The Consortium of National Law Universities (NLUs) has scheduled the examination for the CLAT 2020 to be conducted on September 7, 2020. The authorities have announced to conduct the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2020 on September 7, 2020. As per the notice, NLU will conduct the exam in the afternoon shift that is from 2 PM to 4 PM. The decision has been taken by the General Body of the Consortium in a meeting held on August 10, 2020. Earlier the admission test was scheduled to be held on August 22, 2020.
As per the new exam pattern of CLAT 2020, the test will be conducted in online mode, new test centres will be issued to the candidates.
CLAT comprises of five sections, namely English Language, Current Affairs, including General Knowledge, Legal Reasoning, Logical Reasoning and Quantitative Techniques, each section requiring a different approach. However, one thing that stays uniform throughout the five sections is your Reading and Comprehension Skills.
CLAT 2020: Revised Exam Pattern
The University has also revised the exam pattern for this year.
UG Programme: The 1200 marks exam will be two-hour-long where Multiple-Choice Questions will be asked. There will be 120-150 questions of one mark each and there is a negative marking of 0.25 mark for each wrong answer.
Subject areas: English including comprehension, General Knowledge and Current Affairs, Elementary Mathematics (Numerical Ability), Legal Aptitude and Logical Reasoning.
PG Programme: The paper will have comprehension based questions. The exam will be two-hour long.
The CLAT was held on May 26 and the result was announced in June, last year. The pandemic has postponed all the entrance exams and hence delayed the next academic session for students across streams.
After the announcement of the results, candidates will be ranked based on marks obtained in the exam. Each college will announce its cut-off. Those who match the cut-off or minimum requirement for an institute will have to appear for counselling.