SQE1 Preparation Course

Course Details

SQE1 Preparation Course

This course will prepare you for the SRA’s centralised SQE1 assessments. The SQE1 assessments will test functioning legal knowledge (FLK) through two multiple choice assessments, each comprising 180 single best answer questions.

The course will also help you prepare for Qualifying Work Experience (QWE) as a trainee solicitor, by helping you to develop functioning legal knowledge for practice.

Why choose the SQE1 Preparation Course?

• Adaptive and personalised learner journey, using our dynamic learning model: Prepare, Engage, Consolidate (PEC), covering all professional practice subjects and revision of all law subjects in the SRA’s assessment specification.
• Confidence for the assessments, with the opportunity to practise daily for the exact type of questions you’ll face. Our intelligent revision app, ULawSQE, will give you practice tests using multiple-choice questions, which prepare you for the SQE1 exams, so you’ll know exactly what to expect. It will focus on the topics you need to improve, giving you the best preparation for success in the assessments.
• Benefit from our extensive experience in preparing students for the type of questions in the SQE1 assessments.
• In depth lecturer guidance and support from our experienced lecturers, who are all practitioners. Your lecturer will monitor your progress and give you weekly individual feedback using predictive analytics, so you’ll know where to focus.
• Brand new resources, developed specifically for SQE by our expert lecturers. You’ll be provided with all course materials including our ULaw SQE revision app, which has an extensive bank of practice exam questions. You’ll be able to take mock tests and receive personalised feedback.
• Enjoy flexibility - We understand that everyone’s circumstances are different. That’s why we offer a wide range of study modes (full-time, part-time, on campus, online) across our courses to provide you with the greatest choice and flexibility you need to succeed in your studies. 
• Experience of working in practice. You’ll learn in the context of our virtual law firm, ULaw LLP. ULaw LLP replicates the working environment of a law firm and students perform real world tasks on simulated cases, deals and transactions, as if they were in the office.
• Support for your career. You’ll have access to ULaw’s award-winning Employability Service, for information, advice, practical experience and links to the profession to help you to succeed in your career. Available at all campuses, the Employability Team will help you achieve your career and work experience goals.
• We have a vast network in the legal industry and deliver training to 91 of the top 100 law firms, with exclusive relationships with 61 of the top UK law firms and many of the most prestigious US firms.

Not sure if this course is right for you? Download our free guide, An SQE Course for Everyone, to find your path to becoming a solicitor.

Following this course, we recommend:

• SQE1 Exam Preparation Course. When you book the SQE1 Preparation Course, you’ll get the SQE1 Exam Preparation Course for free.
• SQE2 Preparation Course - this course is designed for those who’ve completed SQE1 training, such as our SQE1 Preparation Course.
• SQE2 Exam Preparation Course. When you book the SQE2 Preparation Course, you’ll get the SQE2 Exam Preparation Course for free.

Important Information

Progression for full-time PgDL and MA Law (Conversion) students

Based on the projected end dates of our full-time Postgraduate Diploma in Law (PgDL) and Master of Arts in Law (MA Law Conversion) courses, find out if you are eligible to commence our Bar Practice Course (BPC), LLM Legal Practice (SQE1&2) or SQE1 Preparation Course in January 2025.

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Please note: If you require a visa to study in the UK and wish to progress on to one of our on-campus vocational courses, please refer to our UK visa requirements page for information about applying for a Student Route visa.

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*All eligible cohorts contacted, results based on over 2,000 responses.

SQE Exam Dates

Full access to the SQE app

Students studying our SQE1 Preparation Course will receive full access to our intelligent SQE revision app ULaw SQE. The app is designed to help prepare and embed your Functioning Legal Knowledge (FLK), ready to take on the SQE1 assessments.

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Course Structure

Pre-course study

Students will be required to complete a pre-study online diagnostic test to check their understanding of the key foundational law subjects. This should be completed within 24 hours of the start date.

This Academic Legal Knowledge Quiz is made up of 7 subjects which represent the Black Letter Law subjects.

We use diagnostic testing to assess each student’s knowledge in these subjects for SQE1. Based on your results, we may recommend extra revision aids or a law conversion course.

Modules

This course has two modules. Ethics and Professional Conduct is taught across both FLK 1 and FLK 2.

The appropriate level of academic law knowledge is likely, though not required, to have come from a previous course of academic study. Academic law subjects will not be directly taught on the SQE1 Preparation Course, but students will have opportunities and materials to enable them to revise academic law content throughout. Students whose academic law knowledge may not be sufficient or sufficiently recent to undertake the SQE1 Preparation Course may wish first to undertake our SQE Law Essentials course, which provides a solid academic law foundation and a firm basis for progression.

Functioning Legal Knowledge 1 (FLK1)

Professional Practice

• Business Law and Practice
• Dispute Resolution
• Legal Services

Academic Law

• Contract
• Tort
• Legal System of England and Wales
• Constitutional and Administrative Law and EU Law

Functioning Legal Knowledge 2 (FLK2)

Professional Practice

• Property Practice
• Wills and the Administration of Estates
• Solicitors Accounts
• Criminal Practice

Academic Law

• Land Law
• Trusts
• Criminal Law

There are four to five units per week throughout the course (two units per week on the part-time course). Each unit follows our unique dynamic learning model: Prepare, Engage, Consolidate (PEC).

Prepare. You will spend approximately six hours per unit preparing, using the University’s virtual learning environment (VLE) where all resources will be accessible. The Prepare stage includes a rich mixture of learning activities, including study manuals, multi-media, preparatory tasks, and quizzes.

Engage. The Engage stage involves between four and five two-hour classroom based and lecturer facilitated face to face workshops where you will be asked to apply the knowledge you have acquired in the Prepare stage.

Consolidate. You will complete the Consolidate stage using our VLE. This stage involves a mixture of short consolidation learning activities and weekly revision tests on practice and law subjects using our intelligent revision app.

There will be regular mock assessments throughout the course, along with opportunities to review your progress and ask questions of your subject expert lecturers in group review sessions.

Course Start Dates

January 2026

• SQE1 Preparation Course
  • Part-time Day: Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, London Bloomsbury, London Moorgate and Sheffield
  • Part-time Evening: London Bloomsbury and London Moorgate
  • Part-time Weekend: Birmingham, London Bloomsbury and Manchester

March 2026

• SQE1 Preparation Course
  • Full-time: Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, London Bloomsbury, London Moorgate, Manchester and Oxford Brookes

June 2026

• SQE1 Preparation Course
  • Part-time Day: Birmingham, Bristol, Egham (Royal Holloway), Exeter, Leeds, Liverpool, London Bloomsbury, London Moorgate, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham, Reading, Sheffield and Southampton
  • Part-time Evening: London Bloomsbury, London Moorgate and Manchester
  • Part-time Weekend: Birmingham, Bristol, Exeter, Leeds, London Bloomsbury, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham and Sheffield

September 2026

• SQE1 Preparation Course
  • Full-time: Birmingham, Bristol, Egham (Royal Holloway), Exeter, Leeds, Liverpool, London Bloomsbury, London Moorgate, Manchester, Newcastle, Norwich, Nottingham, Reading, Sheffield and Southampton

January 2027

• SQE1 Preparation Course
  • Part-time Day: Birmingham, Bristol, Egham (Royal Holloway), Exeter, Leeds, Liverpool, London Bloomsbury, London Moorgate, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham, Reading, Sheffield and Southampton
  • Part-time Evening: London Bloomsbury, London Moorgate and Manchester
  • Part-time Weekend: Birmingham, Bristol, Exeter, Leeds, London Bloomsbury, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham and Sheffield

July 2027

• SQE1 Preparation Course
  • Full-time: Birmingham, Bristol, Egham (Royal Holloway), Exeter, Hull, Leeds, Liverpool, London Bloomsbury, London Moorgate, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham, Oxford Brookes, Reading, Sheffield and Southampton
  • Part-time: Birmingham, Bristol, Egham (Royal Holloway), Exeter, Hull, Leeds, Liverpool, London Bloomsbury, London Moorgate, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham, Oxford Brookes, Reading, Sheffield and Southampton

Online

Study SQE1 Preparation Course Online starting January 2026, March 2026, June 2026, September 2026, January 2027 or July 2027

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