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.

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...

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

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.

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

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

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...

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

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...

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.

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.

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...

The Cold War-esque rivalry between NLU Delhi’s All India Law Entrance Test (AILET) and all the other national law universities’ (NLUs) competing Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) has intensified, with the former directly implying that the latter’s plan to conduct the admissions test would be unsafe and against government policy, amidst the Covid-19 pandemic.

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