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Help from Kolkata, or at least India?
Hi. I'm from Kolkata in India. I'm 14 years old and I have a very simple- but complicated at the same time- problem.
See, school sucks. It's even worse than most schools(obviously I'd think that, lol). Anyway, if you guys in North America or Europe think it's bad, you really have no idea. Not sure if anyone's from India but they'll testify. Anyway. My problem.
I want to unschool. Homeschool, to be exact. My career goal is to take the CLAT(people will know) and go to a law school and become a lawyer abroad. I have a couple questions with that. Is that even possible with homeschooling? If so, how? Thanks.
Assuming it's possible. How do I convince my parents to do it? They're usually quite supportive, but I see their side- I really have to sledge through the remaining years of school(which I'm fairly sure I really can't, considering the pressure) unless there's an alternative way, or my future will be shot.
I hope there's a way. Indians, and hopefully Kolkatans, any ideas? Thankls.
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As long as you can still get into law school, I don't see why not. No idea how that works in India though. Do you want to do law school abroad as well, or do that while in India? I can't find much info on law schools in India, but the ones from the UK actually have websites and stuff that I can find. 
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That's what I'm asking, can I take the centralised law school test(CLAT) while being homeschooled?
Also, I'm open to both doing undergraduate and graduate abroad or doing one here and one abroad.
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http://clat.ac.in/contact.aspx
Contact people in charge of CLAT with your questions and they should be able to give you some better answers.
(01-10-2012 02:15 PM)Maelstrom Wrote: Efs, your nihilism is beautiful.
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Thanks, but I don't think they have any facilities for homeschooled people. Emailed them and am expecting a reply. Saying "no".
This is one of those times when I wish I'd been born in North America.
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(03-10-2012 10:53 PM)Raddaya Wrote: Thanks, but I don't think they have any facilities for homeschooled people. Emailed them and am expecting a reply. Saying "no".
This is one of those times when I wish I'd been born in North America.
Yeah I doubt it to, unfortunately. Can you push yourself through a few more years of school?
I have 2 years left, and I actually need to get high scores, so in Australia it's not much easier.
(01-10-2012 02:15 PM)Maelstrom Wrote: Efs, your nihilism is beautiful.
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I need to get reasonably high scores too. I count myself as having this year and the next grade left, since after that I actually get to choose my subjects and it's not as bad.
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