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Jan 16, '07 8:32 AM
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Link: http://graduates.lovells.com/nextstep/interactivetests.shtml

In the middle of applying for vacation scheme placements for the summer, it was quite nice to find this distracting little mental test. I did pretty badly the first time, but I attribute part of that to being frazzled by the sheer number of forms I'd been filling out.

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halfsure wrote on Jan 16, '07

Bah!

petersealy wrote on Jan 16, '07

71% Guess I'm just not that critical...

ihatecornflakes wrote on Jan 16, '07

84%. I think I got caught up in my prejudices.

bones23 wrote on Jan 16, '07

I got 71% too, though I didn't get what this told me about myself / my ability to do whatever it was they were testing

obfuscatedhonesty wrote on Jan 16, '07

Depends what you got wrong I guess. I had most trouble with the inferences, but I was rushing those because it doesn't say how many questions you have to answer in the time

jinbish wrote on Jan 17, '07

I did really bad. So bad, I am not even going to say what percentage I got.

To be fair - I've done these tests before as part of general psychometric testing. Now I know why I didn't get those bloody jobs.

Strangely, I see myself as someone capable of critical and logical thinking. Looks like I might have got that wrong too. Thank goodness for my supreme confidence, ignorance to reality and ability to dismiss criticism out-of-hand!

zentom wrote on Jan 17, '07

Yay! I did abysmally too - I am however in disagreement with the results of the test - displaying (in my mind at least) a level of critical thinking far and above the capabilities this test itself is able to determine.

ihatecornflakes wrote on Jan 17, '07

I read this on the Lovells website:

Applicants to Lovells need the right personality as well as the right qualifications.
You will be happy working in a team yet capable of, and used to, independent action. You will demonstrate ability and desire for lateral thinking and be capable of close attention to detail. Above all, you will have a single-minded ambition to succeed in a top law firm.

As a clerk in a major law firm? Yeah, right!

jinbish wrote on Jan 17, '07

ihatecornflakes said

you will have a single-minded ambition to succeed in a top law firm.

As a clerk in a major law firm? Yeah, right!

Perhaps it should read along the lines of:

"You will show single-minded ambition while pressing your face hard against the glass ceiling..."

ihatecornflakes wrote on Jan 17, '07

You'd be surprised just how low that glass ceiling will be if you start showing signs of lateral thinking in a law firm.

petersealy wrote on Jan 17, '07

Which story reminds me of a story a colleague likes to tell about a Toronto lawyer who liked to show off the armor glass window in his high level office by running at it and bouncing off. Until the day he didn't bounce off.

halfsure wrote on Jan 17, '07

… high fives all around …

ihatecornflakes wrote on Jan 17, '07

The Toronto lawyer story is actually true. See Snopes article, below:

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/window.asp

petersealy wrote on Jan 17, '07

Probably why he tells it every single time he meets someone in an office building. Sheesh.

ihatecornflakes wrote on Jan 17, '07

Was he there?

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