The Common Law Admission Test is a centralized national-level entrance test for admissions to the 25 National Law universities except for NLU-Delhi, which takes admissions through its
own test known as All India Law Entrance Test (AILET). AILET is anticipated to be merged into CLAT in the coming years. A few private and self-financed Law schools in India also depend on these scores for admissions into their law schools. Many PSUs like ONGC, BHEL, Coal India, SAIL, army for its JAG officers etc use CLAT scores.
The test is taken after the 12th grade for admission to integrated UG Degree in Law (BA/BBA/B.COM/B.SC/BSW LLB) and after Graduation in Law for Masters (LLM) programs offered by these law schools. CLAT exam is a very tough exam since the acceptance rate being as low as 3 percent.