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CLAT 2013: complainants find desired place on revised university list

Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2013 convenor HNLU Raipur yesterday published a revised version of its 2 June first university allotment list, to allot seats to three candidates whose results were withheld, candidates who were earlier excluded from reserved categories, and candidates whose law scho...

First CLAT 2013 university list to be revoked

The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2013’s first university allotment list published on 2 June will be revised to account for candidates’ complaints regarding withheld results, swapped university preferences, and alleged wrongful denial of reservation.

Eight IDIA diversity scholars make it past first CLAT list, look for donors

Eight scholars supported by the Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access to Legal Education (IDIA) initiative secured seats in six national law universities (NLU) after making it past the cut-off for the first university allotment list of the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2013. IDIA prepared a b...

Five Kerala CLAT students allege they were dumped to CNLU despite Nuals preference & one ST ignored

CLAT complaints
CLAT complaints
Six Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2013 LLB aspirants have alleged mistakes in the allotment list.

2013 CLAT law school prefs: Oldies top ranking as Nuals drops below RMLNLU, CNLU

Clat preferences
Clat preferences
Nuals Kochi drops behind RMLNLU Lucknow and CNLU Patna but seven oldest national law schools stay top.

CLAT 2013 Results: Bigger score differences, lower scores

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The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2013 results have been announced for 27,627 national law university LLB aspirants.

The IDIA of CLAT diversity faces challenges and funding woes, continues to book successes

For Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access to Legal Ed pressure-free times are few but moments of “inordinate” pride are many.

NLU Delhi’s AILET admissions competition grows to 1 vs 182, similar to CLAT’s top 3

NLU Delhi
NLU Delhi
Around 1 in 90 get into NLU Delhi, compared to 1 in 97 at NLSIU, Nalsar, NUJS.

CLAT 2013: Few negative reactions despite negative marking

CLAT MCQ: Not pitiless Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) aspirants grappled with the fear of negative marking yesterday for the first time since the inception of the national law university entrance exam in 2008. The new rule deducting 0.25 marks for each wrongly answered question took its toll mainl...

2013 CLAT applicants shown ‘kindness’ by HNLU, allowing aspirants to correct ‘improper’ applications

CLAT MCQ
CLAT MCQ
Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2013 convenor HNLU Raipur rejected 1,317 out of 29,500 application forms that were “incomplete or filled improperly”, but on 23 April notified on its website that “on the basis of requests made by applicants and their parents” it would allow rejected applicants to apply again on a “provisional basis”.

CBSE schools to teach law to kids. Early dis/advantage?

Gearing up for law early
Gearing up for law early
11th-standard students in 200 Indian schools may have “legal studies” as an elective subject option academic year 2013-14 onwards.

CLAT 2013: 29,500 law aspirants apply, 15% more than last year

CLAT 2013
CLAT 2013
Numbers up by 4,000 this year as against exam conducted by NLU Jodhpur last year.

Flawed answer key adds to CLATalogue of disasters, candidates join RTI campaign

post CLAT hangover
post CLAT hangover
Examinees in the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2012 have pointed out at least 10 errors worth 10 marks in the question paper’s answer key that was released by the CLAT committee on Friday. The key was released exactly a week after this year’s convenor NLU Jodhpur published a reshuffled university allotment list to replace an earlier list that contained errors.

IDIA diversity initiative wins 11 students national law university places but faces funding gap

Eager legal eagles all ears in Sikkim
Eager legal eagles all ears in Sikkim
11 out of 40 students coached for the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2012 by the Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access to Legal Education (IDIA) free coaching program, made it to six NLUs in the first admission lists this year, including NLSIU Bangalore, NUJS Kolkata and NLU Jodhpur.

The undergraduate educational expenses of four out of the 11 successful IDIA scholars are completely covered by the programme.

Del HC allows CLAT appeal, will look into permanent CLAT convenor but not grades

post CLAT hangover
post CLAT hangover
The first writ against Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2012 should not have been dismissed by the Delhi high court, said a division bench of the court admitting a letters patent appeal against the dismissal today.

2012 CLAT preference analysis: NLS strengthens top, only 3 prefer Nalsar, NUJS, as Nuals, NLU-O gain

Nuals Kochi and NLU Orissa climbed in the traditional college preferences of Common Law Admissions Test (CLAT) at the expense of RMLNLU Lucknow and CNLU Patna, while other CLAT preferences remained unchanged in the corrected university allotment list, with NLSIU Bangalore coming top followed by Nalsar Hyderabad, NUJS Kolkata, NLIU Bhopal and NLU Jodhpur.

Download new, reshuffled 2012 CLAT University Allotment; NUJS now tops NLIU in prefs again

CLAT
CLAT
The Common Law Admissions Test (CLAT) committee has published an updated university allotment list, after candidates complained about the previous list, which contained errors.

CLAT 2012 university list may contain errors that will be fixed ‘judiciously’ in June, says NLU-J VC

Justice N.N. Mathur, VC- NLU
Justice N.N. Mathur, VC- NLU
Candidates’ university allocation in the 2012 Common Law Admissions Test (CLAT) would be reshuffled in June as human error may have caused mistakes and around 125 future students have submitted complaints, said Justice NN Mathur, vice chancellor of NLU Jodhpur and convenor of the 2012 CLAT, adding that the process would be carried out “judiciously”.

NLIU would outrank NUJS in current, possibly wrong, CLAT preferences; New list may be out in days

NLU Jodhpur
NLU Jodhpur
The 2012 Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) university allotment list, which ranks NLIU Bhopal ahead of NUJS Kolkata according to Legally India analysis, has been disputed by several students, with one claiming on Facebook that the convenors have confirmed a new list would be published within days.

CLAT 2012 result: Top 200 ranks sit on 20 marks, highest 159/200

Pencil sharpened at the ready, set and go.
Pencil sharpened at the ready, set and go.
The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) scores for 2012 were released today and the top scorer secured 159 marks out of a total 200 in the exam. The lowest score among the top 63 ranks was 145, with only two candidates entitled to the “OBC” quota sitting among the top 63.