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CLAT CONTROVERSY



Common law admission test is conducted every year as an entrance exam for granting admission to prestigious National law universities of the country. CLAT is conducted every year by different law schools since the year 2008, because of the notification of the Government to conduct only one exam for all the national law universities. This year it was conducted by National law university Jodhpur (NLU J) and is hovered in a controversy because of it’s paper pattern. The students who have taken the exam this year accused the clat committee of Jodhpur of misrepresentation by providing wrong information and misguiding the candidates. Last year also WBNUJS Kolkata(who made the paper last year) was blamed for preparing a paper which could not have been completed on time by anyone and also for leaving answers with the questions in SET A and Set B marked and thereby discriminating with the students of other 2 sets.
Even though clat 2011 paper was a disaster and spoiled the career of many dropouts students, no PIL was filled as WBNUJS vice chancellor decided to distribute free marks for the questions whose answers were marked in the legal section to everyone, though it was a bad solution (because it would not benefit the hard worker because the paper was very lengthy and the one who could not attend the English section and attended the legal lost marks and the one who attended English first and could not attend legal section benefited as free marks in legal section were distributed), but It was accepted by the majority because the paper was so bad and full of mistakes that nothing else could have been done , the students who worked actually very hard were left eliminated and lucky ones got in. It was over finally and everyone was expecting that such mistakes would never be repeated by any other college that are going to set CLAT exam in future. NLU jodhpur was next target who was going to prepare clat 2012. It declared the same guidelines as declared by NUJS Kolkata for clat exam like the students will be tested on their knowledge of current affairs ranging from March 2011 to March 2012 and the students will not tested on the basis of their previous knowledge of law, but will be judged on the basis of aptitude in which questions about Principle and facts shall be asked. Students started preparing in the direction as guided by NLU jodhpur’s guidelines issued on clat website. Finally a year elapsed. The exam was taken on May 13th 2012. Around 25000 sat for the exam competing for grabbing a seat in prestigious national law schools. The paper was so damn easy, that anyone who have worked hard and put efforts could easily rock the exam. All the questions in all the sections of the exam were very easy.
Legal aptitude:- Tested students on the question of assertion and reason, which required prior basic knowledge of constitution and law. Legal knowledge was asked and there was no question based on facts and principle. But this section was very easy and even a laymen can answer it all correct.
GK:-  Balanced was maintained between the questions of static as well as current gk. It was also an easy section
English:- One very simple paragraph about Gandhiji’s principles was asked along with idioms, phrases, arrange the sentences and grammar questions. Easy to crack again
Logical reasoning:- It had majority of questions of statement and arguments. Though it was easy but it should have included other types of questions too.
Maths:- again easy to solve.
This was the best paper ever made I would say as it has balanced everything very well and has all sorts of question on which a law student should be tested unlike clat 2011 which was career spoiling lucky choosing exam. But there were some students who were complaining about the paper pattern and saying that paper has asked static gk and legal gk though it was clearly specified that they won’t ask such questions. It made a controversy as students overreacted and was about to file a PIL. Rajneesh sir and ramanuj Mukherjee who are the famous clat exam mentors working in IMS coaching centre Chennai directed the students in right direction to file a PIL for the establishment of a permanent clat committee which will be pioneer in setting the paper every year and not demanding retest or grace marks for clat 2012. This is good and reformative move in the field of development of CLAT exam and law school education.

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