SQE2 Preparation Course On Campus
This on-campus course will prepare you for the SRA’s centralised SQE2 skills assessments, which will test the practical legal skills of client interviewing, advocacy, legal writing, drafting and research, and case and matter analysis.
You can choose to study full-time or part-time at one of our nationwide locations. This course is designed for those who have already studied Functioning Legal Knowledge (FLK) by completing SQE1 training, such as on our SQE1 Preparation Course or as a result of studying the LPC.
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This course will develop six practical legal skills in order to sit SQE2 and be ready for practice:
- Interviewing
- Advocacy/Persuasive Oral Communication
- Case and matter analysis
- Practical Legal Research
- Legal Writing
- Legal Drafting
There are six units per week throughout the course (two units per week in the part-time courses).
The course will also help you prepare for Qualifying Work Experience (QWE) as a trainee solicitor, by helping you to develop the practical legal skills required in the workplace.
There are regular practice assessments scheduled throughout the course, with feedback provided, to help you prepare for the requirements of the real assessments.
Students studying this course will receive full access to our ULaw SQE Revision App.
The app is designed to help prepare and embed your Functioning Legal Knowledge (FLK), ready to take on the SQE2 assessments.
Full-time
January 2024:
Start date: Induction w/c 29 January 2024. Teaching commences w/c 5 February 2024
End Date: 10 May 2024
SQE Exam Date: April 2024
May 2024:
Start date: Induction w/c 13 May 2024. Teaching commences w/c 20 May 2024
End Date: 23 August 2024
SQE Exam Date: July 2024
August 2024:
Start date: Induction w/c 05 August 2024. Teaching commences w/c 12 August 2024
End Date: 08 November 2024
SQE Exam Date: October 2024
October 2024:
Start date: Induction w/c 21 October 2024. Teaching commences w/c 28 October 2024.
End Date: 14 February 2025
SQE Exam Date: January 2025
January 2025:
Start date: Induction w/c 27 January 2025. Teaching commences w/c 3 February 2025.
End Date: 16 May 2025
SQE Exam Date: April 2025
Part-time
February 2024:
Start Date: Induction w/c 19 February 2024 and Teaching commences 26 February 2024
End date: 23 August 2024
SQE Exam Date: July 2024
June 2024:
Start Date: Induction w/c 3 June 2024 and Teaching commences 10 June 2024
End date: 08 November 2024
SQE Exam Date: October 2024
August 2024:
Start Date: Induction w/c 12 August 2024 and Teaching commences w/c 19 August 2024
End date: 14 February 2025
SQE Exam Date: January 2025
November 2024:
Start Date: Induction w/c 4 November 2024 and Teaching commences w/c 19 August 2024
End date: 16 May 2025
SQE Exam Date: April 2025
February 2025:
Start Date: Induction w/c 17 February 2025 and Teaching commences 24 February 2025
End date:22 August 2025
SQE Exam Date: July 2025
The dates of our SQE Preparation Courses align with the SQE assessment dates.
If the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) changes an assessment date, we may need to change our course dates.
*Each intake will close for online booking at 12:00 on the start dates noted above*
*Our satellite campuses (Chester, Exeter, Liverpool Newcastle, Norwich, Reading, Royal Holloway, Sheffield, and Southampton) will close 5 working days before (i.e. the Monday prior to the start dates noted above) to allow for ID and enrolment with the parent University*
Course fees
- London, Hong Kong £5,650 (HK$58,200.00)
- Birmingham, Bristol, Exeter, Guildford, Reading, Royal Holloway, Southampton £4,450
- Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham, Sheffield £4000
The course fee does not include the SQE2 assessment fee of £2,493 (HK$24,930.00).
You can pay with one upfront payment or with three monthly instalments (six monthly instalments on the part-time courses).
Offers and discounts
- SQE Bundle Offer: 50% off printed SQE Study Manuals when purchased together with an SQE Course (eBooks are included in the course fee) - discount applied at checkout.
- There is an additional £250 (HK$2,500.00) Alumni loyalty scheme discount for ULaw graduates.
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*Please note - Instalment payments are only available for students using our £GBP eStore.
The course includes a wide range of practice tests and materials but there is no formal assessment and it does not lead to an academic award. The course will prepare you for the SQE2 assessments.
You will book, pay for and sit your SQE assessments externally, this includes requests for reasonable adjustments. See sra.org.uk for full details.
The SQE2 assessments involves approximately 14 hours of skills assessments over five half days. There are 16 written and oral tasks covering the six legal skills:
- Client interviewing including a linked attendance note/legal analysis
- Advocacy
- Case and matter analysis, including negotiation planning
- Legal research
- Legal writing
- Legal drafting
The assessments are set in the practice areas of:
- Criminal practice (including advising clients at the police station)
- Dispute resolution
- Property practice
- Wills and intestacy, probate administration and practice
- Business organisations, rules and procedures (including money laundering and financial services)
This course is available at a number of our ULaw campuses in the UK and Hong Kong, as well as Online
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