CLAT 2020 to be conducted on May 10

Hyderabad: The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) – 2020 will be held on May 10, 2020 (Sunday). The notification for CLAT – 2020 will be released in the last week of December 2019 and the online application form would be available from January 1, 2020.

This decision was taken by the Consortium of NLUs in its meeting held today, at the Consortium's Permanent Secretariat in Bangalore. The meeting was chaired by the President of the Consortium, Prof Faizan Mustafa, Vice-Chancellor, NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad and all the Vice-Chancellors of member NLUs of the Consortium attended the meeting.

The CLAT – 2020 will also have a change in the pattern of the questions for the UG. Comprehension based questions would be asked from Quantitative Techniques, English, Current Affairs, Deductive Reasoning, and Logical Reasoning. It was also resolved to reduce the number of questions from 200 to 120-150 questions.

Prof Mustafa said that asking students to answer 200 questions in 120 minutes is not right as it puts students under a lot of mental stress. The exam will remain offline and the duration will be two hours. He told that the idea is to get better students to National Law Universities who have competence in reading texts and demonstrate skills in inferential reasoning.

Similarly, the PG admission test will also have comprehension based questions. The descriptive portion will remain the same as last year. The Consortium has authorised the Executive Council of CLAT–2020 to study the possibility of introducing cut off marks for the LL.M. The details of CLAT-2020will be notified by the EC.

The Consortium also resolved to undertake several Faculty Development Programmes in various member NLUs and launch a scheme of Scholarship / Fee Concessions for the students of NLUs. The Consortium would also assist the member NLUs in upgrading their library, IT facilities, and other infrastructure.