Aspirants cry foul over PU law entrance exam, demand retest

The PU law entrance test for admission to the five-year course was held on April 27. The students who took the exam complained that it was not according to the guidelines and syllabus mentioned in the notification.

The students maintained that the PU notification stated that it would consist of 100 questions of 100 marks, covering legal and general awareness. “As far as legal awareness is concerned, if we look at the previous years’ papers of PU, it consists of 30 to 40 questions to check the basic legal aptitude and basic knowledge of constitutional law, latest judgements and basic legal terms. What else can be expected from Class XII students with arts, commerce and science streams. The questions on legal awareness were unthinkable for students. The case laws were unheard of. The concepts and principles were so abstruse that these could not be answered by law graduates,” complained a student, who was disappointed with the question paper.

“General awareness is meant to check basic knowledge of subjects studied at the plus-2 level, covering history, geography, polity, economics and other relevant facts. No clear-cut question and no desired distribution was done in this category,” rued another student Anahad.

Students like Medhavi, Shubhika and many others said that as far as current affairs were concerned, no question of current relevance related to national level or sports, art, culture, cinema, awards, science, defense and environment issues was asked. “It seems like either the paper setter was not given any instruction or the paper setter was oblivious of the level, pattern, standard and previous years’ papers,” said the students.

They were virtually dumbfounded after the paper. Because of negative marking, majority of students couldn’t solve more than 50% of the paper. They are demanding cancellation of the paper and a retest of the same to provide a fair level playing field to all.

Meanwhile, the Controller of Panjab University, Jagat Bhushan, while talking to The Tribune said that in case the students had any issue, they could raise it with the university. “They can put the complaint through e-mail. We will check the facts and will act accordingly,” said the official.

Ludhiana