Admissions Process

2008 will significantly different from the previous years where the admission process is concerned.

Until 2007 law schools conducted separate entrance examinations as a part of their admissions processes. The impact of this was that in 2007 students gave more than 15 exams in the May and early June. The only relief was that the papers were largely similar since the areas being tested were the same.

However, judicial directions and consensus amongst the law schools has led to the creation of a Common Entrance Examination for the national law universities. The effect: 2008 (early May) will witness the first CET for national law universities.

The universities that will almost certainly be a part of the CET are:
- NLSIU Bangalore
- NALSAR Hyderabad
- NUJS Kolkata
- NLU Jodhpur
- NLIU Bhopal
- GNLU Gandhinagar
- HNLU Raipur

There is also the possibility that the other national law universities at Patna, Patiala, Lucknow and Cochin will utilise the CET scores.

The private law schools including Symbiosis and Christ College of Law are unlikely to change their processes i.e. will continue to conduct their own tests.

The pattern / syllabus of the CET has not been declared however it will continue to be a test assessing legal aptitude and hence should be similarly patterned as the previous law school exams.

The areas that were tested in 2007 were:
- English
- Logical Aptitude
- Maths
- Legal Aptitude
- GK

LST will follow this matter closely.

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