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Plume - Exam Rubric

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01/02/2012

With an ethics mock exam looming, and the fear beginning to set in, I thought I would use the spare(!) time that I have to ask some of the questions I have been longing to have answered this term. If anyone has the answers, go to the head of the class.

Instructions

FOUR questions set.

You must answer ALL questions.

1. How long, (answers to the nearest minute, hour, day, year please) does it take the average BPTC student to understand how to work the pupillage portal?
a) Two minutes;
b) Two hours;
c) Two days;
d) Many students still struggle to get their heads around this complicated system. If only it wouldn’t keep timing out.

2. In a recent lecture on careers, John was told that all pupillage providers look to take on ‘outstanding’ candidates. But what does outstanding actually mean for the purposes of a pupillage application? Is it:
a) Someone who has a first/distinction/ honours in every academic exercise they have completed;
b) Someone who has had the foresight to make as many contacts at the Bar as possible;
c) Someone who competes in external law competitions and volunteers with a local charity;
d) All of the above;
e) None of the above. You simply have to have that elusive quality - ‘something different’.

3. With the BPTC mock exams beginning in a week, nine weeks to the first ‘real’ exam (and counting) what is the maximum revision:life ratio that a student can endure before they become a nervous wreck, sitting in the library with a book open on their head, hoping that by some miracle the whole of Archbold will be absorbed through diffusion?
a) 3:4 days a week;
b) 5:2 days a week;
c) 6:1 days a week;
d) Life? What life?

4. Jane is a BPTC student looking for pupillage in the UK. If she goes to several networking events over the next six months and switches to watching Question Time (instead of numerous re-runs of Friends) how much more likely is she to obtain:
a) An interview;
b) A pupillage;
Discuss.

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