The work supports those who want to take the entrance exam at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences (Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca), the Faculty of Law (Babes-Bolyai University and the University of Bucharest), the Police School and the School of the Gendarmerie (Ministry of Internal Affairs) facilitating the solving of the exercises focused on logical reasoning through the detailed disclosure of their constitution rules.
Clarity, discipline, critical spirit, the ability to identify the correct arguments, the differentiation between opinion and reasoned explanation, the development of communication skills, represent other cognitive benefits offered by formal logic, in addition to its usefulness in the case of people who intend to take the above-mentioned exams .
Each chapter includes exercises according to the requirements for admission to the previously mentioned faculties. The first chapter includes tasks involving logical relationships, probabilities, matrices, logical-mathematical deductions, coding words and numbers, as well as logical analysis of texts. The second chapter provides the critical thinking part. The last two chapters include exercises whose content can be found in the school curriculum for the Logic, argumentation and communication discipline for the 9th grade: traditional logical principles, definitions, terms, categorical sentences, immediate deductive inferences, mediated deductive inferences and inductive inferences.
In this collection, the emphasis is on practicing and making independent thinking more flexible, not on memorization, as well as on acquiring the ability to transfer information for a quick adaptation to different types of requirements. Its objective is to become the main support for the considerable increase in the chances of those who wish to be admitted to the budget, including through individual study.
The explanations contain all the desirable steps to be followed and can be a substitute for interpersonal interaction, conveying the solutions in a concrete and clear way, regardless of the level of training of the aspirants.