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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The post-assessment statistical report has been published. It contains the assessment related information such as the pass rates, including statistics, on the SQE1 assessments.
To help you interpret the results, below is a summary of the pass rates and findings on cohort strength.
The pass rates for the July 2025 SQE1 were:
The pass rates for the previous four SQE1 sittings were:
The charts below set out the pass rates for all candidates and the proportion of resitters over the past four SQE1 assessments. Charts setting out the individual breakdown for FLK1 and FLK2 are set out further below.
The standard of performance a candidate needs to pass SQE1 is the same for every sitting.
This is why there is no pre-determined pass mark for the assessment. The pass mark is set independently for each paper to allow for differences in difficulty. All papers are intended to be equally challenging. However, if there is evidence that one paper was slightly harder than others, a slightly lower pass mark will be set for that paper. For more information on how the SQE1 standard setting process works, please see the video How the pass mark for SQE1 is set, which was originally delivered as part of the April 2025 SQE annual conference.
One of the ways we make sure the standard is maintained is through the use of common questions. We analyse how candidates sitting at different times, and also between different papers in the same sitting, performed in those questions.
The analysis of the performance on the common questions in the July 2025 assessment showed that the July 2025 cohort is weaker than previous cohorts, including the July 2024 cohort.
The 2024 and 2025 July SQE1 cohorts included more re-sitting candidates than the equivalent January cohorts. This was particularly so for July 2025. Of the July 2025 SQE1 cohort (those taking both FLK1 and FLK2), 19% were re-sitting – this is the highest proportion of re-sitting candidates we have yet seen for a SQE1 sitting. Re-sitting candidates have lower pass rates than those sitting for the first time. This is the case for SQE1 and SQE2 and follows the pattern seen in other professional exams too.
The statistical report for the July 2025 SQE1 includes more detail on candidate performance.
The charts below set out the pass rates and proportion of resitters over the past four SQE1 assessments by FLK1 and FLK2. The charts capture re-sitters that may have been sitting either FLK1 or FLK2 only (having passed the other on a previous sitting).
Learn more: SQE reports