TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

[mariistm]

Bank of England PFO post-test 😭

Me too 🥲

 

[Tcvspfo]

Eversheds pfo maybe because I tried to use AI.

 

[James Wakefield]

Eversheds pfo maybe because I tried to use AI.

Sorry to hear that. Was this for London?

 

[Tcvspfo]

Sorry to hear that. Was this for London?

Yes

 

[pax]

Eversheds pfo maybe because I tried to use AI.

On the written application?

 

[Tcvspfo]

On the written application?

Yes

 

[manifestingthetc]

Anyone heard from W&C for summer/spring?

 

[MT1]

BCLP london AC invite! Anyone else?

 

[plshireme]

DLA WG invite but Eversheds PFO...you win some you lose some

 

[sooae]

Eversheds pfo maybe because I tried to use AI.

I'm sorry to hear that. May I ask when you applied?

 

[bored7887]

Just received a pfo from eversheds, but I submitted my application on Saturday and I thought it was non-rolling. No idea how they could review my 2000 word application in that time? I used grammarly as a spellchecker - does any know if this counts as AI?

 

[LimitedLiabilityLover]

Yh was thinking that also maybe as Trump wants to help businesses grow.

My advice is, not that it is necessarily right, not to give an opinion on Trump/Labour or any political stuff. Base everything you say in fact, if everything you say is substantiated it shows your ability to analyse information and, more importantly, lets you seem bit more impartial about stuff.

 

[plshireme]

Just received a pfo from eversheds, but I submitted my application on Saturday and I thought it was non-rolling. No idea how they could review my 2000 word application in that time? I used grammarly as a spellchecker - does any know if this counts as AI?

I got my pfo earlier and I didn't apply until Sunday night so I don't know how they got through it so quickly, I'm not sure what they class AI as or how they check for it

 

[NCTC2025]

BCLP london AC invite! Anyone else?

Is this for the Spring scheme?

 

[MT1]

Is this for the Spring scheme?

summer!

 

[Jessica Booker]

Just following on this, if anyone can help I’ll be grateful!

If it is a particular deal/matter, I think it needs to have wide reaching consequences for the legal sector, which is often not the case for many deals/cases. Therefore a broader story might be more appropriate unless there is something ground breaking about the deal/matter.

 

[Tcvspfo]

My advice is, not that it is necessarily right, not to give an opinion on Trump/Labour or any political stuff. Base everything you say in fact, if everything you say is substantiated it shows your ability to analyse information and, more importantly, lets you seem bit more impartial about stuff.

Thank you and appreciate and yh I get you.

 

[Jessica Booker]

Just received a pfo from eversheds, but I submitted my application on Saturday and I thought it was non-rolling. No idea how they could review my 2000 word application in that time? I used grammarly as a spellchecker - does any know if this counts as AI?

It would be pretty easy to review applications within a couple of days if they did have capacity.

Technically any spell checker (even on Word) is AI, which is why the idea of not using AI in applications is particularly bizarre. I don’t think a firm would pick up on the use of Grammarly though.

 

[Aspiringsolicitor01]

It would be pretty easy to review applications within a couple of days if they did have capacity.

Technically any spell checker (even on Word) is AI, which is why the idea of not using AI in applications is particularly bizarre. I don’t think a firm would pick up on the use of Grammarly though.

Really? I can tell when I use grammarly because it hyphenates a lot of things it shouldn’t and puts too many commas in a sentence. It’s great for concise writing and spelling but I feel it hinders an application overall.

 

[James Wakefield]

Just received a pfo from eversheds, but I submitted my application on Saturday and I thought it was non-rolling. No idea how they could review my 2000 word application in that time? I used grammarly as a spellchecker - does any know if this counts as AI?

There are a range of free tools on the internet that will ‘scan’ your application answers for ‘AI’. One is GPTZero. I don’t know how accurate/reliable these are but you could always run future answers through one of these to check its not flagging AI material.