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Kings inns Entrance Exam 2017

  • 19-07-2015 3:26pm
    #1
    LawMedLaw
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    Hi all, I finished my LLB and LLM in 2010 and 2011 respectively but ended up in medicine which is great. For personal development, I plan to undertake the entrance exam in 2017 and do the Barrister at law degree course. Any comments/advice are welcome.


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    johnnyskeleton
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    LawMedLaw wrote: »
    Hi all, I finished my LLB and LLM in 2010 and 2011 respectively but ended up in medicine which is great. For personal development, I plan to undertake the entrance exam in 2017 and do the Barrister at law degree course. Any comments/advice are welcome.

    it might be a lot to take on if youre working as a junior doctor while doing the inns part time if thats the plan.


  • #3
    LawMedLaw
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    johnnyskeleton wrote: »
    it might be a lot to take on if youre working as a junior doctor while doing the inns part time if thats the plan.

    True. I intend to focus on the course alone and do the 1 year program. How to succeed in the entrance exam in 2017 for someone who left college in 2011 would be rather challenging I'd imagine. Perhaps someone here could enlighten me about the difficulty of the exam. I still have past papers which I bought a few years back. Like I said, I am embarking on this for personal development with no intention of working as a barrister. It might sound crazy because it actually is... I will be 35 starting if all goes according to plan.


  • #4
    johnnyskeleton
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    LawMedLaw wrote: »
    True. I intend to focus on the course alone and do the 1 year program. How to succeed in the entrance exam in 2017 for someone who left college in 2011 would be rather challenging I'd imagine. Perhaps someone here could enlighten me about the difficulty of the exam. I still have past papers which I bought a few years back. Like I said, I am embarking on this for personal development with no intention of working as a barrister. It might sound crazy because it actually is... I will be 35 starting if all goes according to plan.

    They are probably as hard as college exams but five in a row in the same week in fairly comprehensive areas of law aint easy. you could give them a bash this septemeber and see how you get on and if you fail you know the standard and if you pass i think you can defer for a year


  • #5
    hullaballoo
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    There are prep course available as well but these are unnecessary if you had no problems with the syllabus for each subject at undergraduate level. The KI entrance exams are more or less the same level as undergrad exams.

    It is worth considering what value the course will actually give you, though. I cannot imagine it will necessarily open up career options to a medical doctor (though I have been wrong before.) It's quite a procedure-focussed course that assumes you already know the law.

    It's a very expensive course to do if it's simply for personal development, where it is next to useless. It's obviously invaluable if you want to practise as a barrister. It's valuable if you work for the civil service because for some reason, they attach significance to the degree, as do AGS. I'm just not sure how much I developed personally as a result of the course.


  • #6
    LawMedLaw
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    Coming from a law background and into medicine, areas like medical ethics, medical negligence, patient consent, persistent vegetative state and law etc... are subjects that I find interesting. I am actually writing a dissertation proposal to be presented to my medical ethics professor. I was thinking that being called to the bar would help my career; I might lecture legal medicine. I have no doubt that the entrance exam and indeed the course will be intense. The prep course I think would be a good idea and also plenty of time (10 months) of consistent preparation.

    Thanks all for your response, I'd take everything on board.


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  • #7
    swervring
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    LawMedLaw wrote: »
    How to succeed in the entrance exam in 2017 for someone who left college in 2011 would be rather challenging I'd imagine. Perhaps someone here could enlighten me about the difficulty of the exam. .. It might sound crazy because it actually is... I will be 35 starting if all goes according to plan.

    It is very do-able to pass the Entrance Exams that long after having finished college - I completed my LLB in 2005 and sat and passed the entrance exams in 2012. I got past papers and sets of manuals from the revision courses and studied for the months leading up to the exams. I did the two year modular degree and was called to the Bar last July.
    I would also point out that starting later is perfectly normal for the BL degree - while the majority of older students would be on the modular degree (80% of whom tend to be over 30 I would estimate) you will by no means be the oldest in your class!


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