The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2015 secretariat has promised that CLAT 2015 candidates will not be the sufferers of any errors that may be found in the CLAT 2015 LLM and LLB question papers.
CLAT 2015 convenor RMLNLU Lucknow joint registrar Dr JD Gangwar told Legally India today in a phone interview: “We have taken all emails [complaining about question paper errors] we received until yesterday into cognisance and sent them to the expert committee. If the committee finds even a single error then the candidates will not be made to lose out.”
“We are ready to admit any mistake that we may have made. That is why this committee was constituted. Human errors may have crept in to the question papers but it is for the committee to decide,” he said, adding, “we are totally committed to transparency and we will set an example on this”.
An expert committee to examine CLAT 2015 candidates representations complaining of LLM and LLB question paper errors was constituted on 2 June, after the question papers for the exam were made available to the candidates through publication on CLAT’s official website on 1 June.
Candidates and experts have cumulatively claimed up to 30 errors were present in the CLAT 2015 question papers and answer key.
“If [candidates] are saying there are errors then it may or may not be true. But only the expert committee should be the one to say [if there are any errors]. Otherwise it creates an environment of distrust,” commented Gangwar.
Gangwar said that the expert committee is likely to submit its report tomorrow and if the report admits there was “even a single error” in either the LLB or the LLM paper, then the answer sheets for that paper will be re-evaluated.
He added that after such re-evaluation, or if the re-evaluation is not needed due to absence of errors, then after the current results are released every candidate’s answer sheet will be accessible to that candidate on CLAT’s website.
He said that the secretariat would also publish individual answer sheets because the chronology of questions for each candidate was different, as was planned by the convenor when it first introduced the online version of the exam.
“We have to rely on some system. We are a university giving degrees so our credibility is established,” remarked Gangwar.
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Quoting Guest:
The return of the CLAT Committee:
1. allegations made on clat committee for discrepancies in evaluation of results.
2. like a superhero, an expert committee is constituted by the same organisation on which allgeations of discrepancy were made in the first place.
3. there is a basic principle, Mr., who gives out degrees and whose credibility cannot be challenged, that a person/organisation should not be a judge in its own cause.
4. people waiting with the hope that expert committee will do some magic, LOL!
Don't get your hopes up in what I'll say.
Best of luck.
Am sure there are quite a few parents like me who will be making a lot of financial sacrifice to ensure their children get the best of education.
Time is running out .....the options for the students are closing down. The colleges are closing their last dates for payment.
Request the committee to take quick action and save these youngsters from disappointment and a demoralising start of their academic career!
1) which are the people who are vehemently raising this concern
- the students who couldn't qualify??? these students will
still not qualify even if 5-6 errors are taken into consideration. the average benefit to students
will be for 2-3 questions and qualified students will also benefit. Even if they do qualify, they
will get into 15th/16th ranked universities.
- the institutes who provide CLAT trainings. they may be trying to prove a point or two and to gain
a mileage for their business, nothing more than that. why these training institutes are sending
mailers to all students to raise their concerns??
2) even if there were errors, the question paper was no different for the student who scored more than 140 and for many others also who have scored well. it was the same question paper for all the students, what is their fault??
At most, the CLAT committee will acknowledge 5-6 errors, and grant everyone equal marks like they did in the question which had repetitive options, which will bring everyone's ranks back to square one.
we seriously feel the sanity should prevail soon and CLAT team should expedite the entire process.
What about the people who are ranked 1200-1500. 5-6 rectified errors can make a huge difference for them.
This is to bring to your kind notice that, the answer key published today regarding PG course of CLAT 2015 contains many incorrect answers. Incorrectly answered questions along with their suggested correct answers are enlisted below-
1. Q. 59 – Correct answer is not (a) but (d). Refer Entries 1, 2, 5, 7, 20 of concurrent list stated under seventh schedule of Constitution.
2. Q. 64 – correct answer is not (a) but (c) i.e. P. B. SAWANT J. Kindly refer Para 96 of judgement of S. R. Bommai’s case.
3. Q. 69 – correct answer is not (c) but (d). Refer topic ‘Joint Session’ on page 67 of M. P. Jain (Sixth Edn.)
4. Q. 77 – correct answer is not (b) but (d). Refer article 352(1) of constitution.
5. Q. 79 - correct answer is not (a) but (c). Refer the case of Kathi Kalu v state.
6. Q. 80 - correct answer is not (a) but (d). Refer case of jagannath Baksh Singh v. State of U.P. (AIR 1962 SC).
7. Q. 105 - correct answer is not (a) but (b). Negligence is breach of specific legal duty and not just legal duty.
Further, there are some problem based questions, answers of which are doubtful. They are –
Q. 82, Q. 119, Q. 121, Q.122, Q. 129, Q. 131
Then what are they doing since 4 days?
VC should not have made that statement on national TV.
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