Legally India has crunched the numbers in the first merit list into a table that will tell you which states performed best at the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT).

Where is the CLAT most popular?

The largest number of applicants came from India’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, from where 7981 applied for the exam.

Rajasthan, Madhra Pradesh and Delhi each sent between 3,000 and 4,000 candidates each.

However, several states are over-represented considerably when it comes to the proportion of their population that apply for the CLAT.

In Chandigarh, for every 1 million of population, 270 sat for the CLAT.

In Delhi, 200 out of 1 million inhabitants sat for the CLAT.

After the two city states, Haryana, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Punjab are all around the 50 candidates or more per 1 million mark.

Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Chhattisgarh all send less than 50m per capita, which is still above the national average though.

States such as Karnataka and Maharashtra sent fewer candidates per capita than the national average.

CLAT performance per capita

Evaluating only the top 1000 rankers in the CLAT per 1 million of local population, does not paint a drastically different picture, although a few states perform better than their population would suggest here.

Karnataka, for instance, has a disproportionate number of top 1000-ranked CLAT candidates and is above the national average now, despite having sent fewer candidates per capita than many other states.

CLAT performance per state vs total candidates sent: Top 100 ranks

The relative performance of CLAT applicants compared to how many candidates came from each state, paints a different picture than the previous charts.

Karnataka performs better than all others, with 1.2% of its CLAT candidates getting into the top 100.

This is closely followed by Maharashtra, where 0.8% of CLAT candidates made it to the top 100.

The ‘others’ category, which presumably includes non-resident Indians, scored just above Kerala and West Bengal.

Less than 0.4% of candidates from Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Punjab made it into the top 100 ranks.

Gujarat, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Telangana, Delhi, Uttarakhand and Bihar all perform below the national average.

A number of smaller states, including Chandigarh which supplied the highest number of candidates per capita, did not get any students into the top 100 ranks.

CLAT performance vs total candidates sent: Top 500 ranks

The picture is mostly replicated in the top 500 ranks, though Chandigarh appears in fifth place in the rankings of top-500-ranked candidates as a percentage of total candidates sent to the CLAT by the state.

Karnataka and Maharashtra again perform best in this metric, alongside West Bengal and Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Kerala and Telangana.

Delhi, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh and Odisha again perform below average, getting fewer candidates into the top 500 ranks per CLAT applicant than the national average.

Bihar, Chhattisgarh and Himachal Pradesh perform the worst.

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• Download full Excel sheet dataset of all 37,358 applicants and calculations for these and other stats in this series (Zipped PDF: 1.6MB)

All data (click table header to sort by each metric)

Source: Legally India research / CLAT 2015 first merit list / 2011 census data