Tell me about clat examination?and it's eligibility.

Hello Naina,

Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) is a centralised test for admission to 21 National Law Universities in India. 43 other education institutes and two public sector institutes are also eligible to use these scores. The test is conducted by the 21 participating law schools in rotation, in the order of their establishment, starting with National Law School of India University which conducted CLAT-2008, and up to National University of Advanced Legal Studies which conducted CLAT-2018.

The test is taken after the Higher Secondary Examination or the 12th grade for admission to integrated undergraduation programmes in Law and after Graduation in Law for Master of Laws(LL.M) programmes conducted by these law universities. The two-hour admission test consists of objective type covering questions on Elementary Mathematics or Numerical Ability, English with Comprehension, General knowledge and Current affairs, Legal Aptitude and Legal Awareness and Logical reasoning.

The latest eligibility criteria of CLAT (released in 2019 notification) is as follows:

For UG:

• Candidates should have passed Senior Secondary School Examination/ 12th Board Examination from any recognised educational institution.
• Candidates need to score atleast 45% marks in their qualifying degree to appear in CLAT 2019. For the candidates belonging to SC and ST categories need to score at least 40 percent marks in the aggregate of subjects.

For PG:

• Candidates applying for postgraduate law programme, LLM need to possess a bachelor’s degree in law. The law degree can be of five-year integrated or three year law programme from an institution approved by Bar Council of India.
• A candidates need to score at least 55 percent in his/her qualifying degree. Whereas candidates belonging to reserved categories have been give 5 percent relaxation wherein they need to score 50 percent marks in their qualifying degree of law

Please note that there is no age restriction for attempt limit for CLAT.

For more information please visit the link given below:

https://law.careers360.com/articles/clat-eligibility-criteria/amp

I hope this helps. All the best.