Pre-law student

AILET 2016 results: NLU Delhi website gets hammered, goes down (alternative link here)

NLU Delhi has published the results for its alternative to the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) of borderline legality, the All India Law Entrance Test (AILET), but the university’s website seems unable to cope with the traffic of 15,961 AILET aspirants all checking their results at once.

CLAT 2016: Predicted-cut-offs and a helping hand to reduce the complexity of admissions

Need a helping hand with the CLAT (without cheating)?
Need a helping hand with the CLAT (without cheating)?
?“)CLAT began in 2008 when a PIL forced the NLUs to conduct a common admission test. It eased out the students from lots of hassles but at the same time it also made the admission process a bit complex.

CLAT 2016 was (mostly) dead easy: Here are 4 reasons for why that’s a problem (plus advice on fretting, corrections & next steps)

Rajneesh Singh: Predicts trouble ahead...
Rajneesh Singh: Predicts trouble ahead...
One wise CLAT aspirant’s first reaction the day of the exam at 5.08 pm was: “Sir, what a shit! They gave us a dam easy paper!! This is bad, very bad!!”

‘Why take expensive CLAT coaching when we give mock papers for free?’ asks CLAT convenor. Another mock & admit cards coming soon…

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A mock Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2016 will likely be live on CLAT’s official website 3 May onward, with a new system to make the mock exam experience almost like the actual CLAT.

For first time (ever?) CLAT’s popularity declines, in face of competing IIT & medical admission tests

Law not sexy anymore?
Law not sexy anymore?
The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) experienced the slightest slump in popularity this year, for the first time since the exam was established. The clash of engineering (IIT) and medical (PMT) entrances, on 8 May, with CLAT 2016 pulled potential CLAT applicants away to the more popular entrances.

CLAT registration deadline extended to tonight for online applicants

The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2016 online application deadline has been extended till tonight. This extension does not apply to candidates registering for the exam through offline payment of registration fee. According to a notification on CLAT’s website : “This is for the notice of aspirants...

RGNUL locks exam-error correction dates in CLAT 2016 calendar

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Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2016 convenor RGNUL Patiala has already allotted dates for taking up candidates’ question-paper error representations and to publish a revised answer key, in the CLAT 2016 calendar which was officially announced online.

CLAT 2016 on 8 May, deadline 31 March: Good luck!

The 2016 Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) will be conducted by RGNUL Patiala on 8 May 2016 from 3pm to 5pm, according to a notification on the law school’s website.

Justices Thakur and Gowda put monster Basheer-Venugopal CLAT writ on express schedule, RGNUL to reply

The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2016 convenor RGNUL Patiala has been called upon by the Supreme Court to provide answers in Prof Shamnad Basheer’s petition challenging the conduct of the CLAT. Former NUJS Kolkata professor and founder of NGO Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access (IDIA) Bash...

CJI recuses in CLAT challenge, Justice Thakur to hear on Friday

The petition by academic and Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access (IDIA) founder Shamnad Basheer against the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) in the Supreme Court, has been listed on Friday before Justice TS Thakur, after Chief Justice of India (CJI) HL Dattu recused himself yesterday. Dattu re...

Shamnad Basheer with KK Venugopal files monster writ vs CLAT in SC, wants permanent body, transparency [READ PETITION]

Shamnad Basheer, former NUJS Kolkata professor and founder of NGO Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access (IDIA), has filed a public interest litigation (PIL) in the Supreme Court seeking a permanent CLAT body and transparency in the exam.

Revealed: CLAT expert committee's reasons for believing all questions were correct [READ RTI'd REPORT]

The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2015’s committee of “experts”, in its report on alleged errors in the CLAT 2015 LLB paper, defended the answer key by reproducing dictionary definitions of words and asserting that candidates were expected to “feel the pulse” of the question paper.

Membership of CLAT 2015 ‘expert panel’ is top-secret, immune to RTI, claims RMLNLU

RTI response: The computer says no
RTI response: The computer says no

The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2015 expert panel, which was formed twice to examine alleged errors in the CLAT 2015 question papers, was composed of secret members. CLAT 2015 convenor RMLNLU Lucknow rejected a right to information (RTI) request for the names of the members of the panel which had dismissed allegations that one-fifth of the CLAT 2015 LLB paper was error-ridden.

CLAT paper error-free, says expert committee report: HC judge sceptical

The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2015 expert committee has found that the CLAT 2015 LLB question paper has no errors, the Punjab & Haryana high court was told yesterday in a writ filed by CLAT 2015 candidate Agrima Lailer through advocate Ravinder Malik.

Rajasthan HC defers to Bombay, sends 15 questions to expert panel of dismantled CLAT office

The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2015 office, which was closed by the convenor on 6 July, will have to reopen to refer yet another 15 erroneous CLAT 2015 questions to an expert committee, following the Rajasthan high court’s latest order. Rajasthan HC justice NK Sharma disposed of CLAT 2015 cand...

Fait accompli? Most NLUs steamroll on with CLAT admissions despite HC orders; NLU Assam VC bemoans ‘irreparable damage’ done

The CLAT colossus: Unstoppable?
The CLAT colossus: Unstoppable?
The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2015 admission process was closed on Tuesday before the Bombay high court order that could result in a merit list reshuffle could be fully implemented.

Postgrad CLAT also to be re-examined by experts after Chhattisgarh HC steps in

Experts: Hands full
Experts: Hands full
The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2015 convenor will again form an expert committee to look into allegedly incorrect CLAT 2015 LLM questions and revise the LLM merit list accordingly, on the directions of the Chhattisgarh high court.

In victory for aggrieved, Clataclysm hits convenors: Bombay HC makes whole CLAT process subject to paper re-evaluation [READ JUDGMENT]

The Bombay high court judgment has been uploaded on the Bombay high court website, ordering an expert committee with the power to take a decision that could revise the “merit list of candidates if necessary”, making “the whole merit list and all subsequent process, will be subject to outcome of the Expert Panel/Comittee’s decision”.

Bombay HC orders CLAT convenor to make new expert committee to re-look at questions

The Bombay high court ordered the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) convenor RMLNLU Lucknow to institute a new expert committee of eminent persons from the profession to re-examine the objections raised against the CLAT 2015 question paper. Advocate Rishabh Sancheti, appearing for RMLNLU, said that t...

CLAT cases: Raj HC reserves 1 other student’s seat at “Bangalore Law College” / NLSIU for petitioner? Bombay adjourns for sick judge [READ ORDER]

Rajasthan Jaipur order: Reserve one other student's seat?
Rajasthan Jaipur order: Reserve one other student's seat?
The Rajasthan high court’s Jaipur bench on Tuesday (30 June) ordered the “last student” admitted to NLSIU Bangalore, or “Bangalore Law College” as the high court order put it, to be reserved subject to the result of the writ petition before it, as the Bombay high court CLAT challenge was postponed to 7 July.