The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT), that holds key to the top ranked national law schools of the country, will undergo changes in the question paper format for the upcoming year. The test will be held on May 10, 2020. The number of questions will be reduced from 200 to 120-150. The exam will remain off-line and for two hours. Comprehension based questions will be asked from quantitaive techniques, English, current affairs, deductive reasoning and logical reasoning. The decision was made at the consortium of NLUs at the Consortium’s permanent secretariat in Bengaluru on Thursday.
“The idea is to get better students to national law universities who have competence in reading texts and demonstrate skills in inferential reasoning. Asking students to answer 200 questions in 1220 minutes is not right as it puts students under a lot of mental stress,” said Faizan Mustafa, vice-chancellor, NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad. PG admission test will also have comprehension based questions. The descriptive portion will remain the same as last year. The consortium has also asked the executive council of CLAT 2020 to study the possibility of introducing cut off marks for LLM.
The consortium also launched a scheme of scholarship and fee concession for students of NLUs. It will also undertake faculty development programmes in the colleges and help in upgrading library, IT facilities and other infrastructure. CLAT will be held on May 10 The official notification regarding CLAT 2020 will be released in the last week of December 2019.
Online application forms for the exam will be made available on 1st January 2020
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