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Wondering what All India Rank your CLAT marks can fetch? This free CLAT rank predictor estimates your expected rank instantly, and the page below gives you everything that actually decides your seat: year-wise marks-to-rank tables, category-wise ranks, and the closing ranks of top colleges. With around 60,000 candidates competing, even a small change in marks can shift your rank by thousands — so use the tool to set a realistic target, then sharpen your score with the free CLAT practice quiz on this page.

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CLAT UG is a 2-hour offline (OMR) test of 120 MCQs across English, Current Affairs & GK, Legal Reasoning, Logical Reasoning and Quantitative Techniques. From 2024 the paper is 120 marks (+1 correct, −0.25 wrong, no penalty for unattempted). It is conducted by the Consortium of NLUs for admission to 24+ NLUs.

In CLAT, your All India Rank is decided by your marks relative to everyone else, so the marks needed for a given rank move every year with paper difficulty. At the top of the scale a few extra marks can be worth thousands of ranks, while lower down the curve flattens.  Use the year-wise tables below to compare your target marks against the closest matching cycle rather than a single fixed chart.

Here is the year-wise CLAT trend so you can compare your target against the closest recent cycle. CLAT max marks changed: 150 (2020–2023) then 120 from CLAT 2024 onward, so marks are not comparable across that boundary without the per-year max. Topper marks confirm the scale (e.g. 116.75/150 in 2023, 108/120 in 2024). Marking: +1 correct, −0.25 wrong. Rank compression at the top is severe — a 1–2 mark gap can shift 40–100 ranks. All rows are All India Rank (General).

<h3>CLAT Preparation Tips</h3><ul style="margin:0 0 8px;padding-left:20px;line-height:1.6"><li style="margin-bottom:6px">Build a daily newspaper and current-affairs habit — Current Affairs &amp; GK plus comprehension passages drive a large share of the 120 marks.</li><li style="margin-bottom:6px">Practise fast, accurate reading — every section is passage-based, so reading speed decides how many questions you finish.</li><li style="margin-bottom:6px">Drill legal-reasoning principle-application questions — the highest-weight section, rewarding applying a given rule.</li><li style="margin-bottom:6px">Strengthen basic quantitative techniques (arithmetic, DI from passages) — small but easy to score.</li><li style="margin-bottom:6px">Take full 2-hour OMR mocks and skip low-confidence questions to manage negative marking.</li></ul>

<h3>CLAT Rank Predictor — Frequently Asked Questions</h3><p><strong>How many marks for NLSIU Bangalore?</strong><br/>You generally need around 98–105 / 120 to be in the General zone for NLSIU; recently the NLSIU General seat closed near AIR 102.</p><p><strong>What is the total marks for CLAT now?</strong><br/>CLAT UG was reduced to 120 marks (120 one-mark questions) from 2024, down from 150 in 2020–2023.</p><p><strong>How does negative marking work?</strong><br/>+1 per correct and −0.25 per wrong; unattempted carry no penalty. Score = correct − 0.25 × wrong.</p><p><strong>How many marks give a top-100 rank?</strong><br/>Approximately 95–100+ marks usually translate to an AIR within the top 100 (General), though the cutoff moves each year.</p><p><strong>What rank can I expect with 85 marks?</strong><br/>Around 85–90 marks usually means roughly AIR 450–1,500 — competitive for top-10 NLUs such as NUJS, NLU Jodhpur or GNLU.</p><p><strong>How many candidates appear?</strong><br/>CLAT has drawn 60,000+ candidates every year since 2018, with attendance over 96%.</p><p><strong>Do category cutoffs differ a lot?</strong><br/>Yes. Reserved-category closing ranks are substantially higher than General; SC/ST seats can close several thousand to tens of thousands of ranks lower.</p>

<p style="font-size:0.85rem;color:#64748b"><strong>Data sources:</strong> <a href="https://www.lawpreptutorial.com/blog/clat/marks-vs-rank/" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">www.lawpreptutorial.com</a> · <a href="https://www.collegedekho.com/articles/clat-cut-off-opening-closing-ranks-round-1-general-obc-sc-st/" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">www.collegedekho.com</a> · <a href="https://www.pw.live/law/exams/clat-2025-revised-rank-vs-mark" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">www.pw.live</a></p><p style="font-size:0.8rem;color:#64748b">Disclaimer: This CLAT rank predictor gives indicative estimates for guidance only and is not affiliated with any official examination authority. Marks-to-rank trends shift every year with paper difficulty, candidate count and normalisation. Always verify final results, ranks and cut-offs on the official CLAT portal before making admission decisions.</p>

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