A
foolproof ‘Inquiry and Results’ of the FINAL
CLAT ’08
Law
spreads far beyond the core subjects into virtually every
area of life. Legal Systems around the world elaborate legal
rights and responsibilities in different ways. If you are
aspiring to be a first class lawyer, you should be aware
of this system of rules which defines an individual’s/
organization’s rights and obligations. Law has now
become a strong and versatile career option.
The
CLAT examination held on 11th May 2008 followed a similar
pattern to that of our series of Pre CLATs. This two-hour
admission test of 200 marks was entirely in the objective
questions format with five sections covering English, General
Knowledge, Basic Mathematics, besides Legal and Logical
Reasoning. The general consensus was, while the paper was
moderately simple in some sections it was tough in the least
expected one.
Following
the regular pattern, Section I was divided into six parts.
Part A was an interesting Reading Comprehension passage.
The theme of the passage was wildlife, where your appreciation
of the English language was appraised. A greater part of
the first 20 questions, were words which assessed your capability
in understanding the different shades the language can take.
Arriving at the correct choice did require some cool thinking.
Habitual reading is definitely advantageous!
Part B comprised specific detailed questions, which were
fairly straightforward. Selecting a suitable answer from
amongst the close options must have been an easy task. Grammar
in Part C and D consisted of ‘finding errors in parts
of a sentence’ and ‘article based fill in the
blanks’. These questions not only tested your comfort
level with Standard English Usage, but also the contextual
usage of grammatical rules.
Part
E brought out your rational skills, in putting jumbled sentences
together logically and sequentially to form a lucid paragraph.
A much needed virtue in your pursuit to be a first class
lawyer!
Identifying the various combinations that phrasal verbs
can acquire, needed good word power. Part F brought this
skill out to fore.
Coming
to Section II which was the General Awareness one, the questions
ranged on a multitude of topics. There were a few brainteasers
from The Indian Constitution, Indian Penal Code and Polity.
Also being up-to-date with Current Affairs and the past
and present news from the business world must have made
the General Knowledge questions easy to attempt.
Some of the questions asked were:
‘Which FM presented the longest budget?’
‘How many hours did Sunita Williams spend in space?’
Needless to say ‘A newspaper a day keeps the GK blues
away!’
Section
III had questions based entirely on Numbers. If your fundamentals
were strong, this section will definitely boost your scores
as this was the easiest of all the sections.
The
crux of this paper was in Section IV and Section V - The
Legal Reasoning and Logical Reasoning sections. In the former,
questions were based on analyzing case studies with the
given Principles and Facts. Foreign words and their legal
implications also formed a part of this section. In the
latter, your inherent skills were put through an acid test.
This section was by far the toughest of all the sections.
Passages were given with direction based questions for which
a lot of time was spent ruminating even though a simple
logistic approach was all that was required to solve these
questions.
One very positive feature of this paper is there is no negative
marking!
The
colleges from which you can expect a call from are:
In
addition to the above institutes, there are three more National
Law Universities which accept the CLAT score.
| Sr.
No. |
Institutes |
| 1. |
Chanakya
National Law University |
| 2. |
Dr.
Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University |
| 3. |
Rajiv
Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab |
In your assessment if you are expecting a score of above
150 then the exclusive gates of NLSIU Bangalore, NALSAR
Hyderabad, NUJS Kolkatta, NLU Jodhpur, HNLU Raipur, GNLU
Gandhinagar will not be far behind!!!
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