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Message: <blockquote data-quote="prospectiveswitcher" data-source="post: 149623" data-attributes="member: 24174">AssessmentDay have a practise one tooI would note however, there is no 'correct' answers to SJTs - it depends on how the firm structures them. I did the practise one on AssessmentDay and frankly found some of the 'correct' answers absurd. I recall one was a situation where you were meant to be a HR assistant, and an unsuccessful candidate, who had a longer tenure than the successful candidate but less gravitas, had come in to complain. There were about 5 responses to rank from most to least effective, but one of them was 'Agree with him and let him have a moan to get it out of his system'. I ranked this as least effective, however it was actually considered 'more effective' than a response which was 'Explain to him that  the other candidate had more gravitas and that tenure alone was not enough'.The reasoning they gave was that the other respond 'risked alienating a senior staff member' but 'letting him moan' would make him 'feel listened to'?!. Haha some of them just seem a bit nuts, but they're very subjective. Good to get used to the format but no correct answers. I think generally though law firms want to see initiative - something I think I messed up on in an SJT was if there is a question like 'You've been asked to do X, but you don't know how to do X' - you might be tempted to pick a response like 'ask a senior colleague for help / ask a partner to clarify' - in reality you probably would do this, but if there is a response like 'do my own research first and make an attempt' - pick this one.</blockquote>

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