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NLUs must join LSAT
The thought of LSAC thinking it should enter the CLAT sphere and disenfranchise thousands of normal middle class aspirants
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I want to type the choicest words here - but alas Kian’s moderation.......
Please ask this Kian, because it can be a game changer.
Funny also how it's always elite woke kids who claim to speak for these rural students. Have you every met them?
There are organisations and NGOs which provide laptops and internet to those who don’t have access. And this is like a 1 or 2 percent of people who appear for CLAT, please don’t act like all of you are underprivileged. Infact there are private centres which provide with computers and internet for a minimal price for exams if you don’t know. And infact this comes across as cheaper and more accessible for a lot of people. When CLAT is organised physically, there are costs involved in travelling too and one of the major reasons a lot of people don’t appear for the physical CLAT is that for people who live in smaller cities (which quite evidently have more underprivileged people but you won’t care about them) have to travel to different cities where CLAT has a physical centre, online CLAT allows for a lot of solutions. They also tried an online SLAT, where a video was surfaced and reported by LI too wherein a kid was easily using unfair means. But LSAC organises LSAT internationally and also in India, they have the requisite infrastructure and staff required for a smooth examination which is why no case emerged in LSAT India, in fact if any of you gave the exam you’ll realise there was no scope of cheating.
It is high time that people realise that online education and online examinations only increase accessibility and not the other way around. And please if you have enough resources to talk in English and publish comments on LI you’re not underprivileged, you’re cancelling out the real ones for the sake of your arguments.
www.legallyindia.com/convos/topic/164562-CLAT-needs-to-go
It would come as a surprise but CLAT is more transparent than LSAT. LSAT does not give information about the topper's exact score or what each individual actually scored in the exam and what is the exact rank ( especially important if you are eyeing for NLUs). They just have this opaque percentile system so one actually does not know what exactly transpires during/post the examination. Last but not the least, no one absolutely cares about LSAT performance. It's not even close to the top priority for any law aspirant worth his salt. All LSAT does is conduct some examinations for the private institutions out of which only Jindal is somewhat good but that also is out of reach to average Indian, urban or rural, with its 10 lac/annum fees.
P.s- I am writing this after scoring more than 96 percentile in LSAT and having secured scholarship in Jindal but afterwards opting for a NLU instead.
1. Harvard, Yale Law School etc use LSAT. It has international credibility, unlike CLAT.
2. Percentile exists because Harvard , Yale etc look at percentile score plus CVs and interviews, to make an all round assessment. If NLUs refuse to look at CVs, then LSAT can always reveal the ranks if NLUs join LSAT.
3. Percentile system also exist because there is no separate merit list and separate SC/ST/OBC reservation list at Harvard or JGLS or any LSAT institution. There is a unified merit list without reservations.
4. LSAT tests you on skills you actually need as a lawyer. The emphasis on English is totally justified, no matter if it sounds elitist to some people. Try getting into Harvard Law School with weak English.
5. Regarding your point about rural students, that point has been made many times. It's a myth. Law is an elite profession requiring elite entry barriers. Get over it. Don't be a snowflake. Ask the government to start separate Hindi-language non-elite NLUs, if you have problems with that.
1. Harvard, Yale etc. considers law as a post graduate course, not something to be taken out of high school. The expectations are completely different. Adding on to it, you yourself made apparent another glaring difference, they don't rely entirely on LSAT either, using CVs and interviews to supplement it. None of the institutions using LSAT for undergrad law entry in India does even that, which goes to show the instability of the system.
2. You are very right that reservations don't apply to (some) foreign universities and any private one in India, which makes the LSAT system easier to implement. So why in God's name are you trying to advocate in favour of the exam being used for public universities in India, where affirmative action needs to be provided as a matter of law? I'm fairly certain of your opinion on reservations based on the prejudice that drips from your comments, but it's still mandatory under law. Tough luck.
Moreover, CLAT has more than 60k aspirants while LSAT barely has 6K. It does not make any sense to do away with an exam that more students aspire to crack and to replace it with the one that no one is actually bothered about.
No way in the comment it has been mentioned that LSAT is disadvantages for rural student or anything of the sort. The comment has been made in the context of Jindal ( the only college under LSAT worthy of admission) charging exorbitant fees which is out of reach for most Indians. In comparison NLUs charge one-tenth of that fees.
I would not like to engage with the Harvard and Yale arguments as the conditions are quite different in both the countries. Both of the above mentioned colleges are extremely elite institutions and their in-take criteria is based on parameters that exists amongst their target groups. That in-take criteria cannot be imposed by Indian public universities atleast as of this moment.
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