Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) is the most respected and
sort after tests of all the law entrances in the country. After your class XII
examination, you start preparing for this coveted and prestigious test. CLAT began
the journey of testing in 2008 and today there are more than 40K aspirers who
study, prepare and appear for this entrance every year. Appearing and clearing
this entrance will prove to be opening doors to opportunities in the field of law
in the best colleges across India.
Colleges where you Can Get In With CLAT
CLAT occurs every year and there is a selection of students
for the top rated law universities in the country. There are 19 national law
universities that are included in the list apart from the sort-after colleges
for law. Some colleges such as the HP National Law University in Shimla do have
their own process of selecting the students, but even those do accept the
scores of CLAT. CLAT Score is also accepted by various other law schools and
some of the other names are NMIMS, Mumbai, UPES Dehradun and Nirma University,
Ahmedabad, to name a few. Some of the colleges would be also be National Law School
Of India University in Bangalore, NALSAR university of Law in Hyderabad,
National Law Institute in Bhopal.
The Syllabus/Subjects
CLAT will be in online mode where
the paper consists of maximum of 200 questions. CLAT syllabus consists five different subjects. The subjects are English
(Comprehension), General Knowledge & Current Affairs, Elementary
Mathematics (Numerical Ability), Legal Aptitude and Logical Reasoning. The
topics that are to be covered within each of these subjects are detailed as
under:
English: This section will test the candidates' proficiency
in English based on passages that are tested for comprehension and grammar. In
the comprehension section, candidates will be asked questions that will test
their understanding of the passage, the theme of the passage and also the use
of various terms and words used in the passage. Grammar requires to have more
correction of incorrect grammatical sentences along with fill in the blanks of various
given sentences with appropriate words. Also, there can be questions testing
your approach towards setting the words in order to form sentences.
General Knowledge and Current Affairs: The knowledge will be
tested on the general awareness that will cover all static general knowledge.
Mathematics: The Math section is similar to many other
exams, but a bit more complex and twisted questions with application-based
attributes will be asked. This will test candidate's knowledge on elementary
mathematics– the math taught up to 10th Class/standard.
Legal Aptitude: This will surely help to test candidate's
inclination towards studying of law, research aptitude and the person’s
problem-solving ability in general. Questions may include legal propositions and
a set of facts where the mentioned proposition is applied.
Logical Reasoning: This section is going to allow the board
to test the candidate's ability to identify patterns, apply logical links to
the questions and rectify illogical arguments with more sensible options.
The Weightage of the Subjects
CLAT is two-hour duration test that will have 200 questions covering
the entire range of five different areas and is conducted online.
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English
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40
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Elementary
Mathematics
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20
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Logical Reasoning
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40
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General/Current Awareness
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50
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Legal Aptitude
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50
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Are you Eligible?
To be eligible for CLAT, the candidates must have secured 45%
marks in the Qualifying Exam that is their Class XII or any equivalent degree
which can even be diploma. This score is for all the unreserved students, which
also includes the specially abled as well as the OBC classes.
In case of candidates belonging to the reserved classes such
as the SC or ST a 40% of marks is the score limit for appearing for the exam.
Candidates who are appearing in the qualifying examination
in March/April 2019 are also eligible for appearing in CLAT 2019 online
examination. The result of the aforementioned qualifying examination or the
equivalent shall be submitted by the applicant at the time of admission to the
college without fail as this is the last chance to submit the proof, else the
admission will be withdrawn and you might just lose your seat to someone else.
CLAT 2019 will be held in May by NLU, Odisha.
