The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) is a national level entrance exam for admissions to undergraduate (UG) and postgraduate (PG) law programmes offered by 24 National Law Universities in India.

CLAT is organized by the Consortium of National Law Universities, comprising representative universities. Several affiliate universities and organisations also use the CLAT exam for admissions and recruitment respectively. All admissions to the 5-year integrated LL.B. and LL.M. programmes that commence in the Academic Year 2025-2026 shall be through the CLAT 2025

The UG-CLAT 2025 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 including General Knowledge section.

The UG-CLAT 2025 shall be a 2-hour test, with 120 multiple-choice questions carrying 1 mark each. There shall be negative marking of 0.25 marks for every wrong answer. These questions would be divided across the following 5 subjects:

• English Language
• Current Affairs, including General Knowledge
• Legal Reasoning
• Logical Reasoning
• Quantitative Technique

Maximum Marks	120
Duration of CLAT 2025 Exam	120 Minutes
Multiple-Choice Questions	120 questions of one mark each
Negative Marking	0.25 Mark for each wrong answer
Subject Areas with weightage	(approximate number of questions)
English Language	22-26 questions, or roughly 20% of the paper
Current Affairs, including General Knowledge	28-32 questions, or roughly 25% of the paper
Legal Reasoning	28-32 questions, or roughly 25% of the paper
Logical Reasoning	22-26 questions, or roughly 20% of the paper
Quantitative Techniques	Quantitative Techniques

Participating Universities

• NLSIU, Bengaluru
• NALSAR, Hyderabad
• NLIU, Bhopal
• WBNUJS, Kolkata
• NLU, Jodhpur
• HNLU, Raipur
• GNLU, Gandhinagar
• GNLU, Silvassa Campus, Silvassa
• RMLNLU, Lucknow
• RGNUL, Punjab
• CNLU, Patna
• NUALS, Kochi
• NLUO, Odisha
• NUSRL, Ranchi
• NLUJA, Assam
• DSNLU, Visakhapatanam
• TNNLU, Tiruchirappalli
• MNLU, Mumbai
• MNLU, Nagpur
• MNLU, Aurangabad
• HPNLU, Shimla
• DNLU, Jabalpur
• DBRANLU, Haryana
• NLUT, AGARTALA
• RPNLUP, Prayagraj
• IIULER, Goa