After report, criticism, 2nd CLAT mock now tweaked to allow students move between sections, answers

Saturday, 25 July 2020 By Legally India Pre-law student

Good news for CLAT hackers: You can now change your answers to questions and take sections in any order

Following our report on 17 July of a particularly test-taker-unfriendly format in the first mock exam, the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) has tweaked its software for the second mock exam that has been made live today.

The latest mock now allows candidates to change their answers to questions and move freely between sections, more like a paper exam, according to a notification on the CLAT mock exam landing page (see screenshot above).

It will be a welcome change, since the previous system had been heavily criticised by candidates and CLAT trainers.

We have reached out to CLAT consortium members for comment and whether they have made any other tweaks.

In our last report, one member of the consortium had said: “This is precisely why we did the mocks. We will revise and redesign iteratively.”

“We have to balance anti cheating/integrity measures and convenience” the official had added. “So review options and section order options will be based on feedback and evidence.”

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Comments

Guest 25 Jul 2020, 11:45

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One thing I'm not getting is that this CLAT seems to be fairly similar to the previous ones before they shifted back to the pen and paper mode, right? So why this sudden focus on anti-cheating measures? Surely proper invigilation is supposed to take care of that instead of tweaking the exam pattern or system?

Guest 27 Jul 2020, 02:51

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Lack of invigilators who are willing to be packed in huge rooms with large clouds.

Guest 27 Jul 2020, 05:31

Given the higher number of centres, it is unlikely that the centres would be as crowded as usual. It's easy enough for to use normal number of invigilators to do this if they do their jobs correctly.

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