T he 2020 Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) convenor Prof Balraj Chauhan has released a statement on behalf of the consortium, assuring candidates of the overall integrity of the exam and responding to “genuine concerns”. Apparently in response to our analysis published yesterday of the rank list , w...

The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) has released the consolidated merit list including the results of 53,226 candidates today, amongst whom a whopping 25% (around 13,300 candidates) scored fewer than 18.5 points (equivalent to 13% out of the 147 maximum points available in the 2020 CLAT).

CLAT press release celebraties CLAT 2020 T he 2020 CLAT has been nothing if not dramatic. Besides the short-lived National Law Aptitude Test (NLAT), there is now a pending Supreme Court petition by complainants about the results. And as yet, there is still no official confirmation from the CLAT on h...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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...

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...

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.

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.

I n a live Q&A on YouTube about the 2020 Common Law Admission Test (CLAT), one of the CLAT co-ordinators and NLSIU Bangalore vice chancellor Prof Sudhir Krishnaswamy, answered some questions and specifically why the CLAT did not opt for a proctored online exam to be taken at home, in contrast t...

Diverging approaches as the CLAT will play it more old-school with an in-person test while the smaller AILET emulates LSAT model with online proctored exam.*

CLAT is overwhelmingly likely to remain an English CLAT this year though very few other things remain certain about it

The LSAT-India exam has been postponed from 14 June to 19 July, due to an apparent clashing with students’ preparations for the CBSE board exams, which are scheduled between 1 to 15 July, continuing the long-running Covid-19-triggered experiment of being the first to hold a law university entrance test where the stakes are high and the risks are many.

CLAT convenor and DNLU Jabalpur VC Prof Balraj Chauhan shares some of his and the committee’s current deliberations surrounding potentially taking the admissions test online this year

Again, very few surprises to anyone as the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2020 has again announced that it would postpone its exam from 21 June to some indeterminate point after 1 July, in light of the ongoing and extended Covid-19 crisis and lockdowns.

Again, very few surprises to anyone as the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2020 has again announced that it would postpone its exam from 21 June to some indeterminate point after 1 July, in light of the ongoing and extended Covid-19 crisis and lockdowns.