Diverging approaches as the CLAT will play it more old-school with an in-person test while the smaller AILET emulates LSAT model with online proctored exam.*
The 2020 Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) will be held via a computer-based test at physical test centres on Saturday 22 August 2020, the CLAT consortium has announced, while NLU Delhi has decided (see below) to hold its competing All India Law Entrance Test (AILET) on 18 August, entirely online via so-called “remote proctoring” (read this for more information on what remote proctoring could look like).
The national law universities’ consortium had met yesterday, on 29 June, and grappled with the logistics of a Covid-19 exam, deciding both against holding a traditional off-line test as well as against holding an entirely online exam (such as that envisaged by JGLS and the LSAT-India, and now NLU Delhi):
It concluded that an off-line test, as initially contemplated, would require large scale movement of students to limited centres, and significant logistics in the handling of question papers and answer scripts, which is not possible during the prevalent pandemic conditions.
Further, an on-line test at home with technological measures cannot ensure transparency, fairness and integrity of a high stakes examination process or maintain equitable access to necessary facilities.
Hence, the EC concluded that an on-line test at a large number of centres compliant with physical distancing and public health safety prescriptions is in the best interests of the health and safety of candidates and test administrators.
The CLAT date - which had previously been announced to be communicated before 1 July - has therefore been pushed again to 22 August.
The exam would be held in person at test centres (to be notified by 1 July) but via “computer-based, online” tests, which presumably means that each candidate would get access to a workstation at the test centre.
The application deadline has been extended to 10 July, with candidates also able to apply for application fee refunds (after a deduction of Rs 500, and Rs 400 for SC/ST candidates).
Trying for a healthy CLAT
Furthermore, the consortium has issued guidance for safe “social distanced computer based testing” (see PDF below for more details), which includes:
- crowd management staff for “orderly movement”, as well as “sufficient cleaning staff” and others to help,
- temperature measuring guns, sanitised exam centres, and availability of hand sanitiser and soap in centres.
If any unfortunate candidates should develop a temperature or other Covid-19 symptoms on the day of the exam (which is basically defined as a temperature of more than 99.14 degrees Fahrenheit), they won’t be allowed to take the test in the main exam venue but apparently a “separate isolation lab will be set up to accommodate these candidates”.
NLU Delhi AILET to go for remote proctoring online exam on 18 August
By contrast, NLU Delhi has received permission from the National Testing Agency (NTA) to hold its separate admissions test as a “remote proctored test (RPT)“, according to an announcement on its website (which also reversed the 50% Delhi reservations, following yesterday’s Delhi high court order).
The notification fixed 18 August 2020 as the exam date, noting:
Now the AILET 2020 will be conducted on August 18, 2020 from 11.00 to 12.30 Hrs (90 mts) on RPT mode. Before the test, the NTA will provide the detailed information and guidance to the aspirants for which two webinars & one mock test for the AILET 2020 will be conducted by NTA.
The schedule of the webinars & mock test will be notified shortly. In view of the change in the reservation policy & seat matrix as per orders passed by the Hon’ble High Court of Delhi and further change in the mode of test from pen and paper test to RPT mode, the University has decided to allow the option of withdrawal to the candidates, who want to withdraw their application for admission to B.A.LL.B.(Hons), LL.M. and Ph.D. Programmes.
[documentcloud http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6960596-Notification-for-Conduct-of-CLAT-2020.html CLAT 2020 Notification of mode of conduct and 22 August exam date][documentcloud http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6960610-NLU-Delhi-Revised-Admission-Notification-July-2020.html NLU Delhi AILET notification of 18 August exam date][documentcloud http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6960597-Medical-Precautions-CLAT-2020.html CLAT 2020 medical precautions] First photo by Michael Surran
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No class has 60+ students.
No current batch of Jindal is limited to 5 sections of BA LLB + 2 sections of BBA LLB. They are all out at 5 sections EACH.
You're clearly not a Jindal student bruv.
this one year drop might not matter to students who cleared 12th this year.. but will matter a lot to droppers like me who have been preparing for clat and ailet
The whole point of CLAT was to prevent students from having to pay fees to different institutions.
If NLUD is permitted, why does NLS or any other college have to go ahead with CLAT?
Later MHRD in an affidavit before the SC (I think it was in the case that Shamnad had initiated) clearly said that they had nothing to do with CLAT and that it was a private initiative by the participating NLUs. So, if any NLU that is part of the newly formed CLAT Consortium wishes to exit, it can. Similarly, if an NLU wants to stay away like NLUD, it can do that as well.
CLAT in a sense is perceived as being helpful by newer NLUs to not only get some revenue but also save on admin hassles relating to conducting admission tests on an all-India basis.
The argument that it would save on admin hassle makes sense.
I am sure NKC & Co will use this opportunity for "building construction" despite a blanket ban by the state govt as part of austerity measures. They will cite "emergency". "student demands" etc so that the "deal" moves forward. "Building construction" and related deals is the vehicle to traffic in IoUs. They will also try to revive other vehicle, distance education. So business as usual and that can only mean one thing - profits at the expense of students.
And in a state where this happens but gets reported rarely, horrors await students https://www.ndtv.com/kolkata-news/kolkata-family-forced-to-keep-mans-body-in-ice-cream-freezer-for-2-days-2255629?pfrom=home-bigstory
NUJS also has a poor record of investigating suicides transparently. Forget prevention.
Will you also deny that UGC allocated more than Rs 16 crores over a decade that included more than a crore for hostels alone and PIB and Co did nothing but allow embezzlement by a former Registrar and his cronies that includes ND. Read up the Justice PN Sinha Report. The Cal HC accepted that report and approved the firing of that Registrar.
Will you deny that NKC tried but couldn't avoid informing the EC that NUJS needs to return at least Rs 5 crores to UGC to avoid getting blacklisted. That the former AO was retained as a "consultant" on hefty remuneration to do "creative accounting" because the new AO declined to be involved with "whatever happened earlier". The new AO is already shaken by the fact that IT authorities froze NUJS accounts and were able to recover Rs 4 crores out of a demand of Rs 7.86 crores. The Calcutta HC is yet to issue any stay etc on this matter.
Do you deny all this? If yes, then you either don't know (go ahead and ask your great VC) or you are the troll who wants to suppress inconvenient facts
Kian, you can either censor or pursue the details that I mentioned here. Everyone knows. The faculty, both Injustice and Justice Leagues, was our source.
Apparently, NKC also admitted before the EC that NUJS hasn't had BCI affiliation since 2011.
Kina, since there will be firefight whether all of this is motivated rumour mongering, why don't you ask your sources and talk to NKC and others to find out the real picture. Both current and prospective students need to know the truth because the charges are quite serious and in my case, the young faculty member, is a credible source.
Then again, something similar may happen at NUJS if the investigations are transparently done and not repeatedly diluted and stalled by NKC and his friends