Common Law Admission Test is conducted every year by one of the National Law Universities (NLUs) in rotation. The organising NLU is chosen one among those in CLAT committee by the year of their establishments. The CLAT committee currently comprises 18 NLUs including Maharashtra National Law University (MNLU) Nagpur.:

1. NLSIU- Bangalore	2. NALSAR-Hyderabad	3. NLIU- Bhopal
4. WBNUJS-Kolkata	5. NLUJ- Jodhpur	6. HNLU-Raipur
7. HNLU-Raipur	8. GNLU- Gandhinagar	9. RMLNLU-Lucknow
10. RGNUL- Patiala	11. CNLU- Patna	12. NUALS- Kochi
13. NLUO- Cuttack	14. NUSRL- Ranchi	15. NLUJAA-Guwahati
16. DSNLU- Visakhapatnam	17. TNNLS¬-Tiruchirappall

Brief about the CLAT 2017 :

Exam name – Common Law Admission Test (CLAT)

Exam type – Undergraduate and Postgraduate

Exam level – National

Exam mode – Online

Conducting authority – Chanakya National Law University (CNLU) Patna

Organising body – CLAT Committee

Total number of participating institutes – 18 NLUs

Total number of seats offered – 2252 for undergraduate programmes and 604 for postgraduate programmes

Number of test takers – 40000 (approximately) for UG programmes and 5500 (approximately) for postgraduate programmes

Important Dates - CLAT 2017 :

Events	Important dates
Exam notification	December 25, 2016
Application form begins	January 1, 2017
Application form ends	March 31, 2017
Issue of admit card	Third week of April 2017
Conduct of online examination	May 14, 2017
Declaration of result and score card	May 25, 2017
Counselling and seat allotment	May 29 - June 25, 2017

CLAT Eligibility Criteria 2017

Candidates need to go through eligibility criteria of CLAT 2017 as specified by the law examination committee. Knowing CLAT eligibility conditions are important because these are the defined prerequisite norms for appearing in the law examination. CLAT 2017 eligibility criteria mentions minimum academic qualifications and marks percentage along with the age bar for applying for the law programmes. Following the common eligibility criteria of CLAT 2017, candidates applying for UG law programmes need to qualify 12th board examination (Intermediate examination) of 10+2 educational system, scoring at least 45% marks in the aggregate of subjects studied at 10+2 level. Continuing with the common criteria, those who are applying for postgraduate programmes need to have an LL.B degree with a minimum score of 55% marks in the final year of law degree examination. Moreover, those applying for five-year undergraduate programmes through CLAT 2017 need to be equal to or less than 20 years of age, as per the new change in admission policy after a BCI order.

CLAT Application Form 2017

CNLU Patna will begin application form of CLAT 2017 from January 1 aspirants can fill CLAT 2017 online application form only after registering themselves for the common law admission test. CLAT 2017 registrations can be done by providing a valid e-mail id and mobile number. The online applications of CLAT 2017 can be filled after logging into the application form window through CLAT 2017 registered account and password. Candidates will also need to pay an application fee of Rs. 4000 before submitting the form. CLAT 2017 application form needs to be filled before the last date, i.e., March 31, 2017; otherwise no applications will be entertained thereafter.

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