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CLAT candidates decry GNLU 'fleecing' them with non-refundable Rs 10,000 admin charge after 'shoddy' organisation of CLAT

As Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2014 convenor GNLU Gandhinagar increased CLAT counselling process “administrative charges” tenfold since last year, candidates left in the lurch are calling the increase a “loot” and a “scam”. GNLU and the CLAT committee would now retain Rs 10,000 as administrativ...

Surprise: All India Bar Exam (AIBE) postponed (again), because of Gujarat late exams, AP bifurcation, MP clash & ITES Horizon contractor ‘various grounds’

The seventh All India Bar Exam (AIBE) that was scheduled for 27 July 2014 has been postponed by at least a month, for the second time this year, according to a notification by the Bar Council of India (BCI) published today. The notification on the official website read: As per the Council decision, ...

CLAT results still wrong & mixed up claim students, despite GNLU’s new ‘reconciliated’ results

In a press release, GNLU Gandhinagar has announced that results for the Common Law Admissions Test (CLAT) are now available for download but students have continued questioning the accuracy of the results. The note by the CLAT convenor, GNLU, confirmed that 33,491 results would be published today, a...

CLAT results to be out tomorrow, GNLU promises law aspirants on tenterhooks

Several 2014 Common Law Admissions Test (CLAT) candidates have reported that the CLAT help desk has told them that the results, which were withdrawn after they were riddled with errors after their first release on 30 May, would be available tomorrow at 5pm. Two candidates shared the following emails...

Sorting out the CLAT mess could take another week

Results for the 2014 Common Law Admissions Test (CLAT) will only be released within a week, with convenor GNLU Gandhinagar having to manually cross check all 33,491 answer sheets, CLAT committee member and NUJS Kolkata registrar Surajit Mukhopadhyay told the Times of India . GNLU director Bimal Pate...

GNLU promises to fix CLAT blunder caused by 'mismatching' barcodes

GNLU Gandhinagar, the convenor of this year’s Common Law Admissions Test (CLAT), has promised to investigate and fix candidates complaints of wrong grades on the 2014 exam, which was apparently caused by a mix up of stickers and bar codes on exam papers. The announcement follows GNLU withdrawing Sat...

CLAT results 'withheld' as confusion amongst applicants grows

The Common Law Admissions Test (CLAT) held by GNLU Gandhinagar has seen the withdrawak of the results under further notice, only a few hours after applicants started alleging yesterday, as reported by Legally India , that major mistakes were made in the grading of many exam papers. The official CLAT...

CLAT 2014 candidates complain of 150+ point discrepancies between expected and confirmed results

Dozens, some claim hundreds, of students who took the 2014 Common Law Admissions Test (CLAT) are claiming that there has been a serious error in the marking of their results, demanding to see their optical mark recognition (OMR) answer sheets. One CLAT taker wrote: “I received my CLAT 2014 result to...

CLAT candidates in a tizzy: Model answers contain mistakes & one MCQ has 2 right answers

The 2014 Common Law Admissions Test (CLAT) conducted by GNLU Gandhinagar released an answer key to candidates that contained at least four wrong answers, sending CLAT candidates into confusion over whether these will be fixed by the convenors.

Is the NLU bubble bursting or maturing? 2014 undergrad CLAT growth is lowest ever (but PG booms)

Slowing growth?
Slowing growth?
31,231 national law school hopefuls sat the Common Law Admissions Test (CLAT) conducted by GNLU Gandhinagar this weekend, which was the lowest growth rate recorded since the exam began in 2008.

IDIA raises Rs 72 lakhs as Mohan Gopal says diversity initiative should become redundant

The Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access (IDIA) initiative, which aims to help students from non-traditional lawyer backgrounds to apply to national law schools, has fund-raised Rs 72 lakhs at an event in Delhi on Saturday attended by 150. IDIA founder Shamnad Basheer said that donors had pledg...

Allahabad HC: No age limit for CLAT, directs that two 21-year-olds can sit exam

CLAT
CLAT
The Allahabad high court on Tuesday directed GNLU Gandhinagar to allow two 21-year-old Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2014 aspirants to appear in the entrance exam.

O’Melveny Singapore offers internship carrot to encourage IDIA student volunteers

Singapore carrot
Singapore carrot
International law firm O’Melveny & Myers (OMM) has committed to select one intern per year from a pool of law students volunteering for the Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access (IDIA) initiative.

NLU provisional admissions fees double to Rs 1 lakh, form costs spike: CLAT aspirant writes to CJI & President

Money
Money
Common Law Admissions Test (CLAT) aspirant Nilav Bannerjee wrote to the Chief Justice of India (CJI) and President of India seeking intervention in this year’s hike in CLAT and provisional admission fees.

CLAT 2014 applications now open for 1,600 UG places

CLAT 2014
CLAT 2014
The Common Law Admissions Test (CLAT) to be conducted by GNLU Gandhinagar on 11 May 2014, opened its doors to applicants on 1 January 2014.

RTI applicant decries 2013 CLAT’s record-burning by 30 November

CLAT
CLAT
An NLU Delhi student has objected to the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) committee’s recent notice stating that all records of the CLAT 2013 will be destroyed by 30 November 2013.

CLAT 2014 likely to be held around 11 May by GNLU

The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2014 is tentatively scheduled to be held on 11 May 2014, organised by GNLU Gandhinagar, and will take benefit of a system of “centralised online counselling” to admit candidates to various law schools, taking account of their scores and preferences. GNLU registra...

Delhi HC catches CLAT 2012 mistake, but too late to effect lost Nalsar preference

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A Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2012 examinee lost out on a Nalsar Hyderabad seat due to a mistake in last year’s question paper, the Delhi high court has held.

BCI finally gifts Pune its own bar exam centre after MahaGoa BC lobbying efforts

Pune has been declared one of Maharashtra’s four official bar All India Bar Exam (AIBE) centres, after the Bar Council of India (BCI) acceded to the “persistent and convincing demands” of the Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa’s demands over the last two months [ Pune Mirror ] Pune has been without ...

Lower CLAT prefs in shambles after ‘correction’; 1 each bounced out of top schools; Nuals drops one rank

CLAT preferences
CLAT preferences
At least 50 CLAT 2013 candidates were reshuffled to different colleges two weeks after the first results were first released.