Updated on Jun 14, 2021 22:48 IST

The CLAT Consortium has announced the CLAT exam date 2021 along with the mode of the paper. The Law exam will be held on July 23 in offline mode. Check complete details. Is CLAT 2021 Online or Offline?

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the CLAT Consortium had postponed the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) indefinitely, earlier scheduled to be held on June 13. However, now the CLAT Consortium has announced the revised CLAT 2021 exam date. Along with the date, the Consortium has also announced the mode of the CLAT 2021 paper. 

The CLAT 2021 exam will now be held on July 23 from 2:00-4:00 PM in offline mode. As per the notification released, all the CLAT 2021 exam centres will follow all the COVID-19 safety protocols as prescribed by the government. Complete details regarding the saftey protocols will be released by the Consortium later. Currently, the Consortium has advised all candidates to get vaccinated. 

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Apart from this, all the registered candidates will be given another chance to re-choose their preference for CLAT exam centre. The option to candidates will be given after the CLAT registration process is over on June 15. 

Table of contents
  • Will CLAT 2021 be held in online or offline mode?
  • When will CLAT 2021 be held?
  • How to prepare for CLAT amid COVID?

Will CLAT 2021 be held in online or offline mode?

Not much has changed since last year, as social distancing is still the need of the hour to curb the COVID-19 virus. Conducting the law entrance exam in offline mode increases the chances of spreading the virus as almost all the stakeholders including the aspirants, invigilators and other exam centre authorities will be involved in touching the CLAT papers and other important items.

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Conducting the CLAT exam in online mode, on the other hand, will ensure no-touch arrangements wherein candidates can easily give the exam on the assigned system without having it touched by multiple people.

However, the Consortium has stuck to the offline mode of the exam.Also, like every year, the law exam will be held as a centre-based exam conducted at multiple cities across India. 

When will CLAT 2021 be held?

As stated above, the CLAT 2021 exam will be held on July 23. The Consortium of NLUs will resume the law admission process through CLAT exam similar to every year. The CLAT registrations 2021 will end soon. Candidates can fill the CLAT application form latest by June 15.

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To ace the law entrance exam, it is important for candidates to be well aware about the CLAT pattern, syllabus and best books. Apart from that, candidates need to have a clear and well thought-out CLAT preparation strategy.

Till the time the mode of CLAT is not confirmed, candidates are advised to keep preparing for both the modes (online and offline) of the exam. For the same, candidates are advised to regularly keep practicing the offline CLAT questions papers and keep attempting the online CLAT mock tests. Rest of the CLAT preparation strategy remains more or less the same. Check complete details on how to prepare for CLAT 2021 amid COVID.  

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