CLAT 2027 Application Window Checkpoint: Closes 31 October, Exam on 6 December

The CLAT 2027 application window, open since 3 August 2026, closes 31 October 2026 at 11:59 PM — 53 days from 8 September 2026 — with the exam itself on Sunday, 6 December 2026 from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM. All three dates are confirmed directly on the Consortium of National Law Universities' own CLAT 2027 pages as of 8 September 2026, unchanged since the Consortium's 22 July 2026 press release, with no extension notice traced. This guide is the mid-window checkpoint: what remains open, what an applicant still needs to submit, and what happens once the window shuts — not the full exam-pattern breakdown, which Veritect covers separately.

Verified Against the Consortium Today — 8 September 2026

The Consortium's notifications listing for CLAT 2027 as of 8 September 2026 also carries three unrelated procedural notices — a PWD policy document, and reservation-category changes at two universities (WBNUJS and National Law University Meghalaya) — none of which alter the application dates or fee above.

Where You Should Be in the Cycle Right Now

If you have not yet applied, you have 53 days from 8 September 2026 to complete registration, upload documents and pay the fee — a figure you should recompute against the Consortium's 31 October 2026 date on the day you actually check, since a calendar count ages daily and this article's number will not update itself. Two structural points matter more than the day-count itself:

1. The window has not moved since the original 22 July 2026 press release. Unlike several state judicial-service recruitments and the AIBE XXII cycle, where dates have shifted mid-window in 2026, CLAT 2027's three headline dates — application open, application close, exam date — have stayed fixed for over six weeks as of this checkpoint. That stability is itself worth noting, not assuming will continue: re-check the notifications page in the final week of October regardless.
2. Correction and late-payment windows, where they exist, are typically announced separately, close to the original deadline — the Consortium did this for a fee-payment and correction facility in the CLAT 2026 cycle. No such separate window has yet been announced for CLAT 2027 as of 8 September 2026; if one appears, it will be dated relative to 31 October 2026, not a fixed number of days from today.

What Still Needs to Be Submitted

The Consortium's own CLAT 2027 UG instructions specify five items an applicant uploads, all as PDF:

• A recent, passport-size photograph with a plain background.
• The candidate's signature.
• Category certificate — for SC, ST or OBC applicants claiming reservation.
• PwD certificate — where applicable, for candidates seeking accommodations or category benefit.
• BPL certificate — where applicable, for candidates claiming the reduced fee under that category.

Photographs and signatures do not need to be attested before upload, per the Consortium's own instructions — a step some candidates over-prepare for based on other exam forms' requirements. Fee payment is online only, through the Consortium's payment gateway (net banking, debit card, credit card or UPI), and candidates bear their own bank transaction charges, which the gateway displays before payment is confirmed. The fee is non-refundable and non-adjustable once paid — there is no mechanism to recover it for a withdrawn or duplicate application.

What Happens After 31 October

The sequence from application closure to exam day, per the Consortium's own published instructions:

1. Applications close at 11:59 PM on 31 October 2026. No submissions are accepted after this time; a form left incomplete at the deadline is not salvageable afterward.
2. Admit card / hall ticket becomes available for download by logging into the candidate's own application account. The Consortium does not post admit cards by mail — there is no physical hall ticket to expect in the post.
3. Exam day — Sunday, 6 December 2026, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM, with extended time provided for PwD candidates under the Consortium's accommodation policy referenced in its PWD Policy document for CLAT 2027.
4. Results and counselling follow the exam on a schedule the Consortium has not yet published as part of this cycle's materials reviewed for this article; treat any date circulating for results or counselling before the exam itself as unconfirmed.

Candidates should not wait until the admit-card stage to resolve exam-city preference, category-certificate issues, or a photograph/signature that fails upload specifications — none of these can be fixed after the application window shuts on 31 October.

What This Article Deliberately Does Not Repeat

The full CLAT UG exam pattern — 120 questions, two-hour duration, sectional weightage across English, Current Affairs, Legal Reasoning, Logical Reasoning and Quantitative Techniques, and the –0.25 negative-marking rule — is unchanged coverage already published by Veritect and is not restated here; see the cross-link below. This article's job is the application-window checkpoint, not the pattern.

Separately, the Consortium's Expert Committee review of CLAT's medium- and long-term structure — examining question quality, paper structure and syllabus, and inviting public feedback that closed 31 August 2026 — may still produce reforms for a future cycle. Nothing in the Consortium's CLAT 2027 pages reviewed for this article indicates any pattern change has been adopted for the CLAT 2027 paper itself; if one is announced, it will supersede the pattern guide linked below, not this application-window checkpoint.

Practical Checklist for the Remaining Window

1. Confirm your own days-remaining count against 31 October 2026, 11:59 PM — not against any number quoted in this or any other article on the day you read it.
2. Prepare all five upload documents in PDF format before starting the form, so a missing category or BPL certificate does not force a rushed submission near the deadline.
3. Pay the correct fee for your category — Rs 4,000 (General/OBC/PwD/NRI) or Rs 3,500 (SC/ST/BPL) — and note it is non-refundable before confirming payment.
4. Do not wait for a possible extension. None has been announced as of 8 September 2026, and planning around a hoped-for extension that does not materialise is the single most common way applicants miss a hard deadline.
5. Check consortiumofnlus.ac.in again in the final week of October for any correction-window or fee-payment-extension notice, which the Consortium has issued close to the deadline in past cycles.

Sources and verification

• Consortium of National Law Universities — CLAT 2027 notifications index: https://consortiumofnlus.ac.in/clat-2027/index.html (accessed 8 September 2026) — source for: the application-open (3 Aug 2026), application-close (31 Oct 2026) and exam-date (6 Dec 2026) timeline table; confirmation of no extension notice and the three unrelated procedural notices (PWD policy, WBNUJS and NLU Meghalaya reservation changes).
• Consortium of National Law Universities — CLAT 2027 Press Release, 22 July 2026: https://s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/files2027.consortiumofnlus.ac.in/sites/clat2027.consortiumofnlus.ac.in/entity-uploads/notification/attachment/Attachment_720cecc826d8402ab20d3772002b5c77_36562.pdf (accessed 8 September 2026) — source for: the original announcement of the exam date and application window.
• Consortium of National Law Universities — CLAT 2027 UG Instructions: https://consortiumofnlus.ac.in/clat-2027/ug-instructions.html (accessed 8 September 2026) — source for: the fee figures, required documents, upload format, and the post-closure admit-card and exam-day sequence.
• Consortium of National Law Universities — CLAT 2027 UG Eligibility: https://consortiumofnlus.ac.in/clat-2027/ug-eligibility.html (accessed 8 September 2026) — source for: the 45%/40% minimum-marks eligibility figures and no-upper-age-limit confirmation.

Frequently asked questions

Has the CLAT 2027 application deadline been extended from 31 October 2026? No extension notice had been traced on consortiumofnlus.ac.in as of 8 September 2026. The Consortium's own CLAT 2027 notifications page and its 22 July 2026 press release both confirm the application window closes 31 October 2026 at 11:59 PM. Candidates should check the notifications page again close to the deadline, since extensions, when they occur, are typically announced in the final days of a window.

What is the CLAT 2027 application fee? Rs 4,000 for General, OBC, PwD and NRI category candidates, and Rs 3,500 for SC, ST and BPL category candidates, per the Consortium's official UG instructions page. The fee is non-refundable and non-adjustable, and candidates separately bear their own bank transaction charges shown at the payment gateway.

What documents does a CLAT 2027 applicant need to upload? A recent passport-size photograph with a plain background, the candidate's signature, and, where applicable, category certificate (SC/ST/OBC), PwD certificate, or BPL certificate — all uploaded in PDF format. Photographs and signatures do not need to be attested before upload, per the Consortium's own UG instructions.

What happens after the CLAT 2027 application window closes on 31 October? The Consortium releases the admit card, which candidates download by logging into their own application account; no admit card is sent by post. The exam itself is scheduled for Sunday, 6 December 2026, from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM, with extended time for PwD candidates as per the Consortium's accommodation policy.

How many days are left to apply for CLAT 2027 as of 8 September 2026? 53 days, counting from 8 September 2026 up to and including the 31 October 2026 closing date. This is a calendar count from the Consortium's own published closing date and is not itself an official Consortium figure — recompute it against 31 October 2026 on the day you read this rather than relying on a number that ages by the day.

For the full exam pattern, sectional weightage and marking scheme, see CLAT UG Exam Pattern and Marking Scheme.

Source: Consortium of NLUs — CLAT 2027 | CLAT 2027 UG Instructions | CLAT 2027 UG Eligibility