CLAT 2026 Answer Key: Provisional and Final PDF, Set Wise, and Score Calculator

The CLAT 2026 answer key was released by the Consortium of National Law Universities on its official website, consortiumofnlus.ac.in. The provisional answer key for UG and PG came out on 10 December 2025 and the final answer key on 16 December 2025. For CLAT UG, the provisional key was accepted as final, so candidates were evaluated out of 119 marks, awarding +1 for every correct answer and deducting 0.25 for every wrong one.

This guide from Law Prep Tutorial Delhi NCR lets you download every set, calculate your score out of 119, and understand what the Allahabad High Court merit list revision changed for candidates.

If you sat the Common Law Admission Test on 7 December 2025, the answer key is the first official document that tells you how you actually performed. It carries the correct option for every question across all four booklet sets, and it is what the Consortium used to prepare the result and rank list. About 92,344 candidates registered for CLAT 2026, which the Consortium reported as a rise of roughly 17 percent over the previous year, so every mark counted. Below you can download the provisional and final keys, match your set, work out your score, and read a plain explanation of the one question the courts changed.

If you sat the Common Law Admission Test on 7 December 2025, the answer key is the first official document that tells you how you actually performed. It carries the correct option for every question across all four booklet sets, and it is what the Consortium used to prepare the result and rank list. About 92,344 candidates registered for CLAT 2026, which the Consortium reported as a rise of roughly 17 percent over the previous year, so every mark counted. Below you can download the provisional and final keys, match your set, work out your score, and read a plain explanation of the one question the courts changed.

1. CLAT 2026 answer key: important dates

The Consortium followed a tight, published timeline: a provisional key, a two-day objection window, then the final key, and the result the very next day. These are the confirmed dates.

2. How to download the CLAT 2026 answer key

Both the provisional and final keys sit in the notifications area of the Consortium site. No login is needed to open the public PDFs, though your own response sheet requires your registration ID and password.

1. Open the official website, consortiumofnlus.ac.in, and go to the CLAT 2026 section.

2. Scroll to the notifications list and find the provisional or final answer key notice.

3. Open the PDF for your programme, UG or PG, which are published separately.

4. Note your booklet set, Set A, B, C, or D, printed on your question paper.

5. Save the PDF and match it against your marked responses set by set.

3. CLAT 2026 set wise answer key (Set A, B, C, D)

The Consortium released the answer key for all four booklet sets. The questions in the four sets are identical, but their order is shuffled to prevent copying, so you must read the key for your own set. Use the provisional key to check answers and the final key to lock in your score, because the result is prepared only from the final key.

4. The final key, 119 marks, and the Allahabad High Court ruling

This is where most pages get confused, so read it carefully. Two things about the CLAT 2026 UG final key matter for your score.

First, the Consortium stated there was no change between the provisional and the final UG key, and that the provisional key published on 10 December 2025 was therefore treated as final. Because one question was not counted in the UG evaluation, candidates were assessed out of 119 marks rather than the full 120. For CLAT PG, three answers were revised in the final key.

Court ordered change: Question 9 in Booklet C, both B and D are correct

The Allahabad High Court later directed the Consortium to revise the CLAT 2026 UG merit list. A candidate had shown that a valid objection accepted by the Expert Committee was not reflected in the final key. For the disputed question, Question 9 in Booklet C, which appears as Question 91 in Booklet A, the court held that both option B and option D must be treated as correct, and that candidates who chose either should be awarded the mark.

In practice this means a candidate who marked B or D on that question gains one mark. On a 119 mark paper, a single mark can move an All India Rank by hundreds of places near the cut off, which is why the merit list was reworked. If your set contained that question, recalculate with the mark added.

5. Calculate your CLAT 2026 score

Enter how many questions you got right and wrong against your set. The score applies the official scheme: +1 for a correct answer, 0.25 deducted for a wrong one, and nothing lost for a blank. It scores out of 119, the UG evaluation total. The live web page includes an interactive calculator that shows your estimated score, attempted, blank, gross, and penalty in real time.

Formula: Score = (Correct x 1) minus (Wrong x 0.25), capped at 119 for UG.

6. CLAT 2026 marking scheme and exam pattern

The score above follows the exam pattern the Consortium set for CLAT UG 2026: a two hour, offline, passage based paper.

The five sections are not equally weighted. Current Affairs and GK and Legal Reasoning carry the most questions, followed by English and Logical Reasoning, with Quantitative Techniques the smallest. Every section is passage led, which is why trained reading speed matters more than memorised facts.

7. How to raise an objection against the provisional key

Objections were only accepted during the provisional window, from 10 to 12 December 2025, through the candidate login. For CLAT 2026 the Consortium reduced the objection fee to Rs 500 per question, down from Rs 1,000, and the fee is refunded when an objection is upheld.

1. Sign in to your CLAT account on the Consortium website.

2. Open the submit objections tool and choose your booklet set.

3. Select the question, state whether you dispute the question or the answer, and add your reasoning.

4. Attach supporting proof from a credible source, since unsupported objections are usually rejected.

5. Pay Rs 500 per question. The fee returns to you if the objection is accepted.

8. CLAT PG 2026 answer key

The Consortium published the CLAT PG 2026 answer key separately from UG, on the same dates. Unlike the UG key, the PG final key carried revisions: three answers were changed after the objection review. PG candidates should score only against the final PG key, since the revised answers affect the LLM merit list.

9. From answer key to admission: what your score means

There are no qualifying marks in CLAT. Every valid candidate is ranked purely by score, and admission then depends on your rank, your category, and the NLU preference order you fill during counselling. The result and rank list were prepared from the final key and, after the court order, the revised UG merit list.

So once you have your estimated score, the useful next questions are about rank and fit: which NLUs are realistic, whether a retake makes sense, and how to plan the year ahead. That is a conversation worth having with people who read these numbers every admission cycle.

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