Law tops the career chart
LST-Chennai is starting a fresh batch in April immediately after the Plus-Two board exams. Phone: 42074970.
Go 92.5 FM, one of Mumbai's radio stations, recently conducted a poll to determine the most popular career option besides engineering and medicine after Plus-Two.
The list of possible options included hotel management, business management, fashion and so on. But the final poll results saw law coming in the lead. A clear pointer to students slowly realising the importance and power of legal education and the opportunity it throws up.
In the past 10 - 15 years, the quality of legal education has been changing dramatically inspired by world-class law schools such as the National Law School of India University (NLSIU) in Bangalore.
Its success has led to the emergence of other `national law schools' such as the National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS) in Kolkata and National Academy of Legal Studies and Research (NALSAR) in Hyderabad. Two relatively new entrants into the field are the National Law Institute University Bhopal and National Law University Jodhpur.
Alumni of these law schools, notably NLSIU, have excelled in diverse areas making a great career in the Supreme Court, various High Courts, top corporate law firms and business houses, and even multilateral agencies of the United Nations. The five-year law degree is truly versatile, its alumni note. The admissions examination for NUJS Kolkata happens end-January/early-February. But the rest of the colleges hold their entrance examinations around May. The entrance examinations are usually of around two hours duration and contain both objective and subjective type questions.
The subjects tested are: English, Analytical Reasoning (Logic), Legal Reasoning, General Knowledge (including legal awareness) and Mathematics.
Sachin Malhan of LST, a training organisation, says general and vocabulary require long-term preparation, but the others cannot be left till the day before. A good tutor can come in handy. "I can say that a good tutor can be the difference between success and failure in Maths, Logic, Legal Reasoning and parts of English.''
LST-Chennai is starting a fresh batch in April immediately after the Plus-Two board examinations.
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