The CLAT one-year course
for CLAT 2028.

What the one-year course is

Most students who sit CLAT prepare for it for about a year, usually alongside Class 12. The Complete Programme is built for that year. It starts on 1 April 2027, as Class 12 begins, and runs to 30 November 2027, the week before the exam season. That is eight months of teaching and practice aimed at one paper: CLAT 2028.

It covers all five sections of the CLAT UG paper. Teaching is live, in small batches, and every class is recorded so you can go back to it. Alongside the classes you get a mock series, sectionals, notes for each section, a monthly current affairs digest and a dashboard that tracks your scores by section over the year.

Two things set it apart from a typical one-year CLAT course. The first is size. Each live batch has at most 25 students, and the whole programme stops at 100. The second is attention. Every student has one-to-one mentorship, so someone is looking at your error patterns and your plan, not only at the batch average.

What is included

Everything below is part of the one fee. There are no paid add-ons inside the programme.

• Weekly live classes across all five CLAT sections, in batches of up to 25
• A recorded library of every class, to rewatch at any time
• At least 40 full-length CLAT-pattern mocks and 12 or more sectional tests
• Section-wise performance tracking on your personal dashboard
• Curated notes for each section
• A monthly current affairs digest
• A community forum where faculty answer questions
• One-to-one mentorship through the year
• A final full-length mock sat in person, under exam conditions, at a centre in Delhi
• Eligibility for the Bahali Award: the programme is the only route to it

Written doubts are answered within one working day. Doubts are also taken inside the live classes.

The five sections, and what each one tests

CLAT UG is a two-hour paper of 120 multiple-choice questions. Each correct answer earns one mark and each wrong answer costs a quarter of a mark. Almost every question hangs off a passage, which is why reading speed and accuracy matter more than memorised facts. The course gives each section the time its weight in the paper deserves.

Legal Reasoning gets the most attention. It is the section that makes CLAT different from other entrance tests, and it rewards method more than knowledge: read the principle, apply only the principle, ignore what you happen to know about the law. The course teaches that method early and then drills it for the rest of the year.

For section-by-section strategy you can use now, see the guides on Legal Reasoning, critical reasoning question types and Quantitative Techniques.

How the year is shaped

The year moves in three broad stages. The exact class calendar is shared with enrolled students, not published, because it is adjusted to each batch.

1. 01MethodThe early months build the core methods for each section: how to read a legal principle, how to break an argument into claim and assumption, how to read a passage for structure rather than detail. Sectionals start here, untimed at first.
2. 02ApplicationThe middle of the year puts those methods under time pressure. Sectionals become timed, full-length mocks begin, and mentorship turns to your own error log: which mistakes repeat, and why.
3. 03Exam paceThe final stretch is full mocks at exam pace, review, and a taper into the exam. It ends with the final mock sat in person in Delhi, so the first time you sit a paper in a hall is not the real one.

CLAT 2028 and the proposed new pattern

This batch sits CLAT 2028 (Expected December 2027, to be notified by the Consortium). The CLAT Expert Committee has proposed a three-section paper for future years, with no General Knowledge section. Nothing has been decided for 2028. The Consortium has said the recommendations will be considered further. The current position is on the CLAT 2028 page.

The course is built to hold up under either pattern. Reading comprehension, legal reasoning and argument analysis appear in both the current paper and the proposed one, and they get the most time. Current affairs is kept, but kept efficient, so it does not crowd out the skills that transfer. If the Consortium confirms a change during the year, the teaching adjusts to it.

Why batches of 25, and a hard cap of 100

Large online CLAT batches often run into the hundreds. At that size a live class is a lecture: questions go to a chat window and most of them go unanswered. A batch of 25 is small enough for faculty to know who is struggling with what, and to call on students rather than talk at them.

The 100-seat cap is enforced by the payment system itself. When the last seat is taken, applications close. There is no waiting list, no extra batch and no exception.

Fees, refunds and the Bahali Award

The fee is ₹75,000 for the full programme, paid once. It covers every class, the recorded library, the mock series, notes, the forum, mentorship and the Delhi mock.

You can ask for a full refund within 7 days of paying, as long as the batch has not started. That window is your trial: register, start preparing with the material, and change your mind if it is not right. Nothing is refunded once the batch starts.

Bahali Award: Awarded to the single top-ranked student of the CLATcoach CLAT UG Complete Programme batch each year; lapses if that student does not secure an NLSIU Bangalore seat. It covers the tuition and facilities component of NLSIU’s annual fee notification, for each year of the five-year BA LLB, paid directly to the university; it is not a discount on this fee. Full terms are on the scholarship page.

The full refund terms are in the Refund Policy.

How to join

1. 01Take the free diagnosticOptional, but useful: it shows where you stand in each section and gives your mentor a starting point.
2. 02Register interestFill in the short form. No payment is taken now, and registering commits you to nothing.
3. 03Confirm your seatWhen enrolment opens you receive the fee details and start date. A seat is reserved only on confirmed payment.

Who it is for, and who it is not for

Frequently asked questions