CLAT 2025 Exam Day Guidelines

The Consortium of National Law University (NLU) will execute the CLAT 2025 examination on the 1st December 2024. Students who are going to appear for the CLAT 2025 exam are urged to go through all the important instructions before the exam carefully. 

The Consortium will soon release the official CLAT 2025 Exam Day Guidelines along with the CLAT admit card. The test will be carried out in pen and paper mode for two hours (2:00 PM to 4:00 PM).


The scores obtained from the CLAT 2025 exam will be acknowledged by 25 NLUs and selected candidates will be granted admission to different law programs such as BA-LLB, BBA-LLB, B.Com-LLB, B.Sc-LLB, and LLM programs.


As per the Consortium of National Law Universities, the exam day guidelines have been already notified regarding documents to be carried and items that are not allowed to be carried. For more details, proceed reading till the end to find out.

Download CLAT 2025 Admit Card

The hall ticket for CLAT 2025 is a must-have document to be carried with you by any means to the CLAT exam center. Admit cards can be downloaded from the official CLAT website by providing their registered phone number and password.

Dos & Don’ts For CLAT Exam Day

Read about all the Dos and Don’ts for the CLAT exam day so to avoid any mishappenings when it matters the most. 

Carry Your ID Card

Another important document to bring on the exam day is your identity card which is required in the exam center. Your ID card along with the admit card will be checked to allow you entrance inside the test center. CLAT exam takers are also strictly advised to keep their documents with them like aadhar cards, passports, voter IDs, driver's licenses, and so on as proof of identity.

Attested Photograph

Supposing that the photo printed on the admit card needs to be clarified, such students must bring an attested photo to the CLAT exam center. The photo you carried needs to be checked, as the photograph was printed on the CLAT 2025 admit card.

Disability Certificate

This applies to those students belonging to the category of PwD (Persons with Disability), such candidates are required to bring their disability certificate.

Black or Blue Ballpoint Pen

Considering that the CLAT 2025 examination is held offline in pen and paper mode, students must carry a blue or black ballpoint pen to the test center. Students are prohibited from using a pen of any color except blue or black color for noting on the admit card or answering on the OMR sheet.

Water Bottle Should be Transparent

Since drinking water may not be offered to the students by the exam center administrators, students are permitted to bring their own water bottles. But the water bottles you carry should be completely transparent. Water bottles of any other type are strictly prohibited inside the exam center.

No Electronic Devices

Any electronic gadgets such as headphones, digital/smart watches, calculators, cellphones, Bluetooth speakers, etc are prohibited inside the exam center premises. However, analog watches are allowed in the exam room. 

CLAT 2025: Exam Bell Timings


Type of Bell

  Timings

                          Details

Long Bell

1:00 PM

Arrival inside the examination chamber commences  

Long Bell

1:30 PM

Arrival of students inside the exam room/classroom

Short Bell

1:50 PM

Handing out of sealed envelopes and declaration of guidelines by the examiners

Long Bell

2:00 PM

Exam commences and students are allowed to open the seal of QB

Short Bell

2:15 PM

Final chance to arrive inside the exam venue

Short Bell

3:00 PM

Completion of 120 minutes (2 hours)

Short Bell

3:50 PM

Alert bell for 10 minutes remaining for the exam

Long Bell

4:00 PM

End of exam

Short Bell

4:15 PM

Students are permitted to leave the exam center 


Go over this information twice if needed, but try to be on top of things on D-Day. With absolute confidence and preparation, move toward your NLU dreams. Once the exam is over, don’t panic, just come back to our CLAT exam analysis, and get the first and most accurate analysis of the CLAT 2025 exam.
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Good Luck!