TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

[spamelinazoid]

I will DM after being attacked by the Dorito

Legit WHAT could you possibly be getting out of this 🤷‍♀️

 

[Jaysen]

I'm a bit confused by your reaction here, to be honest. There isn't any information to suggest this user is a scammer, other than not wanting to share their test scores.

Without more information, I don't think it's reasonable to come into the forum and call the user out for this.

Just to follow up on this, if any users have information, please feel free to send this to me privately and we can take any necessary actions.

But I don't think it's productive to publicly pile on to someone without more information.

 

[YYmasterTC]

@rulebritannia you liked this post, which of the firms it was that you heard back from can I ask?

Mischon have got back about the spring ones but not summer. Grad Rec did say that they have to read through all the chatbased answers before sending test invites

 

[Donna Paulsen]

Anyway... I have not heard from any firms today 💔 I feel left out

 

[Diana54]

if anyone have insight into the Bird & Bird AC please message me. I can provide insight into Latham AC, Covington AC, Millbank AC, CC AC, Paul Weiss interview and Reed Smith AC as well as VI insight for Kirkland, Bristows, White &Case, Goodwin, Weil and NRF

 

[EL2003]

I know, it’s beyond me why people would do this, probably out of boredom.

(After I asked them very politely and said it’d be no issue if they refused) They said they won’t share their test scores because they signed a confidentiality agreement but the firm said in the AC invite email they were top 0.5%😂 Having interacted with their grad rec very closely for the past years, I know for a fact that RS would never share this info. Tbh no firms would share this and especially not pre AC/interview, but I can confidently say this is clearly a lie about RS.

I have noticed some people do this as well claiming they have ACs or reacting to posts when it makes no sense with the firms timeline and when people ask about it they make it excuses. I have no idea why people do this. The only thing I can think of is it is their goal to make others stressed and upset or nervous. Luckily this is a veryy small minority and most people on the forum are helpful and honest.

 

[TortillaTC]

Just to follow up on this, if any users have information, please feel free to send this to me privately and we can take any necessary actions.

But I don't think it's productive to publicly pile on to someone without more information.

Hi Jaysen,

Thank you for reaching out. I will send you a private message.

I posted about this user’s behaviour to warn others. Reed Smith is a firm some of us are currently very anxious to hear back from and the user tried to spread misinformation. This was the only reason for my public post, but I will remove it if you deem necessary.

Thank you in advance.

 

[Donuttime]

Hi Jaysen,

Thank you for reaching out. I will send you a private message.

I posted about this user’s behaviour to warn others. Reed Smith is a firm some of us are currently very anxious to hear back from and the user tried to spread misinformation. This was the only reason for my public post, but I will remove it if you deem necessary.

Thank you in advance.

what did they say about Reed sMITH?

 

[EL2003]

Hi Jaysen,

Thank you for reaching out. I will send you a private message.

I posted about this user’s behaviour to warn others. Reed Smith is a firm some of us are currently very anxious to hear back from and the user tried to spread misinformation. This was the only reason for my public post, but I will remove it if you deem necessary.

Thank you in advance.

They have done this with other firms as well such as HFW

 

[trainee4u]

Does anyone know if Osborne Clarke's online verbal and deductive reasoning test timed?

yes you get 18 minutes for 12 deductive reasoning and 19 minutes for 10 sets of 3 true/false/cannot say verbal reasoning.

the verbal reasoning does not require any special preparation IMO (in general I think they are reasonably strict on the "can't say" if it does not follow truly logically based on the text, however) and the time limit is ample.

for the deductive reasoning the time limit is designed to cause maximum stress and make you fail due to poor time management. there are basically five question types:

• schedule the meeting in your own calendar, which is easy and doesn't take the full time but if you have spent long on the other types you will needlessly lose marks by not picking up here;
• schedule the meeting across multiple calendars, again easy marks;
• allocate the people to the meeting rooms, which is again pretty easy;
• rank the candidates one to six, which is a logic puzzle like the ones you can buy in newsagents basically, albeit the x✔ strategy doesn't necessarily work so more advanced techniques can be helpful;
• the monthly scheduling is tough but probably you could pre-print calendars for each day-of-the-week or use a second screen/second computer to make this more effective.

If you go over about 2 or 2.5 minutes per question (and you could easily spend five or more) on the last two types you will end up failing due to time management.

There is only one, fixed practice test for dr but if you do the general test it will give you questions from the dr pool and you can just answer randomly for the ones that are using numerical reasoning and inductive reasoning to avoid wasting too much time.

 

[badmintonflyinginsect]

Hi Jaysen,

Thank you for reaching out. I will send you a private message.

I posted about this user’s behaviour to warn others. Reed Smith is a firm some of us are currently very anxious to hear back from and the user tried to spread misinformation. This was the only reason for my public post, but I will remove it if you deem necessary.

Thank you in advance.

haha i know this is an immature addition to the convo but i think it's so funny they called u a Dorito. I didn't fully get it until i saw ur user

 

[I’m a celebrity get me out of here - VS/TC edn]

Just to follow up on this, if any users have information, please feel free to send this to me privately and we can take any necessary actions.

But I don't think it's productive to publicly pile on to someone without more information.

ngl their recent activity is just them dishing out thumbs up reactions to every firm posted. I'm surprised they've not said they have a freshfields DTC AC that would really get the forum bubbling

 

[EL2003]

ngl their recent activity is just them dishing out thumbs up reactions to every firm posted. I'm surprised they've not said they have a freshfields DTC AC that would really get the forum bubbling

Lol its funny you mention that because someone already claimed to have one in December if i remember correctly on the direct thread

 

[anon78365222111]

ngl their recent activity is just them dishing out thumbs up reactions to every firm posted. I'm surprised they've not said they have a freshfields DTC AC that would really get the forum bubbling

The final straw for the whole forum 😭

 

[BeanaGoalGetter]

yes you get 18 minutes for 12 deductive reasoning and 19 minutes for 10 sets of 3 true/false/cannot say verbal reasoning.

the verbal reasoning does not require any special preparation IMO (in general I think they are reasonably strict on the "can't say" if it does not follow truly logically based on the text, however) and the time limit is ample.

for the deductive reasoning the time limit is designed to cause maximum stress and make you fail due to poor time management. there are basically four question types: schedule the meeting in your own calendar, which is easy and doesn't take the full time but if you have spent long on the other times you will needlessly lose marks by not picking up here; schedule the meeting across multiple calendars, again easy marks; allocate the people to the meeting rooms, which is again pretty easy; rank the candidates one to six, which is a logic puzzle like the ones you can buy in newsagents basically, albeit the x✔ strategy doesn't necessarily work so more advanced techniques can be helpful; the monthly scheduling is tough but probably you could pre-print calendars for each day-of-the-week or use a second screen/second computer to make this more effective.

There is only one, fixed practice test for dr but if you do the general test it will give you questions from the dr pool and you can just answer randomly for the ones that are using numerical reasoning and inductive reasoning.

Thank you!

 

[TortillaTC]

haha i know this is an immature addition to the convo but i think it's so funny they called u a Dorito. I didn't fully get it until i saw ur user

To be fair they’re pretty funny just don’t want others to be mislead, actual candidates could get worried uneccessarily.

 

[Jaysen]

Thanks all - if any user is pretending to hear back from firms, we will remove them from the forum. Please do feel free to email me in the future if you need to flag this up ([email protected]) or use the report button in the forum. This will then give me time to look into it.

I just want to avoid public discussions about individuals without evidence. It derails the forum thread and it's not a nice experience if the OP turns out to be incorrect.

 

[rulebritannia]

ngl their recent activity is just them dishing out thumbs up reactions to every firm posted. I'm surprised they've not said they have a freshfields DTC AC that would really get the forum bubbling

Didn't Harvey Specter say he had an interview for a Freshfields DTC?

 

[Harvey Specter - Presiding Partner]

A confidentiality agreement for an Amberjack is crazy 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 Guess the whole forum is getting sued

Amberjack after opening the forum and seeing we breached their confidentiality agreement (I didn’t even know there was one lmao):​

 

[A2026]

Cooley interview invite. I did the Watson Glaser test late last night.

Hi! Did you apply for spring or summer?