The post-assessment statistical report for the July 2026 SQE1 assessment has been published. It contains assessment-related information, including pass rates and statistics on the SQE1 assessments.

Pass rates for SQE1 overall

The overall pass rates for the July 2026 SQE1 assessment, for candidates who sat both FLK1 and FLK2, were:

• 47% for candidates sitting for the first time
• 42% for all candidates, including those who were re-sitting both FLK1 and FLK2

The pass rates for the previous six SQE1 sittings were:

The statistical report includes more detail on candidate performance.

Explanatory notes

• The standard of performance a candidate needs to pass SQE1 is the same for every sitting.
• 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.
• The SQE1 July cohorts continue to have a higher proportion of resitting candidates than the January cohorts. This was particularly so for July 2026. Of the July 2026 SQE1 cohort, 23.4% for FLK1 and 27.8% for FLK2 were re-sitting – this is the highest proportion of re-sitting candidates for an 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.

Pass rate by FLK

The tables below set out the pass rates over the past six SQE1 assessments by FLK1 and FLK2.

FLK1

FLK2

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