CLAT Counselling 2025: Schedule, Registration, Round 1 Seat Allotment in top NLUs

CLAT Counselling 2025: The counselling process is conducted after the result for CLAT has been declared. Students who qualified in CLAT 2025 will be eligible to register for the counselling process by paying the required fee. The counselling process for CLAT 2025 has been deferred due to "errors" spotted in the question paper. The Delhi High Court will announce the verdict over revising CLAT results soon. Once the verdict is out, the Consortium of NLUs will prepare the new counselling schedule for CLAT.

Only the candidates who scored above the minimum marks required in CLAT result will be invited for counselling. For the year 2025, counselling is being conducted in different rounds in the form of seat allotment lists. Selected students must accept/decline the offered college and seat for the next applicant to be contacted for those positions. 

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CLAT Counselling 2025

The CLAT counselling functions on the following rounds: registration, CLAT result, and seat allotment. The shortlisted students will need to accept the given seat and college or exist it so that the next candidate in line can be called for the same. The CLAT 2025 counselling process will be held in five rounds until all of the participating NLUs' seats are occupied.

Below are the highlights of the CLAT counselling-

CLAT Counselling 2025 Dates 

Candidates participating in CLAT counselling will be able to check new dates soon. Once released, the same counselling schedule will be updated on this page.

CLAT Counselling 2025: Registration

Before the eligible students get to participate in the counselling round, they will need to register for it by paying a sum of fees. Each of the shortlisted candidates will be given the invitation to register on the official NLU website. Five college preferences are will be available at the time of registration. Note that after the deadline for CLAT counselling registration, candidates won't be able to make any modifications. Only applicants that take part in CLAT Counselling 2025 will be considered eligible for the seat allocation process.

How to register for the counselling process?

After the declaration of the result, students must check their scorecards and eligible students will be asked to register for the counselling process based on the merit and invite lists. Furthermore, they will be asked to select any 5 NLUs according to their preference. The candidate's rank and test scores will be taken into account while considering their preferences at the time of counselling. After students will be done selecting their preferred choices, they will be asked to pay the fee after which the registration will be completed. The entire process will be done on the official website only.

CLAT Counselling Registration Fee

As discussed earlier, students will need to pay a counselling registration fee which will be INR 50,000. A candidate will be given a total reimbursement of Rs. 50,000 without any deductions if they are unsuccessful in getting a seat in any of the NLUs. While a candidate would only receive a partial refund of Rs. 40,000 if they decide to withdraw from the CLAT Counselling Process or do not accept any of the seats given in any of the three lists announced by the Consortium. Additionally, only Rs. 40,000 would be returned if a candidate proves to be ineligible based on the documents or information they have submitted.

CLAT Counselling 2025: Seat Allotment

After the merit list has been declared, the seat allotment process will begin. For the year 2025, there will be a total of 5 seat allotment rounds. Check below to know the dates for the same.

CLAT counselling 2025: Required Documents

The following documents would be required when the CLAT 2025 counselling begins.-

• Marks sheets (Class 10th and 12th)
• Caste Certificate (If applicable)
• NRI Certificate and Sponsored NRI Certificate (If applicable)
• Specially-Abled Certificate (If applicable)
• Domicile Certificate (If applicable)
• Call Letter issued by CLAT Exam authority
• Recent passport-size photo
• CLAT Application Form
• CLAT Admit Card 
• CLAT Score Card 

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CLAT Counselling 2025: Opening and Closing ranks for last year

Meanwhile, students can check the first seat allotment list of different colleges participating in CLAT 2024:

CLAT 2024 Second Seat Allotment List