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Time of India
30-04-2025
- General
- Time of India
Farmer's son tops ISC exam in Patna with 99.5%, plans career in law
Born to farmer Shishir Kumar and late Urmila Kumari, Chaitanya Utkarsh , the Patna topper in ISC exam, has set his mind on making a career in law. A student of Don Bosco Academy , he has achieved 99.5% in arts stream with 100 in history, legal studies and political science, besides just two marks short in English. He has also cleared Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) with an All India Rank 145. In a conversation with TOI's Faryal Rumi, Utkarsh shares his study plan and the challenges he faced during board preparations. Excerpts: How do you feel about your result? I aimed around 99%, but I was thinking I might get 97% or 96%. However, 99.5% was beyond my expectations. So, I was surprised. We were called to the school to see our results. Everyone was so happy. They started hugging me. What challenges did you face during preparations? by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like 2025 Top Trending local enterprise accounting software [Click Here] Esseps Learn More Undo The biggest challenge was that I also appeared for CLAT-2025. After Aug 2024, I completely shifted my focus on CLAT preparation. At that time, I couldn't give any time to my board examinations, but my school was supportive. After I took the CLAT on Dec 1 last year, I started preparing for my school examination. Managing both was difficult at that time. How was your CLAT result? I got an All India Rank of 145 and an EWS category rank of 7. So you must be planning a career in law? Yes, I appeared for CLAT, and I will opt for law. The specific field I will practise in is not confirmed yet. My father has a degree in law, but he never practised. So, I will fulfil his as well as my dream of becoming a lawyer. What was your strategy to prepare for the subjects that were challenging for you? Legal studies were quite difficult because not many books are available for this subject. Some notes were provided by our teacher, and the rest were given by my coaching institute. I also watched online videos and prepared notes. Your parents must be proud? My father is very happy. He started posting about it on his status and other social media platforms. Nobody was expecting such a good result. Tell me about your family. My father is a farmer in Naubatpur, Patna. My mother passed away when I was only four years old. My elder brother, Marut Priyadarshi, did his graduation from ISSER, Bhopal, and is now working in a start-up. Can you share some tips for students deciding streams for higher studies? Please don't just listen to your peers. Do what you feel like. You must enjoy what you are studying. I got 97% in Class X, so people around me were suggesting I take science in plus II, but I was very sure from the beginning that I wanted to take arts because that's what I love studying. Born to farmer Shishir Kumar and late Urmila Kumari, Chaitanya Utkarsh, the Patna topper in ISC exam, has set his mind on making a career in law. A student of Don Bosco Academy, he has achieved 99.5% in arts stream with 100 in history, legal studies and political science, besides just two marks short in English. He has also cleared Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) with an All India Rank 145. In a conversation with TOI's Faryal Rumi, Utkarsh shares his study plan and the challenges he faced during board preparations. Excerpts: How do you feel about your result? I aimed around 99%, but I was thinking I might get 97% or 96%. However, 99.5% was beyond my expectations. So, I was surprised. We were called to the school to see our results. Everyone was so happy. They started hugging me. What challenges did you face during preparations? The biggest challenge was that I also appeared for CLAT-2025. After Aug 2024, I completely shifted my focus on CLAT preparation. At that time, I couldn't give any time to my board examinations, but my school was supportive. After I took the CLAT on Dec 1 last year, I started preparing for my school examination. Managing both was difficult at that time. How was your CLAT result? I got an All India Rank of 145 and an EWS category rank of 7. So you must be planning a career in law? Yes, I appeared for CLAT, and I will opt for law. The specific field I will practise in is not confirmed yet. My father has a degree in law, but he never practised. So, I will fulfil his as well as my dream of becoming a lawyer. What was your strategy to prepare for the subjects that were challenging for you? Legal studies were quite difficult because not many books are available for this subject. Some notes were provided by our teacher, and the rest were given by my coaching institute. I also watched online videos and prepared notes. Your parents must be proud? My father is very happy. He started posting about it on his status and other social media platforms. Nobody was expecting such a good result. Tell me about your family. My father is a farmer in Naubatpur, Patna. My mother passed away when I was only four years old. My elder brother, Marut Priyadarshi, did his graduation from ISSER, Bhopal, and is now working in a start-up. Can you share some tips for students deciding streams for higher studies? Please don't just listen to your peers. Do what you feel like. You must enjoy what you are studying. I got 97% in Class X, so people around me were suggesting I take science in plus II, but I was very sure from the beginning that I wanted to take arts because that's what I love studying.
Hindustan Times
30-04-2025
- Politics
- Hindustan Times
CLAT UG-2025: SC agrees to hear plea challenging Delhi HC verdict
New Delhi, The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear a plea challenging the Delhi High Court's verdict directing the Consortium of National Law Universities to revise the mark sheets and republish the final list of selected candidates of CLAT UG-2025 within four weeks. A bench of Justice B R Gavai and Justice Augustine George Masih issued notices to the consortium and others on the plea, seeking their replies within a week. The bench said the matter would be heard again after a week. The Common Law Admission Test , 2025, for admissions to five-year LLB courses in national law universities, was held on December 1 last year and the results were declared on December 7. Multiple pleas were filed in different high courts, alleging that several questions in the exam were wrong. CLAT determines admissions to undergraduate and postgraduate law courses in national law universities in the country. On February 6, the Supreme Court transferred all petitions to the Delhi High Court for a "consistent adjudication". The top court passed the direction on the transfer petitions of the Consortium of National Law Universities. In its April 23 order, a division bench of the high court accepted certain objections of the candidates while rejecting some of them. "We direct the respondent/consortium to revise the mark sheet and to republish/renotify the final list of selected candidates within four weeks from the date," the high court said. It clarified that the consortium should apply the evaluation to each appellant and petitioner and the candidates who might have attempted certain questions under the court's consideration. The consortium, the high court said, should also apply the evaluation to all the candidates to whom certain benefits could be granted in view of the analysis. The high court disposed of the petitions and appeals pointing out certain errors in the CLAT UG-2025 questionnaire. The high court is yet to hear pleas challenging the questions of CLAT PG-2025. The appeals were filed by the aspirants and the consortium challenging a single judge's order. On December 20, 2024, a Delhi High Court's single judge bench directed the consortium to revise the result of CLAT-2025 over the errors in the answer key. The verdict, which came on the plea of a CLAT aspirant, ruled the answer choices to two questions in the entrance test were wrong. The plea challenged the answer key published by the consortium on December 7, 2024, while seeking a direction to declare correct answers to certain questions. The single judge bench said the errors were "demonstrably clear" and "shutting a blind eye" would amount to injustice. While the aspirant challenged the single judge's order which refused his prayer over the other two questions, the consortium also moved the division bench of the Delhi High Court against the single judge's decision. On December 24, 2024, the division bench refused to pass any interim order after prima facie finding no error with the single judge's order over the two questions and said the consortium was free to declare the results in terms of the judge's decision.
Hindustan Times
23-04-2025
- Politics
- Hindustan Times
Delhi HC directs NLU Consortium to release revised CLAT 2025 UG results in 4 wks
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has directed the Consortium of National Law Universities (NLU) to publish a revised undergraduate (UG) result list for the 2025 Common Law Admission Test (CLAT), within four weeks. The court on Wednesday was hearing petitions that questioned procedural lapses in the conduct of CLAT-2025 on December 1, 2024, and alleged errors in the answer key. 'We have acceded to certain objections made by the candidates and certain objections have been turned down. Those who have raised the objections beyond the window period, we have turned them down. In view of the aforesaid, we direct the respondents (consortium of NLU's) to revise the marksheet and renotify the final list of candidates within four weeks,' a bench comprising chief justice DK Upadhyay and justice Tushar Rao Gedela said while pronouncing the verdict, the details of which is yet to be released. A bench led by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Sanjiv Khanna, and comprising justices Sanjay Kumar and K.V. Viswanathan, had on February 6 transferred petitions pending before multiple high courts — including those of Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Calcutta, Mumbai, Punjab and Haryana — to the Delhi High Court, in order to avoid conflicting rulings and streamline the proceedings. Also Read: Delhi HC directs NLU Consortium to announce revised CLAT 2025 results The results published by the Consortium on December 7 were scrutinised, particularly after Delhi high court's December 20, 2024, passed in a plea filed by a CLAT aspirant, challenging the official answer key. The single judge had found that the answers to two questions in the exam were incorrect and held that ignoring such errors would result in injustice to the candidates. While the Consortium appealed against the single judge's order, the petitioner also challenged the decision before the division bench of the Delhi high court, arguing that similar discrepancies existed in three additional questions. The division bench, on December 24, 2024, refused to pass any interim relief, being prima facie in agreement with the single judge's decision. Also Read: SC transfers all CLAT 2025 challenges to Delhi HC for centralised adjudication Beyond Delhi, several candidates approached various high courts raising concerns over procedural lapses in the conduct of CLAT-2025, including alleged errors in the answer key, excessive fees for challenging incorrect answers, and procedural irregularities in both the undergraduate and postgraduate entrance tests. The Consortium represented by senior advocate Raj Shekhar Rao had submitted that the court could only interfere with the result if the answers were 'palpably' 'ex facie' and 'demonstrably wrong.'
Time of India
23-04-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
CLAT 2025: Delhi HC orders Consortium of National Law Universities to revise marksheets, republish final list of selected candidates.
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked the Consortium of National Law Universities to revise marksheets, republish final list of selected candidates. Several pleas were filed in different high courts alleging that several questions in the undergraduate exam were wrong. Petitions were also filed challenging the CLAT results for admissions in PG courses. In February, the Supreme Court had transferred all the petitions against the 2025 CLAT results from various high courts to the Delhi High Court for a "consistent adjudication". 5 5 Next Stay Playback speed 1x Normal Back 0.25x 0.5x 1x Normal 1.5x 2x 5 5 / Skip Ads by by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Vatican reveals the reason for Pope Francis' death The Economic Times Undo In February, the Supreme Court had transferred all the petitions against the 2025 CLAT results from various high courts to the Delhi High Court for a "consistent adjudication". On December 20, 2024, a Delhi High Court single judge had directed the consortium to revise the result of CLAT-2025 over the errors in the answer key. Live Events The plea challenged the answer key published by the consortium on December 7, 2024 while seeking a direction to declare correct answers to certain questions. While the aspirants challenged the single judge's order which refused his prayer over the other two questions, the consortium moved against the single judge's decision. The CLAT, 2025 for admissions in five-year LLB courses in NLUs was held on December 1 and results were declared on December 7, 2024.
