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in most universities with a 4 point scale 80 or 85 is considered as 4.0.
logic 101 ft. christ law school
Yes you can get hired by a T1 even with 2.9/4. Just intern more with T1/T2 ones, fine tune your CV . Work on more moots, quality publications. I have seen sub-par folks surprisingly hired by T1 firms like SAM, Trilegal on the campus recruitment drive at CHRIST last year.
Some of those offers will probably be taken back now given the inflation. If it happened to JGLS, it can happen to CHRIST.
So don't get your hopes down. You still have 2 years to get your GPA up. Thing about CHRIST is there's a lot of competition given the huge batch size. So work hard and you got this!
As such, given that you're not in a T1 law school where getting good grades implies getting a T1/T2 job offer on Day Zero by default, I think you should honestly stop worrying too much about your grades and instead focus on finding valuable internships. Then, target recommendations from them to get to better firms, and so on and so forth.
Since the name of your university is not deemed prestigious in the eyes of T1/T2 law firms, even if you had scored great grades, there's a good possibility that they might not have seen your academic record in a great light anyway.
I say this not to be harsh, but to gently let you know that you haven't yet lost out on much, and you can still make the best out of the cards you were dealt with. Kudos.