Tuesday, March 13, 2007
to yonanz:
i dun have any substantive advice, but tot that i could share my own experience with you.
in my year i had to send an essay on "why i wanna study law at nus" before going for the interview and the written test.
for the interview the profs (there were 2) asked me for the reason i chose law. (SMU was not available yet, so the question may now be "why law at nus") and they referred to my essay. they also asked why engineering was my second choice. (yep they know) and asked me for a social issue to discuss... with that i plunged into a discussion about errant lawyers making off with their clients' money. then they asked me what area of law i was potentially interested in, and they finished off by asking me "would you defend someone whom you know committed a crime, knowing he would get away scot-free".
(gosh i cant believe i actually remember)
as for the written test i received a hypothetical to discuss. a hypothetical is a essentially a fake case. as i had no knowledge of the law yet, my arguments were mostly those u would find in a GP essay. the case was basically of a final-year medical student who negligently killed a man by performing CPR on him. the man had been saved out of a swimming pool from drowning and was unconscious. so the question was whether the medical student should be held liable for causing the man's death. (i argued for the med student)
so yup these were my experiences, hope they help. =)
i dun have any substantive advice, but tot that i could share my own experience with you.
in my year i had to send an essay on "why i wanna study law at nus" before going for the interview and the written test.
for the interview the profs (there were 2) asked me for the reason i chose law. (SMU was not available yet, so the question may now be "why law at nus") and they referred to my essay. they also asked why engineering was my second choice. (yep they know) and asked me for a social issue to discuss... with that i plunged into a discussion about errant lawyers making off with their clients' money. then they asked me what area of law i was potentially interested in, and they finished off by asking me "would you defend someone whom you know committed a crime, knowing he would get away scot-free".
(gosh i cant believe i actually remember)
as for the written test i received a hypothetical to discuss. a hypothetical is a essentially a fake case. as i had no knowledge of the law yet, my arguments were mostly those u would find in a GP essay. the case was basically of a final-year medical student who negligently killed a man by performing CPR on him. the man had been saved out of a swimming pool from drowning and was unconscious. so the question was whether the medical student should be held liable for causing the man's death. (i argued for the med student)
so yup these were my experiences, hope they help. =)