The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT), organised by the Consortium of National Law Universities, will take place on Sunday, December 3. The exam will be conducted for admission to undergraduate and postgraduate law programmes across different law universities and institutes of the country.
The exam will be held offline, in pen and paper mode and will consist of objective type questions. The medium of the examination will be English.
Documents required
In order to appear in the examination candidates are required to take a print out of the downloaded Admit Card along with a photo ID. No candidate will be allowed to enter the examination hall after 15 minutes of the start of the exam.
Admit Card
Candidates who have not yet downloaded the admit card for the examination are requested to download it soon from the official website of CLAT 2024 at consortiumofnlus.ac.in and logging in to their respective accounts using their registered email id and password.
Exam Pattern
The examination will be held for a duration of two hours and candidates will be awarded 1 mark for answering every question correctly. However, there will be negative marking for every wrong answer as well, with 0.25 marks being deducted for every wrong answer.
There will be no negative marking for unanswered questions.
Students will have to answer a total of 120 questions and the examination will be held for a duration of two hours.
The question paper will have five sections and will consist of questions from English, General Knowledge and current affairs, Legal Reasoning, logical reasoning and Quantitative techniques.
CLAT PG Exam Pattern
For CLAT PG, questions will be asked from several branches of law which are part of the mandatory subjects for undergraduate programmes such as administrative law, law of contract, criminal law, company law, property law, public international law, tax law, jurisprudence torts, family law, environmental law, labour and industrial law.
For CLAT PG Examination, there will be 120 questions of 120 marks. There will be a negative marking of 0.25 marks for each wrong answer.