The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2015 will be attempted by at least 40,000 candidates vying for scarce undergraduate and postgraduate places, which is 20 per cent more than the 33,491 total CLAT takers last year.
CLAT 2015 convenor RMLNLU Lucknow’s vice chancellor Gurdip Singh told Legally India that 40,000 candidates had completed their CLAT online registration, having paid application fees, as of 31 March 2015. This number includes both undergrad (LLB) and postgrad (LLM) aspirants, but there are still 14 days of applications to go under an extension to the deadline recently granted.
Singh told Legally India that around 40,000 candidates had registered for the exam and paid its application fee as on 31 March, but there were around 22,000 others who had completed CLAT’s online application form without depositing the fee but who would be likely to do so.
The application deadline was therefore extended to 14 April allow the candidates who had not yet paid the fee.
The exam for admission to 17 national law universities has seen an increase in candidates every year since its inception in 2008.
A total of 33,491 candidates appeared in CLAT 2014. However, in 2014 the year-on-year growth rate was the lowest in recent times for undergrad admissions. A total of 31,231 candidates had appeared for CLAT 2014 for LLB admissions, marking only a 5 per cent increase in the number of candidates since 2013.
However 2,260 LLM aspirants had appeared in CLAT 2014, which was a year-on-year increase of 63 per cent.
A breakdown between LLB and LLM applicants was not yet available for this year, said Singh.
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Well, I haven't for ages. :)
But as far as I remember:
1. It's about a young woman (Whitherspoon) who's more obsessed with fashion and whatever then law, but then some stuff happens and she turns out to be a kick ass lawyer. Or something along those lines.
2. She's also portrayed as a sexy lawyer in the promotional posters, etc.
To some, she single-handedly made law fun and sexy (not necessary in the sexual sense, more in the cool-sexy sense).
To some, she single-handedly made law fun and sexy (not necessary in the sexual sense, more in the cool-sexy sense).[/quote]
Can we find this people and drive them out of the Bar? If one joins law because they were inspired by Boston Legal, The Practice or even Legally Blonde then its clear, we don't need a CLAT we need a mental health exam before admitting students to NLU's.
Consider me in need of examination - when I was 12 or so, I saw some Robert Redford movie whose name I can't remember that made me want to be a lawyer. :)
Why else, if not for movies and books that glamorise the profession, would any normal pre-teen/teenager ever think that law is a cool subject that they should study? Maybe that's why so many drop out also when they realise it ain't all Ally McBeal? :)
Edit: Woot, there's the pilot on YouTube:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eOOz39iA_Y[/youtube]
The whole purpose of the illustration is to show how people who don't fit in to what is considered the mainstream are now choosing to do law (Not going into the merits of it). It is an appropriate cultural reference in this context. It is certainly not sexist. Also, you can't just call someone a sexist in public and not explain yourself. It shows non application of mind. If you think something is sexist the least you can do is tell is why it is so.
Also how does the number of CLAT aspirants compare with IIM CAT?
Kian and Prachi, please disclaim it and ask coaching centres not to use this ranking.
[EDITOR's NOTE: This is NOT an official Legally India ranking of law schools. The safest ranking you could probably go with are 2014's CLAT preferences ( http://www.legallyindia.com/201407174887/Pre-law-student/clat-2014-preferences ), though this excludes NLU Delhi. There's also our approximate 'recruitment power ranking', which gives an indication of last year's recruitment strength at national law schools, though this also needs to be read with a pinch of salt ( http://www.legallyindia.com/201410315253/Law-schools/law-schools-recruitment-power-rankings-2013-14 ).]
That said, Ritwik Verma's ranking is probably not way off and too damaging, though in the middle the ranking could be a bit questionable since it's very hard to objectively judge between them...
Let's do some (very bad) maths to get an idea (Disclaimer: I know almost nothing about IIMs so this could be completely rubbish). Wikipedia says: 167,830 CAT applicants in 2014. Is CAT only for postgrad or also undergrad? I'll just assume postgrad.
IIM Kozhikode has 650 MBAs, Cal has 868 postgrads, Lucknow has 825 postgraduates (Source: Wikipedia).
So let's say, 800 postgrad seats are available in each college. That makes odds of getting into the 'top' one, roughly 0.47%.
Let's just assume NLS has 80 places available for general list clatters. With 40,000 applicants, that would be 0.2%.
So yes, getting into NLS (or NLS + Nalsar) is possibly as tough as the top CAT college now... (Again, not sure at all, this rough calculation could be slightly off - please do make corrections...).
Surely, both examinations happen at different levels. While CLAT is for 12th grade students, expected to solve intriguing legal aptitude questions, CAT is expected to be undertaken by more mature students. But, I bet even they can't answer the legal aptitude questions.
Respect CLAT, Prachi. The answer is YES. It's better if LI gets rid of the dismissive tendencies. The arrogant already had a fall. :)
Where a 25 year old grad/postgrad is concerned (under the new, age no bar rule) hand on heart, is it really difficult to judge which one is easier?
I (not LI) wasn't being dismissive.
Best wishes,
Prachi
1. There is a interview of Mr. Gurdip Singh VC of the Lucknow Law University where he states that, since the exam in online in 2015, the candidates will get the score instantly. That is very logical but did not happen.Obviously something has gone wrong terribly that they needed 10 more days to fix the results.
2. The promise to put papers and answer sheets online is also gone awry.
3. Most high ranked candidates are from one or two institutes from UP, is one accusation. Needs to be proven, of course.
4. If each succeeding years the NLU get mired in such charges, there is no sanctity left to their words and actions.
5. Now I hear there is some litigation about wrong ranking? with such state of affairs, I wonder what is the standing of these institutes really. The local law colleges may be better.