The Delhi High Court on December 20 directed the Consortium of National Law Universities (CNLU) to announce revised results for the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2025 undergraduate exam for admission to a five-year LLB course. The conducting body has also filed a petition to review the judgment of the Delhi High Court, however, on Tuesday a bench comprising acting Chief Justice Vibhu Bakhru and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela refused to intervene in the order passed by Justice Jyoti Singh.
“Single judge examined two questions carefully… Prima facie we concur with the said view,” the court said, “You can proceed with the result. There is no interim order.” The court posted the matter on January 7, 2025.
CLAT UG was held on December 1 and the final answer key was released on December 7 in which the Consortium dropped three questions, making the total number of questions 117.
The direction came after 17-year-old candidate Aditya Singh knocked on the Delhi High Court’s door and sought quashing of the final answer key and a stay on the counselling process. Singh stated that the answers to five questions in set A were wrong. Those five questions in set A were: Questions 14, 37, 67, 68 and 100. However, the Court directed the conducting body to revise only two questions of the petitioner, questions 14 and 100 (given below).
In question number 14, which was comprehension-based, the provisional and final answer key listed option D as the correct answer. However, Aditya claimed that the right answer to the question was C.
(Image: High Court order)
In question number 100, which was logical reasoning, the provisional answer key claimed B as the correct answer, while the final answer key mentioned D as the correct answer. The petitioner in his plea claimed that the correct answer to the question is B.
(Image: High Court order)
Regarding question number 100, it was argued in Delhi HC that the question was based on a seating arrangement of individuals positioned in a circle. The Court read that the seating positions of both Ram and Rakesh were clear. Utilising the given data, the correct answer should have been ‘Sohan’; however, this option was not included among the answer choices. Therefore, the question should be excluded, the Delhi HC directed.
Additionally, Option D, which states data inadequate, in the answer key is incorrect since the question contained sufficient data to determine Rakesh’s position. It was also noted that another question, (number 85) in the master booklet (which corresponds to question number 97 in Set A), was based on the same passage as question number 100 in Set A. This question was withdrawn upon the recommendation of the CLAT expert committee. Therefore, the Court ordered the Consortium to drop question 100.
It is pertinent to note that except for question number 100 which was logical reasoning, rest of the questions under objections were comprehension-based.
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