Only one week is left for the entrance test for Bachelor of Laws (LLB) at Delhi University and the aspirants are on a crossroad. The Dean of Faculty issued a notification on Saturday stating that the university has changed the examination pattern, putting students who had been preparing for the old pattern in bewilderment.
The new pattern will consist of 100 multiple choice questions on English language comprehension, general knowledge and current affairs, reasoning and analytical abilities, legal awareness and aptitude.
The old pattern consisted of 175 questions, of which a majority of questions summed up to 200 marks. and about 50 questions were in the context of polity and Constitution which are entirely disposed by the new pattern.
A senior faculty said this has been done as the entrance test this year has been centralised and is being conducted by the university. “As it is the university conducting the entrance along with other entrance based programmes so uniform question pattern was followed. We really cannot do anything about it,” said a senior law faculty official.
Students, baffled, say that the university should have notified them earlier. “There is already so much competition, and now the change of exam pattern is making me anxious. I am worried what reasoning and analytical ability is going to be about,” said Sana Seth, an aspirant to the LLB programme.
Those students who have appeared for the test earlier said the section on polity and Constitution was the most scoring part of the test. “It is not a wise step by the authorities to change pattern at this stage,” said Tarun Narang, who graduated from the Campus Law Centre this year.
What is more stressful for the students is that DU will be open to only 1,440 admissions, which is much less than 2,310 seats that were made available last year.
DU was notified by the Bar Council of India (BCI) that it can not admit more than 1,440 students, and so, the case is caught in a legal battle. For now, the university has advertised for only 1,440 seats.