Want to pursue LLB? Clear entrance first
Gujarat will be the first state in the country to conduct a common entrance examination for admission to LLB course. The objective is to attract students serious about a career in law
By Yogesh Avasthi
The idea is to groom students who are serious about a career in law. According to sources, every year LLB course sees 20-30 per cent dropouts. With an entrance test in place, only those who are really interested in taking up law will appear for the exam, they say.
Common syllabus for LLB in state varsities
The GNLU is formulating a common syllabus for all the eight state universities offering LLB. This is being done to reduce difficulties faced by students who migrate from one university to another while pursuing the course.
“The law colleges are governed by Bar Council of India (BCI). As per BCI rule, 28 subjects have to be taught. Since every university has its own syllabus pattern, one university may teach a subject in the first semester while the other may teach it in second or third. So, a student migrating from one university to the other might end up repeating a subject or lose out on gaining knowlege about another. The aim of the common syllabus is to do away with redundancy. It will not only benefit the students, but even the faculty members,” said Nidhi Buch, a faculty member at GNLU. As per the new syllabus, the first semester will have four subjects — Law of Torts, Law of Contrasts, Special Contrast and Law of Crimes (IPC) — and one elective.
New cases and publications will be incorporated in the new syllabus to be introduced from June.
GNLU director Bimal Patel said: “We will have latest publications from the 2006-2010 period as part of the curriculum. Principals and faculty members of law colleges will be given regular training on new laws and teaching methods. We shall also keep revising the syllabus from time to time. We have the approval of the state higher education department in this endeavour. Right now, we have readied the first semester LLB syllabus.”
By Yogesh Avasthi
Posted On Tuesday, March 16, 2010 (http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/index.aspx?Page=article§name=News%20-%20City§id=3&contentid=20100316201003160258166339c1e2e06)
Admission to LLB course will not be a cakewalk anymore. In order to attract quality talent to legal profession, the state has decided to conduct a common entrance test for LLB course from June this year. Also in the offing is a common syllabus for the course, offered by eight universities in the state.
Admission to LLB course will not be a cakewalk anymore. In order to attract quality talent to legal profession, the state has decided to conduct a common entrance test for LLB course from June this year. Also in the offing is a common syllabus for the course, offered by eight universities in the state.
Earlier, while 45 per cent marks in graduation was the eligibility criteria for law aspirants, now it is 40 per cent.
The idea is to groom students who are serious about a career in law. According to sources, every year LLB course sees 20-30 per cent dropouts. With an entrance test in place, only those who are really interested in taking up law will appear for the exam, they say. The examination, to be conducted in both English and Gujarati, will follow a multiple-choice format. The answer sheets will be evaluated using the OCR (optical character recognition) technology.
Every year, Gujarat produces around 12,000 lawyers. Right now, 30,000 students are pursuing LLB in the state.
Gujarat National Law University (GNLU) Director Bimal Patel said: “Professional commitment can come only from those who are serious about law. We need to build quality talent pool. Entrance exam is one way to take care of that.”
The GNLU is formulating a common syllabus for all the eight state universities offering LLB. This is being done to reduce difficulties faced by students who migrate from one university to another while pursuing the course.
“The law colleges are governed by Bar Council of India (BCI). As per BCI rule, 28 subjects have to be taught. Since every university has its own syllabus pattern, one university may teach a subject in the first semester while the other may teach it in second or third. So, a student migrating from one university to the other might end up repeating a subject or lose out on gaining knowlege about another. The aim of the common syllabus is to do away with redundancy. It will not only benefit the students, but even the faculty members,” said Nidhi Buch, a faculty member at GNLU. As per the new syllabus, the first semester will have four subjects — Law of Torts, Law of Contrasts, Special Contrast and Law of Crimes (IPC) — and one elective.
New cases and publications will be incorporated in the new syllabus to be introduced from June.
GNLU director Bimal Patel said: “We will have latest publications from the 2006-2010 period as part of the curriculum. Principals and faculty members of law colleges will be given regular training on new laws and teaching methods. We shall also keep revising the syllabus from time to time. We have the approval of the state higher education department in this endeavour. Right now, we have readied the first semester LLB syllabus.”
