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CLAT rank list announced

Staff Reporter

Allocations will be out by May 31

BANGALORE: The rank list of the Common Law Admission Test which was conducted on May 11 was announced and displayed on its website on Monday.

As many as 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.

The 187-page PDF document has been creating confusion among candidates who are unclear as to the procedure. The confusion arises out of the fact that several students have secured identical ranks.

Although the website clearly states that this was only a rank list and does not carry any information about allocation of colleges, students and parents were anxious about their ranks and the listings.

CLAT convenor and the Vice-Chancellor of National Law School India University says the scores will now be handed over to 10 law schools and the actual allocations will be out by the end of the month. “We made it clear that this is not allocation but merely a rank list. There is no confusion about that. We have their preference list and offers will be made keeping that and the PUC or SSLC marks in mind,” he says.

But anxiety levels among students and parents are high as they also think that this means a prolonged wait. The website says: “There will not be any problem insofar as their preferences can be accommodated within the same institution. If not the standard method of tie-breaking adopted in all the law schools will be applied using PUC marks, which would cover all the subjects including languages since for the study of law all the subjects are equally relevant. If the number of subjects taught in different universities differ from one another, we go by percentage marks. In case the tie persists, we resort to SSLC marks.”

“It is all the more difficult for us because our PUC results may not come as early as other States. Besides that we have applied for other Arts colleges,” says Vishwa Dutta, a student who is disappointed with his results.

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