The Pupillage Interview/Acceptance/Rejection Thread 2019

Ah okay thank you ! I applied for the Common Law pupillage so i'll keep my fingers crossed

Has anyone heard back from Zenith regarding their common law pupillage?

I think they are staggering the responses ie Wednesday was for Criminal pupillage, Thursday for Family and I'm assuming today is for Common Law

I have just received an e-mail with an invite to first round for their common law pupillage - I posted too soon!

I just got one to ! Congratulations !

On a related point, I was wondering what people think of the kind of question that comes up sometimes in pupillage interviews along the lines of "Pick three people to share a hot-air balloon ride with. Then imagine there's a puncture and you'll have to throw one person out. Who would you save?". Does anyone have experience of answering this kind of (slightly ridiculous!) question?

It's not a slightly ridiculous question. It's a hugely ridiculous question. It's designed to find out more about someone's personality and interests, but it rarely has that effect because it just makes candidates panic. I'd like to think most sets are shying away from questions like that nowadays, but they are still around. The key is not to think that there is a right answer to the question, or that there is a legal answer to the question. Don't even try to be clever with it, because invariably that won't work. Just pick an interest that you have, be it a sport, hobby, politics, or anything else, and incorporate that into your answer. You'll probably be asked a follow up, but given that you've chosen a subject that you know about, you'll have no problem with the follow up. Simple as that. But as has already been said, this question isn't one that will make or break your pupillage chances. So even though it's one that causes widespread panic among candidates, it shouldn't.

Has anyone submitted an application to Cobden House and received an automated reply saying the deadline has passed ? Deadline is 28th January 2019 according to the Gateway and their website

Is that for the pupillage specialising in Corn Law? 😁

Anyway no, I haven't submitted mine yet - but would be grateful to hear whatever you find out.

Anyone else not able to access gateway online? It's coming up with a message saying it is down for essential maintenance?

Has anyone who has applied heard from Parklane Plowden today regarding the family pupillage? I know that they gave themselves until Wednesday, but just thought I would check.

I haven't heard anything. Applied for the civil pupillage. Have you heard anything?

For those who are currently completing Gateway applications and who have completed the BPTC with LLM - how are you dealing with this? There is no option to select on the drop down box, but I do want to highlight my dissertation result. Any advice?

Our dissertation connected to the BPTC is pass / fail because apparently it can’t affect the BPTC result - Can I assume by your post yours have been graded? :-(