Hi LI readers. The paper came really easy. It was so easy that people are predicting high cutoffs. The problem is that people who didn’t even prep for years would get a good score. A 86 plus score and that too out of 120 is considered good for a top 5. This honestly diluted the quality of clat students. I don’t see any difference between students of NLS, NALSAR, NLUJ and Nujs now. AILET is an option but that is way more difficult. With the unpredictability in mind, what should be other options?

The mods who have cracked clat like @LI, @Tier-1 NLU are requested to give feedback.

I don’t intend to sound rude but there was never any considerable difference between the top 5 NLUs under the consortium.

On a random Sunday, folks securing a rank between 1-480/500 are all the same to me. That’s how things should be. There have been countless examples where say a NLUJ student has proven to be much smarter than a NALSAR student. A difference of 2-3 scores will never bother a reasonable person.

Don’t think about the cut-off(s) too much my friend. My mentees told me that result will be declared on 10th December. Cut off should be estimated after the final answer key. This year the clat paper was annoyingly easy. This doesn’t always suggest the cut off will go sky high. Don’t worry. It depends on how people have performed.

The next best step for you is to prepare for AILET. AILET wants to test your IQ at all points, so try to practise puzzles as much as possible. AILET may seem difficult, but it’s your mindset that decides the scenario trust me. NLU Delhi is a very good place and I can personally state from my personal observations that quite a few folks from Nagarbhavi opt for NLU Delhi too. So prepare well. All the best!

In any exam where the candidates who get the highest marks are selected, it is irrelevant whether the paper was easy or hard since the candidates with the highest marks will be selected. Think of it like floating in water with rising or waning tide, what matters is who is floating on the water, not how high those persons are floating relative to the bottom of the sea floor.

I am 10+ years into the profession after graduating from a so-called "Tier 1" (oh! the cringe) college and, let me tell you, it doesn't make a fig of a difference which college you graduate from the moment you start working. What matters is whether you are hard working and competent and no college has a monopoly over both those matters.

I think people here grossly misunderstood your post. That’s why the downvotes. The OP here wanted to to mean that the clat was unpredictably easy this year. That’s why the cutoffs will go roaringly high according to the OP (which was a bit of an exaggeration, another reason for downvotes). Therefore, people will zero prep will be in the same pedestal along with people who prepped hard. But LI being LI thought you are praising ailet over clat which wasn’t properly conveyed by you tho 😭

MHCET is another option that law aspirants can eye for. Apart from MHCET, LSAT (for JGLS), SLAT (for Symbi, Pune) and, if budget permits, BITSLAW are decent options to consider.

The paper was easy, no doubts about it. And people who were able to tame their nerves were able to perform better + the easy nature of the paper gave people with low prep but good reading skills a solid edge, which proves good for a T-1 fresher as opposed to a T-3 dropper imo. Nonetheless, the CLAT consortium is widely infamous for their ridiculous actions, some of them being the revision of the schedule and the constant changes in the pattern.

@AshReh

@Tier-1 NLU

I am scoring 87-88 (depends on the final answer key) and I have nujs domicile. Will I get my dream college? I am also attempting ailet but it’s very rough so I don’t have my hopes on

You should ideally get in but there is no saying since if you get in the 700s bracket then considering the past year cut-offs it might not be possible.

Then again the domicile cut-offs have a higher probability of fluctuating and the number of candidates that re-appear from a T-2 NLU also contributes to an inflated cut-offs since many a times they do not find the opportunity cost of leaving their current NLU for GNLU/NLIU not really worth it.

I hope you get in though :)

True that...I am in engineering 1st year and had given CLAT randomly in 2023 and 2024...I got 83 in 2023 and will cross 98 in this year's paper...

Not trying to brag, but I did come across a shit ton of students who were barely able to cross 80 in 2023 even after years of coaching...some even called me undeserving...i mean i don't think so

CLAT Ug has certainly failed to filter out such muppets. Change in pattern is the need of the hour to eliminate bias, favouring certain class/category of students. More so, when candidates with exceptional schooling and financial backings are the only one making to the top. As they say law is a noble profession and if the entrance exam fails to institutionalise gauging the zeal and dedication for the larger public good, the toppers of the exam would be no more than immensely fortunate kids broadening the existing gap in the society.