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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aspiring_CommercialLawyer2026" data-source="post: 228526" data-attributes="member: 43442">Hi!This is a question where there is not a one size fits all answer. Whilst it should always be your intention to make applications consisting of high quality responses, aiming for perfection may be negatively impacting your energy levels and ability to submit other applications. With that being said, when forecasting how long to spend on a response, consider the factors below:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Your research and application writing speed - depending on how much prior experience you have had with researching firms and writing applications, you may be able to complete applications to a high standard significantly faster/slower than other people. Speed whilst maintaining quality is something that builds incrementally overtime and this should help ease time spent on a single application as you continue to go through the process.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Your applications strategy - when planning on applying to another 20-30 more firms before the end of the cycle, naturally you will be expecting to turnover applications at a faster rate than completing 5 applications. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Your commitments outside of applications - if you are employed, studying, have examinations round the corner or other significant personal commitments taking up substantial amounts of your time, once again, that will influence the total amount of time you can invest in writing applications. It is crucial to plan ahead in these circumstances and being realistic in what you can achieve, whilst also holding yourself to account to make sure you aren't looking to find an extra 1% to an application that is of high quality. This is as it is better to submit as many high quality applications as possible, rather than only 1-2 that are perfect.</li> </ul>In my case, when I first started applying it could easily take up to a week or two, while by the end, I had gained strong research and writing skills through the hard work spent in crafting previous high quality applications, resulting in it taking less than a day. I would advise you to reflect on your plan as per your strategy and look at the aforementioned factors to consider how many high quality applications you can make in a period of time.It remains crucial to not rush applications to submit as many as possible, rather aim to submit as many high quality applications as possible.All the best!</blockquote>

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