In an instance of a student surpassing a teacher, Bengaluru-based Pradyot Shah secured All India Ranking (AIR) 2 in the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2024 while the director of his coaching centre Rahul Reddy secured AIR 3. The results were declared on December 10.
Pradhyot is a student of class XII in Aditi Mallya International School where he is studying science. “I initially took up law to test waters. But once I started studying, I realised that it was something I really wanted to continue in and hence, I attempted CLAT. I was honestly not expecting to get an all-India ranking,” he said.
He added that while he has decided to get admitted to National Law School of India University (NLSIU), he has not planned what he wants to do beyond that. He also said he was passionate about science.
Rahul Reddy, the 50-year-old educator, explained that appearing for the exam was his way of assessing the strategies and tactics that are taught to students in his coaching centre.
“While we teach skills to students to solve examinations, a major part of it is exam strategy and time optimisation. As teachers, we like to keep in touch with variations in the exam, and see if the strategies and tactics that we teach actually work. It also helps improve our teaching skills,” Mr. Reddy said.
While Mr. Reddy has taken the exam twice before, he got his best score this year. When asked about Pradyot, he said:“We both actually had the same scores, but he had a better score in legal, which acted as a tie-breaker and pushed him up a spot.”
CLAT 2024 was organised on December 3 in 139 centres across India. The results were released by the Consortium of National Law Universities. A male candidate from Rajasthan secured AIR 1 with 100 percentile, while six candidates (five male and one female) secured 99.99 percentile in the CLAT UG category. Two of those candidates are from Karnataka. Two others from Karnataka secured 99.94 and 99.91 percentile, respectively. No candidate from Karnataka figured in the CLAT PG toppers list.
The overall attendance percentage for CLAT 2024 was 96.45%. Of the candidates, 57% were females, 43% males, and six candidates were transgender.
