The Common Law Admission Test (Postgraduate) (CLAT PG) is conducted by Consortium of National Law Universities. Its principal use is admission to one-year LL.M. programmes at participating National Law Universities.
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Who sits the examination
Candidates seeking academic eligibility (NET), research fellowships, or LL.M. admission where the score is accepted. Eligibility percentages and degree requirements are fixed in the information bulletin for the cycle.
Scheme (Consortium CLAT PG)
CLAT PG is a postgraduate admission test. Recent cycles have used passage-based objective questions drawing on:
- Constitutional law
- Jurisprudence
- Administrative law
- Contract, torts and criminal law
- Public international law
- Intellectual property and contemporary legal developments
The examination rewards close reading of extracts (including judicial prose) rather than isolated bare-Act recall. Statute fluency still helps when passages refer to constitutional articles or code provisions:
- Constitution of India — fundamental rights, directive principles, federal structure, judiciary, emergency and amendment provisions
- Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 — substantive criminal offences (successor to the Indian Penal Code)
- Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — investigation, trial and appellate criminal procedure (successor to the Code of Criminal Procedure)
- Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023 — relevancy, proof and examination of witnesses (successor to the Indian Evidence Act)
- Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 — institution of suits, jurisdiction, decrees, appeals, execution and interim relief
- Indian Contract Act, 1872 — formation, performance, breach and quasi-contract themes
- Specific Relief Act; Transfer of Property Act; Limitation Act; Negotiable Instruments Act
- Personal laws: Hindu law (marriage, succession, adoption, maintenance), Muslim law, and Special Marriage Act themes where listed
Related pages
Primary sources
Information bulletins and syllabus PDFs issued by Consortium of National Law Universities for the relevant academic year.