Students find CLAT ‘relatively easy’

Many students who appeared for the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2018, the gateway to admission to 19 prestigious National Law Universities, on Sunday seemed relieved after finding the paper “relatively easy”.

The two-hour all-India common entrance examination, which was conducted by the National University of Advanced Legal Studies, Kochi, this year, was held across the country on Sunday. The results will be published on May 31 on www.clat.ac.in.

Hemanth Kiran, who appeared for CLAT at a centre in the city, said: “The paper wasn’t as difficult as I thought it would be. The legal aptitude section was a little tough, but other sections were easy. Since the user interface had been modified this time, there was some difficulty in navigating to other sections. I’m hoping to get into National Academy of Legal Studies and Research in Hyderabad.”

On the other hand, students like Taha Rahman Shah, who had come to the city from Dharwad, found the paper tough. “This is my second attempt and I found the paper lengthy. Legal aptitude was a tough nut to crack, because there are so many case laws one must keep in mind,” she said.

Students, who had written entrance exams for private law colleges and AILET (All India Law Entrance Test) for admission into NLU Delhi, felt CLAT was comparatively easy. Deesha Reshmi, a student from Belagavi, said: “I have written so many entrance exams that I have gotten used to solving questions even when there is time crunch. AILET was very difficult, so I was nervous about CLAT. But thankfully this exam wasn’t very tough.”