CLAT UG mock test 2027 - free, 5-year integrated law admission

UG-CLAT is the admission gate for the 5-year integrated law degree (BA LLB, BBA LLB, B.Sc LLB, B.Com LLB) at the 22 participating National Law Universities. It is the entry point for 12th-pass students who want to start their law career straight after school. Our mocks reproduce the live Consortium of NLUs paper exactly - 120 comprehension-based questions, 2 hours, +1 / -0.25 - free and unlimited.

Who is UG-CLAT for?

UG-CLAT is the law-entrance exam you sit at the end of Class 12 (or immediately after - there is no year-of-passing restriction the way there is on engineering entrances) if you want to start a five-year integrated law degree at one of the 22 participating NLUs. The qualifier here is the "integrated" part: an NLU undergraduate accepted through UG-CLAT spends the first three years of the degree on a standard humanities, commerce or science base (the BA, BBA, B.Sc or B.Com half of the title) and the last two years on the LLB component, graduating with a single combined honours degree in five years instead of the older three-year-graduation-plus-three-year-LLB route which takes six.

That structure is the reason UG-CLAT is the most contested law entrance in the country. A 17- or 18-year-old who knows they want to practise law, do legal research, sit the judiciary services, or move into a corporate-law role can finish the full qualifying degree by age 22 or 23 - a year ahead of the conventional law route, and at one of the top 22 law schools in India. The five-year integrated degree was originally piloted at NLSIU Bangalore in 1987, has been the default at all NLUs since, and is now the route that the bulk of Indian Tier-1 law firms recruit from. Roughly 60,000 to 70,000 candidates sit UG-CLAT each cycle against around 3,400 seats across the 22 NLUs - a selection ratio tighter than most engineering and medical entrances.

What integrated degree does UG-CLAT admit you to?

The integrated degree is offered in four common variants across the 22 NLUs, and the variant you end up in depends partly on the NLU you are admitted to (NLSIU offers BA LLB only, NLU Jodhpur offers all four, others sit somewhere in between) and partly on the seat you choose in counselling.

• BA LLB (Hons): the most common variant, offered at all 22 NLUs. The BA half covers political science, sociology, history, economics and English - the social-science base that underpins constitutional law, public-policy work and judicial training. About 65 percent of CLAT-allotted seats across the 22 NLUs are BA LLB seats.
• BBA LLB (Hons): offered at NLU Jodhpur, NLU Delhi, NMIMS, and a handful of other NLUs. The BBA half covers management, accounting, organisational behaviour, marketing and corporate strategy - the commerce base most suited to a corporate-law or M&A practice. Heavily targeted by candidates planning to recruit into Tier-1 corporate firms.
• B.Sc LLB (Hons): offered at GNLU Gandhinagar and a few specialist NLUs. The B.Sc half usually covers data analytics, environmental science or biotech - the science base for an IP, environmental-law or biotech-regulation practice. Niche but growing.
• B.Com LLB (Hons): offered at NLIU Bhopal, NLU Jodhpur and select others. The B.Com half covers financial accounting, business law, tax and audit - the commerce base most suited to a tax-law, banking-law or insolvency practice.

The CLAT paper itself is the same regardless of which integrated variant you end up at - you do not sit a different test for B.Com LLB vs BBA LLB. Your CLAT rank, combined with your NLU preferences in counselling, decides which NLU and which integrated stream you land in. The mocks here train you against the single common paper, which is the only entry point you need to plan for.

How is UG-CLAT different from PG-CLAT?

The Consortium of NLUs runs two separate CLAT papers each year, on the same December Sunday, with different candidate pools, different syllabi, and different admission tracks. Confusing the two is a common early-prep mistake.

For a 12th-pass student or current 12th-grader, UG-CLAT is the only relevant paper. PG-CLAT is a separate, later-career entrance you would only sit after completing the integrated five-year degree (or a standalone LLB), if you choose to pursue an LLM. The two papers share a name and a marking scheme but test fundamentally different things.

What does the UG-CLAT paper look like?

The UG-CLAT 2027 paper, like every CLAT paper since 2020, is a 120-question, two-hour, offline OMR test in which every section is comprehension-driven. There is no standalone vocabulary, no rote- memory GK, no formula-recall maths. Every question sits under a 450-word passage, and the skill being tested across all five sections is the same underlying skill: read a piece of long-form prose at speed, hold its structure in your head, and reason from it under time pressure.

The most underrated implication of the comprehension-only format is that a 12th-grade student does not need a coaching-centre crash course in "legal reasoning" to clear the paper. The legal principles you need to apply on the Legal Reasoning section are all embedded in the passages themselves - which means the gap between a well-read 12th-grader and a coached 12th-grader is much smaller than it would be on, say, JEE or NEET. What separates a 99-percentile UG-CLAT score from a 90-percentile one is reading speed, inference-discipline under time pressure, and a developed reading habit across long-form journalism, op-eds and non-fiction prose - all of which can be built independently in the year before the paper. For the full section-by-section breakdown see CLAT pattern & marking.

Two practice modes, three difficulty tiers

The UG mock library on clatmocks is structured around the failure modes a 12th-grade candidate is most likely to hit. Most failures cluster into two patterns: misreading the passage (the comprehension fails), and reading the passage correctly but mis-managing the clock (the pacing fails). The mode + tier system targets each pattern separately.

• Instant Feedback mode: after every question the platform marks it, shows the correct option, and gives you a short worked explanation - which line of the passage the answer is supported by, which option is the closest distractor. Best in the first half of prep (roughly June through September 2026) when the comprehension habit is still being built.
• Exam-like mode: no mid-paper feedback. Same one-paper interface with a 120-minute timer, a question palette, a section-switch toggle. Score and analysis arrive only at submission. Best in the last 8-10 weeks before the live December paper, when pacing rather than comprehension is the binding constraint.
• Easy / Medium / Hard tiers: Easy mocks have shorter passages and one-step inferences for the confidence-building phase; Medium mocks mirror a recent CLAT paper exactly and are the default once or twice a week; Hard mocks compress passages on unfamiliar topics for the last three to four weeks of prep. All tiers preserve the 120-question, 2-hour, +1 / -0.25 spine.

Why aim for a top-22 NLU seat?

The NLUs admit the strongest legal-academic cohorts in the country each cycle, and the placement and clerkship data from the last decade reflects that. The top six NLUs - NLSIU Bangalore, NALSAR Hyderabad, NUJS Kolkata, NLU Delhi, NLIU Bhopal, NLU Jodhpur - regularly place 80-plus percent of each graduating batch into Tier-1 Indian law firms, Supreme Court chambers, or directly into LLM programmes at Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard and Columbia. The newer NLUs (Cuttack, Patiala, Lucknow, Patna, Ranchi, Visakhapatnam, Trichy, Mumbai, Shimla, Aurangabad, Sonipat, Tiruchirappalli, Nagpur) sit lower in the placement spread but still significantly above non-NLU law schools.

The rank-to-NLU mapping is fairly stable across cycles. As a directional guide: a rank inside the top ~100 typically opens NLSIU Bangalore or NALSAR Hyderabad; the top ~500 opens NUJS, NLU Delhi or NLIU Bhopal; the top ~1,500 opens most of the next tier of NLUs; and the top ~3,400 opens an NLU seat somewhere. The exact category-wise opening and closing ranks across recent CLAT cycles are on the CLAT cutoffs & ranks page.

What is the right prep cadence for UG-CLAT 2027?

The cycle is built around a December exam date. The cadence below is what we see from candidates who scored in the top 2,000 of UG-CLAT in recent cycles - it is not a hard prescription, but it is the pattern that recurs.

• June - August 2026 (build phase): daily long-form reading (a national daily, a long-form magazine like Caravan or Frontline, one non-fiction book a month). One full-length Easy or Medium mock every 10-14 days, in Instant Feedback mode. Goal: develop reading speed and inference discipline.
• September - October 2026 (consolidation phase): weekly Medium-tier mock in Exam-like mode. Begin focused work on Legal Reasoning passages (the section that benefits most from deliberate principle-application practice) and on Current Affairs (a structured CA digest of the year so far). Quant practice in the last hour of every other day - it is a small section but a free 12-14 marks if you finish it cleanly.
• November 2026 (peak phase): two mocks a week, alternating Medium and Hard tiers, all in Exam-like mode. Spend at least as much time on the post-mock analysis as on the mock itself. The wrong-answer review is where the score actually moves in this phase.
• First week of December 2026 (taper): one Medium-tier mock at the start of the week, no full mocks in the 48 hours before the exam. Re-read your CA digest, revisit the analysis pages from your last three or four mocks, sleep. Adding a sixth mock here is almost always counterproductive.