The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2015 question paper and answer key was published on the exam’s official website yesterday, following a 25 May Allahabad high court order in a writ praying for directions to the CLAT 2015 convenor to publish the question paper o CLAT’s website.
Clarification: RMLNLU joint registrar Dr JD Gangwar, in an email clarified today that the high court had only directed the convenor to publish the CLAT 2015 result and had said nothing about publishing its question paper.
The high court had on 25 May ordered CLAT 2015 convenor RMLNLU Lucknow to publish the merit list of candidates on its website. 11 petitioners had filed a writ before the high court when, despite it being specified in the CLAT 2015 brochure, the convenor did not publish the question paper for several days after the 10 May exam.
The first university allotment list is due to be released on CLAT’s website today, after CLAT notified on its website yesterday that it could not follow the 31 May schedule to release the list due to “some technical reasons”.
A candidate’s email to the CLAT help desk, to which Legally India was copied in, stated that there were errors in the answer key. The email stated:
i am the applicant for clat 2015 P G program.Today i saw and compared answer key and my marks summary ,i noticed following points-
1.)many questions’ correct answers are different in answer key and marks summary
2)many questions attempted by me correctly were wrongly numbered in marks summary
3)according to answer key my many attempted answers are right but according to marks summary they are wrong.
CLAT mentor Rajneesh Singh agreed that there were apparently some errors in the answer key, and added that due to several sets of papers having been set, the answer key currently published was problematic:
They have mailed just one set of question papers. This does not help. No one is sure if they have been checked correctly or not.
The response sheet has no meaning because of two reasons. 1. It should have been instantly mailed the moment exam got over or submit button was clicked. Otherwise what is the guarantee that it can not be manipulated. And the response sheet came after lots of pressure. 2. When they are not issuing all sets of question papers then how will the student check.
RMLNLU vice chancellor Prof Gurdip Singh was not reachable for comment by phone and messages since last week.
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The answer keys, the purported 'selected' options, nothing matches. Ranks are messed up. RMLNLU knows that no court will go for a retest; their arrogance is astounding.
This is what you get when you have no accountability and no central, experienced committee.
Seems like the authorities like harassing aspirants.
Amidst all this lack of quality, no wonder kids who drop a year and exclaim they're weak in English are topping.
I can see the CLAT convenors saying "nahi nahi bohot confusions hai, time ho gaya, jo hogaya tha wohi manlo".
Better luck to us next time, but the quality's only going to decline.
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I really wonder how and why such a so-called reputed examination is playing with the aspirations of thousands and thousands of students. The question paper with answer-key was uploaded on the CLAT website, but it didn't match the sequence of questions that are provided in our performance sheet sent via mail. MOREOVER, I would like to draw attention to some ambiguous questions and their answers:
1. [b]Q - 31[/b] : Both Assertion and Reason are true BUT reason is not the the correct explanation of Assertion.
2. [b]Q - 59[/b] : The correct answer is 4 NOT 1 BECAUSE all the items are mentioned in Concurrent list, i.e., entries no. 1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 20
3. [b]Q - 69[/b] : The correct answer is 4 NOT 3 BECAUSE so far, only three bills - the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, the Banking Service Commission Repeal Bill, 1978, and the Prevention of Terrorism Act, 2002 - have been passed at joint sessions.
4. [b]Q - 77[/b] : The correct answer is 4 NOT 2 because Assertion is wrong - President can proclaim emergency under 352(1) only on receiving written advice from the council of ministers (44th amendment act).
5. [b]Q - 79[/b] : The correct answer is 3 NOT 1 because Reason is wrong - An accused person CAN BE COMPELLED TO GIVE THUMB IMPRESSION (Kathi Kalu Oghad case, 1961)
6. [b]Q - 98[/b] : The correct option is 4 NOT 1 because (https://books.google.co.in/books?isbn=9350350017) - page no. 284 and 344
MOREOVER, THERE ARE ALSO CERTAIN DOUBTS ABOUT THE ANSWERS TO THE QUESTION NO. 119, 121, 122, 129 AND 131. LET ME CLARIFY IT FIRST AND I WILL DEFINITELY COME BACK TO CLARIFY THESE QUESTIONS TOO.
TILL THEN, I REALLY REQUEST ALL THE SERIOUS ASPIRANTS TO LOOK FOR MORE BLUNDERS IN THE QUESTION-ANSWER CODES UPLOADED ON THE CLAT SITE.
There is error in the following i think:
31
36?
38?
45
59
64
69
76
79
82
118
119
121
122
125
129
131
136
148
149
2. Basically the need of the hour is to formulate the reliefs that have to be prayed in the writ Petition. This is because if irregularities are proved correct, we should make up our mind whether to get the same test re-validated by applying correct answers to whether to seek conduction of a fresh test. Needless to say, a fresh test would mean fresh notification, fresh applications etc etc. Many more may join or some may drop - we dont know.
3. The biggest casualty is time as the litigation would eat away at least three months time if and only if the Hon'ble Court finds time to hear and dispose of the case expeditiously with the cooperation of the Law officers.
"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."