SQE 1&2 assessment ready

This course will prepare you to sit the SQE 1&2 assessments.  Please remember that you will need to book your assessment dates separately. All those wanting to sit the SQE assessments need to register online with the SRA SQE site prior to booking the assessments 

SQE 1 Assessment 

The SQE1 assessment covers functioning legal knowledge, testing the ability of candidates to identify legal principles and apply them to client problems and transactions. It includes unflagged ethics questions throughout.

Covering the breadth and depth of the law of England and Wales, the assessment is split into two 180 question examinations - 10 hours in total over two days - and includes the following disciplines:

1. Business Law and Practice; Dispute Resolution; Contract; Tort; Legal System of England and Wales; Constitutional and Administrative Law and EU Law and Legal Services.

2. Property Practice; Wills and the Administration of Estates; Solicitors Accounts; Land Law; Trusts; Criminal Law and Practice.

SQE 1 sample questions are available on the SRA website.

There are two SQE1 sittings per year taking place in January and July. The SRA has published a table of SQE assessment sitting dates on their website.

Further information about booking assessments is available on the SRA SQE website.

SQE 2 Assessment

The SQE2 assessment is concerned with testing practical legal skills and functioning legal knowledge covered under the SQE1.  Like SQE1 there are also unflagged ethics questions throughout.

Through simulating tasks carried out by a solicitor in practice, SQE2 examine candidates on client interview and attendance note/legal analysis, advocacy, case and matter analysis, legal research, legal writing, legal drafting, and negotiation in the following practice areas: Criminal Litigation, Dispute Resolution, Property Practice, Wills and Intestacy, Probate Administration and Practice, Business organisations, rules and procedures.

SQE 2 sample questions are available on the SRA website.

The SQE2 assessment consists of 16 written and oral tests – 14 hours in total. You can only book and sit SQE2 after passing SQE1, or if you have been granted an exemption by the SRA for the whole of the SQE .

There are four SQE2 sittings per year in January, April, July, and October.

Assessment dates, locations and booking windows can be found via the SQE assessment booking website.