How to register for the SQE1 and SQE2 assessments.
How to verify your ID and what you need to provide.
What the survey is, and what it covers.
If you need help or assistance to sit your assessments.
If you are a qualified lawyer, you may be eligible for an exemption.
How to book the SQE1 and SQE2 assessments.
Find out how and when to book your SQE assessments.
Upcoming assessment dates, booking windows, and test centre locations.
Find out how you can take the SQE assessments in Welsh.
Everything you need to know about sitting the SQE1 and SQE2 assessments.
The assessment specification for both FLK1 and FLK2, including annexes and sample questions.
The specification for the written and oral assessments, including annexes and sample questions.
What to expect on the assessment days and how to claim mitigating circumstances.
How to get your results, how assessments are marked, how to resit an assessment, or make an appeal.
What to expect when you get your results, and how to resit any assessments.
Read and download SQE reports.
Learn about what the SQE is, who it's for and how much it costs.
Find out what the SQE is and how it works.
Find out who's eligible to take the SQE, including exemptions.
Find out how much the SQE will cost and how you can pay for it.
Find out what candidates say about their experience of the SQE.
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We have updated the SQE Assessment Regulations (the Regulations). These take effect from 1 June 2022 and apply to anyone that has booked to take a future assessment, including those sitting SQE1 in July 2022.
The amendments to the Regulations are minor. They have been made in light of our experience in dealing with candidates during and after the November 2021 SQE1 assessments. The changes express the underlying policy behind the Regulations, by removing duplication and improving clarity. They do not alter the SQE assessment or any decisions in respect of candidates and have been approved by the Legal Services Board.
A new regulation 4.3 reiterates that Functioning Legal Knowledge 1 (FLK1) and Functioning Legal Knowledge 2 (FLK2) must be taken in a single assessment window. It also clarifies the exceptions to this for the avoidance of doubt. For example, a candidate may sit just one FLK where they have attempted both and, having passed one of these assessments and failed the other, are having a further attempt at the assessment that they failed.
We have also emphasised that SQE2 is a single assessment divided into two parts, oral and written, both of which must be taken in a single window.
Further clarification has also been added in Regulation 12 in relation to the circumstances when a candidate may make a claim for mitigating circumstances.
Our policies page provides links to the key policy documents relating to the SQE. It also includes links to other helpful documents including the Regulations.
We would encourage all current and prospective candidates to read the assessment regulations.
Learn more: Policies