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    My Training Contract Journey

    Update August August is a bit of a strange time as lots of people are suddenly on holiday. This includes plenty of people who we work with on the continent who seem to take the entirety of August off for their holidays. On the one hand, this meant that everything slowed down significantly as we...
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    BPP vs ULaw

    If ULaw and BPP are the only ones you're considering, I would go for ULaw. If you don't have a TC, my anecdotal evidence is that you will be treated a lot better at ULaw. For context, I did the the conversion course and City Consortium Programme at BPP and the difference in my treatment between...
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    BPP CAS (Visa) delay - anyone else?

    Hi, I did my SQE with BPP and this really doesn't surprise me. They are notoriously bad at responding. I am really sorry that you are going through this, but I would say that you should be persistent in trying to contact them and see if there are any other avenues to contacting them.
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    My Training Contract Journey

    Update: Huge Closing I have had the immense privilege to be working on an enormous deal (think billions, not millions). It is also hugely complex due to the needs of the specific export credit agency (ECA) that is supporting the deal. It has been very exciting to be a part of this and the...
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    My Training Contract Journey

    Update: I realised that this might be a good place to update my thoughts on the TC as I progress through my seats, so I'll try to post more regularly here again. A2 Associate Guidance My first few months of BT10 (Asset Finance) were very quiet. Then, at the end of May, an A2 associate (one...
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    My Training Contract Journey

    Thanks for reminding me to do another post! Everyone did the corporate and banking assessments. They will have to do them regardless of Vac Scheme or Direct TC route. I don't think you can really prepare for them other than being very good at writing quickly and succinctly and staying calm...
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    My Training Contract Journey

    Update: Thanks @nkem for giving me the nudge to write another post! Dominican Republic As mentioned in my previous post, I headed to the Dominican Republic post-SQE. It was a very long journey as I was living in the middle of a rainforest next to a beach in the middle of nowhere. I learnt how...
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    LPC and SQE 2

    There is a lot of memorising the law but in a different way to SQE1. On the SRA website, under the SQE2 specification, you can find the following drop-down lists at the bottom of the page: If you open Annex 1, it tells you the specific FLK required for SQE2: This is terribly formatted, so I...
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    LPC and SQE 2

    I did SQE1 before SQE2 not the LPC, but my experience is that it is very hard to do well if you do not know the FLK in depth. From my understanding, the main reason people fail is a lack of FLK knowledge, as some of the skills can be hard to demonstrate if you do not have the knowledge. That...
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    How ready did you feel for SQE1?

    I totally understand this, and it is something I felt a lot when I was preparing. I had the exact same anxiety and I was getting a much lower mark in the ReviseSQE mocks than you. I felt physically sick in the preparation period and yet I still managed to pass in the first quintile. The...
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    How ready did you feel for SQE1?

    I'm not sure if there are different rules at different centres, but I was at Chiswick, London and I had to lock my notes away in a locker before going up to the test room. I was allowed to access them in the break, but I don't think that was great for my mental health as I ended up checking the...
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    How ready did you feel for SQE1?

    I didn't count the number of practice questions I did, so I can't give you a good answer for this. I think it was more important that I was using the questions to guide my revision than doing them for the sake of doing them. I reckon I probably did no more than 50 questions in a day on a regular...
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    How ready did you feel for SQE1?

    I had different revision methods for different parts of the syllabus: Tax I just practiced lots of calculations. I know that some people just ignore these and wing the tax questions, but without breaking the NDA, I will just say that being able to do these calculations was essential to my SQE2...
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    How ready did you feel for SQE1?

    Hi! I passed SQE1 and SQE2 in the first quintile. For SQE1, I felt very overwhelmed with the volume of things we were required to know, but I felt like I generally had a pretty good grasp on the basics, and I was about 75% okay with the more complicated stuff (e.g. tax) which I focused on a...
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    My Training Contract Journey

    Update: SQE 2: I took the SQE2 in July/August 2024 and I'm very pleased to say that I passed in the 1st quintile! This exam was a lot tougher than I thought it would be and I underestmated how important the FLK aspect of the exam would be until I started my revision. This meant that I mainly...
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