Candidates’ university allocation in the 2012 Common Law Admissions Test (CLAT) would be reshuffled in June as human error may have caused mistakes and around 125 future students have submitted complaints, said Justice NN Mathur, vice chancellor of NLU Jodhpur and convenor of the 2012 CLAT, adding that the process would be carried out “judiciously”.
Legally India reported on Tuesday (29 May) that the CLAT university allotment list, which was published on Monday, was criticised by a number of test takers who claimed that their preferences had not been taken into account. The list was later that day removed for download from the official CLAT website.
“Human error may be there [in the allocation list] and when there are representations - even when there is a single representation - I am supposed to look into that,” Mathur told Legally India today by phone.
He noted that between 125 to 130 representations from CLAT applicants had been received to date by NLU Jodhpur. “I have asked my office to look into each and every representation and complete the process and if necessary [to reshuffle].”
Reshuffling was a “regular” and “continuing process” that would take place in the full month of June, he said.
“There may be change of a law school [for some students] – that must be looked into it if students were not given [allocations] as per their merit and performance,” he noted. “I don’t want to do injustice of a single student.”
“Suppose some have preferred or have given NUJS and by mistake it has gone to Patna or Lucknow or somewhere, judiciously we will look into it. I can’t keep my eyes closed on it.”
Any fees that students deposited for admission in a college would be transferred to another college if the allocation preferences were changed, added Mathur.
He admitted that “there may be one or two” cases where students would be reshuffled into a college that they listed as a lower preference.
Mathur also noted that the published CLAT scores were calculated out of 200 marks, as originally envisaged, and not 170 as had been speculated by some CLAT applicants and observers online after a writ petition was filed in the Delhi high court, alleging that questions asked in the paper were not part of the syllabus.
That writ was dismissed by the court on Saturday (26 May), while a second petition in the Allahabad high court will still be heard.
Note: CLAT takers interested in making representations about their university allocation can do so by writing an email to , said Mathur.
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My dear fellow, it is extremely unlikely that the court will come up a verdict this soon. You have too much faith on our justice system :)
My dear fellow, it is extremely unlikely that the court will come up a verdict this soon. You have too much faith on our justice system :)[/quote]
but ma'am i just want to know if there is any chance at all..i took clat this year and missed out by 4 marks..thanks to the questions about camel fairs and ostriches...i just want to know if what happnd yesterday and what do you think will happen..
My dear fellow, it is extremely unlikely that the court will come up a verdict this soon. You have too much faith on our justice system :)[/quote]
but ma'am i just want to know if there is any chance at all..i took clat this year and missed out by 4 marks..thanks to the questions about camel fairs and ostriches...i just want to know if what happnd yesterday and what do you think will happen..[/quote]
Not much...just like the other petitions leveled against CLAT in the previous years. Now that the revised allotment list is out, students will take admission as usual and all allegations will be brushed underneath the carpet gradually, unless somebody with clout in higher ministry levels can push for a centralized CLAT.
Hear, hear :D
Best wishes,
Kian
What are these people paid for? May be for messing up things.
If any of the organisers of Clat 2012 are reading this please resign from your posts and do some good to the country and if you cant atleast render an apoplgy to all the clat 2012 aspirants.
Please do not play* with the lives of people.
*FQ is the word
Ab jhelo bhaiya..aur karo LLM! lololol
What are these people paid for? May be for messing up things.
If any of the organisers of Clat 2012 are reading this please resign from your posts and do some good to the country and if you cant atleast render an apoplgy to all the clat 2012 aspirants.
Please do not play* with the lives of people.
*FQ is the word[/quote]
I'm applying for LLM too. Tried calling the CLAT numbers, no one answers. Mailed the CLAT helpdesk, no reply. On top of it, the NLS-B website states that applications for LLM have to be submitted by 9th June. What is going on?
Yes, there have been errors, but there's no need to get cynical. Show some faith. The CLAT committee have more to do than sit an erase pencil marks. So,instead of sitting on your ass, go and file that RTI if you have to.
Yes, there have been errors, but there's no need to get cynical. Show some faith. The CLAT committee have more to do than sit an erase pencil marks. So,instead of sitting on your ass, go and file that RTI if you have to.[/quote]
Indeed, the extent of their duties and their dedication towards it have really been exemplary in course of this year's CLAT! :P
Yes, there have been errors, but there's no need to get cynical. Show some faith. The CLAT committee have more to do than sit an erase pencil marks. So,instead of sitting on your ass, go and file that RTI if you have to.[/quote]
Indeed, the extent of their duties and their dedication towards it have really been exemplary in course of this year's CLAT! :P[/quote]
See ..... Here's the thing ..... If I was this inconvenienced, I would have filed an RTI ..... But, as things stand, I wrote CLAT last year and am very happy in NLSIU ..... However, that itself does not stop or inhibit me from pointing out the inherent flaws in the system. Come on now. Have you even seen the paper ..... It's what is defined as misrepresentation or fraud in legal terms. The CLAT committee needs to make amends. Period. What they are doing is that they are messing with people's lives and that, Sir, is just not acceptable.
We've had this discussion before in a similar context of a judge and it is our house style, as well as that of many other newspapers and publications, to use a honorific or first name only the first time a person is mentioned in a story, but not the on subsequent mentions, irrespective of whether that person is a seneior advocate, a judge, a president, or a king.
No disrespect is intended (nor I assume perceived by Justice Mathur), but the editorial reason for the rule is intentional.
Best wishes
Kian
We've had this discussion before in a similar context of a judge and it is our house style, as well as that of many other newspapers and publications, to use a honorific or first name only the first time a person is mentioned in a story, but not the on subsequent mentions, irrespective of whether that person is a seneior advocate, a judge, a president, or a king.
No disrespect is intended (nor I assume perceived by Justice Mathur), but the editorial reason for the rule is intentional.
Best wishes
Kian[/quote]
Good answer, Kian...he's not been knighted or anything, why should an exception be made for him?
1- How can the maximum marks be only 159,when most students found it easy?
2- The esteemed VC says there COULD be errors,is he flabbergasted? He shouldn't be.Around 150 representations have already been made.
Ultimately,the quality of administration,education and opportunity is decreasing because of such "human errors"
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Reaction: Hahahaha *farts loudly*
Love,
NLIU
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[quote name="Awaaz"]NUJS = a law school?
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NLIU[/quote]
Justice Mathur would be so proud of you guys..
And to top it all of his claim to fame is that he has awarded the maximum death penalty amongst all judges!
Law Schools need administrators, not Judges!