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Brazilian eight-year old passes law school entrance exam
By M&C Bizarre Mar 8, 2008, 17:27 GMT
The Guardian reports that a Brazilian boy, age eight, has passed the entrance exam to law school.
Are the Brazilian standards really low, or is the kid really smart?
Brazil's Bar Association said the achievement of Joao Victor Portellinha is indicative of the low standards of some of Brazil's law schools.
"If this is confirmed, the Education Ministry should immediately intervene ... to investigate the circumstances of this case," said the association's president in Goias state, Miguel Angelo Cancado.
The child, Joao Victor is still in fifth grade, two levels ahead of normal for his age, but his mother says, "He is a regular boy," she told the Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper. "He is very dedicated, likes to read and study, but he has fun and makes friends."
The Universidade Paulista, a multi-campus private university, said yesterday that the boy would not be enrolling any time soon: he still has to graduate from high school.
"My dream is to be a federal judge," the boy said, according to Globo TV's Web site. "So I decided to take the test to see how I would do ... it was easy. I studied a week before the test."
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