Pre-law student

Killing the dream: NLSIU Bangalore 4th-year collates 200+ accounts that NLAT exam would exclude due to steep tech, comms, disability issues

An NLSIU student, who has requested anonymity, has received more than 220 responses online from candidates who were interested in joining a national law school this year, but who were facing problems due to the NLSIU’s plans for an online-only proctored entrance test. Legally India has seen a copy of the Google form responses. A selection of these has been shared in the article below, but identities of respondents have been anonymised. We have reached out to the NLSIU administration for comment.

CLAT rift: NLSIU ‘completely disassociates from CLAT 2020’ after consortium stripped VC (but not Law School) of powers

The cold war that has mostly been fought via press releases between the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) Consortium and NLSIU Bangalore, after the latter’s shock decision to hold its independent entrance test last week, has escalated.

CLAT VCs to NLS: Reconsider Claxit or get booted out • NLS responds: NLAT will go smoothly [UPDATE-1]

T he Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) consortium has concluded its emergency meeting today following NLSIU Bangalore’s surprise exit from the admissions test to conduct its own, and has decided to pressure NLSIU to come back into the fold. NLSIU has quasi-responded with a press release , showing lit...

1st (in likely flood) of writs challenges NLSIU admissions test for being ‘illegal, arbitrary, whimsical’

The first of what are widely expected to be many writ petitions has been filed this morning before the Jharkhand high court at Ranchi on behalf of five Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) aspirants against the new NLSIU Bangalore admissions test.

‘Surprised’ CLAT consortium ‘dismayed’, action TBC, as NLS exits to roll own online entrance test for Rs 150 [UPDATE-1]

NLSIU Bangalore has decided to conduct separate admissions to its BA, LLB and LLM programmes this year, outside the oft-postponed Common Law Admission Test (CLAT), on 12 September 2020 with a week for applicants to register for 4% of the fees of the CLAT.

NLU Delhi to hold physical AILET 2 days before CLAT

NLU Delhi‘s All India Law Entrance Test (AILET) has bitten the bullet and picked a date for its all-new offline exam.

Breaking: CLAT postponed from 7 to 28 September due to WB, Bihar lockdowns

Scoop: This latest postponement will now push the CLAT nearly to October

PSA: Despite fake notification doing rounds CLAT has NOT been postponed, still scheduled for 7 Sep [UPDATE-1: CLAT responds]

A faked Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) consortium notification (see above) has been making the rounds on social media, purporting postponement of the 2020 CLAT.

Breaking: Postponed CLAT 2020 to be held on 7 September, day after JEE mains end [UPDATE-2: Announced]

Exclusive: The CLAT had last week been postponed indefinitely though now has a tentative date again, less than one month away*

CLAT postponed indefinitely until further notice • Sept date mooted but no commitment made [UPDATE-3]

Exclusive: CLAT now unlikely to be held any time soon*

CLAT surges 30%: Record 77,000 aspirants registered, with 68k for UG alone (despite 3,000 withdrawals)

A round 77,000 candidates have registered for the 2020 Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2020, NLSIU Bangalore vice chancellor (VC) Prof Sudhir Krishnaswamy told the Times of India . Of those, 68,000 had registered for the undergraduate exam alone, while the separate postgraduate CLAT exam saw around...

For now, CLAT still on as scheduled for 22 August, consortium to meet on Wednesday

Students have understandably been on tenterhooks about whether the CLAT will happen on its scheduled date; equally understandably, the consortium has tough if not impossible decisions to make

Can CLAT be held in August under latest lockdown orders, as univs to remain shut until at least 31 August?

Unlock, relock A ccording to to the latest notification by the Ministry of Home Affairs to try and get life back to a semblance of normality, which lifts the night curfew from 1 August amongst other things, also states that colleges and educational institutions would remain (physically) closed until...

Cheating the home-proctor: YouTube whistleblower / amateur security researcher recants, claims Symbi’s SLAT is 100% foolproof (but the jury’s still out)

After our report on Monday (27 July) of how cheating was practically possible and/or attempted (though not necessarily successfully) by a number of candidates taking the home-proctored Symbiosis Law Admissions Test (SLAT) 2020, a very daring / foolhardy and/or public-minded candidate who uploaded his entire cheating attempt to YouTube, has now removed the video and disowned his cheating attempt.

NLU Delhi backtracks from home proctored AILET, to go ‘risky’ physical CLAT route • SC declines to intervene in CLAT

After initially criticising the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) national law universities’ approach of holding centre-based law school admissions tests as everything from not “patriotic” and carrying the “risk” of “mass infection” of candidates and their families, NLU Delhi has done an about turn and announced that it too would hold a centre-based physical test.

NLU Delhi home proctored admissions exam AILET postponed

NLU Delhi’s All India Law Entrance Test (AILET) exam has been postponed again from 18 August to an unspecified future date.

Doctoring home proctoring? Reports, videos of easy cheating emerge in Symbiosis 2020 SLAT • Univ confident forensic probes will nab all entrance exam tricks

Reports and attempts have surfaced of how easy it had been to apparently circumvent some of the security measures in place for the home-proctored Symbiosis Law Admissions Test (SLAT), which was taken by around 20,000 aspirants this year for its five-year BA, BBA, LLB and LLB Honours programmes, according to an official with Symbiosis.

After report, criticism, 2nd CLAT mock now tweaked to allow students move between sections, answers

Following our report on 17 July of a particularly test-taker-unfriendly format in the first mock exam, the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) has tweaked its software for the second mock exam that has been made live today.

What CLAT, AILET can learn from proctored LSAT, where, at first, 14% couldn’t sit exam • Also: cheaters, technology, comms and other lessons

The LSAT-India sit-at-home online exam for law school aspirants, which started on Sunday (19 July) and has been continuing with testing sessions throughout the last week, has almost completed its run until this Sunday (26 July). And although it’s apparently not been without any hitches, those hitches may be useful lessons that should be heeded by the other bigger upcoming Covid-era law admissions tests.

CLAT open to ‘revise, redesign’ after anti-cheating tech leaves online mock exam takers slightly shaken

The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2020 had rolled out its mock exams today to registered students and apparently it is still a work-in-progress that may take feedback of students’ on board.