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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

kim wexler

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  • Sep 1, 2023
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    Hi, does anyone here have any advice on written exercises and how to improve? I was rejected from Willkie and Skadden this application cycle after the WEs. I did prepare for them in advance (nothing crazy, just practice based on online materials)

    I would appreciate some advice on how others prepare for them, especially so I can learn from those two rejections … Thank you!!
     

    Shaky_Pete

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    Oct 25, 2025
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    With the DAC Beachcroft VI, "You have 5 days from the date you receive this email to complete the video interview."

    If you received the email at 09:00 on Wednesday, would the deadline be 09:00 on Monday or end of the day Monday, 23:59.

    Does anybody know? Thanks!
     

    Ernesto

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    Jan 9, 2026
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    With the DAC Beachcroft VI, "You have 5 days from the date you receive this email to complete the video interview."

    If you received the email at 09:00 on Wednesday, would the deadline be 09:00 on Monday or end of the day Monday, 23:59.

    Does anybody know? Thanks!
    I wondered the same. I think it is the 23:59 as mine would have expired at noon today.
     
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    trainee4u

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    Sep 7, 2023
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    With the DAC Beachcroft VI, "You have 5 days from the date you receive this email to complete the video interview."

    If you received the email at 09:00 on Wednesday, would the deadline be 09:00 on Monday or end of the day Monday, 23:59.

    Does anybody know? Thanks!
    I believe that "from the date you receive this email" refers to the date, otherwise it would say "time you receive", and that the deadline is therefore 23:59
     
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