the official website i.e clat.ac.in
• Look for the link called Application Form
• Click on it
• Click on New Registration
• Fill the personal details accurately like Name, Phone Number, E-mail ID
• Register the details and candidates will get Registration Number & Password on their e-mail id and phone number
• Now, on the next page, log in with the registration credentials
• Enter the qualification details correctly
• Upload the scanned documents of identity proof and required qualification documents
• Upload Photograph and signature according to specifications
• Proceed to the payment of a fee
• Take a Print out of Confirmation page

CLAT Application Fee

After filling the form, candidates must pay an Application Fee. Payment of fees can be done only online, no offline mode is available.

CLAT 2020 Admit card

The CLAT Admit Card is always released 10-15 days prior to the examination takes place. This year, it was released in May 2020. Hall ticket is the most important aspect of any exam. The students without the call letter are not permitted into the exam hall.

The following steps can be followed in order to download the Admit card for CLAT 2020:

• Visit the official website i.e www.clatconsortiumofnlu.ac.in
• Look for the link called 'Admit Card' or 'Hall Ticket'
• Click on it
• A new page will open
• Enter registration number and password
• Click on Submit
• A new page will appear with the Admit Card of the candidate
• Candidates must save, download and take multiple print outs of their respective admit cards

CLAT Exam Centers

The exam takes place all over India. There are various CLAT Exam Centers spread in different states of the country. 

• The candidates must not create any kind of nuisance while they appear to write the exam
• In the exam center, no one shall carry any electronic gadgets like Phone, Bluetooth, etc.
• Candidates should compulsorily reach the exam center 15 minutes before the time scheduling of the exam
• In any case, where the students are found guilty, they will face negative consequences

CLAT 2020 Exam Pattern

CLAT Exam pattern reveals the subjects involved, number of questions and marking scheme. A candidate must be familiar with the latest exam pattern and can check as follows

The following table shows the Exam Pattern for Undergraduate Course (LLB):

The following table shows the Exam Pattern for Postgraduate Course (LLM):

CLAT Syllabus

The candidates can check some important topics below in the table for the Exam:

To know all the topics, check detailed CLAT Syllabus 2020

CLAT 2020 Preparation Tips

Everything will be possible in this world if you have a perfect plan and its implementation. So if you want to clear the exam, get a useful study plan with preparation tips as follows:

• Read More to improve language. read books, magazines, newspapers, and novels to enhance your vocabulary.
• Study the basics of grammar and this can be done even from school level grammar books to strengthen your basics. However, one needs to get your grammar right and fix the mistakes to secure a good rank 
• The books are the most important aspect whenever it comes to cracking an exam, check CLAT Preparation Books 2020
• For law aspirants, mathematics may not be a big deal as this is just Class 10 mathematics.
• Go through NCERT Mathematics textbooks of class 9 and class 10. 
• Legal aptitude continues to be the most important section.
• Important book references for this would be Constitution of India and Legal Penal Code. Importance of
• Moot Courts: Knowledge of arguing cases and knowing various laws at the tip of your tongue is a great thing to know for all aspiring lawyers

CLAT Previous Year Question Papers

By practicing the previous exam papers, the candidates get to understand the type of questions asked in the paper and also the difficulty level of the exam. So it is very important to practice CLAT Previous Year Question Papers to crack the CLAT Exam 2020.

CLAT Answer Key

Before the official CLAT Answer Key releases, a provisional one is released. The provisional answer key is extremely useful to aspirants as it can help them in calculating their tentative score in the CLAT Exam 2020. On the basis of this Provisional Key, candidates can raise objections against any question or answer as given in the Answer Key.

The final answer key is released afterward. The following steps can be followed to download the answer key:

• Visit the official Website
• Enter the login credentials like User Id/ Registration Number and Date of Birth/ Password
• Click on CLAT Answer Key tab & a new page will appear on the screen with the official Answer Key.
• Save the Answer Key as a PDF and the students can view it for the reference. 

CLAT Result

The CLAT Result for the year 2019 was released on June 14, 2019, at 6.30 PM. The candidates can download the result from the official website directly by following the steps given below:

• Visit the official website
• Search for CLAT Result 2020 or similar keyword
• Click on it
• A new page will appear where students must fill in their Registration Number & Password
• Enter/Submit the credentials
• Now, a new page will shoot open viewing the results & the scorecard
• Candidates can save and download the scorecard

Details Mentioned on the CLAT Scorecard

There are several things mentioned on the scorecard of the Result. The following are those details:

• Name: Name of the student who has given the test
• Roll Number: the roll number that is allocated to the student
• Category: the category to which the student belongs like General, SC, etc.
• Date of Birth: the candidate's date of birth is mentioned
• Score: the score achieved by the student
• Exam Qualifying Status: whether the student has cleared the exam or not
• All India Rank: the candidate's overall rank across India
• NRI Rank (students who had applied under NRI Quota)
• NRI Sponsored Rank (for the students who had applied under NRI Sponsored Quota)
• Legat Aptitude Marks: the candidate's marks in the Legal Aptitude Section

CLAT Cut off

The CLAT Cut Off releases once the exam had taken place. The following cut off is one of the previous years':

CLAT Seat Allotment 2020

The NLU begins the CLAT Seat Allotment according to the merit-cum-preference. The seat allotment procedure goes on for around a month. There are always possibilities of fluctuation in the total number of seats:

• 3 Seat allotment lists are released for admissions on the official website
• The selected candidates' names, roll numbers and all the information will be mentioned in the list
• The students can either finalize the allocated seat or go with the option of shifting
• Once the last date of withdrawal of admission process ends, the students will not get their refund
• CLAT for the previous year was held for total 2342 seats(All India Seats 1480, Sate wise seats 604, and Special Seats 258) in participating NLU's.

CLAT Counseling 2020

The CLAT Counseling 2020 will start when the results have been announced. The candidates who have their names in the first allotment can pay their Counseling Fee.

• A Counselling Fee of INR50000 is charged if any student wants to have their name in 1st seat allotment list
• In the very first round of the counseling, the candidates would need proper access to the account
• The next list will have the names of those candidates who are shortlisted and who have already paid the counseling fee in the last round along with the waitlisted candidate’ names

Documents Required in CLAT Counseling 2020

Candidates must carry the following documents at the time of counseling:

• Application Form
• Scorecard
• 10th & 12th Marksheets
• Admit Card
• Specially-abled Certificate (if applicable)
• Domicile Certificate (if applicable)
• Caste Certificate (if applicable)
• NRI Certificate (if applicable)
• Sponsored NRI Certificate (if applicable)

List of 19 Indian NLUs