Common Law Admission Test (CLAT)

The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) would be conducted for the first time in May, 2008 and would be held every year on behalf of any of the participating institutes. The NLSIU, Bangalore, the oldest of the National Law Schools will set the process in motion by undertaking to conduct the admission test for the academic year 2008-09.

The CLAT is expected to provide the students the ease of filling up a single application form to get admission to any of the participating institutes. It is further expected that other National Law Schools (i.e., the Law Schools established by State enactments) would join these seven Law Schools in due course. Meanwhile, the results of admission test would be made available to them on request.

CLAT conduct examination for admission to the 5year under graduate programme (BA LLB) and post-graduate programme (LL.M) for its 11 National Law Universities across India.

The name of these eleven universities is given below:

National Law Institute University, Bhopal.

National Law School of India University, Bangalore.

West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata.

NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad

National University of Advanced Legal Studies, Kochi.

National Law University, Jodhpur.

Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar.

Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow.

Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur.

Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Patiala.

Chanakya National Law University, Patna.

CLAT test format for undergraduates

At postgraduate level:

Students who have done their LLB or BL from an accredited university with 50% marks can apply for LLM entrance exams. If you are appearing for final year in LLM, you can apply for the entrance test but your admission will be confirmed; only when you submit the results with required level of scores.

CLAT application procedure

Application forms and the brochure are available at the designated branches of the Corporation Bank and State Bank of India for 2,000 only (inclusive of bank charges and test fee, or you can download the form online from www.clat.ac.in. Print the form, complete it and send it with all the enclosures and a Demand Draft of Rs 2,000 payable at Bangalore in favour of Convener, CLAT.

The applications are to be sent to:

The Convener, CLAT,

National Law School of India University,

Bangalore -560 242