NLSIU Bangalore has made a press release about the National Law Aptitude Test (NLAT) that it concluded today for 24,603 registered candidates for its flagship undergraduate LLB programme.
According to its release, 23,225 of those - or 94.4% - actually appeared for the undergraduate exam in three slots (the postgraduate NLAT saw 2,846 out of 2,935 registered candidates appear, or 97%).
NLS touted that both of these numbers were higher than last year’s physical exam-centre based Common Law Admission Test (CLAT), which it claimed had seen 90.92% and 85.23% attendance.
That may not quite be a fair comparison to make however.
If we assume that 100% of registered candidates registered for the NLAT wanted to take the exam and were ready in time, and that 4% were not able to take the exam due to technical difficulties, in an offline physical test centre world this would be akin to an exam centre closing the door on thousands of candidates standing outside, saying: sorry, but the venue is full.
The 94.4% figure also does not specify how many of those actually completed the test: there are several accounts of candidates who claim they were kicked off the exam for no reason whatsoever before they had completed it.
We have documented many of candidates' problems on our live blog today.
Here's how to appeal by noon tomorrow
However, just in case all wasn’t well for some of those candidates (at least 1,600 if going by their metrics), NLS has said:
Despite these overall numbers, we are aware that some candidates may have faced technical difficulties during the examination.
NLAT 2020 candidates may login to the admissions.nls.ac.in portal and raise a query by 12 noon on September 13, 2020.
A thorough technical review will be carried out and candidates will receive a response.
What will happen after such technical review (another exam slot perhaps?) is not at all clear, however...
Update 23:46: Once logged in to the candidate portal, you can click on a link which opens a message pop-up, including a field for your email and a dropdown box with six possible options about “queries/topics”.
The following seem to officially be the top 5 issues that may have been faced in the exam:
- “Login Issues”
- “Issues during Exam” (which seems a little generic)
- “Submission Issues”
- “Forced Log Out”
- “Exam did not commence on Time”
Some concerns: NLS seems to not have an option to select more than one issue. From what we understand, the number that faced “Issues during Exam” or for whom the “Exam did not commence on Time” might be far larger than the other categories, and potential supersets of the other three issues.
For instance, it is easily possible that some candidates had delays, login issues, submission issues, forced log out, as well as, simply, issues and other issues.
That’s not necessarily the best way of figuring out exactly what went wrong with the exam.
It is likely to be a busy Sunday at NLS and service provider Aon's Cocubes subsidiary.
No cheaters will get admission, says NLS
The press release also denied that cheating was possible, or, more precisely that cheaters could make it through to the merit list undetected:
We assure all candidates and their parents that the technological systems and proctoring of NLAT 2020 were fully operational during the examination. Comprehensive digital records and technological parameters will be rigorously assessed for examination malpractice before any admission list is prepared.
We are confident that the combination of human and Al proctoring will ensure that the exam integrity will be maintained.
No candidate indulging in examination malpractice will secure admission to the University.
Evidence from the exam today does suggest that this could be difficult: we were able to watch a live stream of a candidate's exam session over video conference app Zoom, which should not have been possible in other proctored exams but was for the NLAT and opens the door wide open to candidates to gain unfair advantages.
Detection of this or other cheating techniques that we had outlined earlier this week could prove to be impossible, , considering the lack of deeply-embedded software in the NLAT and other restrictions.
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2. I don't care about NIRF ranking. So long as this administration runs the place, I am not advising anyone to go anywhere near it. It is clear that they lack any kind of empathy or sensitivity towards students. That's not a lesson I would like any law student to learn.
3. They can't stay true to their word and they are going to prepare the future generation?
4. True to Sudhir's vision, it is going to become the finishing school for lawyers like Jindal it seems. Let it be. I'd rather root for a law school that's actually committed diversity. That's what Menon wanted too.
www.thenewsminute.com/article/nlsiu-announces-94-attendance-nlat-2020-many-point-out-technical-glitches-132917
VIDEO SHOWING CHEATING IN NLAT 2020
This press release tells you that AtmaNirbhar Bharat has crossed party lines. Welcome to post-truth NLS. Truth is what Messiah and Mary had a little lamb tells you. And yes we are all black sheep for doubting their Gospels.
Can there be a serious, honest inquiry by EC or directed by the SC into this debacle. Can we stop managerial justice, for once?
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5,000 candidates for 360 seats (Jindal) versus 28,500 candidates for 120 seats (NLS).
lawandotherthings.com/2020/09/nlat-2020-is-it-really-wrong/
This student from nls should be given some credit for supporting nlat openly unlike other students at nls, alumni who must be feeling the same way and caanot express their happiness publically.
Sba released a "we understand" statement on nlat.
SBA should also release another statement saying some of nls students and alumni support nlat
FM is far from the ideal VC, and has more than enough shortcomings from what I know. If you must criticise him, please ask someone who's studied at NALSAR during his regime and you'll get plenty of ammunition to target him. But I for one would love to learn under a teacher who is trying to make the law itself more accessible to people beyond the elite NLU crowd, and those who seek to emulate him must be lauded and not sneered at.
You had signed the bye-laws of the consortium without taking approval of NLSIU's Academic Council. Will you explain here or in the Supreme Court of India?
NLS is no longer any different from the other top 6 NLUs. The only people who feel so are the NLS alumni who graduated when there was no competition and want to keep up their sense of self-worth because they know they wouldn't have made it to any of the NLUs now.
Dear Aggs, Stetson was the only thing an NLS student could come up with when asked what good moots NLS has won recently (comments sections of LI, a few posts ago). Care to back up with scorn with facts? Did you win Vis recently? oh nope, that was NUJS. Did you win Jessup recently? Nope. You couldn't even get to the finals in the national rounds, forget embarrassing yourselves internationally. Did you win ICC or get to the finals in the international rounds? Nope, that was NLUD in 2018. So, what exactly has NLS done?
Same goes for Guest. Funny how everyone seems to be offended yet no one provides any actual evidence.
Messiah doing everything to soften the blow in SC. He is God, what harm can mortals, even Iron Men, do to Messiah.
#TeflonMessiah
Quote:twitter.com/Preddy85
nujswritersblock.wordpress.com/2020/09/13/nlat-nothing-like-a-test/
- NLS only needs to look at the top 120-200 test scores, carefully go through their tests and determine whether cheating occurred ot not. As the instructions are clear, it should be easy to get rid of cheaters based on inbuilt coding and registered audio-video.
- this is essence tells me something. It tells me that it would be slightly easy for NLS to discover the accounts which engaged in cheating via zoom, or software codes or some other means.
In essence, NLS should in all probability be able to determine the best of the test takers. Cheating is not the best argument to invalidate the exam. I suppose the best argument for that should be on accessibility of the exam, going back on its promise
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