Articles tagged with: Common Law Admission Test (CLAT)

CLAT 2021: 62,106 out of 70,277 candidates appear: 61 questions objected to, 6 changes to answer key accepted

The CLAT consortium has accepted, after consultation with an expert committee and oversight committee, changes to the answer key of six questions, after receiving 1,026 individual objections over 61 questions in the exams. The larges number of objections - 492 and 367 respectively - were received in...

CLAT schedules physical exam date for 23 July 2021: Covid safety protocols to be observed

CLAT notification The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2021 has been (re)-scheduled to Friday, 23 July 2021, according to a notification. The exam, slated for 13 June, had been postponed on 15 May indefinitely , in light of the rapidly growing pandemic. The notification by the CLAT consortium said t...

Surprising no-one, 13 June 2021 CLAT postponed indefinitely: So what options are there?

The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) consortium met today and has decided to indefinitely postpone the date for now.

‘Don’t panic’: CLAT 2021 plans TBC by May, subject to (unpredictable) pandemic

The 2021 Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) remains scheduled for 13 June 2021 but with the pandemic re-raging more strongly than ever, the CLAT Consortium of National Law Universities has announced that it is aware of this (see notification above).

CLAT to discuss date clash with class 12 exams, postponement possible but not certain

The 2021 Common Law Admission Test (CLAT), which had been scheduled to take place on Sunday, 13 June 2021, may again face a clash with other school exams that will cause it to discuss whether another postponement may be required.

NLS starts pre-law online course for high schoolers for Rs 1,875 to 7,500 • No comment on CLAT 2021

NLSIU Bengaluru has announced online four-week classes for high schoolers to help them become a lawyer, called the Foundations for a Legal Education (FLE) Certificate Course costing up to Rs 7,500.

CLAT 2021 rescheduled by a month to 13 June due to boards clash

The 2021 Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) has been rescheduled from 9 May 2021 to 13 June due to a clash with the CBSE Board exam schedule that had been announced last week.

Physical CLAT 2021 announced for 9 May

The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) consortium has announced the 2021 exam to take place on 9 May 2021 at physical test centres, according to newspaper advertisements published today and as we have confirmed from CLAT sources.

CLAT opens a grievance email address until Monday 5pm, going beyond letter of SC order

The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) consortium has published a grievance redressal form on its website allowing candidates to raise grievances, if any, about the 2020 CLAT one final time. Excerpt from grievance redressal form The PDF form and instructions are available here . In summary, the form a...

Download combined CLAT 1st seat allotment • SC declines to interfere • CLAT confirms: 4,839 had filed objections

As the Supreme Court is about to begin hearing the challenge by petitioners in the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) shortly, the CLAT Consortium has just uploaded the first provisional seat allotments, following its counselling process. Note: Latest updates, including the latest CLAT press release, ...

CLAT convenor: 2020 had no tech glitches, was ‘transparent, fair enough to best of knowledge’

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...

Déjà vu: Supreme Court NLAT bench to hear CLAT challenge Friday, with Gopal Sank’n

Scoop: Justices Bhushan, Reddy, Shah to get an update on what has happened since NLAT

CLAT score analysis: 4,547 scored no more than 10 points • 40,000 got less than 30% • Only 1% cleared 80 out of 147 points [UPDATE-1]

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).

IDIA scholars hit AIR 3, 48, PWD 20 in exceedingly difficult CLAT year • 12 may get NLU seats

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...

CLAT challenged in SC for retest over alleged technical issues, results, wrong questions [READ PETITION] • Unconfirmed rumours of 40k complaints

A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court against the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT), Bar & Bench has reported. Update 14:30 : We have embedded a copy of the petition below. The petitioners, who are a “bunch of CLAT 2020 aspirants” who are unnamed in the article, with the petition filed ...

CLAT: 7 wrong model answers • Audit finds 0 tech issues • Next year complaints to cost Rs 1,000

T he Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) has released a statement following the expert committee’s review of objections received by candidates. The review made conclusions on several different issues, communicated in a detailed two-page note, including: dropping 3 questions and changing the answer keys...

CLAT technical UX issues cause flood of complaints: Should consortium act or were rules clear? • Full audit trail by 3 Oct

Potential user experience (UX) issues in the design of the computerised Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) exam 2020 may have caused issues for potentially hundreds of candidates or more.

CLAT Day: 59k sit ‘glitch free’ CLAT at 86.2% attendance (8k admit card drop-outs) • Answer keys out • Mark for review = 0 • Tough paper but no issues reported yet • How did it go?

86.2% attend out of 68,833 candidates Update 18:20 : CLAT has released a press statement that only 68,833 candidates had downloaded admit cards (out of around 77,000 who had registered for the CLAT). Out of those, 86.2% appeared for the exam across India, which works out to 59,334 candidates (around...

CLAT to go ahead on 28 September, Chhattisgarh-Raipur lockdown being managed

T he Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) exam to be held on 28 September 2020 would go ahead as scheduled despite the lockdown in Chhattisgarh and its capital Raipur. Raipur, which is host to the national law school HNLU Raipur, is one of 10 districts in the state that have been locked down to curtail ...

NLAT-Claxit Liveblog: NLS confirms only 27.5k takers, ‘confident’ no cheaters will get in • SC creates limbo • Simulation went horribly [ENDED]

To some extent, NLSIU Bangalore can’t be faulted for the lack of quantity in its communication about the last-minute announcement of the National Law Aptitude Test (NLAT), with its frequently asked questions (FAQ) page having seen an average of half a dozen or more updates per day.