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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andrei Radu" data-source="post: 218123" data-attributes="member: 36777">Hi [USER=38553]@noahsmiit01[/USER] the majority of firms will only really care about your overall degree result. If that is at least a 2.1, or a strong 2.1 for the more competitive firms, it should not be a significant barrier. Besides the overall result, the firms will place some weigh on both progression and individual module results. Progression matters to recruiters because it can indicate qualities and skills the firm is looking for - e.g. learning from mistakes, resilience, striving to improve etc. Individual module results can matter because they may indicate where your strengths and interests lie - i.e. if you score poorly in all the more commercial-focused modules (say, contract, company, property), that may be a red flag.As far as I know, firms do not place a lot of importance on first year results in particular. If anything, these will be the results they generally see as being the leat reflective of a candidate's true ability and potential, as recruiters also know that transitioning to the university life can initially be difficult for many people. As for your last question, there are indeed a few firms that are known to be more grade focused than others. Slaughters is said to have an informal rule to only hire  candidates who have achieved/are on track to achieve a 1.1, while Cleary, Davis Polk, and Debevoise are said to target candidates who have at least a high 2.1. Nonetheless, I have not heard of any of these firms having a strict disqualification policy for an individual 2.2 module grade. The only information in that regard I have come across is about Linklaters, who apparently confirmed on email to a forum member that this is their policy in absence of mitigating circumstances.</blockquote>

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