‘Why take expensive CLAT coaching when we give mock papers for free?’ asks CLAT convenor. Another mock & admit cards coming soon…

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Wednesday, 13 April 2016 By Legally India Pre-law student

A mock Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2016 will likely be live on CLAT’s official website 3 May onward, with a new system to make the mock exam experience almost like the actual CLAT.

A second mock Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2016 will likely be live on CLAT’s official website 3 May onward, with a new system to make the mock exam experience almost like the actual CLAT.

The official website clat.ac.in, began publishing mock exam papers since last year.

For CLAT 2016 one mock paper is already available for free on the website.

“I don’t understand why candidates take expensive CLAT coaching when the mock CLAT papers are already published on the website [clat.ac.in],” commented Paramjit Jaswal, the vice chancellor of CLAT 2016 convenor RGNUL Patiala.

Jaswal told Legally India that this year a new feature – color-coded responses – was added to the mock exam.

Candidates could mark answers in green or red dots depending on whether the choice they’ve marked was their final choice or whether they might need to reconsider and change it later.

Jaswal said that the convenor planned to publish a new mock exam for the candidates to take, from 3 May onwards – four days prior to CLAT 2016, which is scheduled for 8 May.

Jaswal also said that CLAT 2016 admit cards would be available to download from the official website 18 April onward.

45,000 candidates have applied to take the CLAT 2016 for LLB and LLM admissions into 18 national law universities this year, as reported today by Legally India.

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Comments

Stop this marketing 13 Apr 2016, 13:19

+5 -7

@ Legally India: Please stop publishing useless CLAT stories just to lure law schools to advertising.

@ Jaswal: Stop being stupid. Candidates take coaching to 'prepare'. Just a 'mock test' won't prepare them for the exam.

Pewds 13 Apr 2016, 13:19

+10 -1

We need coaching because of the ridiculous questions that have come in the exam over the years. Same questions have had different answers in different years. We're expected to have knowledge of the law when the primary reason that we are giving this exam is to get into a college to learn the law! There's no fixed pattern. One year they'll give all comprehensions in english and the other year all current affairs when they say they won't be testing on it. And the kind of paper they had last year; how can you expect us not to join coaching.

Outsider 13 Apr 2016, 17:06

+5 -1

I understand and sympathise with the problem, just that I can't really see how the coaching centres can help with that one particularly. Most of the renowned ones just prey on the students' insecurity to make money, without any marked improvement in their aptitude to study law.

Pewds 14 Apr 2016, 03:03

+0 -1

IIM-C, SRCC, A C.A who's been to Hansraj and an NLS grad.

Outsider 15 Apr 2016, 07:49

+1 -0

If you mean to say the coaching centre was responsible for all those laurels, that does raise some queries about the latter. Again, as I said, it is not that students who go to these places are unfit to study law, just that the centres in no way contribute to their aptitude for the same.

Agreed 16 Apr 2016, 04:15

+2 -0

While it's true coaching centres will prey on you for money (and believe me the preying actually starts when you get a good rank), the amount of effort put in by coaching centres in their material is 10x that the CLAT Conveners do.
There needs to be a plagiarism check for CLAT papers.

Yeah, right. 13 Apr 2016, 22:14

+13 -0

Oh yes they're right. They give you a mock, a lovely one at that. It has SEVEN questions in all, repeated multiple times to make a total of 200. So. Very. Helpful.

Pewds 14 Apr 2016, 03:01

+0 -2

The one i'm in is really good. And what they do is that they give us exposure to every type of question there is so we won't be caught off guard in the exam. While the CLAT website has just one moc test; i've had around 40 from my coaching centre. CL will also be conducting an online pan india test with TCS(which will be conducting the paper online). Our faculty is also really good and from good colleges lie II

Smell the coffee 15 Apr 2016, 04:49

This is really a bad attempt at publicity for CL

Pewds 15 Apr 2016, 05:54

+0 -0

i agree lol.

Ninon 15 Apr 2016, 08:16

More a mockery than a mock?

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