CLAT 2015 gets busy but not so old: 40k candidates, most from UP, but only 400 ‘mature’ applicants

The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2015 will be attempted by 39,686 candidates for around 1,700 undergraduate (UG) seats in 16 of India’s National Law Universities (NLU) on 10 May.

A total of 5,514 CLAT 2015 candidates will compete for LLM seats in the NLUs.

CLAT 2015 convenor RMLNLU Lucknow received 45,200 total applications for the exam after it extended the application deadline from 31 March to 14 April, confirmed RMLNLU joint registrar Dr JD Gangwar.

That number is around 20 per cent higher than last year, and is the most significant bump in applicants in recent years.

The highest number of applications – 9628 – were from Uttar Pradesh while one application was from Daman & Diu, two from Lakshwadeep and six from Andaman, he said.

Gangwar told Legally India that around 400 out of the 39,686 UG applications were from candidates above the traditional age limit for CLAT eligibility that was recently overturned.

The Allahabad high court and the Rajasthan high court recently gave, respectively, final and interim orders directing RMLNLU Lucknow to accept the CLAT applications of candidates of all ages, and RMLNLU Lucknow has filed for a review or recall of the Allahabad high court’s final order.

General candidates above the age of 20 years and special category candidates above the age of 22 years can apply for the exam in the interim, until there is no final decision on the age limit rule.

31,231 candidates competed for 1660 seats in CLAT 2014, which was conducted by GNLU Gandhinagar.

Comments

2015 23 Apr 2015, 10:57
+13 -7
So glad we got out before the competition intensified. Now the luck quotient just increases. Hopefully the quality of the exams increase.
Uncool 23 Apr 2015, 11:24
+10 -10
Kian! What are you doing to the website. Really uncool.
kianganz 23 Apr 2015, 11:35
+10 -2
There's no pleasing everyone :) What's wrong with it?
Ads 23 Apr 2015, 13:44
+11 -5
Too many ads for starters. And I think that's something that displeases everyone.
kianganz 23 Apr 2015, 13:56
+9 -4
Well, the ad situation has been discussed at least 4 times already... :)
http://www.legallyindia.com/Bar-Bench-Litigation/hero-p-h-high-court-judge-m-jeyapaul-dives-into-lake-saves-girl-from-drowning

Is there anything in particular other than the ads (which will go away in a month or so) that's 'really uncool'? I'm really trying hard to help here, but you guys need to be a bit more specific rather than just saying it's crap, please ;)
Old is gold! 23 Apr 2015, 15:25
+0 -0
Turn it back to how it was day before!
Guest 24 Apr 2015, 03:03
+2 -0
[s]Can you do something about the placement of the voting buttons in the comments section? it comes in the way of scrolling up and down on a smart phone, and I keep hitting it accidentally.[/s]
Guest 24 Apr 2015, 09:06
+0 -2
Dear Kian,
Even I was thinking other day that there are too many adds on this website. Then I thought its generating revenue. But now its too much.
grapevine 23 Apr 2015, 15:03
+8 -0
Nalsar might be increasing its intake to 120. Apparently there is also a plan to give students choices between social sciences and business studies in the first two years of the 5 year programme.
Revert! 23 Apr 2015, 15:20
+0 -0
Kian, just open the website on a smart phone and have a look at the home page. It's become too cluttered. I can't be more specific than saying - turn it back to the way it was yesterday/ day before!
Not cool! 23 Apr 2015, 15:23
+0 -1
For one, please remove the names of the reporters from the bottom of every headline on the homepage. Or, at least, watermark them. This way, it interferes with the easy reading of the headlines, while scrolling down.

Also, the recruitment openings appearing in the dark blue/ black boxes is a very annoying feature. Make that more subtle, please. Try pushing it to the bottom of the page.
kianganz 23 Apr 2015, 15:48
+4 -0
Thanks guys. We'll tweak the mobile look to make it a bit better. On the desktop it's a bit tidier but will take your comments on board.

The recruitment openings we can't really move to the bottom so easily, even if they're not relevant for everyone, since they're paying part of our bills and need to be somewhere semi-prominent.

Will look into updating the 'LI customisation & preferences' function though to allow you to remove that box.
kianganz 23 Apr 2015, 21:47
+1 -0
Ps: The offer is still wide open by the way - send us a symbolic Rupee amount here of what you'd be happy to pay every month - http://imojo.in/31t01 - and I'll put together a subscription/donation-based ad-free 'premium' version of the site if there are more than one or two of you...

If there are fewer, I'll send you some hacks that'll achieve the same. :)
Fat Fingers 24 Apr 2015, 09:15
+2 -0
Kian, please increase the space between the 'like' and 'no like' buttons. Often, one accidentally hits one in stead of the other. Also, 'dislike' in stead of 'no like' would better.
kianganz 24 Apr 2015, 09:22
+2 -0
Thanks - will take all the above on board and tinker away.

Ads are booked in large quantity for the next month at least so will have to stay.

Though honestly, compare it to pre-roll ads on YouTube or so-called interstitials increasingly used ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstitial_webpage ) and all our ads require is one half screen of scrolling, which isn't so much to ask to keep a website you enjoy visiting going, no?

And the offer remains open - pay us some token money and we'll remove the ads for you... :)
Dont Worry 24 Apr 2015, 10:42
+3 -0
Ads are alright, Kian. You don't have to keep justifying putting them on. Everyone must understand it's your only source of revenue.
True, it hardly takes a second to scroll past them.
anonymouse 25 Apr 2015, 09:55
+0 -0
I know you're getting a lot of flak for Elle Woods there, but come on atleast a composite of her and the suits people would've been PC. Ah well, my $0.02.
kianganz 25 Apr 2015, 09:57
+0 -1
So now it's un-PC using a picture of a female law student from a movie rather than a bunch of male qualified lawyers from a TV show? :)
A 28 Apr 2015, 14:51
+0 -0
Kian please release your recruitment ranking ASAP for the benefit of CLAT candidates. And please include LLM offers, not just law firm offers. LLM offer should get 1 point, LLM with partial scholarship 2 points, LLM with full scholarship 3 points.