Hyderabad: In a 1st, CLAT to be held twice in 2022

HYDERABAD: The common law admission test (CLAT) will be held twice a year in 2022. The decision was taken by the Consortium of National Law Universities in a meeting held at Nalsar in the city on Sunday.

Every year, close to 75,000 students appear for the CLAT to secure admission to 22 national law universities that offer five-year integrated LLB and LLM programmes.
This will be the first time that the exam will be held twice a year. “The CLAT-2022 will be held on May 8, 2022. The consortium has resolved that CLAT-2023 will be held on December 18, 2022. Hence, in 2022 two CLAT examinations will be held in one year,” read a press release issued by the consortium.
The decision was taken during the annual executive committee and general body meeting of the Consortium of National Law Universities. The consortium is expected to release the detailed schedule and registration for CLAT on its official website shortly. Not just this, the consortium has also reduced the counselling fee for general category candidates from Rs 50,000 to Rs 30,000 and Rs 20,000 for candidates from scheduled caste, scheduled tribe, other backward class, economically weaker sections and person with disability quota.
The consortium has also resolved to protect the privacy of the candidates by securing their consent before they share any personal information with any university or any third party for the exam.