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This blog I want to
talk about when I tried to get admitted to Law school of Thailand. Now I’ve
just graduated a bachelor’s degree in Law from Thammasat University where is
the second university of Thailand. Certainly, there were a lot of Thai history
happened here especially, calling for democracy by students in 1973.
Thammasat University used
to be place for assembling of students who wanted to protest military’s power. Unfortunately,
lots of them were killed here. Some were shot. Some were punished pitilessly by
military. If you want to know more about it, I suggest you search ‘The popular
uprising of 14 October 1973’.
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“Why did I want to
study law school here?”
When I was 14 years
old, I met ‘Judge’ who is boss’s husband of my mother. He made me got
inspiration to be judge. I told my mom that I want to be like him. My mom
suggested me that I had to study law if I wanted to be like him. After that, I
intended to study law. I searched on internet for finding good law school in
Thailand. Most people commented that there were 3 famous law schools in
Thailand such as Chulalongkorn University, Ramkamhang University and Thammasat
University.
I was interested in
Thammasat University because I heard a lot of their history and watched a lot of
their news about expression of Thai politics. I thought it would be great if I could
be student of them.
After I started to be
high school’s student, I took a lot of extra tutorial classes because I knew
that admission to good and famous university is hard and high competitive. It
might be not enough if I attended only classes in high school. Most high school
students thought like me. On weekend you can see a large amount of students
carrying some course books walking around Siam Square where is teenager center and
also full of extra tutorial schools.
For admission to
bachelor’s degree, most universities give us 2 ways such as taking their own
exam directly or taking center admission exam.
I heard students who
want to study in Law school of USA have to graduate with a bachelor’s degree in
any field before getting admitted to Law school but in Thailand after
graduating high school we can take an admission exam to Law school at once.
When I tried to get
admitted to Law school of Thammasat University.
First, I took their own
exam directly. I had to took exam of SAT, Legal aptitude, English , Writing
essay and shortening an article. It was very hard for me. Also, there were
about 5,000 candidates who took this exam and this law school could admit only
300 students for candidates who took this exam. Certainly, I FAILED!!!
For The center
admission exam , Every students who want
to study bachelor’s degree in Public university have to take this exam. Main
subjects we had to take exam such as Science , Math , English , Thai , Social
science and public health.
For Public health, I’m
not sure if it is called by this name. This exam is about Sport, house work and
health education. That was very crazy exam for me. Some questions ask us by
funny and nonsense question. Such as
Q. If your friends want to have sex, What should you suggest them for helping them to reduce this
mood?
A: let them do
housework
B: let them play
football.
C and D Bla Bla I
forgot another choice.
And the answer is let
them play football.
I’ve never known
before!!
Or , Q: What’s type
of pattern cloth should you use for tablecloth at home?
Who know the best
answer? It doesn’t depend on personal preference, does it?
Besides main subjects,
we had to take some elective subject exam. Most of them are proficient subjects
such as proficient of third language ( French,German,Chinese and Japanese),
teacher , architecture or engineer etc.
I chose Japanese even
that day I knew a bit of Japanese. I needed to guess almost of them.
Surprisingly, I got over half of full score.
After taking
admission exam and getting score’s result, we had to turn the score in and
choose 4 ranking that want to be admitted.
Even if my score wasn’t
very good, I chose Law school of Thammasat University for first position and
another positions I chose Law school of Chulalongkorn University and Political
science school.
After that , It was
time to be crazy. I couldn’t think anything except admission’s result.
Finally, Admission’s
result was announced. I got admitted from Law school of Thammasat University.
The minute I saw the
result I screamed loudly of my house. My neighbors still could hear me. I was
so excited. I could be Law student!!
However, after
getting admitted from this law school that not easy as I thought. I gave it
up while I was studying law a lot.
Actually, I want to
tell about my life in this law school in this article but it’s too long to
write in the same page. I will write them in next article soon.
Thanks for reading!!.
