Understanding the SQE2 syllabus breakdown is essential for effective SQE2 preparation. This detailed overview explains the SQE2 subjects and practical skills requirements.
Practical Legal Skills Assessment
SQE2 represents the practical component of solicitor qualification, focusing on the application of legal knowledge through essential professional skills. This assessment forms part of the comprehensive Solicitors Qualifying Examination syllabus and evaluates candidates’ ability to apply the Functioning Legal Knowledge acquired during SQE1 preparation in realistic legal contexts.
SQE2 evaluates candidates’ ability to demonstrate practical competence in legal practice. The assessment encompasses:
Written Skills Assessment:
- Legal research
- Legal writing
- Legal drafting
- Case and matter analysis
Oral Skills Assessment:
- Client interview and attendance note/legal analysis
- Advocacy
- Negotiation
Assessment occurs across multiple practice areas including dispute resolution; property practice; wills and intestacy, probate administration and practice; criminal practice; and business organisations.
The Revise SQE series of nine revision guides will help you pass SQE2, the second part of the Solicitors Qualifying Examination, focusing largely on legal skills.
Revise SQE: Legal Skills for SQE2 is made up of none books and has all the help you need, providing you not only with helpful guidance and top tips for approaching all the relevant skills, but also with multiple SQE2-style questions for each legal skill, and in each of the relevant legal disciplines. You’ll be able to consider both high and low-scoring sample answers for each question, assessed against the SQE2 threshold.
Using this series in conjunction with our series of SQE1 revision guides will ensure that you have accurate and up-to-date legal knowledge, mastery of the legal skills, and an understanding of how you will be assessed, enabling you to tackle the SQE2 with confidence.