CLAT 2020 - Notification, Application Form Date, Eligibility Criteria, Syllabus & Exam Pattern

CLAT 2020 - Common Law Admission Test

About CLAT exam

CLAT is the Common Law Admission Test. There total 19 LAW Universities which are participating to conduct CLAT exam 2020 (As per info on Official CLAT Website).

CHECK CLAT RESULT 2019 HERE

CLAT Exam Analysis for May 26, 2019

The candidates have given reviews regarding the CLAT Exam that took place on May 26, 2019. Candidates have told that the exam was disappointingly easy and the students who have not even studied hard can easily crack it. 

CTET 2020 Highlights

CLAT Exam Date 2020

The CLAT 2020 Notification will be out soon! The following table has the exam date details of CLAT 2020:

CLAT Eligibility Criteria 2020

In order to apply for CLAT exam, the candidate needs to check the Eligibility Criteria first because they cannot fill the form if they do not satisfy the eligibility criteria for CLAT 2020:

• The aspirants of India and NRI also who are having below age 20 and who secured 10+2 or equivalent education with 45% of marks scoring can apply.
• The candidates can get the complete details of CLAT age limit, educational qualification, etc. in our article CLAT Eligibility

CLAT Application Form 2020

The application form dates will be released in December 2019. The students, before they fill the application form for CLAT 2020, must check the Eligibility Criteria because any candidate who does not meet the criteria for eligibility shall not apply for the exam. The candidates can follow the steps below in order to fill the form:

• Firstly, visit the official website
• Then, look for the link called Application Form
• Click on it
• Now, candidates will 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 CLAT Application 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, the CLAT Admit Card was released in May 2020. The admit card is the most important aspect of any exam. The students without admit card are not permitted into the exam hall.

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

• Firstly, visit the official website of CLAT
• Then, look for the link called 'Admit Card' or 'Hall Ticket'
• Click on it
• A new page will open
• Candidates will enter their 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 CLAT Exam takes place all over India. There are various exam centers spread in different states of the country. 

• The candidates must not create any kind of nuisance while they appear to write the CLAT 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 CLAT Exam Pattern for Undergraduate Course (LLB):

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

CLAT Syllabus

The students must know the CLAT Syllabus 2020 and can check as follows:

English Language & Comprehension CLAT Syllabus – 40 Questions

• Synonyms/Antonyms
• Analogy
• Idioms and Phrases
• One-Word Substitution
• Cloze Test
• Fill in the blanks
• Sentence Improvement
• Sentence Rearrangement
• Spelling Mistakes
• Spot the Error
• Reading Comprehension

Legal Aptitude CLAT Syllabus – 50 Questions

• International Law
• Criminal Law
• Indian Constitution
• Legal Terms
• Legal Maxims
• Family Law
• Contracts
• Legal Propositions

Quantitative Aptitude CLAT Syllabus – 20 Questions

• Profit & Loss
• Interest
• Percentage
• Partnership & Discounts
• Number Systems
• Surds and Indices
• Simplification
• Approximation
• HCF & LCM
• Square Roots
• Ratio & Proportion
• Average
• Logarithms
• Areas & Volumes

General Knowledge CLAT Syllabus – 50 Questions

• General Science
• Economics
• Technology
• Sports
• Books & Authors
• Art & Culture
• Famous People & Places
• Static GK
• Current Affairs

Reasoning Ability CLAT Syllabus – 40 Questions

• Analogy
• Coding-Decoding
• Classification
• Number Test
• Series
• Blood Relations
• Order & Ranking
• Time Sequence
• Direction & Distance
• Assumptions
• Arguments
• Conclusions

CLAT 2020 Preparation Tips and Strategies

Everything will be possible in this world if you have a perfect plan and its implementation. So if you want to clear the CLAT 2020 Exam, get 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, you need to get your grammar right and fix the mistakes to secure a good rank in CLAT 2018.
• 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 of CLAT 2020.
• 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 previous year question papers of CLAT to crack the CLAT exam.

CLAT Answer Key

Before the official CLAT Answer Key releases, a provisional one is released. CLAT provisional answer key is extremely useful to aspirants as it can help them in calculating their tentative score in the exam. On the basis of this CLAT 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 CLAT answer key 2020:

• Visit the official Clat Website
• Enter the login credentials like CLAT 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 CLAT 2020 Answer Key as a PDF and the students can view it for the reference. 

CLAT Result

The CLAT Result 2019 was released on June 14, 2019, at 6.30 PM. The candidates can download the result from the official website of CLAT 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 CLAT 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
• CLAT 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 of CLAT 2020 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 CLAT 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 CLAT counseling, the candidates would need proper access to the CLAT 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

There are certain documents which are required during the time of CLAT Counseling 2020, given as follows:

1. CLAT Application Form 2020
2. CLAT Scorecard 2020
3. 10th & 12th Marksheets
4. CLAT Admit Card 2020
5. Specially-abled Certificate (if applicable)
6. Domicile Certificate (if applicable)
7. Caste Certificate (if applicable)
8. NRI Certificate (if applicable)
9. Sponsored NRI Certificate (if applicable)