Preparing for CLAT and AILET Together in December 2026

Yes, you can prepare for both: CLAT 2027 is on Sunday 6 December 2026 (2 pm to 4 pm) and AILET 2027 is reported for Sunday 13 December (also 2 pm to 4 pm), a gap of exactly one week. Run one plan, put CLAT first, and treat the week between as an AILET conversion week where you change the paper-specific habits rather than relearn anything.

Check the dates yourself

The CLAT date and the 3 August to 31 October application window come from the Consortium press release of 22 July 2026, and no extension had been found as of 1 November, so check consortiumofnlus.ac.in. The AILET date, the application deadline of 10 November and an admit card around 30 November are as reported by news sources. Confirm them on the NLU Delhi website. If you have not yet applied to AILET, do that before anything else.

Where the two papers differ

• CLAT UG: 120 questions, 120 marks, +1 and -0.25, passage-based. Sections are English (22 to 26), Current Affairs including GK (28 to 32), Legal Reasoning (28 to 32), Logical Reasoning (22 to 26) and Quantitative Techniques (10 to 14).
• AILET (BA LLB): 150 questions in 120 minutes, +1 and -0.25. English 50, GK 30, Logical Reasoning 70. As reported, there is no legal reasoning or quantitative section.

The practical differences: AILET is faster (under a minute per question) and puts far more weight on Logical Reasoning, while CLAT needs legal reasoning and quantitative work that AILET skips.

What carries over

• Reading speed and comprehension, which feed English in both.
• Current affairs notes. CLAT weights them at 28 to 32 questions and AILET GK is 30, so one set of notes serves both.
• Critical reasoning practice: assumptions, inferences, weakening and strengthening. CLAT Logical Reasoning draws on it and AILET lives on it.
• Error-log habit and the same negative marking rule.

The December plan

Now to 22 November: build the shared base

Spend mornings on reading, English and Logical Reasoning (shared). Spend evenings on current affairs and one CLAT-only subject: legal reasoning or quantitative. Sit one CLAT-pattern mock and one AILET-pattern mock in these weeks so you know your baseline for each.

23 November to 5 December: CLAT mode

CLAT is first, so it gets the weight. Take a full CLAT mock every three days. Keep 45 to 60 minutes a day of AILET-relevant Logical Reasoning, since the same skill pays in both. Do not start AILET-only practice yet. Download the CLAT admit card when released and confirm your centre.

6 December: CLAT day

Nothing for AILET today. After the paper, do not analyse questions with friends. Sleep.

7 to 12 December: AILET conversion week

• 7 December: rest and a light read. Write down your CLAT experience: what ran well, what burned time.
• 8 and 9 December: one full 150 question AILET mock each day, then review. Focus on pace: 70 Logical Reasoning questions must fit in roughly 50 to 55 minutes.
• 10 December: a Logical Reasoning sectional of 35 questions and a GK revision from your current affairs notes.
• 11 December: English comprehension drills only, short and timed.
• 12 December: rest. Pack your bag, read your attempt plan, sleep early.

13 December: AILET day

See the AILET exam day guide.

Daily hours

With four to five hours a day: roughly 40 percent on Logical Reasoning and English together, 20 percent on current affairs and GK, 20 percent on CLAT-only sections (until 5 December), and 20 percent on mock review. After 6 December, move the CLAT-only share to AILET Logical Reasoning.

Mock selection

Use CLAT mocks until 5 December and AILET mocks after. For AILET, Lexfolio’s AILET 2027 mock tests offer three 150 question papers in the AILET section split and its guide includes a comparison with CLAT 2027. For CLAT you can see the CLAT UG 2027 mock tests. Do not buy more than you can review properly in the weeks you have.

Mistakes to avoid

• Splitting every day 50:50. The first paper deserves most of the weight.
• Taking a full mock the day before either exam.
• Carrying CLAT’s slower, passage-heavy pacing into AILET.
• Skipping sleep in the gap week. The conversion week is mostly about being fresh.

If a clash of dates, centres or admit card problems appears, contact the relevant university or Consortium helpdesk immediately and do not rely on third-party websites.

How to split a bad mock result

If a CLAT mock goes badly in late November, resist panic about AILET. A CLAT score is lowered by sections AILET does not have (quantitative techniques, legal reasoning), so look at the shared sections first: English, current affairs and logical reasoning. If those are steady, your AILET preparation is on track.

Admissions and counselling

The two admissions run separately: CLAT UG counselling is run by the Consortium of NLUs and AILET admission is run by NLU Delhi. Keep documents ready for both: category certificate if applicable, Class 12 admit card and details, ID and photographs. Follow only official notices for dates, because deadlines for both fall close to the exams.

A quick weekly checklist

• One full-length mock for the next exam.
• One sectional on Logical Reasoning.
• Two current affairs revision sessions from a single set of notes.
• One long reading session of an editorial or an essay.
• One complete rest block of at least half a day.

One honest caution

Preparing for two papers a week apart is demanding, and a plan cannot guarantee a result in either. If you must choose where to put an extra hour, put it into the paper that is first or the one you are more likely to take up for admission. Decide this by your preferred universities and your mock results, not by what friends are doing.