sir, i passed hs this year and now i am reading ba hons 1st year.can i eligible for clat examination 2019?

Dear Aishanee Ghatak,

Felt good to receive your query. You know why? Whenever, I find law aspirants like you posting questions related to law entrance examinations, be it for five-year integrated or three-year LLB, I am glad to see that the generation is breaking the monotony with a mentality while moving towards the professions other than engineering and medicine.

Well, thank you for posting in a beautiful question which would not help you but others too like you who might be in similar confusion.

Now let’s come to your query. But before answering your question, I would like you to answer mine as you go through this.

Why do you wish to make a career in law? What motivates you to choose law as a career to study? Where do you wish to see yourself in next couple of years?

As you told that you’re just in the first year of your BA (Hons.), I can ask you to go for CLAT. Else I would not have, if you might be in the second year or the final year.

Reason? Quite simple, why waster another five years by going through CLAT, when you can have your three-year LLB degree just after you’re a graduate.

Exactly, CLAT is best suited for them who have just passed their 10+2 so that it saves one year of getting the LLB degree.

Through CLAT, you’re offered a five-year integrated law programme, which means while you’ll graduate with an LLB degree it would be an integrated one, either with BA (Hons) or BCom (Hons) or BSc (Hons) or BBA.

However, the three-year LLB degree programme can also be pursued after you’re a graduate, but this will also take one extra year.

Three years of grad school and another three years of LLB, total six; wherein after your 10+2 you can have the LLB degree through qualifying CLAT and other like examinations in just five years, saving the one, with an integrated LLB programme.

There is no age bar to pursue LLB programme, wither you go through CLAT way or traditional 3-year LLB way.

I hope this clears yours doubt. In case there is still something remaining, feel free to counter-question me.

Till then, keep asking questions and knowing their answers. It’s a good practice, all you need to do is just ask!

All the best!

Thank you.

Hello dear,

Thanks for contacting us.

The eligibility for CLAT is as follows for undergraduate courses:

• Candidates should have passed Senior Secondary School Examination/ 12th Board Examination from any recognised educational institution.

• Candidates need to score atleast 45% marks in their qualifying degree to appear in CLAT 2019. For the candidates belonging to SC and ST categories need to score at least 40 percent marks in the aggregate of subjects.

• There is no age bar to appear in CLAT 2019 as per Supreme Court’s stay order.

For postgraduate courses, eligibility is:

• Candidates applying for postgraduate law programme, LLM need to possess a bachelor’s degree in law. The law degree can be of five-year integrated or three year law programme from an institution approved by Bar Council of India.

• A candidates need to score atleast 55 percent in his/her qualifying degree. Whereas candidates belonging to reserved categories have been give 5 percent relaxation wherein they need to score 50 percent marks in their qualifying degree of law.

• Moreover, there is no age bar to appear in CLAT 2019 to seek admission into the postgraduate law programme.

All the best!

Dear student,
I would like to tell you that you are completely eligible so as to appear for the CLAT exam in 2019. You just need to prepare well and appear. As you are doing BA hons It will be plus point for you. So study well.
All the best. I hope this was helpful to you.

Hi,
For CLAT exam there is no specific course to give exam. So 6ou are eligible for the CLAT 2019. All the best.
Thanks