CLAT

The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) is a centralized national-level entrance test for admissions to the 25 out of 26 National Law Universities (NLU) except NLU Delhi which takes admissions through its own test known as All India Law Entrance Test (AILET). AILET is anticipated to be merged into CLAT in the coming years.^[1] A few private and self-financed law schools in India also use these scores for law admissions. Public sector undertakings in India like ONGC, Coal India, BHEL, Steel Authority of India, Oil India , Indian Army [For the recruitment of JAG officers] etc use CLAT Post Graduation (CLAT PG) scores .

The test is taken after the Higher Secondary Examination or the 12th grade for admission to integrated undergraduate degree in Law (BA/BBA/B.COM/B.SC/BSW LLB) and after Graduation in Law for Master of Laws (LL.M) programs offered by these law schools. It is considered as one of the toughest entrance examinations in India with the acceptance rate being as low as 3 percent.