Hi, you’re very welcome and thanks for your question!Good morning!
I hope you are doing well. Thank you to @ReedSmithBecca, @ReedSmithCharlotte and @ReedSmithKaren for taking the time to answer our questions today and thank you to Jaysen for facilitating yet another great opportunity.
I would like to ask about Reed Smith's approach to mitigating circumstances. In particular, I would like to know a little bit more about the extent to which such circumstances are used to contextualise grades (e.g., a low 2:1, a 2:2).
Additionally, is doing well on modules more related to commercial law (e.g., contract law) more important to yourselves than the overall classification?
Thank you!
We’re really pleased to be using Rare’s contextual recruitment system this year which will allow us to take their contextual markers into account when a candidate hasn’t met our 2.1 requirement.
We also have always taken the mitigating circumstances candidates provide us into account and these are considered on a case by case basis. If you have a confidential question about your grades specifically then please feel free to email us at [email protected]
We don’t generally look at specific module grades where the candidate has achieved a 2.1 or above, but would consider these when a candidate hasn’t. For example, these can help if a 2.2 or 3rd in one module in particular has impacted their average.
Hope this helps!