CLAT 2027 Countdown

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About CLAT 2027

The entrance test for five-year integrated law degrees and the LLM at member National Law Universities.

Who takes it

• UG: students who have passed Class 12, or are appearing for it in 2027, with at least 45% (40% for SC and ST candidates). There is no upper age limit
• PG: law graduates applying for the one-year LLM

Format

• UG: 120 one-mark multiple-choice questions in 2 hours, on paper, built around reading passages
• Five sections: English Language, Current Affairs including General Knowledge, Legal Reasoning, Logical Reasoning and Quantitative Techniques
• A wrong answer costs 0.25 marks

What it leads to

Admission to five-year integrated LLB programmes (BA LLB and similar) and the LLM at the Consortium's member National Law Universities, plus other universities that accept CLAT scores. NLU Delhi is not a member and admits through its own test, AILET.

Source: Consortium of NLUs press release (22 July 2026) for the date; the format is the CLAT 2026 pattern, since the full CLAT 2027 notification is still to come. Conducting body: Consortium of National Law Universities.