BCI’S guidelines for CLE exams

NEW DELHI: The Bar Council of India has recently issued guidelines to conduct online examinations for all Centres of Legal Education across the country and instructed that final year students of the 3-year LLB and 5-year LLB courses may be allowed to appear for online examinations.

The BCI also said that universities may alternatively provide these final year students with the option of opting for an alternative method of assessment that would satisfy the requirement of regular examination.

Under this system, the BCI said Universitiies may allow students write a project report or research paper for each paper of the final year or they may adopt a full proof method to double the internal marks of the semester exams already held for such a year.

For the abovementioned categories of final year students who have not cleared all papers of previous years and need to sit for supplementary papers but promoted to final year, the BCI said they may be allowed to write a project report or research paper appear in the online examination for the pending papers.

The BCI said all other students except for final year students for these courses will be promoted on the performance of the previous year's marks and internal exam marks of the current year. "However, it is clarified that after reopening of the colleges/universities, the Universities shall conduct the end semester examination with respect to the year from which they have been promoted, within a reasonable period of time, though, such promoted students shall continue to study in the year to which they have been promoted, and in case, they are unable to pass/ clear any such paper of such end semester exam of the year from which they have been promoted, they shall have to clear the same, before they are granted the degree," the BCI added.