Checked 29 September 2026. Fixed historical data from the CLAT 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026 result notices and exam-day press releases, and the 17 May 2025 modification to the CLAT 2025 UG final key. CLAT 2027 figures will appear after 6 December 2026.
The Consortium's exam-day press release for CLAT 2026 counted 92,344 applicants across UG and PG, 17% more than the year before, with 75,009 for the undergraduate paper. This guide collects the official numbers the Consortium published about four sittings — CLAT 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026 — and says plainly where a number was not published, or where two official documents disagree. A small tool at the end puts any score on a common scale.
CLAT 2026 exam-day press release (7 Dec 2025) and results notification (16 Dec 2025).
Four sittings in one table
| Measure | CLAT 2023 | CLAT 2024 | CLAT 2025 | CLAT 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Exam date | 18 Dec 2022 | 3 Dec 2023 | 1 Dec 2024 | 7 Dec 2025 |
| Test centres | 127 | 139 | 141 | 156 (93 cities) |
| States and UTs | 23 states, 2 UTs | 25 states, 4 UTs | 25 states, 4 UTs | 25 states, 4 UTs |
| Applicants (UG + PG) | Not published in the notices | Not published in the notices | Not published in the notices | 92,344 (UG 75,009; PG 17,335) |
| UG attendance | 93.6% (exam-day press release) | 97.03% | 96.36% | 96.83% |
| PG attendance | 91.7% (exam-day press release) | 93.92% | 92.13% | 92.45% |
| Overall attendance | about 94.87% (result notice) — see the note below | 96.45% | 96.33% | 96.01% |
| Candidates who sat: female / male | 56% / 44% | 57% / 43% | 57% / 43% | 57% / 43% |
| Transgender candidates who sat | 2 | 6 | 9 | 9 |
| PwD candidates | Not published | Not published | Not published | 548 |
Result notifications of CLAT 2023 to 2026; exam-day press releases of 18 Dec 2022, 3 Dec 2023, 1 Dec 2024 and 7 Dec 2025. CLAT 2024's notices are on the Consortium's archived clat2024 site.
Two official CLAT 2023 attendance figures that do not agree
- The exam-day press release of 18 December 2022 says 93.6% of registered UG candidates and 91.7% of registered PG candidates appeared.
- The result notification says the overall attendance was "approximately 94.87%".
- An overall figure has to lie between the UG and PG figures, so 94.87% cannot follow from 93.6% and 91.7%. Neither document gives the counts behind its percentage, so both are printed and neither is corrected.
Result notifications.
Two things stand out. Almost everyone who applies turns up: UG attendance was above 96% in 2024, 2025 and 2026, which means the applicant count is close to the real field. And women are the majority of candidates who sit the paper — 57% in each of the last three sittings — even though the 2026 press release gave the ratio among applicants as about 0.72 men to every woman. The two figures measure different groups (applicants across UG and PG vs those who sat), so they are printed as the Consortium gave them.
Withdrawn questions and the highest marks
| Measure | CLAT 2023 | CLAT 2024 | CLAT 2025 | CLAT 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UG questions set | 150 | 120 | 120 | 120 |
| Changes after objections | 1 withdrawn | 2 withdrawn, 1 key changed | Dec 2024: 4 withdrawn, 3 keys changed. 17 May 2025: 7 withdrawn in total | 1 withdrawn |
| UG scored out of | 149 | 118 | 116 (Dec 2024); 113 (final, May 2025) | 119 |
| Highest UG mark | 116.75 | 108 | 103.5 (Dec 2024 result; no revised figure published) | 112.75 |
| Highest UG mark as a share of the scoreable total (ours) | 78.4% | 91.5% | 89.2% (of 116) | 94.7% |
| Highest PG mark | 95.25 | 104.25 | 80 (Dec 2024 result) | 104.25 (out of 119) |
| Time allowed | 120 min | 120 min | 120 min | 120 min |
Result notifications, and for CLAT 2025 the 17 May 2025 modification to the UG final answer key, issued after the Supreme Court and Delhi High Court orders. The percentage row is our division of the highest mark by the scoreable total. Every notice gives the time as 120 minutes, or 160 minutes for PwD/SAP candidates entitled to compensatory time.
Our arithmetic on the result notifications. CLAT 2025 uses the December 2024 result (103.5 of 116), the only year it has a published highest mark.
The topper's share of the paper has not moved in one direction since the switch to 120 questions: 91.5% in CLAT 2024, 89.2% in CLAT 2025 (on the December 2024 result) and 94.7% in CLAT 2026. That tells you about the very top of the field, not about the cut-offs — for those, see the closing-ranks guide in this series, and for marks to rank, the rank predictor. It also shows why a raw score needs its year attached: 100 marks meant something different out of 116 than out of 149.
Where other pages get this wrong
CLAT 2025's published highest UG mark was 103.5, out of 116, at the December 2024 result. After the May 2025 modification the paper was evaluated out of 113, and no revised highest mark was published.
Commonly published instead: Rank tables that list a CLAT 2025 score of 108 or more.
The 7 December 2024 result notification gives the highest UG mark as 103.5 out of 116. The 17 May 2025 modification to the final key withdrew seven questions in total, so the UG paper was then evaluated out of 113 — below 108. A 2025 score of 108 or more on either scale is not supported by any Consortium notice.
Where the top 100 wrote CLAT 2026
| Test city | Female | Male | Total in UG top 100 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bengaluru | 3 | 12 | 15 |
| New Delhi | 0 | 8 | 8 |
| Mumbai | 4 | 3 | 7 |
| Chennai | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| Hyderabad | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| Jaipur | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| Greater Noida / Noida | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| Gurugram | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| Lucknow | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| Hisar | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| Bhopal, Chandigarh, Ghaziabad, Jodhpur (each) | — | — | 3 |
| Indore, Kolkata (each) | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 17 other cities (each) | — | — | 1 |
CLAT 2026 results notification, "Distribution of Score by gender and city (Top 100)", UG table. Cities with 3 and 1 are grouped here; the notice lists each one.
The top 100 wrote the paper in 33 different cities. Bengaluru alone had 15 and the National Capital Region — New Delhi, Greater Noida/Noida, Gurugram, Ghaziabad and Faridabad — 22 between them (our sum). Men outnumbered women in the top 100 at most of the large centres, even though women were 57% of all candidates who sat. The same notice gives a separate top-100 table for the PG paper, led by New Delhi with 22.
| NCR test city (UG top 100, CLAT 2026) | Count |
|---|---|
| New Delhi | 8 |
| Greater Noida / Noida | 5 |
| Gurugram | 5 |
| Ghaziabad | 3 |
| Faridabad | 1 |
| Total (our sum) | 22 |
Same UG table; the grouping into NCR is ours.
How fast the Consortium publishes
CLAT's timetable after the exam is short and has been stable. In the CLAT 2026 cycle the Consortium published the question booklets and provisional answer keys three days after the exam, closed objections two days later, and released the final key and results nine days after the exam. The CLAT 2025 result notice is dated 7 December 2024, six days after its 1 December exam, though litigation then reopened the UG results until 17 May 2025.
| Milestone | CLAT 2025 | CLAT 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Exam | 1 Dec 2024 | 7 Dec 2025 |
| Provisional key and objections open | Not compiled here | 10 Dec 2025, 5 PM |
| Objections close | Not compiled here | 12 Dec 2025, 5 PM |
| Results notification | 7 Dec 2024 | 16 Dec 2025 |
| Results after court proceedings | UG results republished 17 May 2025 | Allahabad High Court judgment of 3 Feb 2026 directed a UG merit-list revision; the Consortium said it would appeal. The appeal outcome is not in the notices retrieved; the revised UG fourth and fifth round notice says lists 1-3 allotments do not change |
Consortium notifications of 1 and 7 Dec 2024, 17 May 2025, 10 and 16 Dec 2025 and 5 Feb 2026.
For CLAT 2027 the exam is on 6 December 2026. On the 2026 pattern, expect the provisional key in the week after and results before the year ends — but the Consortium announces each date by notification, and the last two cycles both saw court orders change results or counselling after they were published.
The practical lesson from both cycles is to keep your login, registered email and phone number working well past results day. In 2026 the fourth and fifth allotment lists came out in May, five months after the exam, and in 2025 the UG results themselves were republished in May. Refunds of the counselling fee also go only to the account it was paid from, so that account needs to stay open and working until any refund has actually been received, which can be after counselling itself has ended.
What these numbers do not tell you
Read with care
- No marks-versus-rank table is published by the Consortium; ranks come from your own scorecard.
- The Consortium's notices for CLAT 2023, 2024 and 2025 give no applicant totals, so year-on-year growth can only be stated for 2026 (17%, from its own press release).
- The CLAT 2026 result notice says scores were tabulated on "December 14 and 15, 2026" — a typo for 2025, since the notice itself is dated 16 December 2025.
- The 61 non-NLU universities that used CLAT 2023 scores (from that year's result notice) is not a current list.
| Other official figure | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| CLAT 2026 applicant growth | 17% | Exam-day press release, 7 Dec 2025 |
| Male-female ratio among CLAT 2026 applicants | about 0.72:1 | Exam-day press release, 7 Dec 2025 |
| Non-NLU universities using CLAT 2023 scores | 61 | CLAT 2023 result notification |
| Top-100 UG test cities, CLAT 2026 | 33 | CLAT 2026 result notification (our count of its rows) |
| PG top 100 who wrote in New Delhi, CLAT 2026 | 22 (10 female, 12 male) | CLAT 2026 result notification |
Put a CLAT score on a common scale
A mock paper or a past paper is scored out of a different total each year, because questions are withdrawn after objections. Enter a UG score and pick the year's scale: the tool gives it as a share of the marks that could be scored that year and as a share of the highest UG mark.
Totals and highest marks from the Consortium's result notifications. CLAT 2025 has two scales: 116 at the December 2024 result, and 113 after the 17 May 2025 modification to the final key; no revised highest mark was published for 113, so that scale gives the share of scoreable marks only. This does not estimate a rank — for that, see the CLAT rank predictor linked at the end of this guide.
For marks to rank, use the CLAT rank predictor; for dates and notices, the CLAT notice board.
Practise it, don't just read it
A top-100 mark is built one passage at a time.
The ProSyllabus CLAT library has three quizzes today: reading-comprehension inference (English), international treaties and summits (current affairs) and constitutional-law principle application (legal reasoning).
How many candidates applied for CLAT 2026?
92,344 across UG and PG: 75,009 for UG and 17,335 for PG, 17% more than the previous year.
What was the highest mark in CLAT 2026?
112.75 in the UG paper, which was scored out of 119 after one question was withdrawn. The PG highest was 104.25.
What was the highest mark in CLAT 2025?
The December 2024 result gave 103.5 in the UG paper, scored out of 116, and 80 in PG. The May 2025 modification to the UG key made the paper out of 113; no revised highest mark was published.
How many test centres did CLAT 2026 have?
156 centres in 93 cities across 25 states and 4 union territories.
What share of CLAT candidates are women?
57% of those who sat CLAT 2024, 2025 and 2026, per the result notifications.
How many questions were withdrawn in CLAT 2026?
One UG question was withdrawn, so the UG paper was evaluated out of 119.
Which city had the most CLAT 2026 toppers?
Bengaluru: 15 of the UG top 100 wrote the paper there, followed by New Delhi with 8.
How many people will write CLAT 2027?
Not known yet. The Consortium publishes the count on exam day; CLAT 2027 is on 6 December 2026.
Sources
- official — Consortium of NLUs — CLAT 2026 exam-day press release (7 Dec 2025)
- official — Consortium of NLUs — CLAT 2026 results notification (16 Dec 2025)
- official — Consortium of NLUs — CLAT 2025 exam-day press release (1 Dec 2024)
- official — Consortium of NLUs — CLAT 2025 results notification (7 Dec 2024)
- official — Consortium of NLUs — Modification to the Final Answer Key, CLAT UG 2025 (17 May 2025)
- official — Consortium of NLUs — CLAT 2025 updates of 24 Apr, 30 Apr and 17 May 2025 (Delhi High Court, Supreme Court stay, revised results)
- official — Consortium of NLUs — CLAT 2024 exam-day press release (3 Dec 2023)
- official — Consortium of NLUs — CLAT 2024 results notification (10 Dec 2023)
- official — Consortium of NLUs — CLAT 2024 final answer key notification (9 Dec 2023)
- official — Consortium of NLUs — CLAT 2023 exam-day press release (18 Dec 2022)
- official — Consortium of NLUs — CLAT 2023 results notification (23 Dec 2022)
- official — Consortium of NLUs — CLAT 2026 schedule of UG 4th and 5th round counselling (revised dates)
- official — Consortium of NLUs — update on the Allahabad High Court judgment and counselling (5 Feb 2026)
- official — Consortium of NLUs — Instructions for the Admissions Counselling Process, CLAT 2026 (17 Dec 2025)
- official — Consortium of NLUs — CLAT 2027 press release (22 Jul 2026)
official = a document published by the conducting body. reported = a news or coaching site we could not check against an original. Where sources disagree this page says so rather than picking one.
