The Consortium has committed to releasing the corrected results within two hours of the hearing, and this decision will affect the ranks and eligibility of thousands of students who appeared for CLAT UG 2025.
NEW DELHI: 16th May: The Consortium of National Law Universities (NLUs) informed the Supreme Court of India on Friday afternoon that it would release the revised results for CLAT 2025 UG (Common Law Admission Test for undergraduate courses) within the next two hours.
This announcement came during a Supreme Court hearing on May 10, which was examining an appeal related to errors in the CLAT 2025 answer key. The Consortium stated that it was waiting for the Supreme Court’s final order dated May 7 to be uploaded before publishing the revised scores.
To this, the Bench of Chief Justice of India BR Gavai and Justice AG Masih replied,
“I have signed it yesterday evening. It will be published right now.”
The top court was hearing an appeal filed by a candidate named Hardik Garg. He had challenged the Delhi High Court’s April 23 order, which dismissed his objections concerning three questions (numbers 81, 93, and 97) from the CLAT UG 2025 examination.
The Delhi High Court had ruled earlier that there were mistakes in four questions and instructed the Consortium to revise the scorecards of candidates and renotify the final list of selected students within four weeks.
The Bench commented, expressing strong disapproval of the exam’s quality,
“At the outset, we must express our anguish at the causal manner in which the Consortium has been framing the questions for the CLAT examination which involves the career aspirations of lakhs of students in the country,”
Furthermore, the Court reprimanded the Union Government and the Bar Council of India (BCI) for their failure to act on prior concerns about CLAT’s administration, which were initially raised in the 2018 judgment in WP(C) No. 551/2018. Both entities have been issued notices and are required to respond by the following Friday.
The Bench emphasized that numerous questions were either flawed, deceptive, or excessively complicated for 16-17 year old students transitioning from secondary school.
Justice Gavai questioned the appropriateness of the questions, stating,
“Are you expecting to compare children with calculator?… 16-17 yrs old girls and boys.”
He also inquired about the reasoning behind CLAT not being managed by a permanent organization similar to NEET or JEE.
According to the Delhi High Court, the following were the specific errors in the CLAT 2025 UG exam:
- Question no. 5 (Master Booklet):
The answer key had an incorrect option. Option (c) is the correct answer.
All candidates who selected option (c) must get the benefit. - Question no. 77 (Master Booklet):
This question was found to be out of syllabus and must be excluded and treated as withdrawn.
Students who marked the correct answer will lose their mark, but
those who marked the wrong answer would gain 0.25 marks that they lost due to negative marking. - Question no. 115 (Master Booklet):
The provisional answer key listed option (a), “Rs.204 approx,” but this was found to be incorrect.
The correct answer was option (d), “None of these.”
All candidates who attempted this question shall receive full marks. - Question no. 116 (Master Booklet):
For Sets B, C, and D, marks would be granted as per the corrected key.
Since Set A did not contain any error, the court found it unnecessary to make any changes for Set A candidates.
Only Sets B, C & D candidates will get the benefit of marks.
On May 7, the Supreme Court set aside the Delhi High Court’s order and gave fresh directions for correcting the errors in the CLAT 2025 UG answer key.
The Bench also criticised the lack of improvement in CLAT exams despite previous court orders. The judges pointed out that no serious steps had been taken by the Central government or the Bar Council of India (BCI) even after a relevant 2018 Supreme Court ruling.
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Expressing concern, the Court remarked:
“We must express our anguish at the casual manner in which the Consortium has been framing questions for CLAT exams which involves career aspirations of lakhs of students. In academic matters court is always slow to intervene since they are not an expert. But when academicians themselves err in such manner which impacts lakhs of students, court is left with no opportunity but to intervene.”
The Court further issued a notice to the Union Ministry of Education and asked it to file a response on how to improve and streamline the law entrance examination process.
It also made wholesale changes to the Delhi High Court’s directions regarding the four incorrect questions.
The Consortium has committed to releasing the corrected results within two hours of the hearing, and this decision will affect the ranks and eligibility of thousands of students who appeared for CLAT UG 2025.
Case Title: (1) SIDDHI SANDEEP LADDA v. CONSORTIUM OF NATIONAL LAW UNIVERSITIES AND ANR | Diary No. 22324-2025
(2) ADITYA SINGH Versus CONSORTIUM OF NATIONAL LAW UNIVERSITIES | Diary No. 24223-2025
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