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A new way to do practice online psychometric tests by law students for legal recruitment
Launched in 2011, ‘Legal Recruit’ is an innovative, totally independent, platform for law students to practice online psychometric tests. These tests are routinely provided by SHL Direct and Kenexa to assist in the recruitment of suitable trainees for training contracts and vacation placements in City law firms. ‘Legal Recruit’ only contains unique, original learning material, not available from any learning provider.
This platform therefore will be ideal for any student who needs to complete a psychometric test for his or her own application. It’s usually expected that a candidate scores in a high percentile, and often firms will not call students who do not meet a minimum standard of performance. On the ‘Legal Recruit’, learners receive an immediate report on their performance, included a detailed breakdown of where they did well on individual items and where they got the answer wrong.
The platform offers students a chance to do 15 full-length verbal reasoning tests and 4 situational judgement tests, for £10. However, there is much free material on the site, including a chance to do a practice online verbal reasoning test for free. 76 graduates have so far taken the test and the average score is 21.61. There are lots of free factsheets, including an introduction to psychometric tests, an introduction to verbal reasoning tests, an introduction to situational judgement tests, visual impairments and reading difficulties, how to write a cover sheet, and how to complete the online application form, and lots of exclusive videos too. We hope to launch a numerical reasoning part of the website shortly.
We were very happy when, last month, the ‘Legal Recruit’ was chosen by the Queen Mary and Westfield College (University of London) Law Students’ Union mock ‘assessment day’, for practice by their law students in verbal reasoning and situational judgement tests. This is excellent co-operation between two active law student groups.
The feedback for ‘Legal Recruit’ has been extremely promising, including from current trainees and law students. There is a free book of 150 verbal reasoning questions that anyone can download for free, also containing original unique specimen test material, and 2 books for comprehensive practice at verbal reasoning and situational judgement tests, priced extremely competitively at £7.5o each.
The link to Legal Recruit is here.
It is important to note that, whilst the website is entirely the intellectual property of ‘Legal Recruit’ (an initiative by students in the BPP Legal Awareness Society run by BPP students for BPP students), this project including product is absolutely nothing o do with BPP. The BPP Legal Awareness Society strives to explain the competitive advantage of businesses through law, and to explain compliance with the law in achieving business strategy.
Two 'Legal Recruit' books on online tests for law students, pub date 1 Nov 2011
It is important to note that, whilst ‘Legal Recruit’ is an important key initiative from the BPP Legal Awareness Society to encourage a business culture in law, ‘Legal Recruit’ is absolutely nothing to do with BPP media, nor indeed represents any official teaching or guidance from BPP.
Book 1 – Practical verbal reasoning questions for law students (111 pages)
This book has carefully designed verbal reasoning questions, of the ‘True’, ‘False’, or ‘Cannot Say’ variety. Two questions follow each of the passages together with full explanations, and reading passages cover a variety of subjects, including biology, business, economics, education, engineering, environment, geography, geology, health and safety, human relations, medicine, modern languages, physics, technology, and transport. Readers of this title will benefit from the general explanation as to how to do these tests, and from the worked examples, such that they feel much more comfortable when they come to do such tests for real for training contract or vacation placement applications. The book will also be also of interest for applicants to corporates who use these tests for recruitment purposes. This title has a publication date of 1 November 2011, and is only available to download for £7.50 from the Legal Recruit website.
Book 2 – Practical situational judgements questions for law students (77 pages)
This book has carefully-designed questions in six competences commonly assessed in situational judgement tests. Situational judgement tests are used by some law firms to ascertain the suitability of a law student for a training contract. These competences are problem solving, proactive attitude, commitment to excellence, communication and negotiation, teamwork, and attention-to-detail and leadership. The book will also be also of interest for applicants to corporates who use these tests for recruitment purposes. Getting focused on these competences will help law students to understand the relevance of these skills to recruitment and their general professional life. This title has a publication date of 1 November 2011, and is only available to download for £7.50 from the Legal Recruit website.
