AHMEDABAD: The final results of the All-India Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2014 were declared by the Gujarat National Law University
(GNLU) on Friday. The results had been initially posted by the GNLU — which is conducting the exam this year — on the official CLAT website on
May 31, 2014. Those results were withdrawn almost immediately. According to reports, after a manual verification of optical-mark recognition (OMR) answer sheets, the final results were posted on the official website on Friday.
GNLU director Bimal Patel said, “Following the identification of the mismatch between the barcode sticker on the front page and candidate’s sticker on the back page, in a few cases, the GNLU decided to conduct reconciliation of all OMR answer sheets , which were approximately 32,000.”

Students’ OMR sheets have not yet been uploaded on the CLAT website but Patel gave the assurance that it will be done gradually. “A complete merit
list will be uploaded for students to view their scores. However, it won’t be available for the public,” Patel said.
In its note on the results, GNLU has added that candidates who wish to physically verify their OMR sheets can fill in a form available on the CLAT
website and then go to GNLU along with their admit card and proof of identity between June 7 and 10.
Online counselling and admission for the first 2500 merit-cum-preference candidates will begin from June 7. Around 29,647 out of 33,491 registered
UG and 2,025 out of registered PG candidates appeared for the examination that was held in 21 cities on May 11, 2014.
The final results, however, do not appear to have allayed students’ suspicions that the university had botched up the evaluation process and, hence, the final scores cannot be relied upon. Angry posts by aspirants appeared on social media and online forums almost immediately after the results were
published. A majority of students have been complaining that there was no change in their scores but their ranks had fallen.
A city-based student, Aniq Kadri, scored exactly the same marks in the earlier result as well as in the final one but his rank has slipped.
Another CLAT-taker, Sayani Bhattacharya, said her score had increased by 1.25 marks. “And my rank has gone up too — from 430 to 401. The cut-off is bizarre. Last year this score would have got me into the top 100,” she said.
“Most students are reporting same score with worse rank. The glitch with the barcode wasn’t the only goof-up as ranks have changed drastically,” said Rajneesh Singh, a CLAT coach.

Source : Times of Inida