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The Common Law Admission Test 2023 (“CLAT 2023”) is a national-level entrance examination for admissions to undergraduate (“UG”) and postgraduate (“PG”) law programmes offered by 22 National Law Universities in India. Several affiliate universities and organisations also use the CLAT exam for admissions and recruitment respectively.
Note: CLAT 2023 will be conducted only Once for the academic year 2023-24
- Consortium of NLU announced that CLAT 2022 and CLAT 2023 would be conducted in 2022.
- CLAT 2023 will be conducted on 18 December 2022
Events | Dates |
Date of Notification | 6 August, 2022 |
Registration Starts | 8 August, 2022 |
Last date to apply (ext. Date) | 18 November, 2022 |
Last date for online fee payment | 18 November, 2022 |
Admit card availability | First week of December 2022 |
CLAT 2023 Exam | December 18, 2022 |
Release of provisional answer key | To be notified |
Release of final answer key | To be notified |
Result declaration | To be notified |
Here are the exam highlights for CLAT 2023 for your quick view and understanding:
Exam Name | CLAT (Common Law Admission Test) |
CLAT Exam Conducting Body | The Consortium of National Law Universities |
CLAT Exam Frequency | Once a year |
CLAT Exam Mode | Offline |
CLAT Exam Duration | 120 Minutes |
CLAT Exam Language | English |
CLAT Exam Purpose | Admissions to BA LLB, BCom LLB, BSc LLB, BBA LLB, BSW LLB, LLM courses |
The UG-CLAT 2023 would focus on evaluating the comprehension and reasoning skills and abilities of candidates. Overall, it is designed to be a test of aptitude and skills that are necessary for a legal education rather than prior knowledge, though prior knowledge occasionally may be useful to respond to questions in the Current Affairs section.
The UG-CLAT 2023 shall be a 2-hour test, with 150 multiple-choice questions carrying 1 mark each and divided into 5 sections. There shall be negative marking of 0.25 marks for every wrong answer. Each comprehension passage in CLAT 2023 will be followed by a series of MCQs.
These questions would be divided across the following 5 subjects:
Section | No. of Questions | The weightage (%) |
English Language | 28-32 | 20% |
Current Affairs (including GK) | 35-39 | 25% |
Legal Reasoning | 35-39 | 25% |
Logical Reasoning | 28-32 | 20% |
Quantitative Techniques | 13-17 | 10% |
Total Marks | 150 | - |
CLAT Official Sample Questions by NLU
The UG-CLAT is a comprehension-based paper. In each section, multiple-choice type questions are asked from the comprehension passages.
Particulars | Important details |
Total weightage | 20% |
Type of questions asked | Comprehension-type passage-based questions |
Source material or content of passages | Passages of around 450 words will be drawn from contemporary / historically significant fiction & non-fiction writing |
Ability tested | 1. Comprehension and language skills 2. Ability to draw inferences and conclusions 3. Ability to summarise passage 4. Identify arguments and viewpoints 5. Word meaning and phrases |
Standard of questions | 12th standard |
Particulars | Important details |
Total weightage | 25% |
Type of questions asked | Comprehension-type passage-based questions - Static general knowledge and current affairs |
Source material or content of passages | News, journalistic sources, and non-fiction writing. |
Ability tested |
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Standard of questions | 12th standard |
Particulars | Important details |
Total weightage | 20% |
Type of questions asked | Passage-based (300-word long) objective questions |
Content of passages | Based on sets and arguments, puzzles, diagrams, relationships and others |
Skills to be tested |
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Standard of questions | 12th standard |
Particulars | Important details |
Total weightage | 25% |
Type of questions asked | Comprehension-type passage of 450 words each followed by objective type questions |
Content of passages | Fact situations or scenarios involving legal matters, public policy questions, or moral philosophical inquiries. |
Focus area |
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Standard of questions | 12th standard |
Particulars | Important details |
Total weightage | 10% |
Type of questions asked | Sets of facts or propositions, graphs, or other textual, pictorial, or diagrammatic representations of numerical information, followed by a series of questions. |
Skills to be tested | - Derive, infer, and manipulate numerical information set out in such passages, graphs, or other representations; and - Apply various 10th standard mathematical operations |
Standard of questions | 10th Class |
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