TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

[Madison Pinewall]

i didn't even do the VI in the end and still got the PFO email from Mayer Brown

 

[TheSaulGoodman]

Has anyone hear back post VI for Clyde’s?

Hoping this week brings VIs/WEs and ACs for us all

 

[Marble_Moth]

Hello all, has anyone heard back from Dentons post VI?

 

[Novaa]

“Unfortunately, at this stage in the recruitment process, we are unable to provide feedback.”

But I thought all our VIs were manually reviewed, and if we didn’t meet the Amberjack, then isn’t that just a “You didn’t meet the benchmark”? LOL ANYWAYS

 

[LRR23]

Has anyone progressed to HFW AC?

 

[Deleted member 43292]

“Unfortunately, at this stage in the recruitment process, we are unable to provide feedback.”

But I thought all our VIs were manually reviewed, and if we didn’t meet the Amberjack, then isn’t that just a “You didn’t meet the benchmark”? LOL ANYWAYS

yes haha plsss tell me which part of the process I failed at? was it my test or was it my application or was it my VI???

 

[lawstudent2]

Has anyone who did the Mayer Brown test in early november heard back yet? Can't tell if they are just doing batches of PFOs based on dates or if I can acc have a small bit of hope haha

 

[TS.Law]

I just completed the critical thinking test for Milbank and the evaluation of arguments section had 5 options instead of the conventional 2 options. There were no instructions either it just went on to the next section and gave options Very Strong argument, strong arguments, fairly strong argument, fairly weak argument, weak argument and very weak argument. does anyone have an instruction sheet or guidelines for these? what constitutes a strong argument compared to very strong or fairly strong, and what constitutes a fairly weak argument and the difference between family weak and strong?

Hi, I also struggled to find the right direction in these questions, and I am not sure if my approach has worked so far.
I was researching this earlier and could not find anything specific to this. However, grabbing some related concepts here and there, I realised this is similar to the 6-step scale from Likert, which is that psychometric test also largely used by law firms (strongly agree, agree, neutral, disagree, strongly disagree).
In my @Milbank assessment, what I considered to mark a statement as very strong or strong etc, is a mix of persuasion strategies (logos, pathos and ethos) with the original Likert reasoning:

• Very strong if I had an unquestionable clear and persuasive argument which could reasonably persuade ANY person/bystander. It addresses the problem with no objections.
• Strong, for a quite clear argument with a valid point directly linked to the question, although some objections can be made.
• Fairly strong, for a relevant argument which might have a point to be considered but lacks substantial judgement or some logic could addresses the issue
• Fairly weak if I faced an understandable argument with grains of truth and could persuade those already inclined. However, it doesn't address the real problem from the question and appeals to emotion, values, and feelings (pathos) and doesn't bring any logic or fact to substantiate.
• Weak, for a statement which is completely unpersuasive and/or unrelated to the question. Sometimes, these statements make us consider an adjacent problem rather than focus on the real one being asked.
• Strongly weak: no logic and/or reasonable answer at all. Lacks facts, judgment, while trying to bridge this gap with manipulative/irrelevant emotion.

Again, I don't know if it worked at all, but psychologically speaking, this gave me more confidence and a kind of direction during the assessment.

 

[radssss]

Pretty sure the Clyde and co vi is automatic if someone meets the test benchmark? I only did the test on Saturday and got invited to vi today!

If someone has insights, please please pm me and I can swap for various firms.

Also has anyone given the vwv test? Email says it’s only 5 mins long which is unusual hahaha.

 

[Lawlawland]

Turns out, I've surprisingly passed Capp for the second time (after Latham)...

Can someone give me insights on Clyde and Co VI?

Thanks a bunch!

 

[TheSaulGoodman]

Pretty sure the Clyde and co vi is automatic if someone meets the test benchmark? I only did the test on Saturday and got invited to vi today!

If someone has insights, please please pm me and I can swap for various firms.

Also has anyone given the vwv test? Email says it’s only 5 mins long which is unusual hahaha.

I think it is automatic which I find strange I’m assuming it’s because they had no work experience section on the main app. Still weird

 

[baj5]

are we thinking Perkins gets back to us today?

 

[applicant3000]

Has anyone who did the Mayer Brown test in early november heard back yet? Can't tell if they are just doing batches of PFOs based on dates or if I can acc have a small bit of hope haha

I did mine in Oct and haven't heard back

 

[Novaa]

fr I'm kinda annoyed cos at least they can tell me which part of the process I failed at? Like was it my test or was it my application or was it my VI???

Or not hiding well enough from the rolling deadline reaper?

 

[ADhillon01]

20 ques for critical reasoning - 4 ques per section.
For sjt - 4 blocks - one for each core value, each block had 3 ranking ques and around 10 slider ques.

SJT is untimed - take how much time u need.
Reasoning is not timed but time taken to complete it will affect your score. I took around 25 mins.

this helped big time

Got my VI invite just now! Was literally falling asleep in that reasoning test but managed to speed run to the finish line and did it in about 18 mins after my flight

 

[Madison Pinewall]

My Travers Smith application has been sat ready to submit for so long. I'm so invested in it now. Just need to press the button ahhhh

 

[ilikelaw]

has anyone heard back from bclp svs post test?

 

[WillKitchen]

Email inbox: "Mishcon de Reya: You're Invited" ... to a free online webinar.

That's a marketing strategy that makes prospective trainees sit up!

 

[radssss]

this helped big time

Got my VI invite just now! Was literally falling asleep in that reasoning test but managed to speed run to the finish line and did it in about 18 mins after my flight

yayyy!! I’m so glad
I’ve got my vi just now too (did test on Saturday) and it’s 40 mins long??? That is stressing me out so bad

 

[nbjani]

Has anyone progressed to HFW AC?

I've not even heard back since the app