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It is definitely good to proofread, but at a certain point I would not stress too much about it! Once you have confirmed that there are no errors and that it broadly reads well, then the hours you spend refining one piece of phrasing probably will not make a difference.
Yes I agree with you but it is good to read it again and again as my friend who was part of AS Aspire said that Chris White said you should spend 8 hours proofreading your application. But I would say 2 hours is good enough.
mmm..I am part of Aspire and believe me I have received more help on here than Aspire! Spending 8 hours on a single file calls for mistakes! Print and read the file out loud 3 times, or just read it out loud a couple of times.
I would also advise to put it through a text-to-speech reader - I caught a number of errors each time when it was being read out that I probably would've otherwise missed.
8 hours to proof read one application?! That seems rather overboard. I don’t think I’ve ever spent that proofreading masters essays of 7.5-10k words let alone an app with maybe 1-2k words 😂
if you are a Mac user this is built in, spoken content in accessibility system preferences.
Yeah, that's too much. Proofreading is a short exercise that ensures your work is free of errors, you shouldn't be looking to redesign your answer imo.
I think this is a bit of a simplification. There is a clear financial privilege in being a career changer from a well-paid role like an analyst that it can be for many low-income law applicants who are doing stressful applications at the same time as facing a huge amount of uncertainty over their future career and life. A lot of the pressure I've personally felt has not been with the applications themselves but the constant worry over what will I do if I don't get one? I think putting things in perspective and not constantly stressing yourself out is important but I think people can have very legitimate fears in the application stage that may be significantly reduced if they begin practicing.
Definitely agree with this- my stress isn't about the applications but more about what happens if I don't get a training contract. Being an international student in my final year, it would potentially become even more difficult as firms won't sponsor visas for vacation schemes and many law firms only accept TC applications through vacation schemes. While I am Canadian and can enter the UK without a visa, I can't work here so I really am limited with my options once my tier 4 visa expires in October.... ofc there is the graduate visa but that's pretty expensive to even apply for
It will be interesting if and when people increasingly spend large sums of money on digital property, essentially extending the current NFT use-cases or perhaps branching into different ownership models. I'm not sure how niche the practices will become, it will likely sit within broader 'digital economy' groups or similar for the foreseeable future.
