How to prepare for the Watson Glaser test and BCAT critical thinking appraisal tests, and the deciding role they play in your legal career. Increasingly, law firms are using critical thinking tests as ...

The Bar Course Aptitude Test (BCAT) has been scrapped nearly a decade after its introduction. The test was introduced in introduced in 2013 as a way to filter out aspiring barristers with little hope ...

All aspiring barristers will have to pass a £150 aptitude test from April this year, with the Bar Standards Board (BSB) yesterday (20 February) confirming its formal introduction following a lengthy ...

The bar is considering whether to scrap a student aptitude test that weeds out fewer than 1% of candidates, after concluding that it is ‘not operating as an effective filter’. The Bar Course Aptitude ...

The bar is set to scrap a much-criticised student aptitude test because it has not been operating as an effective filter to the profession’s formal training course. The Bar Course Aptitude Test (BCAT) ...