The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2015 first merit list has been delayed indefinitely after publication of the exam’s question paper and answer key on CLAT’s website yesterday attracted complaints of errors in the paper and the key from several candidates.
CLAT 2015’s first merit list was originally due to be released on Sunday 31 May, but was not released on that date. Yesterday a notification appeared on the website, stating that the list will be published on the website today.
Sometime after this notification was published, CLAT convenor RMLNLU Lucknow published the under-graduate and post-graduate CLAT 2015’s question papers and answer keys on the website, as promised to candidates earlier on the website.
Today a notification on the website states that the publication of the merit list has been withheld. The notification reads:
“On uploading of the question papers with answer keys on the CLAT website, representations have been received from some candidates wherein they have questioned accuracy of answers of certain questions. Taking into contingence these representations, an expert committee has been constituted to look into the matter. Publication of the proposed first indicative allotment list is, therefore, withheld till a final view is taken on these representations. Candidates shall be informed about the next date of publication of first indicative allotment list in due course.”
11 petitioners had approached the Allahabad high court for directions to the convenor to release the merit list and the question paper, as promised in its brochure, and the high court had on 25 May ordered the convenor to release the merit list.
There are also allegations of errors in the postgraduate CLAT this year.
IMS CLAT mentor Rajneesh Singh told Legally India of up to nine suspected errors in the answer key of the undergraduate CLAT, of which six of the below were very likely to be errors.
Download Undergraduate test key from here
Last year too, some answers given in the CLAT key appeared to have been incorrect.
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169: Misprint
The last row of the table should read 46 rather than 26, said Singh.
182: Misprint: ‘Wealth’ was printed instead of ‘health’
The given ‘correct’ answer clearly makes no sense. If the misprint in option B were corrected, then 4 would be the correct answer.
184: All answer options are the wrong answer
The given ‘correct’ answer 2 does not appear to be correct, nor do any of the others.
185: The third, not the fourth option is correct | 186: Two of the four answer options (3 and 4) are identical
187: The correct answer is the first instead of the third option
The statement that “a good politician always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters” is not sufficient to answer whether a democracy can function without an effective opposition.
Comments
After taking so much time a mistake in revaluation can be dangerous as every mark counts.
These NLU's must also take into account the plight of students as these can be life changing for many as many student take exams more than CLAT to enter many another colleges and a delay in this results will lead to delay in decision making to join any other college.
I urge CLAT committee to complete the procedure as soon as possible and with accuracy.
#RMNLU Sucks
The RML fiasco is earning a bad name for the entire CLAT body which will ultimately (and wrongly) be taken to reflect on their administrative abilities. This will affect the better NLUs, while working to the benefit of NLU-D.
English:
Q.23: D instead of A
Q. 25: C instead of B
Q. 35: B instead of D
GK:
Q.56: A or C-unclear - asks for largets ecommerce company - but does not specify in largeness what terms- Ali Baba and Amazon or ranked to be the largest by different studies considering different
factors- revenue/net worth/ sales
Legal:
Q. 124: C instead of D
Q. 136: B instead of A
Logic:
Q. 182: D instead of A
Being merely a student I may have made errors. Requesting you to take a look and clarify if the above are right. ^ Thank you.
Question has " no telling whether subsequent governments will do". Option is " No telling whether subsequent governments will do SO" - which corrects the question.
he correct answer to Question #182 would be 2 and not 4.
Rajneesh babu, itni badi galti kaise? :O
I am yet to read the rest of the questions. Internship. -_-
In 182, clearly rubbish is the CLAT indicated answer 1: Traffic congestion is hazardous to health -> Increase in CO is hazardous to wealth -> Traffic congestion increases CO in environment
2 would indeed also be correct (if the typo of 'wealth' were corrected), as Rajneesh has suggested.
4 is wrong: Increase in CO is hazard to wealth/health -> Some traffic does not cause CO increase -> Some traffic is not hazardous to health.
We have no idea from the information given whether all remaining traffic without CO increase it safe for humans. Non CO traffic could conceivably cause traffic deaths, sulphur dioxide poisononing, or murder children with its bare car hands...
Out of the 4 possible options in #169, given is the correct answer. There is no error in the question which would result in an incorrect answer. :P
E.g.: All media houses employ sales people. TOI is a media house. TOI employees are sales people.
Q÷MxB%I: means that Q is the sister of M who is the mother of B who is the brother of I. This only means that Q is the aunt of I, but it does not mean that I is the nephew of Q. 'I' could also be the niece here. There is no gender specified in the equation for I, and only specified so for B. Therefore the correct answer is [D] None of the Above.
Scrap the crappy CLAT. Have a MCQ test requiring a general understanding of the socio-political world around them, with a sprinkling of basic level queries in economy with which we interact on everyday basis. Then shortlist and send out invites on a university specific basis. Sit them down in groups for a GD on a relevant topic, and then require all NLU's to take 2/3/4 people (if strength is 80) from each state in country to provide for diversity of lived experience in the next five years.
This hyper instrumental-rationalist, objectivism thrusted manner of conducting exams and picking students creates a dull pool of jacks and jills that end up (five years down the line) joining the exact same careers that the group they replaces in a law school.
Agar dhang ka paper set karna bas me nahi hai toh just copy the LSAT papers :p
36?
38?
45
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Doubt in answers of Post graduate(LL.M.) entrance exam Answer keys: Kindly clarify
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I appeared in the Clat PG exam at one of the centres in Allahabad. The condition at the center was very bad, as their was cases when the computer got hanged for few minutes and their was only one person to support and that too he didn't had enouh knowledge.
Secondly coming on to the question paper pattern. The paper in which we appeared never seemed like it was for PG as totally different pattern was followed. And also their were principle and fact based question which generally we find in the UG level exam.
Lastly i would point out one question which came in the exam. The question was that "Who wrote the book THEORY OF JUSTICE". t=The answer to the question is given as JOHN RAWLS but RUDOLF STAMMLER also has written a book with the same name, and his name was also in the option.