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Smooth beginning to maiden law admission examination

Staff Reporter

Nearly 11,500 took the test which will decide admissions to seven colleges

— Photo: K. Murali Kumar

EAGER: Aspiring students and their parents outside the NLSUI entrance examination centre, in Bangalore on Sunday.

BANGALORE: With nearly double the number of students taking the Common Law Admission Test in 20 test centres across the country — compared to about 6,000 applicants applying to 10 National Law Schools last year — the maiden examination went off smoothly here on Sunday.

Nearly 11,500 students took the examination which will decide admissions into the seven prestigious National Law Schools in Bangalore, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Bhopal, Jodhpur, Raipur and Gandhinagar and the recently added law colleges in Lucknow, Patiala and Patna.

While students found it difficult to adjust to the changed pattern of the examination, they found the paper easy except for the challenging legal reasoning section and an exhaustive general knowledge section. With the centralised admission process, law school aspirants were also saved of financial burden and the effort of having to write different entrance tests to different law schools.

Fall in absentee number

“The examination went off smoothly and there is a tremendous decrease in absentee figures from 10 per cent to nearly three. That is a sign of a centralised examination being received well,” said Jayagovind A., Vice-Chancellor of National Law School India University, Bangalore, which conducted the test this year.

“The paper was not very tough. It was a mix of the Bangalore’s NLS and Hyderabad’s NALSAR pattern. It is a good thing to be able to concentrate on one pattern and study for a centralised test instead of trying to crack multiple examinations,” said Siddharth Nayak from Rourkela who came to Bangalore to attend coaching for CLAT.

With 190 questions to be cracked in 120 minutes, speed was an important factor. “The cut-offs will be as high as 160 for the high-end law schools and the paper would have been less challenging considering that till last year the subjective section was the decider for NLSIU,” said Anand Mishra of TIME Coaching Centre.

Students also said that there was an increased stress on legal-based questions, which was the only difference. “Logical and legal reasoning was a little tougher actually and general knowledge was exhaustive. The paper was lengthy but I think that many questions were repeated from last year which means the competition may just get tougher,” said Rekha A. of Bangalore.

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