it saves + submits automatically I believe, though I did press the save and submit just to be sure lol
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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25
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Yesterday Gemma sent out an email about an hour after the submission deadline to say she’d received them.
So I’d wait for a bit and see if she gets back before emailing.
thanks so much! i got a bit nervous that it didnt save properly lol
Same! A real horror show 😂 flunked the practice so dread to think how the real one went
How did people find Willkie WE? Feel like I lacked so much on the first issue compared to the second
Anyone heard from RPC after Watson Glaser for Summer Vacation Scheme ?
I really enjoyed it. M&A is my passion, so I found it quite fun!
Anyone heard from Weil post-VI? (I totally fked mine up haha)
I have a VS offer. Did my AC two weeks ago, I think they had 5 other ACs after mine
Not sure how I feel about it tbh I have mixed thoughts. I am hoping for the best but also preparing for the worst as well lmao. 🤣
Best of luck to everyone who did the Willkie WE! 🙂
Am I the only one who’s still waiting back from Slaughters and LW? I’ve submitted both of them in beginning of december just a day before their deadline…
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Hey @AS24 I definitely am, their scarcity here has really taught me their value 🥲. On this brighter note, I will split up my thoughts between how to organize your time and then your ideas.
Organizing Time
To ensure you are managing your time well, before you start working through the exercise I advise you to take a few minutes to make a plan. First, take a look at the number of tasks and read the prompts. Then, briefly skim the annexed briefs and readings - but only very briefly. You want to see how many pages of readings you will have per task and how dense those look. Based on this information, make an estimation as to how much time each task or part of the exercise will take compared to the others - ie you might see the first task as requiring about twice the workload of the second and that the third is roughly the same as the second. Then, you should spend around 1/2 of your time on the first, around 1/4 on the second and another 1/4 on the third. However, before dividing the time using the relevant fractions, subtract around 10 minutes from the initial total time: 5 to account for the planning part at the beginning and 5 for contingencies and reviewing spelling and grammar at the end. I think this should be your basic approach, but do keep in mind these further considerations:
- You may want to make a further separation between the estimated necessary time to do the reading and the estimated necessary time to write your analysis for each part. One of the most significant issues I have had with written exercises has been giving in to the temptation to take more time than I should reading and taking notes; and simultaneously underestimating the time it would take me to write my analysis. In my experience, the materials in these exercises are not that difficult to work through and do not attempt to trip you up, so they do not require that much time. Thus, it might be a good idea to plan ahead how much you want to take on them: it should help you keep yourself in check during the exercise and not let your anxiety and overthinking make you waste precious time by reading the same passages again and again.
- You may not be able to estimate such a simple fraction split as in my aforementioned example. That is fine, and you definitely should not spend time overthinking this element. Simply go with your gut in making some judgement about the relative workloads and move forward with that. The most important part of this planning is not maximum accuracy in representation of the time each should take, but in providing a rough framework which will enable you to keep yourself to account and thus improve efficiency.
- If your tasks/parts of the exercise have different priority levels you should adjust your time allocation fractions. I would still aim to have a rough representation of what the workload of each involves but I would also allow adjustments to that to ensure a high quality work product for the most important ones.
As for structuring your thoughts, it is unfortunately more difficult to give very concrete advice, as the right way to go about it will be highly dependent on the details of the exercise. My main advice is to find multiple distinctions between the different categories of information that you will be presenting ; and to organize them under multiple headings. The last thing you want is a huge block of text. It will almost always be more difficult to read and understand and will often also end up confusing your analysis as well. To give some examples of how you can go about this:
- Split the descriptive part of your writing (where you are essentially summarizing uncontroversial facts) and the analytic one (where you are advancing your opinion based on the aforementioned facts);
- If your argument is more complex, separate the analysis of the different inferential steps necessary to establish the conclusion;
- Separate the pros considerations, the cons considerations, and the synthesis view;
- Split your analysis of the different alternatives based on the facts;
- Separate your analysis of the relevant considerations based on their class (financial, legal, social, reputational etc) and based on the relevant class of stakeholders (shareholders, clients, the government, the public etc).
Anyone heard back from kirkland following final AC?
From what I have seen on the forum they seem to have said they would get back to you guys by the end of last week and still haven’t been able to do so. 😭
Maybe they received way more applications than they’d expected this year. 🤷🏾♂️
Found the Willkie WE very hard, especially as a non-law grad.
Feel like I probably missed a lot of content.
Hoping that the vast majority of people progress to an interview!
Feel like I probably missed a lot of content.
Hoping that the vast majority of people progress to an interview!
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