Common Law Admission Test (CLAT)

The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2015 question paper may have Hindi translations of all questions, below their English language versions, reported Times of India.

Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2015: 12 new test cities including in states which never had CLAT test cities, has changed the university preferences system for candidates and has proposed to change the question paper pattern for LLM candidates.

All Indian national law universities (NLU) except NLU Delhi are now entitled to conduct the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) by rotation every year, according to the terms of a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by 16 NLUs on Saturday.

The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2015 comes in a new package: we tell you what’s in it.

RMLNLU Lucknow, the convenor of the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2015, will conduct it online, reported the Times of India.

Every step in the exam from filling the examination form to submitting the fee will be online, according to the resolution of the CLAT core committee meeting held on Saturday. The fee for taking the CLAT remains the same as last year.

The forms will be available online from 1 January 2015 until 31 March. An online testing protocol, orientation on how to appear for the exam and, as reported last week, and trained invigilators for support will be available to the examinees. LLM-admission candidates will have to attempt an entirely objective-type question paper as opposed to last year when it had some subjective questions as well.

This year DNLU, AP joins CLAT as the 16^th NLU under its umbrella. CLAT will be conducted in 28 cities in 2015, which is right more than in 2014. RMLNLU is yet to finalise on the agency to conduct the exam, from among eight incumbents five of whom have given their presentations to the CLAT 2015 convenor.

The next Common Law Admissions Test (CLAT) in 2015 is likely to be sat by candidates online, according to a number of reports.

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has rejected a petition seeking strictures against the core Common Law Admissions Test (CLAT) committee.

The Common Law Admission Test’s (CLAT) counselling process needs to change, suggests hard-core CLAT tracker and IMS product head Rajneesh Singh, while emphasising that making errors in CLAT question papers and answer keys year on year is no less than a “serious crime”.

The margin between NLU Jodhpur and NLIU Bhopal is negligible this year, according to an analysis of the preferences of candidates taking the 2014 Common Law Admissions Test (CLAT).

The Common Law Admissions Test (CLAT) convenor GNLU Gandhinagar has formally notified the inclusion of Tamil Nadu National Law School in Srirangam to its website, little under a week after the Madras high court ordered it to do so, following a petition by a local advocate pitching for inclusion of the new national law school in the CLAT. [CLAT TN NLS Notice]

A Madras high court bench of Justices V Ramasubramanian and V M Velumani has ordered the Common Law Admissions Test (CLAT) convenor GNLU Gandhinagar to list the new Tamil Nadu National Law School (TN NLS) in Srirangam to its website, after having earlier told GNLU to provisionally allocate 14 places to the college.

The same petitioner had approached the court to request the CLAT website to include TN NLS on the website. The CLAT website, to date, carried a brief notice on its frontpage summarising the earlier high court decision, but did not include Tamil Nadu's second NLS in the list of 14 other national law schools.

The petitioner, Tiruchy-based advocate R Rajkumar, also submitted to the court that the CLAT should be "monitored and conducted" by a nodal agency, the Bar Council of India (BCI) and the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) to "avoid the allegation of partiality and favouritism against a particular university conducting the exam each year", reported the New Indian Express.

Results for the 2014 Common Law Admissions Test (CLAT) will only be released within a week, with convenor GNLU Gandhinagar having to manually cross check all 33,491 answer sheets, CLAT committee member and NUJS Kolkata registrar Surajit Mukhopadhyay told the Times of India.

GNLU director Bimal Patel, breaking his long media silence on the debacle to the TOI, placed the blame squarely on the barcode sticker system attached to OMR answer sheets: "The concept of affixing the candidate sticker and the barcode was introduced to evaluate the OMR sheet without revealing candidate's details. The reconciliation will be done by opening the concealed section containing the candidate sticker and the details filled in by the candidates."

The Common Law Admissions Test (CLAT) held by GNLU Gandhinagar has seen the withdrawak of the results under further notice, only a few hours after applicants started alleging yesterday, as reported by Legally India, that major mistakes were made in the grading of many exam papers.

The official CLAT website announced yesterday, around 24 hours after results were first published on Saturday:

Due to some technical discrepancies, the CLAT 2014 results declared on 31 May 2014 stands withheld till further intimation and guidelines on the admission process.

The candidates are required to keep checking their LOGIN ACCOUNT regularly so that they can fill-in the preferences of the NLUs at appropriate time and also get the updated information about the CLAT in order to complete the formalities, if any, from their end. Any clarification may please be sent at . CLAT Helpdesk will answer to the query within 48 hours.