Patna University has published the roster-based merit list for admission to the three-year LL.B. programme, and the word that matters most in the notice is ‘provisionally’. Every name in the list is selected subject to fulfilling the eligibility criteria — the list is the basis on which candidates are called for counselling. That confirmation happens only when the candidate’s documents and eligibility are verified at counselling. The list is prepared on the roster system, which is why each entry carries a roster rank and a roster point category alongside the candidate’s own category. Two candidates with the same entrance score can therefore sit at different roster positions, because the roster point — not the raw score alone — fixes the order of allotment. One feature of the scoring needs no guesswork: the merit list shows two mark columns. The first is the entrance examination score; the second is the weightage given to Patna University graduates, up to 10 marks. A candidate marked ‘X’ in that column received no weightage, while a PU graduate received the full 10. The final merit is the sum of the two. Candidates should therefore read their own row carefully — entrance marks, weightage, final marks, roster rank and roster point — and report for counselling as per the university’s notified schedule.

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