Clearly Sudhir was right all along. Will the haters apologise now?

Covid is like a world war. Cancelling 2020 exams and making students drop a year is harsh but unavoidable. Students are of an age group where they can be asymptomatic carriers and infect the elderly.

It is a sad state of affairs. As somebody not belonging to the legal profession but looking at global issues of education from outside India to see what is going on in India. It seems to me that both in legal education and in higher education, the only thoughtful institution that is providing leadership is Jindal Global University and Jindal Global Law School. Everything they seem to have done is based upon pursuing excellence and providing a world class education. In fact it is sad to read these pages of LI that people are delusion and excited about CLAT and NLS Bangalore and it is VC for taking the decision to go with CBT. It is actually preposterous to think that CLAT can be conducted in this manner. All of us know that it will get postponed. The only option this year in law entrance was LSAT in an AI-Enabled and Home-Proctored. At a time when law schools and universities are chaotically thinking of what do, Jindal has already done everything. In fact, if only NLUs had not been so obstinate and had done what Jindal did in the interests of the students, we would have saved the situation. CLAT, SLAT or AILET don’t understand that that LSAT has a legacy of working well for OVER 70 years since 1948!

See below:

m.economictimes.com/industry/services/education/online-lsat-india-2020-exam-results-in-mid-august-says-jgls/articleshow/77198800.cms

www.ptinews.com/pressrelease/41905_press-subOnline-LSAT-India-2020-Exam-Completed-Successfully

m.hindustantimes.com/education/lsat-india-2020-online-exam-results-in-mid-august-says-jgls/story-oL4GdD1dncz1l2wPdhrAcP.html

news.careers360.com/lsat-india-2020-online-rpt-concludes-students-give-their-feedback

wap.business-standard.com/article/education/lsat-india-results-for-jindal-law-school-to-be-released-in-mid-august-120072701344_1.html

Will clat is also going postpone

Just a thought, wouldn't appreciate trolling on this, but would it be sensible to at least scrap CLAT-PG? The NLUs could come together to develop a criteria involving maybe marks (though again, I understand the disparity between 5-yr and 3-yr assessments), an SOP along giving all students a writing assignment which are to be attempted in a time frame. Check those assignments for plagiarism and then evaluate. I know it's not perfect, but in a situation where both the online and offline tests seem improbable, this might actually be the best 'bad option'.
Plus it would reduce the students susceptible to risk.

I feel really bad for the current batch of kids who are going through this. I can't help but feel for them. I had a pretty low score in my boards and had to drop a year cause I didn't get a good law school the first time around. Absloutely crushed it in the second attempt. However, I'd be crestfallen if I was in the middle of August and still didn't know the university that I was attending. In comparison, my peers from school would have completed half of their 3 year college degree.

I'm not sure of what creative ways can be used to get out of this situation. If online tests are being taken, may be scrap the GK section in case online tests are being conducted. A google search can get you the right answer. Increase the weightage of Logical Reasoning.

I honestly don't expect even the paper on 22nd to be postponed any further. Delhi is showing positive improvement, so is Maharashtra. Though Covid may be like a world war, but it isn't 1914 or 1945. For the fear we cannot go on cancelling exams or the everyday life. They will conduct exams no matter what. Was nice having a false hope that exams might shift further but bcz of a pandemic that is killing 'elderly' they won't provide shit concessions to us students. Authorities up there simply never sees things from our eyes, had they, we wouldn't have bewn living in SUCH a terrible country. The big businesses are saved, the govt is done.