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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.
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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.
Useful advice and resources to help you prepare for the SQE assessments.
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.
If you believe your assessment result or a decision made by the Assessment Board is incorrect or unfair.
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 updates to share with candidates regarding the SQE2 assessment by way of clarification.
We released the updated version of the Assessment Specification showing the changes that were made following the annual review of the FLK in April 2026. The updated specification explains that candidates will be provided with information about taxation in certain circumstances.
Taxation information will be provided as an attachment to a specific assessment. Tax attachments will provide details of exemptions and reliefs, rates and thresholds relevant to the particular area of practice. If a tax attachment is provided with a specific assessment, you should not assume that all information in the attachment is needed to answer the question. You are expected to identify the information in the attachment you need, based on your analysis of the question. For example, if you identify that the conditions for a particular tax relief have been satisfied, you can use the tax attachment to check the value of that relief.
We are updating our FAQs to clarify the following in relation to the marking of the attendance note/legal analysis:
For your interview and attendance note assessments, you are provided with separate booklets for:
The attendance note markers are provided with both your interview notes and attendance note/legal analysis, and both are marked. You can choose to cross-refer to the interview notes in your attendance note/legal analysis but this is not a requirement. Markers will consider the content of the interview notes even if you do not cross-refer to them. If you want the marker to disregard any information, either in your interview notes or in the attendance note/legal analysis, you should cross it out. Information that is crossed out will not be marked.
We are extending the trial of the spell check tool which was added to the Pearson assessment platform for the SQE2 written assessments in July 2026 to the October 2026 SQE2. Details of this trial were published in May and it will continue with exactly the same arrangements that were in place for the July SQE2.
Therefore, the existing guidance on the approach to spelling and grammar for SQE2 written assessments, which is included in the SQE2 assessment specification, continues to apply. The section headed ‘Clear, precise, concise and acceptable language’ in the SQE2 assessment specification reflects the position that a spell check function is available, but that the guidance on clear, precise, concise and acceptable language is still in effect.
We have updated the SQE2 Performance Indicators on the website to reflect the change to the assessment criteria from 1 September 2026, being the creation of a separate SQE2 Law criterion for Ethics and Professional Conduct.
Learn more: SQE2 assessment specification
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