IDIA Diversity Survey Questions

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IDIA Diversity Survey Questions

1. Are you an IDIA scholar?

Response

PercentResponse

Count

Yes 3.3% 18

No 96.7% 531

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2. Gender

Response

PercentResponse

Count

Male 47.7% 262

Female 48.8% 268

Others 3.5% 19


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3. Do you suffer from any disability?

Response

PercentResponse

Count

Mental 1.1% 6

Physical 1.6% 9

Other (please specify) 97.3% 534


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4. Category of seat held by you at law school?

Response

PercentResponse

Count

General 59.4% 326

SC 14.2% 78

ST 5.3% 29

OBC 5.5% 30

NRI 3.1% 17

Foreign National 2.0% 11

State Domicile 8.6% 47

Handicapped 1.3% 7

Other (please specify)

0.7% 4


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5. What is your mother tongue?

Response

PercentResponse

Count

English 3.5% 19

Hindi 59.6% 327


37.0% 203


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6. What religion does your father follow?

Response

PercentResponse

Count

Hinduism 86.5% 475

Islam 1.6% 9

Sikhism 1.6% 9

Christianity 2.6% 14

Buddhism 1.1% 6

Jainism 3.6% 20

Zoroastrianism 0.4% 2


2.6% 14


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7. What religion does your mother follow?

Response

PercentResponse

Count

Hinduism 86.2% 473

Islam 1.6% 9

Sikhism 1.5% 8

Christianity 4.0% 22

Buddhism 1.5% 8

Jainism 4.6% 25

Zoroastrianism 0.2% 1


0.5% 3


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8. Which state or union territory do you belong to?

Response

PercentResponse

Count

Andhra Pradesh 2.7% 15

Arunachal Pradesh 0.0% 0

Assam 1.1% 6

Bihar 6.7% 37

Chhattisgarh 0.9% 5

Goa 0.0% 0

Gujarat 8.7% 48

Haryana 0.9% 5

Himachal Pradesh 0.2% 1

Jammu and Kashmir 0.4% 2

Jharkhand 1.8% 10

Karnataka 5.6% 31

Kerala 1.6% 9

Madhya Pradesh 6.2% 34

Maharashtra 4.0% 22

Manipur 0.2% 1

Meghalaya 0.2% 1

Mizoram 0.2% 1

Nagaland 0.0% 0

Odisha 2.4% 13

Punjab 0.7% 4

Rajasthan 12.9% 71

Sikkim 0.0% 0

Tamil Nadu 3.8% 21

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Tripura 0.0% 0

Uttar Pradesh 20.8% 114

Uttarakhand 2.4% 13

West Bengal 6.7% 37

Andaman and Nicobar Islands 0.2% 1

Chandigarh 1.3% 7

Dadra and Nagar Haveli 0.0% 0

Daman and Diu 0.0% 0

Lakshadweep 0.2% 1

Delhi NCR 7.1% 39

Puducherry 0.0% 0


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9. Are your parents conversant with English?

Yes NoRating Count

Father 89.6% (489) 10.4% (57) 546

Mother 72.8% (396) 27.2% (148) 544


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10. Which professional category does your father fall into?

Response

PercentResponse

Count

Academic (Teachers/Professors, etc.)

3.5% 19

Agriculture 2.0% 11

Business 21.7% 119

Civil services (IAS/IPS/IFS/IRS, etc.)

10.7% 59

Other governmental services 27.0% 148

Defence 3.8% 21

Homemaker 0.5% 3

Journalism/Media 0.2% 1

Scientist 0.7% 4

Legal 6.9% 38

Medical 8.0% 44


14.9% 82


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11. Which professional category does your mother fall into?

Response

PercentResponse

Count

Academic (Teachers/Professors, etc.)

17.5% 96

Agriculture 0.7% 4

Business 4.2% 23

Civil services (IAS/IPS/IFS/IRS, etc.)

2.0% 11

Other governmental services 7.1% 39

Defence 0.0% 0

Homemaker 48.1% 264

Journalism/Media 1.3% 7

Scientist 0.7% 4

Legal 2.4% 13

Medical 7.8% 43


8.2% 45


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12. What was the medium of instruction in your 12th standard

Response

PercentResponse

Count

English 97.2% 527

Hindi 2.0% 11

Other Vernacular 0.7% 4


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13. From which institute did you clear your 10+2?

Response

PercentResponse

Count

ISC 19.6% 106

CBSE 61.8% 335

State Board 17.2% 93

Open School 1.5% 8


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14. Your 12th standard school/pre-University college was situated in what type of area

Response

PercentResponse

Count

Rural 3.1% 17

Semi-urban 10.3% 56

Urban 86.5% 469


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15. Your 10th standard school/pre-University college was situated in what type of area

Response

PercentResponse

Count

Rural 4.1% 22

Semi-urban 11.3% 61

Urban 84.7% 459


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16. Which subject stream did you study in your 12th standard?

Response

PercentResponse

Count

Arts 12.5% 68

Commerce 36.7% 199

Science 50.0% 271


0.7% 4


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17. What is the percentage you acquired in your 12th standard examination?

Response

PercentResponse

Count

Above 90% 33.0% 179

80% - 90% 35.4% 192

70% - 80% 18.6% 101

60% - 70% 9.0% 49

50% - 60% 2.8% 15

40% - 50% 0.7% 4

Below 40% 0.4% 2


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18. Annual family income

Response

PercentResponse

Count

Below ₹ 50,000 1.5% 8

From ₹ 50,000 to ₹ 1,00,000 3.9% 21

From ₹ 1,00,000 to ₹ 3,00,000 11.2% 60

From ₹₹₹₹ 3,00,000 to ₹₹₹₹ 7,00,000 29.8% 160

From ₹ 7,00,000 to ₹ 14,00,000 29.4% 158

Above ₹ 14,00,000 24.2% 130


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19. Who is funding your legal education?

Response

PercentResponse

Count

Parents 89.2% 479

Relatives 1.1% 6

Bank loan 6.0% 32

Scholarship 1.5% 8

Sponsorship 0.7% 4


1.5% 8


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20. Will you be looking for some part time job in law school to cover some of your expenses?

Response

PercentResponse

Count

Yes 34.2% 181

No 65.8% 349


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21. Have you applied or are you in the process of applying for any scholarship offered by either goverment or private entities or offered by the university?

Response

PercentResponse

Count

No 91.6% 492

Yes (please specify)

8.4% 45


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22. If your education is not being funded by any bank, trust or scholarship, then please skip this question. If your education expenses come from a bank loan or education trust or scholarships, then please provide further details, for eg name of the bank, trust or scholarship scheme.

Response

Count

54


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23. If you have not applied for or not studying on a bank loan then please skip this question. If you are on a bank loan or have applied for one, what is the rate of interest being charged by the bank? Please also fill up other details such as, whether it is simple or compound interest. What is the time period within which the loan should be paid off, after the completion of legal education etc.

Response

Count

29



24. If you have not applied for or studying on a loan, then please skip. Does the loan cover your other expenses like books, laptop besides the tuition fees?

Response

PercentResponse

Count

Yes 31.1% 14

No 68.9% 31



25. If you have not applied for or studying on a bank loan then please skip this question. Did you you have to provide any collateral for bank loan?

Response

PercentResponse

Count

Yes 34.1% 14

No 65.9% 27



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26. Did you take coaching for CLAT?

Response

PercentResponse

Count

Yes 78.1% 414

No, studied by myself 20.4% 108

Wanted to, but could not afford it 1.5% 8


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27. In case you took coaching, for how many months did you prepare for CLAT?

Response

PercentResponse

Count

One month crash course after Board exams

37.5% 166

Six months 9.0% 40

One year course while studying in Class 12

19.4% 86

Two year course while studying in Class 11 and 12

8.6% 38

Dropped a year after Board Exams to prepare for CLAT

25.5% 113



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28. How difficult was the CLAT exam ?

Response

PercentResponse

Count

Tough 10.0% 53

Easy 20.0% 106

Moderate 70.0% 371


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29. Do you think that specialized coaching is necessary to crack CLAT?

Response

PercentResponse

Count

Yes 50.0% 265

No 50.0% 265


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30. In which subject in CLAT did you face the most difficulty?

Response

PercentResponse

Count

Mathematics 21.5% 114

Legal reasoning 11.3% 60

Logical reasoning 6.8% 36

Current Affairs 15.5% 82

Static GK 36.2% 192

English 8.7% 46


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31. Did you get the expected result in CLAT?

Response

PercentResponse

Count

Yes 76.2% 404

No (please specify what went wrong)

23.8% 126


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32. Did you find problems like lack of resources during your CLAT preparation?

Response

PercentResponse

Count

Yes 14.3% 76

No 85.7% 454


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33. Given the several glitches in the conduct of CLAT exam in the last few years, do you think there is a need for establishing a permanent CLAT body which will standardize the process of conducting the examination and the syllabus?

Response

PercentResponse

Count

Yes 92.5% 490

No 7.5% 40


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34. How did you hear about CLAT?

Response

PercentResponse

Count

Family 44.5% 233

Friends 31.1% 163

Teachers 4.2% 22

Career counselling 8.8% 46

Advertisement by CLAT coaching centres

6.3% 33


5.2% 27


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35. What are your reasons for taking up law as a career?

Response

PercentResponse

Count

Parental compulsion 5.2% 27

Accidental/just got into it 33.0% 173

No other choice (could not make it to engineering or medicine)

5.5% 29

By choice (specify reason for choice)

56.3% 295


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36. Were your parents supportive of your desire to join law school?

Response

PercentResponse

Count

Yes 88.0% 461

No 0.8% 4

No initially, but later they supported 11.3% 59


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37. Are your friends or close relatives associated with any legal profession some way?

Response

PercentResponse

Count

Yes 42.4% 222

No 57.6% 302


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38. What do you see yourself doing after law school?

Response

PercentResponse

Count

Have not yet thought about it 31.9% 167

Join a law firm 12.6% 66

Join a company 4.8% 25

Join a public sector organisation 1.1% 6

Join an international organization/NGO

4.0% 21

Litigation 9.0% 47

Start a new entity/Entrepreneurship 2.5% 13

Prepare for civil/judicial services 21.4% 112

Higher studies/post graduation in Law

8.8% 46

Post graduation in business management, policy or other non-

law subject2.7% 14

Entering academia/research 1.3% 7


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39. Did you ever face any problem “fitting in” into law school owing to your background (social, economic, cultural)?

Response

PercentResponse

Count

No 87.6% 458

If yes, please specify

12.4% 65


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40. Did you ever face any kind of harassment, ethnic or racial abuse because of your background, including your lack of adequate English conversational skills or dressing sense, at law school?

Response

PercentResponse

Count

Yes 7.3% 38

No 92.7% 485


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41. Do you find it difficult to communicate with your peers?

Response

PercentResponse

Count

Yes 8.8% 46

No 91.2% 477


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42. What immediate changes would you like at the law schools?

Response

PercentResponse

Count

More understanding classmates and students

14.3% 75

Better faculty 57.6% 301

Better infrastructure 14.9% 78

Less complicated rules 13.2% 69


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