Recently, the Supreme Court's Justice Chandrachud made a remark at the valedictory ceremony at an international summit on the theme Legal Professionals with Disabilities on the International Day for Persons with Disabilities 2020
His exact remarks were,
”The tests that serve as entry points to enter the legal profession, most notably the CLAT are set out in a way that does not account for the unique challenges faced by disabled test-takers and places them in a disadvantageous position vis-à-vis their able-bodied counterparts”
More specifically he referred to the questions in the CLAT that required spatial and visual understanding to answer the questions.
In 2019 the CLAT Consortium announced the changed format of the Common Law Admission Test. The questions are now drafted in a comprehension format wherein maths section is based on interpretation of graphs and figures.
As a model study let us look at the CLAT 2020 UG exam paper.
The 2020 paper in total had 15 questions under the “Quantitative Technique” category. These questions constituted 10% of the total paper.
For illustration these were the graphs provided in the paper for candidates to interpret:
Source: https://www.barandbench.com/apprentice-lawyer/accommodating-the-differently-abled-the-clat-consortium
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