The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2021 has been (re)-scheduled to Friday, 23 July 2021, according to a notification.
The exam, slated for 13 June, had been postponed on 15 May indefinitely, in light of the rapidly growing pandemic.
The notification by the CLAT consortium said that safety norms would be followed at the physical exam centres:
The General Body of the Consortium of National Law Universities met on the 12th June, 2021 and resolved as follows:
1. CLAT-2021 will be held on Friday, 23rd July, 2021 between 2 & 4 PM for both UG and PG programmes.
2. As notified earlier, the CLAT 2021 will be a Pen and Paper exam conducted at Centres with all COVID 19 safety protocols being observed.
3. Candidates for the LL.M. programme in CLAT 2021 are hereby informed that the examination will include only 120 MCQs to be answered in 120 minutes. There will be no Descriptive Section in CLAT 2021.
4. In view of avoiding longer travel to the Test Centres, applicants will be given a chance to revisit their preference of Test Centre after last date of submission of filled-in-application. The Consortium as far as possible will try to adjust first or second preference of the Test Centre. Hence, you are advised to keep visiting the Consortium website.
5. The candidates are advised to get themselves vaccinated.
6. Further details with regard to Centres and Protocols shall be notified shortly.
7. Any requests for assistance or for clarifications may be directed to: Email: Phone: 080 47162020 (between 10:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.) on all working days.
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Nalsar has a faculty [...]. Recently, Faizan shared his willingness to open campus in this group. Vcv who also happens to still member of this group and came down heavily on Faizan for his plans and asked him to wait for government orders.
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His flagship mba program has tanked and all the faculty he recurited for mba program since last one year are simply sitting and getting pay for doing nothing. This year bba is coming up.
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Either there should be an online CLAT or the CLAT for this year should be cancelled and there should be no batch graduating in 2026 (which will also help solve the job shortage for the 2025 batch).
#postponeCLAT
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No CLAT until December. That's it.
https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/breach-of-covid-protocol-will-only-hasten-3rd-wave-says-high-court-as-delhi-unlocks-2466694?pfrom=home-ndtv_topscroll
#WeWantOnlineCLAT
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Shame on the CLAT Consortium for it ignorance!! A postponement is inevitable.
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Please understand the implications, those of you want opening up.
So FM does acknowledge that postponing clat multiple times had an adverse impact on the quality of education first years received? It wasn’t just a math problem that could be solved with having ten hours of classes a day?
Literally every rational reason he gave in this video ( sans the philosophising on death) was exactly what nls had been screaming down to the point where they had to up and leave last year. But now they’re suddenly valid is it?
Such consistent morals we have.
If he was really sanguine about the importance of holding the exam in time, online or not, then why did he not withdraw this year well in advance and conduct his own? Afraid that the SC will again give him a bloody nose like the last occasion? National level online exams can't be conducted in this country fairly and ensuring access given the state of our infra. LSAT doesn't count because the type of people who give it actually have access. Most do not.
And sure his planning might have been rushed because he was trying to get the first year batch in in October. If he had had time maybe it would not have had so many bugs. But FM likely knew then that the math he was spouting was bullshit and he kept engaging in bad faith. I don’t particularly care about the politics of nls administration so you? That’s not a moral question to my mind? Sudhir made hard choices last year and he did it to save his academic year and to provide his students and applicants with some amount of structure. Not this indefinitely postponing game the other clueless ones were doing.
Let me also say this- it is not any more moralistic to hold an in person exam when the country is staring down the barrel of the third wave. Fm again gets it wrong- the space between second and third wave is not a “window of opportunity” that people can use to step out and do as they like. The third wave happens because people don’t follow the same discipline after the end of the second wave. Actual people die because of this kind of behaviour- how is that moralistic pray tell? Also how much access does an in person exam hold in this situation where a person has to risk the life and health of themselves and their family members to write an exam that could be written anywhere?
Believe it or not there are core values to society that are more important than access. More important than “do I have more or less than my neighbour”. And those values are protecting peoples lives and health and the bodies they have to spend their entire life in. Life trumps access.
It’s nice that you ignored my whole point in your rant too! Brings back so much déjà vu from last year.
If Faizan and the Consortium are singing the same tune about lost time this year, then I agree with the guy above, it's a moral turnaround. That puts them in the wrong, not Sudhir in the right.
I honestly do not know that with the amount of cash the Consortium gets from this exam, why they cannot ensure that a lot more bigger and smaller cities have centres, thus ensuring that there won't be any crowding and travel problems can be minimised too. They can easily plot the map by using the addresses of the applicants. But that would mean the NLUs won't get their huge share of profit from the exam, which is what is more important to them, I guess.
This idea of it being “their” pedagogical problem. As if students are customers and universities have the onus to deliver education on time regardless of constraints encapsulates everything that’s wrong with Indian academia. It’s our pedagogical problem. And the answer is unsavoury- but there is only one - you do everything you can to ensure access - but at a certain point you have to say enough and try and save the academic year. Robbing admitted students of a decent education because one is too scared of the outrage machine or of barely reasoned court decisions does a greater injustice in the long run.
It might surprise you to know that things weren’t always “fair” and “equal access” before the pandemic either. And they certainly weren’t fair and equal access after the much postponed mid pandemic exam last year. There is no perfect. You try to strike a balance you can live with and move on like an adult.
1. Sudhir behaved last year as if he was solely concerned about the 80 students who would get into NLSIU, and not the 80000 who had been trying to. As part of the group conducting the entrance examination, he should not have done that.
2. When it comes to 1st year students having to attend more classes or miss out on an internship out of ten, as opposed to hundreds of times greater in number aspirants being deprived of chances to get quality legal education, logic, reason, and utility dictate that the latter's interest should be prioritised.
3. Just because CLAT was not entirely fair before the pandemic, one cannot take actions that would deliberately render it more unfair after the pandemic. Neither logic nor reason supports that.
4. First year sessions have ended in most NLUs now. I cannot see everybody complaining about what an irreversible damage has been caused to their legal education because of the accelerated schedule. Only those who take themselves too seriously or believe that they are the sole exclusive bearer of God's own gift to these students, would be harbouring such delusion.
5. If a pedagogy cannot be flexible enough to adapt to circumstances, then it has become outdated and should be chucked out, not embraced forcefully.
6. Sudhir himself did not try to withdraw well in advance from CLAT this year and conduct a separate examination, adhering to proper notice period and ensuring that the judiciary won't strike it down again. If he is that convinced about the strength of his argument from last year, then what was preventing him from doing so exactly?
There are plenty of logic and reason to go around, you are just choosing to ignore those to suit yourself.
If your students are able to do a five year course in less than five years without major changes to their quality of life- I’d think your curriculum would be suspect.