What Is CLAT PG?

CLAT PG is the postgraduate Common Law Admission Test used for LLM admission at participating National Law Universities. An LLB or equivalent qualification is required; passing Class 12 alone does not make a student eligible for this paper. The examination takes place in December before the academic year named in its title.

For example, the December 2026 test is CLAT 2027, not CLAT 2026. University admission is a separate stage after the entrance result. An exam score does not by itself confirm a seat, a specialisation or a scholarship. The LLM course guide explains the degree and the broad specialisations available.

CLAT PG 2027 Dates and Application Fee

Applications are submitted online through the CLAT 2027 account. Payment alone is not enough: the form must also be finally submitted by the deadline. The optional INR 500 paper purchase is separate from the application fee; bank charges are additional. The application guide covers registration, uploads and fields that lock after payment.

Who Can Apply?

There is no upper age limit. Candidates taking the qualifying examination in 2027 may apply, but they must produce proof of passing at admission. A final-year candidate is not excused from meeting the required degree marks.

Indian nationals, NRIs, PIO card holders and OCI card holders may appear. Foreign nationals cannot sit CLAT; NRI/NRI-sponsored seat applicants must approach the relevant NLU directly because the Consortium does not allot those seats. The PG eligibility rules separate these admission routes.

Paper Pattern and Law Subjects

The Consortium has not fixed a 60-question Constitutional Law section. Constitutional Law is included alongside twelve other law areas, but no subject-wise question quota is published.

The revision focus is a practical grouping of LLB topics, not an official chapter-weightage chart. The CLAT PG syllabus explains how these subjects appear through judgments, statutes and regulations.

How to Prepare for Legal Passages

For each judgment extract, separate the facts, legal issue, reasoning and conclusion. An answer may be legally familiar but still wrong if it adds a condition that the passage does not contain. For statutory extracts, mark exceptions and provisos before applying the main rule.

Use the previous-year PG papers to practise reading and OMR-style answer recording together. Compare errors by cause: missed exception, incorrect doctrine, confusion between arguments, or a wrong answer transfer. These need different corrections; repeatedly rereading the same summary does not resolve all four.

Marks, Rank and LLM Admission

The ordinary raw-score calculation is correct answers minus one-quarter of wrong answers. For 80 correct, 25 wrong and 15 blank responses, the score is 73.75 out of 120. A final answer-key decision can change which responses are scored.

Equal PG marks are resolved by higher age, followed by a computerised draw. The UG Legal Reasoning tie-break must not be applied to PG candidates.

The admission sequence describes the broad process; individual round actions and payments require the current counselling notice. The 2027 FAQ places counselling in December 2026 / January 2027; this is a broad window, not a round-wise schedule. Seat availability, category rules and course fees belong to each NLU. There is no single reservation percentage or closing rank that applies to every LLM programme. The result guide separates score interpretation from admission eligibility.

1. Application Dates and Fees
2. LLB Marks and Appearing Candidates

1. PG Paper at a Glance
2. Read a Judgment Passage
3. From Score to Admission