Common Law Admission Test (CLAT)

Why is it in News?
  • A petition was filed in the Supreme Court to declare the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) as “erroneous, faulty, defective, discriminatory and violative of fundamental rights of the Constitution”.
  • It urged the apex court to quash the exam and order it to be re-conducted.
Details:
  • CLAT is conducted by the Consortium of National Law Universities.
  • Concerns mentioned:
(1) software glitches.
(2) mismatched questions and answers.
(3) displaying answers different from the ones ticked;
(4) results displaying or calculating marks for questions which were not even attempted.
  • 10 wrong questions followed by erroneous answers.
  • unreasonable lengthy design of the CLAT examination.
Posted by Jawwad Kazi on 5th Oct 2020
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