CLAT Career

Will you please tell what is the career prospectus for a candidate who clear CLAT exam for Law education ?

[Kiran Chandar]

After clearing CLAT exam candidate can get admission in a good Law institute .

After completing law course there is wide career opportunities. A candidate can do practice as an advocate in a court of law or work with corporate firms. He /she can become a judge after qualifying examof public service commission .

After gaining experience :
Can become Solicitor General
Public Prosecutor

After completing law course candidate can become:
Advocate
Lawyer
Magistrate/Judge
Notary
Oath Commissioner

Job type :
Attorney General
District and Sessions Judge
Munsifs (Sub-Magistrate)
Advocates
Notary,
Public Prosecutor
Solicitors
Legal Advisor
Trustees
Teachers & Lecturer
Law Reporters
Magistrate
Legal Experts

Hii sir, I completed my 12th now I wanted to go for the law studies some one suggests me to prepare for the CLAT Examination please give me the details of the CLAT examination ?

[sumit]

CLAT is a centralised test for admission to 16 prominent National Law Universities in India. The test is taken after the Higher Secondary Examination or the 12th grade for admission to integrated undergraduation programmes in Law and after Graduation in Law for Master of Laws(LL.M) programmes conducted by these law universities. This test was conducted for the first time on 11 May 2008


Eligibility criteria:

Candidates should have passed Higher Secondary School/Intermediate Examination (10+2) or its equivalent examination with not less than 50% marks in aggregate (45% in case of SC/ST/OBC and persons with Disability).
There is no age bar for appearing in CLAT
Candidates appearing in the qualifying examination can also appear provisionally. However, they shall have to produce proof of having passed the qualifying examination before or at the time of admission with detailed mark sheet.

Paper pattern :
CLAT Pattern
Total Marks: 200
Number of Questions: 200
Duration: 2 hours
There are five test areas viz.
English (40 marks),
General Knowledge (50 marks),
Mathematical Ability (20 marks),
Legal Aptitude (40 marks)
, Logical Reasoning (50 marks).

Syllabus:
English including Comprehension- You need to focus over English based comprehension passages and grammar. In the comprehension section, you will be questioned on understanding of a passage including its central theme and word-meanings. Some of the questions will also cover questions like correction of the incorrect grammatical sentences, fill in the blanks with appropriate words, etc.

General Knowledge & Current Affairs- This section will test the knowledge of general awareness including static GK. Apart from GK, questions will also cover the recent topics and current affairs broadly featuring between March 2015 and April 2016.

Mathematics (Numerical Ability)- The questions will generally of the numerical ability type of Class 10th standard.

Legal Aptitude- The section will majorly test your interest towards study of law, research aptitude and problem solving ability. The questions will be framed on legal propositions and set of facts satisfying the propositions. The propositions may not be true in real sense and you will have to assume the true proposition based on the set of facts and answer the questions accordingly.

Logical Reasoning- The questions of this section will test your ability to identify the patterns, logical links and rectify illogical arguments. The section will also cover a variety of logical aptitude questions including syllogism, logical sequences, analogies, etc. However, the logical reasoning section will not have visual reasoning questions.

The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) is the national level law entrance exam conducted every year for shortlisting candidates for as many as 2190 seats distributed among the16 participating NLUs. Last year as many as 39686 candidates had registered for CLAT out of which 37358 candidates appeared for the admission test.