The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT), a national-level competitive examination for the admission to five-year undergraduate and one-year postgraduate law programs offered by 22 National Law Universities of India, is a prestigious arena that sets the standards for future legal talent in the country. It is the National Law Universities that the CLAT PG exam is chiefly designed for, while it is the candidature of the student for the LL.M programs offered by these same universities that the exam aims to assess. The computer based exam of CLAT PG 2023 shall be conducted on December 18th, 2022. This exam will measure the students' knowledge in subject areas like Constitutional Law, Jurisprudence, Administrative law, Contract Law and Torts, Criminal law, International law, etc.
CLAT performance in PG plays a very important role in making it to the top National Law Universities for LLM. The result is anticipated to be issued in the last week of December 2022 or the first week of January 2 The selected candidates are supposed to take part in the process of the counselling be it for seat allotment or other events. As to the pre-drafted schedule of the event, it is predicted that the CLAT PG 2024 will be taken place in December 2023. Aspirants must start 12 months ahead of time, bidding focus on theory and concept reinforcement as well as the mastery of previous years papers duct. It is the regular and timely preparation and application that will help excel in such a competitive exam.
Event | Date |
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Release of CLAT PG 2024 notification | July 1, 2023 |
Last date to apply for CLAT PG 2024 | November 3, 2023 |
CLAT PG 2024 admit card release | November 20, 2023 |
CLAT PG 2024 exam | December 3, 2023 |
CLAT PG 2024 result announcement | January 2024 |
CLAT PG 2024 counselling | February-March 2024 |
Criteria | Details |
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Nationality | Indian citizen or NRI/PIO/OCI |
Age limit | No upper age limit |
Qualifying exam | LLB degree or an equivalent examination with a minimum of 50% marks or its equivalent grade in case of candidates belonging to General/OBC/PWD/NRI/PIO/OCI categories and 45% marks or its equivalent grade in case of candidates belonging to SC/ST categories |
Final year candidates | Candidates who are in their final year of the qualifying exam are also eligible to apply |
Tie breaker rule | In case of equal marks, the break of tie shall be by the following procedure and order as under: |
Exam | Details |
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Mode | Offline |
Language | English |
Duration | 2 hours |
Total marks | 120 |
Section | Weightage |
General Ability | 50% |
Legal Reasoning | 50% |
Subject | Books |
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Constitutional Law | - "Constitution of India" by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar - "Introduction to the Constitution of India" by D.D. Basu |
Jurisprudence | - "Jurisprudence: Legal Philosophy" by B.P. Pandey - "Jurisprudence and Legal Theory" by V.D. Mahajan |
Administrative Law | - "Administrative Law" by I.P. Massey - "Administrative Law" by S.P. Sathe |
Criminal Law | - "Ratanlal and Dhirajlal: The Code of Criminal Procedure" - "Ratanlal and Dhirajlal: The Indian Penal Code" |
International Law | - "International Law" by Malcolm N. Shaw - "International Law" by Dr. S.K. Kapoor |
Law of Contracts | - "Indian Contract Act" by Avatar Singh - "Contract Law" by R.K. Bangia |
Legal Reasoning | - "Analytical Reasoning" by M.K. Pandey - "Verbal and Non-Verbal Reasoning" by R.S. Aggarwal |
Legal GK & Current Affairs | - Newspapers (The Hindu, The Indian Express) - "Manorama Yearbook" |
Essay Writing | - "A Handbook for Letter Writing" by Arihant Publications - "Essay Writing for Competitive Exams" by Pulkit Khare |
NLU | General | OBC | SC | ST |
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National Law University, Delhi | 135 | 120 | 105 | 90 |
National Law University, Kolkata | 130 | 115 | 100 | 85 |
National Law University, Bangalore | 125 | 110 | 95 | 80 |
National Law University, Jodhpur | 120 | 105 | 90 | 75 |
National Law University, Gujarat | 115 | 100 | 85 | 70 |
Round | Date |
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1st Round | February 2024 |
2nd Round | March 2024 |
3rd Round | April 2024 |
4th Round | May 2024 |
5th Round | June 2024 |
Event | Date |
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Registration for counselling | February 1, 2024 |
Choice filling | February 2-8, 2024 |
Seat allotment | February 9-10, 2024 |
Reporting to the NLU | February 11-12, 2024 |