CLAT 2021: Oversight Committee recommends deletion of 1 question, amendment of 2 out of 1,026 objections raised on 61 questions

The Oversight Committee constituted for this year's Common Law Admission Test (CLAT 2021) has recommended the deletion of one question and the amendment of two answers of the undergraduate paper..The Consortium of National Law Universities (NLUs) has accepted the recommendations of the Oversight Committee and will release a final answer key for CLAT 2021 as per the same..A press release signed off by CLAT 2021 Convenor Prof Vijender Kumar reveals that a total of 1,026 objections were received on 61 questions and answers in the UG paper. It is stated,"There were 47 objections on 13 out of 30 Questions of English Section; 53 objections on 7 out of 35 Questions on General Knowledge & Current Affairs; 492 objections on 21 out of 40 Questions of Legal Reasoning; 67 objections on 8 out of 30 Questions of Logical Reasoning; and 367 objections on 12 out of 15 Questions of section on Quantitative Techniques.".After the Executive Committee of the NLU Consortium met on July 24, it was resolved that a Committee of three subject experts for each of the five sections of the UG exam and a Committee of three subject experts for PG would be constituted.The recommendations of this Committee were then perused by an Oversight Committee headed by a retired High Court Chief Justice, which was constituted on July 25..After convening today at 1:30 PM, the Oversight Committee "accepted the recommendations of the Subject Expert Committee on Question Number 143 of UG and recommended for the deletion of the said question. The Committee also accepted the recommendation on Question Numbers 86 and 145 of UG and 116 of PG and further recommended a requisite amendment to the Answer Keys.".However the Oversight Committee overruled the recommendations of the Subject Expert Committee on Question Numbers 61 and 98, which had more than one correct answer. The reasoning given was,"There were two correct answers to both these questions (61 and 98) in the options provided. The Subject Expert Committee had recommended for the deletion of both the questions, but the Oversight Committee recommended that both the options be deemed to be correct and requisite amendments be made in the Final Answer Key.".After going through the minutes of the meeting held by the Oversight Committee today, the NLU Consortium accepted the recommendations..CLAT 2021 was conducted on July 23 at 147 centres in 82 cities across the country. Out of 70,277 candidates who registered, 66,887 downloaded admit cards and 62,106 appeared for the exam..A number of candidates expressed grievances with regard to errors in the answer key, jumbled up options, problems related to the filling of the OMR sheet and the charging of Rs 1,000 as fee per objection raised on the questions and answers..CLAT 2021: Moderately difficult exam, errors in answer key, Rs 1,000 per objection