The CLAT (Common Law Admission Test) entrance exam grants admission into well reputed National Law Universities all over India for students that wish to pursue a profession in law. The exam admits students into their undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, such as BA.LLB, B.Sc LLB, B.Com LLB.
Key Facts:
CLAT 2018 exam had almost 40,000 candidates appear for the exam.
In the following year (2019), CLAT saw 58,000 aspirants take the exam.
This entrance exam that is conducted every year to select students for 22 National Law Universities in India.
This year (2020) the number of seats offered at the NLUs are around 2175.
Out of which the number of All India Seats for the undergraduate programme in NLU is 1308.
The total number of seats offered to the candidates of the stat where NLU is located is 621.
The number of Special Category seats available is 235.
Highlights
The CLAT has five sections to complete the exam, Verbal Ability, Mathematics, Logical Reasoning, General Awareness and Legal Aptitude.
The first four will require fundamental knowledge in each respective sections.
Legal Aptitude, however, will have its own requirements according to the NLU conducting the exam for that year.
Though writing CLAT is not compulsory for admittance into Law Schools. taking the test will grant easier admission into NLUs all over India.
Graduating from any of the National Law Universities inevitably places the student in a class above the rest.
CLAT can be taken after a 3-year undergraduate programme. the candidate can write the exam and seek admission for a 3 year LLB course.
Securing marks between 130-200 secures the applicant ranks between 148-1.
How we prepare you.
Upswing's learning management system provides students with the opportunity to prepare for competitive exams along with their board exams. With the syllabus for the CLAT entrance exam being similar to what students learn in the 11th and 12th standards, it eliminates the need to prepare for multiple entrance exams with different syllabuses.
- The Revision Manager allows students to revise topics learnt in lower classes enabling them to master its fundamentals.
- Upswing's Course Repository and Course Manager equips each student with all the necessary materials required to be thorough in each subject.
- With 50 practice tests for each PCMB subject, the students can take the final exam with more confidence and a steady hand.
- The mini mock tests are equipped with NTA (National Testing Agency) features that are similar to the final exam paper giving them more experience on the exam pattern.
- Coaching centres and schools will have different teaching methods which tend to confuse students, with Upswing, teachers can provide a consistent learning method in school.
Benefits of CLAT
CLAT is the gateway to a successful legal profession.
- Writing the CLAT exam not just eliminates the need to prepare for multiple college entrance exams, it leads the way to admission in the 22 well reputed National Law Universities all over India.
- Admission into such colleges will teach you the nuances to be a good legal professional and not a just a good lawyer.
- As an NLU graduate, the student can register with the bar council and practice in courts and apply to certain government vacancies.
- A candidate can also take the CLAT exam as a Law Professional to further study for their maters at any of the NLUs.
- They furthermore have the option to finish LLM and choose to become a professor.
- The student can opt for corporate law and get excellent placements from the campus recruitments.
- Giving the CLAT exam for LLM after the completion of LLB makes the candidate eligible for certain jobs that hire based on the CLAT score.