Common law Admission Test (ClAT) 2013 examination was held in the State capital on Sunday in which more than 3000 candidates appeared for admission in five-year integrated BA-llB course and llM course.
The examination was held in five examination centres in the State capital. It is worth mentioning that number of aspirants of ClAT 2013 appearing from the State capital is among the highest with lucknow and New Delhi.
The examination was organised in 20 cities of the country where over 30,000 candidates appeared for admission in 1685 seats of integrated under graduate course and over 800 for post graduate course.
Achievers Guild law Academy, a ClAT preparatory institute, Managing Director Siby Sudhakaran said that the written examination for the integrated UG and PG courses were of two hours each. 200 multiple questions of one marks each were asked in the UG written exam with the negative marking of 0.25 marks for every wrong answer.
The UG paper is divided into five sections with different weightage – English including Comprehension was of 40 marks, Current Affairs of 50 marks, Elementary Mathematics of 20 marks, legal Aptitude of 50 marks and logical Reasoning of 40 marks.
Sudhakaran further said that the written examination for llM course was of 150 marks consisting of two sections. The descriptive section carried four questions of 25 marks each covering Constitutional law and the objective section had 50 questions carrying one marks each covering all compulsory law subjects.
He further said that according to his students, the examination was not tough and the standard of paper was also moderate but the introduction of negative marking will surely affect the results. The cut-off marks will not much vary from previous year.
The result of the written examination will be declared on May 31 and the first provisional seat allotment and waiting list will be opened on June 2.