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Kaplan gets tough on students with first LPC admissions test

I'm with Anonymous @ 12.28. This is a marketing ruse pure and simple. Kaplan's "rigorous" BPTC test allowed them to make offers to 72 of the 83 applicants who made it past the paper sift. Most of the sifting was done on the basis of the written applications, not the selection centre. This says to me that there's not much to be added to what you can find out from a paper application. The bigger problem is that GDL/LPC/BPTC providers' target class size is too big. Too many people are enrolling relative to the number of training contracts and pupillages available. If each provider took half the number of students, they could conduct a more rigorous paper sift (paying attention to the matters that firms/sets look for: academic achievement, extra curriculars etc.). Then there would not be so many people paying money needlessly.

13-Oct-2010

3:55 pm