Jamia from the perspective of a fresher

Law has always fascinated me. Jamia is a well-reputed university. Getting in Jamia is the dream of many. According to the NIRF ranking, Jamia hold 5th position as a law University. But the teaching technique of jamia needs a big improvement. We are only taught with a theoretical approach and not in a practical more useful manner. Theories won't be helping us in courts. We need real-life applications to understand our current legal system and its circumstances. Since all the students are competitive in nature because we all have come via entrances that itself provide rooms for improvement and healthy competition. There is no such extra efforts from the faculty side. Teachers should focus more on case-based studies, practices, classroom debates and discussions so that we don't fumble in the real world when we are met with such situations. If a student has thoroughly prepared for the exams they will pass with flying colours. But there is a shortage of guidance from teachers regarding how to study

The tuition fee of jamia is relatively lower as it is a central university but there are two batches of every course one is evening aka self finance batch and the another one a morning batch aka regular batch. So the fee of self finance students are higher than that of regular students but the increase is not that significant so overall its fine. There is no extra charges. Everything is included in that fee only. We have been provided with Reliance scholarship program for undergraduates on like our very first day. There were some credentials like annual income of the family should be 10 lakh per annum. Apart from that we were also introduced to Aajmi scholarship.

As a law student in jamia, we have a huge shortage of annual and technical festivals. As I have said their main focus is on academics so we barely enjoy any fest or annual functions. Of course there are lot of debates and moot court competitions held in jamia on monthly basis with a generous gap of one or two months. The range of books and journals are rich in jamia's library. There accessibility is also easy you just have to show your student ID card and you will be allowed entry. Jamia has its own sports complex where matches and competitions are regularly held but no such thing happens in our faculty. Hostels do have their own sports competitions held every year and thats actually fun to attend but non-hostelors are not allowed. There are many committees and clubs but unfortunately most of them are inactive. In my facult only the debating society is active.

The entrance test for JMI B.A.LLB was comparatively easier if we compare it with clat. But since there are so many students for the course, that makes the competition tough and cut off high. Also the number of seats are very limited. So getting into jamia law can be consider as an achievement. The process of regustration is quite easy as everything is available on Jamia's official site. Students should regularly check the site for any valuable information. Jamia is very generous when it comes to reservation. There are reservations for Muslim OBC,muslim women,kashmiri migrants,pwd and a very bare 5% reservation for internal students.

First of all, the student to faculty ratio is inadequate. We have been assigned with a particular teacher for a particular subject in which they excel. But it is not sufficient. We have waited for like one month to get our economics teacher and because of that we were burdened with syllabus. The faculty memebers are well qualified, there is no doubt in that. But according to me and what I have witnessed, they lack the art of teaching. I mean there are many people with immense amount of knowledge but not everyone can be a teacher. Teaching is linked with both experience and expertise. The teachers are very approachable. We often found ourseleves taking solace in our teachers at the time of need. They are helpful in that way. Our subject counsellor is usually crowded with students and he tried to solve the problems of everyone to his best abilities. So approachbility is a 10/10.