Official GCSE Results Day 2016 Thread (TODAY!)

Should've. It read as though you were trying to show superiority or something, and that's coming from a fellow aspiring lawyer.

Omg awesome! Are you going to go into criminal law? (Murders, rape cases, etc)

yeah upon reading it I totally get that, was just trying to make a point about how A-levels are and always should be more respected than BTEC's.

Random question, but why does the fact that you're an aspiring lawyer think that it makes your opinion more credible? 😂


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Thanks! I mean, I won't really know until I've studied all the different areas of law at university - but now, with my naïve opinion, I want to go into commercial law at a city firm.

Yeah, it's fine - I understand lmao. What made you want to go into law?

This may be a silly question, but when uni starts do they like teach from scratch and everyone starts in the same boat or do they just expect you to have some prior knowledge ?


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Always been a desire of mine, I relish the idea of justice being upheld in any case. Haven't done the degree yet so not sure what I want to go in but coporate and commerical law appeals to me the most; working at somewhere like Chance & Clifford or Hogan & Lovells.

He didn't say his opinion was more credible.

It started for me after my auntie's boyfriend was up in court, and I was wanting to do medicine at the time. Then, watching it, I was like damn - these people are badasses. I researched it more and bam! Ha, same here! Although I'd much rather Linklaters or Slaughter & May. That is, if I want to become a solicitor. I'm not quite sure yet. The Bar is so much more competitive though, and I love competition - but the field is competitive enough as it is.

Yeah it is a very congested degree, my back ups are a politician or in the economics field in a bank like Merill Lynch or Goldman Sachs. Being a lawyer for a global bank would be incredible as well.

No, but that's what it appeared like to me. Why else mention it?

Because me and the other person also want to be lawyers

To help some of you,
I thought I would get 4A*s and 3As and 2Bs on top of my 2A*S I already got.

The marking is far more lenient than you think.
To put it this way, I got 11A*s and I never thought it was possible.

Good luck!

Back ups? I know nothing about those fields, but aren't they just as competitive? I mean politics maybe not as much, I'm not sure, but Goldman Sachs is a HUGE company.

True but they have to give some places to the BTEC kids, as an aspiring lawyer I think someone with ABB in respectable subjects is more qualified than a distinction in a BTEC..

And he mentioned it prior to posting his opinion. Doesn't said to be said every time you post.

What made you want to go into law?