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First of all when it comes to preparation for any exam, aspirant should be well acquainted with the paper pattern and syllabus, CLAT PG will be conducted for two hours, it will have combination of 100 MCQs and subjective type questions as in two essays of 800 words each, total marks will be of 150, coming to the syllabus it will consist of constitutional law, law of torts, company law, jurisprudence, company law, intellectual property law, family law, property law, public international law, labour and industrial law, criminal law, law of contracts, tax law, environmental law, administrative law. Focus on case laws, bare acts, a large portion of the syllabus is attributed to constitution and  jurisprudence, hence you can use books by VN Shukla for constitution, and VD Mahajan/Mani Tripathi/Panranjee for covering the jurisprudence part, for other subjects you can refer the basic books for the same but go through bare acts first, you can also make short notes as these are very useful for revision, go through sample papers and apply mock tests on regular basis, along with the result merit list will be accordingly released by the consortium, based on the merit list candidates will be shortlisted for counselling and further rounds of seat allotment, to participate in the counselling candidates will be asked about their preference for specific NLU and they need to complete the registration by paying counselling fee of Rs 50,000 and uploading the required documents, there will be a total of three rounds of counselling, after each round seat allotment list is to be released by the authority and thereby selected candidates are required to submit the course fee to further complete the process of admission.

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The factors that determine your rank in CLAT are your CLAT score, your CLAT All India Rank and your Category Rank. And it is the CLAT Category rank that actually helps in being shortlisted for NLUs. And the Category rank keeps changing on the basis of no.of Candidates who appeared for CLAT in that particular Category. So what might be the trend in 2018 or 2019 might not be the same in 2020 because cut offs change every year along with the top score and no.of Candidates who appear for the exam. An All India Rank of 52762 is a Rank of 3653 under SC Category in 2019. And in 2019, under SC Category the Opening rank was 144 and the Closing rank was 3010. These are All India Ranks. This might be below 500 under SC Category rank. It is difficult to predict marks vs Category rank because we do not know how many Candidates from that Category appear for the exam and how many would qualify.