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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andrei Radu" data-source="post: 199515" data-attributes="member: 36777">Hey [USER=16131]@mfuturetrainee[/USER] I understand how anxious you must be feeling right now - preparing for and completing an AC is quite a nerve-racking experience in itself, so I can only imagine how difficult it must be with the added stress of having to juggle preparation and your job. Fortunately, I do not expect the lesser amount of preparation time will play a significant role in your AC performance, especially for the written exercise. This does depend on the firm, but the majority of written tasks are drafted in such a way so as to be mostly self-contained. Thus, they normally set out to test skills like time management, communication skills, and attention to detail; and not to assess prior knowledge. Of course, it is useful to familiarize yourself with the format and the time pressure and thus I would advise you to try to complete one or two during one of the next evenings, but in my opinion beyond that there are diminishing returns to pushing yourself to practice more.For the commercial awareness element, my main bit of advice is to utilize podcasts and to maximize the value of all the moments in a day. Firstly, podcasts are extremely useful because you can listen to them and familiarize yourself with many topics while doing other things at the same time. You can listen to a business podcast while brushing your teeth, while commuting to your job and back, while cooking, while doing laundry etc. I would advise you to go for a selection of (i) general business news podcasts, such as FT News Briefing and BBC News Briefing; (ii) podcasts analyzing a narrower scope of topics in a lot more depth, such as Watson's Daily or Goldman Sachs Exchanges; and (iii) legal industry podcasts, such as The Lawyer; Law, disrupted; and Bloomberg Law. Secondly, use the small 5 to 10 minute windows (say, when waiting for the bus, during a lunch break etc) to read up on articles in areas that are of more interest to you - that should improve your ability to delve deeper on a selection of topics during the interview. Finally, although I appreciate how difficult it must be, do try to maintain an optimist attitude as you are heading into the AC. Know that the fact that you have come so far despite your other commitments is a testament to your resilience and is all the proof you need to know that you have all it takes to nail it!</blockquote>

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