The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) is a centralized national level entrance test for admissions to 23 National Law Universities (NLU) except NLU DELHI which takes admissions via AILET exam in India. Most private and self-financed law schools in India also use these scores for law admissions. Public sector undertakings in India like ONGC, Coal India, BHEL, Steel Authority of India, Oil India etc. use CLAT Post Graduation (CLAT PG) scores for recruitment of legal positions in the companies.
The test is taken after the Higher Secondary Examination or the 12th grade for admission to integrated under-graduate degree in Law (BA/BBA/B.COM/B.SC LLB) and after Graduation in Law for Master of Laws (LL.M) programs offered by these law schools. It is considered as one of the toughest entrance examinations in India with the acceptance rate being as low as 3 percent.