SQE questions, answered from the SRA's own figures.

For sittings from September 2026 the SRA charges £2,006 for SQE1 (£1,003 for each of FLK1 and FLK2) and £3,086 for SQE2, so £5,092 in total for a first attempt at both. Resitting one FLK costs £1,003. Sittings up to August 2026 were £1,934 and £2,974. All fees are VAT exempt. An appeal costs £350 at the first stage and £850 at the final stage, refunded if it succeeds.

53% of the 7,863 candidates graded in January 2026 passed SQE1, and 58% of those sitting for the first time. FLK1 was passed by 62% and FLK2 by 57%. First-time pass rates have ranged from 46% to 60% since the exam began, and the lowest overall rate was 41% in July 2025.

83% of the 2,966 candidates graded in April 2026 passed SQE2, and 85% of first-time candidates. First-time SQE2 pass rates have ranged from 69% to 84% since the exam began.

SQE1 is two assessments, FLK1 and FLK2, of 180 single best answer questions each, 360 in total. Each assessment is sat on a separate day at a Pearson VUE test centre and is split into two sessions of 90 questions lasting 2 hours 33 minutes, with a 60-minute break. That is about 1.7 minutes a question. The exam is closed book.

FLK1 covers Business Law and Practice, Dispute Resolution, Contract Law, Tort, Legal System of England and Wales, Legal Services. FLK2 covers Property Law and Practice, Wills and the Administration of Estates, Solicitors Accounts, Land Law, Trusts Law, Criminal Liability, Criminal Law and Practice. Ethics and Professional Conduct is examined across every subject in both papers. Each subject is 14 to 20% of its paper, except Legal Services at 12 to 16% and Solicitors Accounts, which is examined within Property and Wills.

One mark per correct answer and no negative marking. The pass mark is set for each sitting by the Assessment Board using the Modified Angoff method and statistical equating, then results are placed on a 0 to 500 scale with the pass always at 300. Each FLK has its own pass mark and you must pass both. The raw percentage is not published; for the first sitting in November 2021 the SRA said it was 57% for FLK1 and 56% for FLK2.

You have six years to complete SQE1 and SQE2, counted from the first day you sit your first SQE assessment, with up to three attempts at each. If you pass one FLK and fail the other you resit only the one you failed.

You are examined on the law as it stands four calendar months before the first assessment in your window. Changes implemented on that date may be examined. For SQE1 January 2027 the cut-off is 11 September 2026. For SQE2 January 2027 it is 26 September 2026. From the September 2026 specification, where a question needs the monetary value of a relief, exemption, rate or threshold, the figure is provided in the question.

The next SQE1 sitting is SQE1 January 2027: FLK1 11 to 15 Jan 2027, FLK2 18 to 22 Jan 2027. The next SQE2 sitting is SQE2 January 2027: Oral 26 to 29 Jan 2027, Written 2 to 4 Feb 2027. SQE1 runs in January and July; SQE2 in January, April, July and October. Booking closes about five weeks before a sitting.

12 written stations over three half-days (each day one case and matter analysis, one legal drafting, one legal research and one legal writing: day 1 in Dispute Resolution and Criminal Law and Practice, day 2 in Property Practice and Wills and the Administration of Estates, day 3 all in Business Law and Practice) and 4 oral stations over two half-days (advocacy in Dispute Resolution and in Criminal Law and Practice; a client interview with attendance note in Property Practice and in Wills and the Administration of Estates). Written stations are at Pearson VUE centres; oral stations in London, Manchester, Birmingham or Cardiff.

Case and matter analysis 60 minutes, legal research 60 minutes, legal writing 30 minutes, legal drafting 45 minutes. The client interview is 10 minutes of preparation, 25 minutes with the client and 25 minutes to write the attendance note by hand. Advocacy is 45 minutes of preparation and 15 minutes of submissions.

Every assessment criterion is graded A to F and converted to marks out of 5 (A is 5, F is 0). Skills marks and law marks are averaged separately, combined with equal weight for each station, and the 16 station percentages are averaged. There is one pass mark for the whole exam, reported on a 0 to 500 scale with the pass at 300. Interviews are marked by the trained actor playing the client, on skills only. Everything else is marked by a solicitor qualified in England and Wales. From 1 September 2026, ethics and professional conduct is graded as its own law criterion at every station.

Criminal Law and Practice (drawing on Criminal Liability); Dispute Resolution (drawing on Contract Law and Tort); Property Practice (drawing on Land Law); Wills and the Administration of Estates (drawing on Trusts Law); Business Law and Practice (drawing on Contract Law). Not examined in SQE2: The Legal System of England and Wales (including constitutional and administrative law and EU law); Legal Services, apart from money laundering and financial services; Solicitors Accounts.

No. SQEEZE writes its own questions in SRA style, with every option explained. The SRA publishes 220 sample questions, 130 of them used in real sittings with the percentage of candidates who got each right, at https://sqe.sra.org.uk/assessments/sqe1-assessments/sqe1-sample-questions. A PAST QUESTIONS mode that presents them under the SRA's terms, with SQEEZE's own explanations clearly marked as ours, is on the way.

Not yet. SQEEZE covers the four written skills now, timed to the SRA station clock. An AI client and AI judge for the interview and advocacy stations are being built around the SRA's assessment criteria; join the waitlist on the SQE2 page to hear first.