NUJS has taken a decision to impose electives subjects on students in its academic curriculum. Rather than choice system where students would opt for 3/10 subjects as per choice, they have made 3 groups of 3 subjects each and students have to compulsorily select one group. The reasoning college is giving is because in choice based system, electives by strict professor who were serious with academic rigour kept getting scrapped, whereas professors who gave easy marks kept getting students.

why not just put a cap on the number of students who can take a particular optional module, if more students opt for a rather particular module then let the students with lower cgpa move to another module

Students have been known to put pressure on junior or contractual faculty to remove caps on their subjects. Moreover, if every student is allowed to take any of 10-11 electives, then the scheduling becomes a nightmare, with classes going on till 8 p.m., since you cannot have simultaneous classes for two courses. These are issues that have been already discussed over the years.

Pressure has already been put on the administration and the groups have been removed. As usual, NUJS admin always caves in to students seeking to dilute academic standard. This is why the university keeps on sliding down the perception scale. Even the students who are going to sit for Day Zero in a few days now want their faculty from the first year to teach them basics. Lol! They will still bag the jobs though, which goes to show the pathetic situation of the Indian law firms.

Was a great step by NUJS. However, maybe options should have been increased to any 3 out of 4 subjects in a group

This is what happens at NLUD. Every seminar/elective course has a cap of 20-25 students based on CGPA. Surprising that NUJS doesn’t have a cap on this. It’s seems much easier that way.

There is a cap officially. 40 for each subject, 50% to be filled by CGPA, remaining 50% by first-come-first-served basis. However, students almost always put pressure on the admin to get the cap for easy courses ignored.

It's not CGPA basis anymore. 2022 onwards it's 100% FCFS. So basically it's fastest finger first contest as everyone fills form in less than 1-2 minutes.

That too happened because of student pressure.

You still have choice under the new system, it's just that baskets have been created for you to choose from instead of completely a la carte choice.

Correct. According to the present generation, a good profession is the one who gives away high grades freely, while a bad professor is one who insists on academic rigour and marks fairly.

After student protest and multiple representations, NUJS has rolled back this system of grouping of electives. Students have gone back to check marksheets of previous semester and opt of only high scoring subjects, which mostly lack academic rigour. Shameful that VC agreed to the student demand. Now again legit electives will keep getting scrapped.

The handful of good faculty who are still left at the place have apparently refused to offer electives when approached by the SJA, which goes on to show how disillusioned they have become because of student behaviour and performance.

This VC neither understands academic rigour nor the drawbacks of pandering to every student demand. This is why NUJS needs someone like Sudhir or Prabhash.

Discussion about a normal college is required? Especially about some irrelevant electives? Genuine question

Students do not have the ability to pronounce which electives are relevant, sorry.

Students want scam electives like renewable energy law, biometric and law, forensic medicine, m&a, disaster management. The subject seem interesting, however, everyone score 80+, basically pathway to good CGPAs. If biometric Or forensic science were taught in proper manner, with heavy scientific concepts, half of the batch would have failed. Shame on nujs for allowing these scam courses.

Given the standard of average NUJS students these days, if any course is taught and evaluated properly, half of the batch would fail. The few leftover good faculty members have all admitted to that on more than one occasions.

I wonder when will their placements take a hit. Not much time is left when Noojies will start earning less than SOME gnlu grads

In tax law, 40+ students failed and now the students aren't taking elective offered by same professor.

Cap has now increased to 60. So basically 60 students in batch can take 2 easy electives and score 80+ without knowing anything

And the law firms shortlist and take in those students anyway and then complain about how associates can't work properly any more. Everyone is complicit in this.

That increase is also against the wishes of the faculty. Students pushed for that so as to get into easy electives and admin as usual caved in. If you wish to teach properly using exercises, assignments, mock tasks etc. and pay individual attention to each student in a specialised elective course, more than 30-40 in a class is not sustainable. People recognise that across the world. This is being done to divert attention from lack of enough number of decent faculty to offer good subjects properly.

This measure by admin at demand of students is a conspiracy to ensure electives by senior faculty like Dr Lovely Dasgupta, Arup Poddar, Sandeep Bhat, Sanjay Kumar, Faisal Fasih get scrapped. It's because they conduct classes diligently

Poddar? Diligently? Duuuuuuuude....

Prof. Poddar is an authority in the field of Agriculture law, water law, environment law. Last year his elective on Agriculture law got cancelled as he marked previous semester students on merit and based on quality of answers. NUJS students take revenge on diligent professors

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