CLAT 2018- What to do while you wait for the results?
CLAT is the common law entrance test for admission into all 19 national law schools and the exam was conducted in the second week of May 2018. This exam tests the legal aptitude of the candidates. CLAT is conducted for both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. This time the exam was conducted by the Chanakya Law School and the college will declare the CLAT Results by the end of May 2018. The courses being offered are BA.LLB, BBA.LLB and B. Sc LLB. The total number of students selected for the undergraduate program will be 2312 and for postgraduate exams will be 604. Based on the number of students that appeared approximately 1 out of 20 students will make it.
When locking you have to pay a fee of Rs. 50000 and if the payment is not made to to the CLAT office, then you lose your chance and your name will be removed from the list of selected students. You have to pay even when you choose the shifting option.
Shifting means that you are getting admission in a particular college, but not in the college of your preference so you wait and then you will be contacted if subsequently there arises a vacancy in a college which is higher on your preference list. The students who want to withdraw from the process later will have to do so before the given date. Even then Rs 10000 will be deducted from their payment of 50,000 and students who withdraw after the given date lose the entire amount of 50,000.
Everyone was heard saying that speed was an important factor in this exam. It is usually said that speed should definitely be taken into account, but CLAT was never judged difficult because people didn't find time to answer questions, although experts won't be wrong in predicting that CLAT is going the CAT way as far as speed is concerned and people would have to start taking it seriously if they have the complaint that the exam was too lengthy. Students who do not face the challenge of speed will also have to be careful that speed comes with accuracy because speed without accuracy means nothing. The speed concern comes from the fact that the legal reasoning questions were long with principles which were pretty descriptive in nature.