This development brings a happy news for those aspiring to study law courses at undergraduate or postgraduate levels in national law universities.

Sources say, executive committee of Consortium of National Law Universities (CNLU) met on 6 January to consider postponing of CLAT 2021 exam owing to clashes with CBSE board exam schedule.

CLAT 2021 exam

About the exam
CLAT 2021 exam is expanded into Common Law Admission Test 2021 exam and is conducted by CNLU to offer admission into undergraduate and post graduate law courses offered at 22 national law universities across the country.

This national level law admission test is conducted once every year and CLAT 2021 exam is meant for this year.

The exam dates
Registration for CLAT 2021 exam opened on 1 January this year and the last date to submit application for the exam is 30 April currently.

The last date to submit applications for CLAT 2021 exam as per earlier decided schedule was 31 March.

The earlier decided date of exam was 9 May and now the test will be conducted on 13 June.

Participating institutes
Among the universities participating in CLAT 2021 exam are NLSIU (Bengaluru), NALSAR (Hyderabad), NLIU (Bhopal), WBNUJS (Kolkata) and NLU (Jodhpur).

Also other institutes who will be participating in CLAT 2021 exam are MNLU of Mumbai, HPNLU of Shimla, MNLU of Nagpur, MNLU of Aurangabad.

NUSRL of Ranchi, NLUJA of Assam, DSNLU of Visakhapatnam , TNNLU of Tiruchirappalli, DNLU of Jabalpur and DBRANLU of Haryana are also participating institutions in CLAT 2021 exam.

Point to remember
Students who pass CLAT 2021 exam with good score will be able to seek admission into undergraduate or post graduate courses offered at the above mentioned institutions located across the country.

Eligibility
The eligibility criteria for applying for CLAT 2021 exam depends on the type of law course the applicant wishes to study.

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For applicants who are from SC/ST categories can have a pass percent of 40 in their plus-two exams.

Applicants who are going to appear for their qualifying exam (plus-two) in March or April 2021 can also apply for CLAT.

Point to remember
However, these candidates have to produce the proof of passing plus-two exam by the time of admission.

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In case they fail to produce the marksheets proving they passed the plus-two exam, their candidature for admissions is likely to be cancelled.

Post graduate admission
Applicants willing to seek admission into post graduate law courses through CLAT 2021 exam must be an LL.B degree holder or holder of its equivalent degree.

The general category applicants must have 50 percent pass marks in the qualifying exam.

The pass percentage in the qualifying exam is 50 even OBC/PWD/NRI/PIO/OCI category candidates.

The same for SC/ST category candidates is 45 percent.

Even candidates appearing for their qualifying examination in April or May next year also can apply for CLAT 2021 exam.

Tie-breaker rule

i. Higher age

ii. Computerised draw of lots.

Graduation
In case of equal marks, the break of tie shall be by the following procedure and order as under:

1. Higher marks in the component/section on legal aptitude in the CLAT 2021 exam

2. Higher age

3. Computerised draw of lots

How to apply
The procedure to apply for CLAT 2021 exam is online.

Applicants can visit the official website of CLAT 2021 exam at ‘consortiumofnlus.ac.in’ to apply for the exam.

Candidates can visit the website for CLAT 2021 mentioned above and register themselves using their personal mobile number and email id.

Upon registration, an OTP will be sent to the given mobile number for validation.

Once the mobile number is validated, candidates can login using their mobile number and the password they provided at the time of registration.

Post login, candidates can begin filling the form. Applicants have to upload certain documents after filling the form and then pay the registration fee.

Post registration fee payment, candidates can submit the application finally and obtain the confirmation for the same.

Candidates can take a printout of the final confirmation and preserve it for future use.

Documents to be uploaded
Candidates have to upload a passport size recent photograph of themselves with a plain background along with the online application for CLAT 2021 exam.

# Signature of the candidate

# Category certificate if they are applying under SC/ST/OBC

# Relevant certificate issued by competent authority if they are applying if candidate is P.W.D

# Relevant certificate issued by competent authority if you are coming under BPL category

Candidates must remember that all the documents to uploaded must be in PDF format only.

Registration fee
The registration fee for CLAT 2021 exam is Rs 4000 for General/OBC/PWD/NRI/PIO/OCI candidates.

The same for SC/ST category candidates is Rs 3,500.

The registration fee for applying for graduate and post graduate courses through CLAT 2021 exam is the same.

The candidates themselves will have to bear the bank transaction charges for remitting the fee online.

The actual bank transaction charges will be displayed in the payment gateway page after they choose the mode of payment.

Each question will have more than one reply and candidates have to choose the right one among them in the multiple choice format.

CLAT 2021 exam pattern is different for undergraduate and post graduate admissions.

Undergraduate
The duration of CLAT 2021 for graduate admission is of two hours duration and has 150 questions. Each question has one mark.

A wrong answer will lead to deduction of 0.25 mark.

The number of questions per subject are:

English Language – 28-32 questions

Current Affairs, including General Knowledge – 35-39 questions

Legal Reasoning – 35-39 questions

Logical Reasoning – 28-32 questions

Quantitative Techniques – 13-17 questions

Postgraduate exam
The duration of CLAT 2021 exam for post graduate course admission is for two hours and will have 120 questions.

Each question in CLAT 2021 exam will be of one mark. A wrong answer will lead to deduction of 0.25 mark each.

Questions will be from subjects – Constitutional law, Jurisprudence, Administrative Law, Law of Contract, Torts, Family Law.

Questions will also be asked from Criminal Law, Property Law, Company Law, Public International Law, Tax Law, Environmental Law, and Labour & Industrial Law.

Contact
Candidates can call helpdesk at 080-47162020 from 10 am to 5 pm on all working days.

They can also send their queries to email id ‘clat@consortiumofnlus.ac.in’

Also candidates can fill the form and write their question in that and send it to them.

The query form is available at ‘https://consortiumofnlus.ac.in/clat-2020/help-desk.html’

The schedule to submit applications for JEE Advanced 2025 has been announced along with that of AAT 2025 registration,

Application process for AAT starts after result declaration of JEE Advanced. This year too, the trend is no different.

Who will conduct AAT 2025?

AAT 2025 will be conducted by IIT Kanpur and is expected to see a participation in impressive numbers. The same institution is conducting JEE Advanced 2025.

Details about the exam are available on the official website mentioned above. Students who pass AAT 2025 will be able to study BArch in IIT Roorkee, IIT Kharagpur and IIT (BHU) Varnasi.

Who can take up AAT 2025 registration?

Students who have passed JEE Advanced 2025 with required qualifying marks can take up AAT 2025 registration. Applying for JEE Advanced requires a pass in JEE Mains.

Candidates who have passed plus two with maths, physics and chemistry as subjects will be able to take up JEE Mains registration. The process to take up JEE Advanced AAT 2025 registration is online.

1. The URL has to be typed into the browser and the webpage has to be allowed to download.

2. Once the website is available, students should click the link for JEE Advanced AAT 2025 registration and enter JEE Advanced 2025 registration number, their date of birth, mobile number and email address.

3. Post providing the above details, applicants will be asked if they are interested in AAT. Students have to answer ‘Yes’ to take up JEE Advanced AAT 2025 registration.

4. Candidates have to provide the required information and choose the centers where they wish to write the exam and submit the form.

5. They will receive message indicating successful completion of JEE Advanced AAT 2025 registration.

The message has to be downloaded and a printout of it has to be taken and preserved for use in future. This could be of use during the admission process.

Website for JEE Advanced 2025/AAT 2025 Registration is Here

Exam pattern

Candidates who have completed JEE Advanced AAT 2025 registration must also know the exam pattern if they are to score good marks.

Those who have taken up AAT 2025 registration can take up the exam which will be held in offline mode, as a pen and paper mode test.

Candidates will have three hours time to answer all the questions. The medium of the test is English.

The sections in the question paper are – Imagination and aesthetic sensitivity, three dimensional perception, Geometrical drawing, Freehand drawing and Architectural Awareness.

Syllabus for AAT 2025

The next thing to do after completing AAT 2025 registration is focus on preparing for the test.

The subjects to be studied while preparing for AAT 2025 are mentioned below. Candidates can also refer the official website for more information on syllabus when the registration for the exam begins:

Geometrical Drawing

Exercises in geometrical drawing containing lines, angles, triangles, quadrilaterals, polygons, circles, etc. Study of plan (top view), elevation (front or side views) of simple solid objects like prisms, cones, cylinders, cubes, splayed surface holders, etc.

Freehand Drawing

This would comprise of simple drawing depicting the total object in its right form and proportion, surface texture, relative location and details of its component parts in appropriate scale.

Common domestic or day-to-day life usable objects like furniture, equipment, etc., from memory.

Three dimension perception

Understanding and appreciation of three-dimensional forms with building elements, colour, volume and orientation. Visualization through structuring objects in memory.

Architectural Awareness

General interest and awareness of famous architectural creations – both national and international, places and personalities (architects, designers, etc.) in the related domain.

Imagination and Aesthetic Sensitivity

Composition exercise with given elements. Context mapping.

Creativity check through innovative uncommon test with familiar objects. Sense of colour grouping or application.

The medium of the test is English. The sections in the question paper are – Imagination and aesthetic sensitivity, three dimensional perception, Geometrical drawing, Freehand drawing and Architectural Awareness.

The admit cards obtained for JEE Advanced 2025 can also be used to gain entry into the test centers for AAT 2024.

Point to remember

Candidates can visit the official website of JEE Advanced exam for more information on JEE Advanced AAT 2025 registration and other related topics.

The students have to quickly take up the AAT 2025 registration as the time left would be very short.

Like JEE Advanced exam where the registration is open for a longer duration, that of AAT 2025 registration is open for only a short period.

The details about AAT 2025 registration provided above are for general understanding purpose of the students.

There could be some changes in the exam, students can visit the official website of the exam at regular intervals to receive updates.

More information could be provided as the time for AAT 2025 registration would commence, till that time, students can refer other sources also.

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