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All provincial law societies require law school graduates to complete both their articles and a bar admission course before allowing you to practise law. In British Columbia, the bar admission course is a three-month course called PLTC, the ''Professional Legal Training Course'', and it's completed during the year in which you article. Sometimes your principal <span class="noglossary">will</span> pay for the cost of the course; some articles don't provide for this and you'll have to pay the course tuition yourself.

PLTC is an academic introduction to the basics of actually practising law in the real world, from client interview techniques to professional ethics to common <span class="noglossary">trust</span> <span class="noglossary">account</span> errors. PLTC is not fun; it is boring, tedious and unpleasant. Nevertheless it is a critical course that you must complete with near-perfection if you want to work as a lawyer. When I did PLTC, you had to have a minimum combined exam and exercise score of 11 out of 12 points, or 91.66%, to pass.