Do you need to take the postgraduate entrance examination to be a lawyer?

No, you can be a lawyer with a legal professional qualification certificate.

Legal professional qualification examination Judges, prosecutors, lawyers, notaries, legal advisers, arbitrators (law) and government departments engaged in administrative punishment decision review, administrative reconsideration and administrative adjudication shall pass the legal professional qualification examination.

Those who pass the examination shall be issued with relevant certificates by the Ministry of Justice, and may work as practicing lawyers, judges, prosecutors and notaries.

Extended data:

The objective examination of the national unified legal professional qualification examination is generally held on the third weekend of September every year, and the annual pass rate of the national judicial examination is generally about 10% of the national candidates.

The main contents of the legal professional qualification examination include: theoretical law, applied law, current legal provisions, legal practice and legal professional ethics. The legal professional qualification examination implements national unified proposition and marking, and the results are announced by the Ministry of Justice of the People's Republic of China.

Class A: It is suitable for candidates who have registered for a bachelor's degree or above, and whose test scores are above 180 and above 108.

Class C: It is applicable to candidates who belong to areas with relaxed academic qualifications and whose test scores have reached the qualified scores in the relaxed areas, and candidates who really need to use minority languages to take care of litigation in ethnic areas.

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