Jessica Booker
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1) They don’t mean module results for things like A-levels. This will only apply to degree/postgraduate studies@Jessica Booker
1. On the Education section of the Sidley Austin application form, there's the following declaration:
Please confirm that you have entered a complete breakdown of all grades awarded, by subject, during secondary school, college or university. Entering the overall grade does not provide sufficient information to support your application.
For uni results this seems straightforward enough - I'm able to enter the class I'm predicted to get (e.g. 2:1), and a breakdown of my modules so far. What confuses is me is what they mean by a "complete breakdown" for secondary school and college - do you reckon they want candidates to enter every grade they got in every exam?
(If this were the case, there doesn't seem to be anywhere to differentiate between grades in individual exams, and grades in subjects as a whole - which makes me think that, like pretty much every other application form, Sidley Austin wants candidates simply to enter (in the secondary school and college sections) the final grade they got in every subject rather than every module - but the ambiguous wording of the declaration makes me wonder whether this is actually the case).
2. If a question asks candidates "which personal qualities make a successful lawyer", does the lack of an explicit reference to "commercial" in the question mean that it'd be unwise to mention commercial awareness as an essential quality?
2) I would personally not state commercial awareness. This is just something for the recruitment process rather than the career. Try to think more about how this develops into something more substantial for the career and how more practically it plays out for lawyers. That more specific focus will provide you with a stronger answer.