8-year-old boy passes Brazil law-school entrance exams/8jähriger Brasilianer darf Jura studieren
am 07.03.2008 von http://transblawg.eu
It may be easier to become a lawyer than a translator in Brazil, judging from this Guardian article:
Brazils lawyers have been shocked to find that a boy aged eight has managed to pass the entrance exam to law school.
The Bar Association said the achievement of Joao Victor Portellinha should be taken as a warning about the low standards of some of Brazils law schools.
Since he hasnt completed high school yet, he cant actually study.
My dream is to be a federal judge, the boy said, according to Globo TVs Web site. So I decided to take the test to see how I would do ... it was easy. I studied a week before the test.
I dont know whether this test is the only criterion used.
Apparently the Guardian had some space left, so the article concludes as follows:
As a former colony, Brazilian civil law is largely based on that of Portugal with statutes derived from the Romano-Germanic …
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