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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lpcstudent2021" data-source="post: 112015" data-attributes="member: 21203">Evening all,Just had all my January exams back for ULaw and have failed three of my exams (legal writing- unsure by how much, wills and estates 1-mark off a pass, accounts-10 marks off).    Apart from this I got firsts in all my grade weighted mocks, passed my other pass/fail exams and the real exams went fairly well, so this came as a very unpleasant surprise as I did the prep for them.  I got a first last year on the GDL and got a mid 2.1 from Russell group before that so I'm taking the risk of self-funding to get through it in the hopes of getting a TC at some point at a large firm, but I'm aware most of them have a first-time pass policy on their exams.  Has my failing of these exams ruined my chances of training at these places?   I have read ULaws policy and as these aren't weighted exams,  and therefore they won't affect my overall average. However, These exams are shown on my transcript and it would show that I resat them, I was wondering how much of an adverse effect this has on pursuing big law?I'm assuming my best bet may be to laterally move somewhere big when I'm qualified instead but that idea doesn't sound too appealing at this moment in time. I have read stories of trainees at major firms not making the cut by one mark and losing training contracts as a result. If this is the case, should I just not bother applying for these firms in the future?If anyone has any advice on this that would be brilliant.  Furthermore, I'm doing the city electives (Banking, M and A, Equity finance) and was wondering if it may be worth me changing to do something which may suit a smaller firm and not wasting effort and money on something that will be out of my reach for some years PQE at best, not at all at worst?As you can imagine I'm having a major panic about this as I really don't want to jeopardize my future career over three exams that are not even grade-weighted due to my own idiocy.  I don't have any mitigating circumstances for this and just screwed up by focussing too much on finishing vac scheme apps before the January deadlines and not revising enough.    If it is as binary as that's me written off for a while then fair enough, would be good to know so I can focus on smaller firms or qualifying via 2 years of work experience instead.Any advice on what to do would be massively appreciated.</blockquote>

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