The Consortium of National Law Universities announced CLAT 2027 in July 2026. Registration opened on 3 August, was first set to close on 31 October and was extended to 7 November 2026. The test is on Sunday, 6 December 2026, from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM, in pen and paper mode. CLAT UG is the way into the five-year integrated LL.B. programmes of the National Law Universities, and CLAT PG into their LL.M. programmes.
CLAT 2027: the schedule
| Step | Date |
|---|---|
| Notification | July 2026 |
| Registration | 3 August to 7 November 2026 (first set to close on 31 October) |
| Admit card | Before the exam, on the date the Consortium announces |
| Exam | Sunday, 6 December 2026, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM |
| Provisional answer key, objections, final key and result | After the exam, on the Consortium’s website |
| Counselling for NLU seats | After the result |
Who can sit CLAT 2027
- CLAT UG: Class 12 or an equivalent examination with at least 45% marks, or 40% for SC and ST candidates. Students appearing in Class 12 in March or April 2027 can sit the test. There is no upper age limit.
- CLAT PG: an LL.B. or an equivalent degree with at least 50% marks, or 45% for SC, ST and PwD candidates. Students in the final year of the LL.B. can sit it.
NAAC A++
NIRF #2 (2025)Jawaharlal Nehru UniversityNew Delhi, DelhiAdmission: CUET UG, CUET PG, NET/JRFEst. 1969View details
NAAC A++
NIRF #4 (2025)Jamia Millia IslamiaNew Delhi, DelhiAdmission: CUET UG, CUET PG, NET/JRFEst. 1920 · 239 acresView details
NAAC A++
NIRF #5 (2025)University of DelhiNew Delhi, DelhiAdmission: CUET UG, CUET PG, JEE MainEst. 1922View details
NAAC A
NIRF #6 (2025)Banaras Hindu UniversityVaranasi, Uttar PradeshAdmission: CUET UG, CUET PG, NET/JRFEst. 1916 · 1300 acresView details
NAAC A+
NIRF #10 (2025)Aligarh Muslim UniversityAligarh, Uttar PradeshAdmission: CUET UG, NET/JRF, NEET UGEst. 1920View details
NAAC A+
NIRF #18 (2025)University of HyderabadHyderabad, TelanganaAdmission: CUET UG, CUET PG, NET/JRFEst. 1974 · 2000 acresView details
NAAC A++
NIRF #37 (2025)Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar UniversityLucknow, Uttar PradeshAdmission: CUET UG, CUET PG, NET/JRFEst. 1996View details
NAAC A+
NIRF #77 (2025)Central University of PunjabBathinda, PunjabAdmission: CUET UG, CUET PG, NET/JRFEst. 2009 · 500 acresView details
NAAC A+
NIRF #79 (2025)Tezpur UniversityTezpur, AssamAdmission: CUET UG, CUET PG, NET/JRFEst. 1994 · 262 acresView details
NAAC A
NIRF #82 (2025)Mizoram UniversityAizawl, MizoramAdmission: CUET UG, CUET PG, NET/JRFEst. 2000View detailsFee
| Category | Fee |
|---|---|
| General, OBC, PwD, NRI, PIO and OCI | Rs. 4,000 |
| SC, ST and BPL | Rs. 3,500 |
The UG paper
CLAT UG has 120 questions in two hours. A right answer gets 1 mark and a wrong one loses 0.25. The questions are built on reading: most sections give a passage and ask questions on it, so speed of reading matters as much as knowledge.
| Section | Share of the paper |
|---|---|
| English Language | About a fifth |
| Current Affairs, including General Knowledge | About a quarter |
| Legal Reasoning | About a quarter |
| Logical Reasoning | About a fifth |
| Quantitative Techniques | About a tenth |
CLAT PG also has 120 questions in two hours, on passages from law and judgments.
CLAT and the Central Universities
CLAT is the test of the National Law Universities, which are State universities set up by their own Acts. Law at most Central Universities is admitted differently: the five-year B.A. LL.B. through CUET UG at many of them, the three-year LL.B. through CUET PG or a test of the university’s own. A student who wants both kinds of seat sits both tests. The CLAT page of this site lists the Central University law programmes whose admission documents name CLAT, and files their notices with the steps of the exam.
What comes next
- Admit card: download it from consortiumofnlus.ac.in as soon as it is out, check the centre and the reporting time, and keep two prints.
- 6 December: the test, from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM. Reach well before the reporting time.
- After the test: the provisional answer key with a paid objection window, the final key and the result.
- Counselling: registration for the seats of the participating NLUs, in rounds, by rank.
How registration ran, with the documents it needed, is in CLAT 2027 registration.
