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ENThe recognition's examination in the School of Magistrates will be organised in two phases and in between them there will be a test of the mental and psychological health.
I. The first phase of the admission exam.
The first phase will be a selective on. The mode selection system will be in written form and a public open procedure, associated with electronic evaluation of responses in the presence of candidates.
Application
· The candidate should have the identification documents with him.
· The materials for the tests will be provided by the School of Magistrates.
· Scanning equipment and electronic evaluation will be provided by the School of Magistrates.
· The test response papers will be fully sealed on the back
· T e identity is marked by the content of the response technique previously explained by the staff making the electronic evaluation. The name is read publicly to the participants, before scanning the response sheet of each participant.
· Duration of the test; 2 hours and 30 min.
· After the submission of papers, the sheet scanning and the electronic evaluation (scan-tron), in the presence of the participants, will be made.
Rule II
During the exam, the room will be under the supervision of an independent group of individuals. The students should not speak or give assistance to each others during the exam, for no reason.
· If such thing happens, then the test administrator immediately decides to expel the student from the examination room and declare the test invalid.
· If a student gets help from another student, both are disqualified.
· Monitors are persons not involved in the Albanian judicial system and not by profession a lawyer and professor of the School. They should be domestic and foreigners from the organizations the school had and is being in cooperative relations with them. If the monitors will notice any violation of the rules of the exam, they students leave the room immediately and notify the test administrator.
Rule III
The model of the ticket exam in the first phase will be organized in the form of questions with alternatives, where answers are so schematic without questions are given in a schematic manner, without words, according to the scan- tron technique application.
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• The exam will be held in the same room and will be evaluated electronically in the same room, in the presence of participants.
• Selection of testing exam from the fund of all prepared questions will be prepared by the candidates themselves, before the selection test and it is photocopied in their presence..
•The fund of the questions will be prepared by the School with the help of international institutions and will consist of at least 2000 questions in total for all areas of testing.
• The exam paper will be the same for all participants.
• The exam paper will be estimated maximally 100 questions/100 points
• The exam paper will be structured into nine sections with 10 questions / 1 point each, except the Albanian language, which will have 20 questions / 1 point each.
• exam papers of the first phase will consist of: 1) Intelligence Test (logic, geography, etc.), 2) International Relations - EU - Dr. Comparative History, 3) Language Albanian, 4) Psychology - Communication, 5) Ethics and conduct civic, 6)-Constitutional Human Rights - Administrative, 7) Family –Labor Law - Commercial, 8) Civil - Civil Procedure 9) Criminal - Criminal Procedure.
•The questions during the first phase questions will test knowledge of general and professional character
• In the second phase will pass those candidates who have collected no less than 60% of the points.
II. Testing associated with mental and psychological health ( see below "Rules of the Mental and Psychological Health " )
III. The second stage of the admission test
Rule I
In this stage only the winning candidates participating in the first phase would take part. The correction way of the test will be anonymous.
The candidate must have the identification document with them. Materials for the development of the competition will be provided by the school.
Application:
• The exam answer sheets will all be sealed. A small envelope will be distributed to all the candidates. It is a paper in which is written the name of the candidate.. The small envelope must not be closed until the delivery of the exam. The small envelope will be not closed until the moment it will be handed in. It will be closed in the presence of the exam administrator by verifying once more the identity of the competitor and it will be sealed by the person responsible, appointed by the exam administrator.
• The large envelope will be closed by the candidate and it should have inside 3 General Test papers and 7 Professional test papers. The envelope will be sealed by the person responsible.. The contents of each envelope are under the responsibility of the candidate appointed.
• The test papers missing in the envelope will be evaluated by the Commission with 0 points. The member of the Commission who the first finds the lack of the exam paper in inside the envelope, makes it public by holding a special minutes of the shortage, which is signed by all committee members.
• After examination the small envelope along with the large envelope, will be delivered in a set place.
• Name will not be written in any of the examination papers.
• Do not write on the stamp.
• 2 stamps are put on each envelope. Area occupied by the seals should be half on the bottom of the cover of the envelope and half on the bottom of the envelope, after the cover of the envelope.
• Do not leave blank spaces between the lines and do not use other tools (sheet, pens), in addition to those provided by the school. Competitors are not allowed to have his face covered, hold scarves or hats, sunglasses, during the exam. The use and maintenance of mobile phones and other devices is prohibited.
• Duration of exam: 4 hours
• After the test ends, the selection of the envelopes will be in the presence of candidates, then becomes their secretion.
• After submission of examination papers, the Department of the School will decide the number on the little envelope, as well as in the large envelope of each candidate. Only large envelope with the corresponding number, which contains the examination papers. will be made available to Examination Committee.
• Correction of the written exam will be done in a closed room (formal environment) within the premises of the School. Also, any member of the committee will be allowed to take her exam papers.
• For each application the candidate must request permission from the administrator of the competition.
Rule II
During the exam, the room will be under the supervision of an independent group of individuals.
The students should not speak or give assistance to the man - or another other during the exam, for no reason.
Application:
If such a thing happens, then the test administrator (Directorate) immediately decides to expel the student from the examination room and declare the test invalid.
If a student gets help from one of the two parties would therefore fail to qualify under
Monitors are persons who are neither in the Albanian judicial system nor not by profession a lawyer and professor of the School. They will be domestic and foreign representatives from organizations which had Magistrates School and cooperative relations. If the monitor will notice any violation of the rules of the exam, they will require students to leave the room immediately and notify the test administrator.
Rule III
During the exam, the students are not allowed to write or leave the name or even a small sign in the exam papers.(phrases or other expressions that makes that makes the easily to be identified:
• Writing all test all or a portion capitalized
• Emphasizing of words or phrases
• The use of names of persons participating
• Use of the names of the authors of texts
• Use the identification data associated with the candidate work, family, school, etc. that has followed.
• The introduction of materials other than the exam papers with answers
• Repeated use of the same expression that creates an identification
• Any sign that brings material or intellectual response identifying competitor
from other competitors.
In case of a correction, word or phrase will be inserted in brackets shall pass above a line under this model: (error).
Application: If the signs are different exam papers, they will be declared invalid and the applicant ineligible to compete.
Rule IV
At the end of the exam, all papers will be placed in a sealed box. Also small envelopes will be enclosed in a sealed box. The sealed boxes will be stored at the offices of our international partners.
Application
The box with the exam papers will be opened only in the days of correction in the presence of the examination commission. Also, the large envelopes with the corresponding numbers will be opened in the presence of the examination commission. After the announcement of the results, based on the secret number, the opening of the small envelopes with the names of will be done on: date-----------------time-------------, in the presence of the competitors in the premises of the school.
If the candidate after receiving the results has his objections, about the results, he or (she) has the right to verify his answers. When the candidate finds any mathematical inaccuracies or anything of a procedural character, verify it by (herself). When he notices any mathematician inexactness of procedural character, he submits a written complaint within three days of the declaration of the results. No direct confrontation session is allowed with the commission.
Rule V
The second stage of written examination, the professional test, will be conducted on a day to two (both judges and prosecutors), which contains the theoretical part of the areas of law laid down in the admission test program and practical part of the two cases judicial Practice
Application:
The exam paper is evaluated maximally with 350 points.
The theoretical part is evaluated with 350 points which divided; 50 points for the theoretical part of the civil law, criminal law, civil procedure and criminal procedure and 50 points to the theoretical part of the other branches of the law, such as constitutional law, administrative law.
Part of practical cases evaluated with 100 points, 50 points for each practical case.
Points of the General Test with the electronic evaluation should not be mixed with the points of the Professional Test in the entrance competition.
Rule VI
Repealed
The response of each exam test must be given in a written form by the relevant member of the Commission, signed by him and delivered to the test administrator. Make public on the website a description of the summary of the exam paper, to exclude the possibility of not using its elements of the exams years later.
The Commission continues correction when the panel is complete without interruption. If the number of members in the hall of the correction is less than three members, the correction does not continue until the full number.
At the conclusion of each member identifies a correct answer twice the number of vacant places for competitors who have achieved the highest results in the (her) part. After that, the answer will be corrected by the method of crossed evaluation. at least by another member of the committee. This is done to avoid possible errors in evaluation and meetings points.
Application:
Each envelope will have to answer or 7 (seven) parts that will be corrected respectively by the members of the committee appointed by the School Board.
If the committee member who opens the first envelope with answers finds that the envelope is deficient in the number of theses answers, he makes it public immediately to the administrators of Commission exam, because at the end of the exam will be kept the minutes of the response which are absent physically.
The envelope with answers is closed by them, so the competitor is responsible for the fault..
Committee members identify points on each answer paper, notes or mistakes of the candidates, so that each to read the evaluated answers, to be clear of the reasons they have got the results..
Any member of the commission, as soon as he opens the envelope, in case he finds, obvious signs or additional materials, that according to the Rule III, which identify the competitor, they instantly notify other members of the committee holding minutes for the disqualification of a competitor and sheets with appropriate responses are not corrected. The result of this competitor entered in the final zero point.
If the committee finds a member of identifying marks after the correction process has started, it immediately informs the other members of the committee and requires termination of correction. If the Commission determines that all responses are identified with those of other competitors, the competitor disqualified by keeping a minutes of his disqualification and his scores obtained up to that moment removed / deleted from the answer sheets. The result of this competitor is marked zero point.
In any case the minute of disqualifying describes the found identified mark, as well as the opinion of the commission members.
II. Rules of the Mental and Psychological Health
The candidates qualified in the first phase of the written test through the electronic selection, pass into a test related with the psychological and mental health.
1. The sense and the nature of the examination.
In the sense of the law “On the School of Magistrates”, the psychological test and that of the mental health intend simply the evidencing of the potential capabilities of the candidates competing for future judges and prosecutors, taking into consideration even the models of this type of test applied into the process of the recruitment from similar western schools of magistrates in: France, Holland, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Croatia, etc.
The information of this test will serve for a complex evaluation of the candidates which will lead into their adaptability with the profession without having to do with their health situation. This assessment will be based on the information of the functioning of the candidate in group, on the information of his reaction in front of vital professional situations and on the information of the individual interview.
This test is based on the psychological abilities of the competitors, on the assessment of their adaptability with the profession and not on their health situation, as a complex evaluation of the functioning of the candidate in group, individually, in front of the commission and in the vital situations of the profession.
For the health state competitors will continue to be equipped with a medical report of ability, as part of the documents which have to be handled before being registered as competitors in the School without having relation with the psychological test.
The test is part of a process of pedagogical evaluation of temporary nature which corresponds only to the academic year when gets realized the competition of the candidates.
The test will have a qualificative or disqualificative nature and has to bring to a close if the competitors are able to pass into the next phase of the professional test. This assessment will take into consideration the comparison of the emotional and psychological immensity demonstrated from competitors as belongs to the communication, behavior or ethics in the time and manner defined in accordance with the procedure of this regulation, in relation with the denominators ranked in the point 3, with the emotional, psychological and mental immensity that really must be possessed from the individuals who exercise this profession.
The result of the psychological test "proficient " to perform the profession of the judge and of the prosecutor, (in the sense of this regulation and in the application of the law “On the School of Magistrates”), will be in equivalence technically with the assessment "compliant " to follow the competition, so being considered part of an evaluation of pedagogical nature, valid only for the year of the competition in discussion and out of effects in the future. This means that, the passing or not passing of the psychological test does not have value for future competitions. If the competing candidate will re-enter in competition into the forthcoming academic year, the result taken in a preceding competition year does not have significance is spite of being compliant or non compliant.
2. The commission of the test and its duties
The Directive Council of the School of Magistrates in collaboration with the Ministry of Health nominates the representatives of the commission on this composition:
· Two psychiatrists;
· Two psychologists;
· A home professor of the School of Magistrates.
2.1. The commission and the manner of its selection
The commission is composed of five members nominated on the verdict of the Directive Council of the School, as it follows:
· Members of the profession "Psychologist" and "Psychiatrist" get selected on the verdict of the Directive Council of the School, being proposed from the Director of the School, from the list of professionals of scientific grades and titles, of international experience in this ground and of professional integrity, brought from the Ministry of Health or other corresponding ministries.
· The member who is "Professor" will be selected into the meeting of the Directive Council from the list of home professors of the School, on the proposal of the Director of the School;
· The meeting of the Directive Council for the nomination of the Commission of the psychological assessment will be done in the day when will be done the declaration of the results of the written test on the electronic evaluation (scan tron);
· After the selection, the member of the commission signs a declaration of the avoidance of the conflict of interest;
· The selected members of the commission will receive information/one day training on the nature of the work in the psychological aspect and some ethical and moral standards, essential for this category intending the mission and the objectives of justice;
· The module of this training will be composed from home professors of the School of Magistrates taking even the opinion of the Pedagogical Council and the approval of the Directive Council.
The commission has to exercise its duty in a professional, equal, independent and impartial way.
The procedure of the recruitment has to guarantee a selection of the candidates who have the best perspective as it belongs to their expected adaptability, capability and professionalism.
3. The directions and the denominators of the psychological oral test will be related with the analysis of the attitude and behavior of every competitor who will be subjected to this test for making evidence in the following directions:
3.1 In relation with their personality:
· The psychological model it represents;
· The analysis of the aspects of the personality related even with the mental health;
· Confrontation with the emotions and conflictual situations;
· The sense of justice and how is felt the identification with the mission of justice;
· The sense of impartiality in judgment and the independence in decision-taking;
· The sense of honesty and of moral integrity;
· The grade of the demonstration of the priority of the public interest or of the group interest in front of the personal interest;
· And others similar to them.
3.2 In relation with recognition’s capabilities
· Logical capabilities to combine the analysis with the synthesis and the ability to make an end;
· The ability to argument his/her points of view;
· The ability to negotiate and achieve a balance;
· The ability to treat the conflicts and to take decisions;
· The ability to make thesis and hypothesis, etc;
· The manner of expression in relation with language rules, the construction of the sentence, the ability to use a language clearly and understandably;
· And others similar to them.
3.3 Abilities in manners
· The manners and ethics in actions, attitudes, representations, presentations;
· The engagement and stability in point of views;
· The responsible exercisement of competences;
· Social clearing up and communication;
· And others similar to them.
3.4 Abilities in communication
· The ability to balance the desire to be evidenced in group and the respect for the other members of the group;
· The management of time, the coordination of the work in group and the ability to collaborate and organize the work in group;
· The management and the guidance of the discussion and of the decision-taking;
· And others similar to them.
4. The formal procedure of the assessment
4.1 The psychological and mental test is done after the selectioning of the first phase on electronic evaluation.
4.2 To the evaluation get subjected all the competitors who have taken less than 60% of the points of the general written test evaluated electronically on scan tron.
4.3 The model of the assessment’s thesis which will be approved from the Directive Council of the School contains:
a) The explanation of a vital situation and/or professional one, where to the group of candidates is required to examine, analyze, discuss and come into a group conclusion in front of the commission;
b) The oral explanation of a matter through an individual interview.
4.4 The process of the evaluation in discussions in group may be recorded from the School and the recorded products remain in its ownership. They may be administered from the Commission in order to see the behavior of the candidate/candidates before the announcement of the result.
4.5 The test will be done: through the evaluation of the functioning in group and the evaluation of an individual interview.
4.5.1 The evaluation in group will be done through the discussing in groups of five competitors, selected randomly. The candidates will be identified with numbers, selected randomly from the total number of the competitors. The selection of the number will be done before the entrance into the competition. In this way, will be composed even the groups of the competitors. The candidate puts the identification number on the table before the place of sitting down. When the total number of the competitors does not get divided with five, than two last groups may have a diminutive number, but always not lesser than three persons.
· The members of the group will enter simultaneously;
· The topic of discussion will be selected randomly from a representative of the group from the bulk of theses prepared from the Commission of the preparation of the fund of theses;
· The time in disposition of each group will be up to 40 minutes. The group starts the discussion immediately after receiving the thesis;
· During the discussion, competitors sit down round a table, in the presence of the commission;
· The commission does not have the right to make questions or to interfere during the discussion of the group;
· The topic of the discussion for the interview in group will be of general nature from the circle of the problems selected from the daily life, of philosophical, social, familiar, economical, historical, cultural, personal nature etc. and others similar to them;
· The fund of theses will have at least 70-100 situations of discussions;
· After the evaluation in group, all the competitors pass in the test of the judgment of a work situation.
4.5.2 After the test of the discussion in group, all the competitors pass into the individual interview. The individual interview will be done individually with every competitor partly:
· The topic of discussion will have a general nature related with philosophical, international, judicial, psychological, journalistical, social, economical, historical aspects and others similar to them;
· The time in disposition of each competitor, will be up to 15 minutes;
· The commission has the right to make questions and to keep notes for every candidate during the individual interview;
· During the individual interview, the competitor has to represent the topic for discussion speaking out the knowledge and the general culture seen from the social, judicial, philosophical, cultural, lateral, artistical, historical points of view etc. and others similar to them;
· The topic of discussion will be selected from the competitor from the bulk of theses prepared from the Commission of the preparation of the fund of theses.
4.6 The decision-taking of the Commission and the results of the test.
4.6.1 At the end of the evaluation of the test, the Commission prepares and signs the list of the competitors who pass into the second phase of the competition, where they get tested in the written form for the professional knowledge, considering them qualified for continuing the competition. The list of candidates is handled being signed from all the members of the Commission, and from the Director of the School.
4.6.2 There will be considered proficient or compliant to follow the test all the candidates who demonstrate in front of the commission a collection of individual and psychological abilities not less than 50 % of the maximal evaluation.
4.6.3 Every member of the commission will make an individual evaluation in pointage according to the list of the denominators of the abilities ranked in the point 3 of this regulation. The individual assessment of every member of the commission will remain confidential.
4.6.4 The commission of the test will make, at the end of the test, a unified evaluation which will come out as the arithmetical average of the evaluations of each member of the commission.
4.6.5 The verdict and the evaluation of the Commission of the psychological and mental test are final and inacclamable.
4.6.6 The competitors who do not pass this phase of the test have the right to be informed on the causes of their disqualification prepared in the written form from the commission.
4.6.7 There are no confronting séances of the competitors with the commission.
5. The announcement of the result of the psychological test
5.1 The results of the test will be done public as part of the final chart of the evaluation only in the form of the nominative list which passes from the first phase into the second phase of the professional test.
5.2 Pointed results of the test and the causes of the disqualification because of the respecting and the keeping of personal data will be done public only on the request of the interested competitor.
Memo: This regulation is approved from the Directive Council of the School and every contravention either from the side of the candidates taking part in the test or from the staff involved in this process, brings consequences for both parts.
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