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Pinsent Masons Application 2019/20

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I’m just checking over my Pinsent masons vac scheme app form and just realised 2/3 of the questions (the spare time q and non academic achievement q) say ‘max 4000 characters including spaces’ but then the last q on why commercial law and why pinsents just says ‘max 4000 characters’. Does this mean anything - are spaces not included in this question? I was just wondering if anyone knew anything! Thank you☺️
It's including spaces! They were two separate questions last year - I guess maybe they found that there was an overlap on applications, so decided to merge them?

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