Our SQE2 revision guides offer a comprehensive overview of the written and oral skills in the context of professional conduct issues that may arise in your assessment and in practice.
They systematically break down the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s (SRA’s) assessment criteria for all oral and written skills, explaining what the SRA considers to be competent or not competent in their performance indicators (PIs).
They also focus on how to identify ethical and professional conduct issues and exercise your judgement to resolve them honestly and with integrity, by outlining the SRA Principles, the SRA’s Code of Conduct for Solicitors, RELs and RFLs (registered European lawyers and registered foreign lawyers, respectively), and guidance from the SRA and Practice Directions.
The books provide a step-by-step approach to these legal skills, along with ‘Have a go’ sections where you can practise your skills in digestible stages. There is also strategic advice to help you prepare effectively for the SQE2 assessments.
The key to successfully navigating your SQE2 assessment can be split into three distinct areas:
- understanding how you are being assessed and what you are being assessed on
- practising example scenarios
- comparing and contrasting your answers with sample answers.
Our SQE2 guides are here to help you with this process, providing you not only with helpful guidance and top tips for approaching all of the relevant skills, but also with sample questions for each assessable skill in each of the relevant legal disciplines.
Each book provides a range of example threshold answers to SQE2-style assessment questions, which you can use to practise and assess your answers against, to see how you are performing in each individual area.
Samples of high- and lower-scoring threshold answers to each question are provided to guide you in good practice, and steer you away from potential pitfalls.
Finally, always keep in mind that while SQE2 is primarily a skills-based assessment, you are still being tested on your knowledge of the law. It is therefore important that you conduct an honest self-evaluation on the areas of the SQE1 specification with which you feel you need further support. Revise SQE can help you with this:
- Review the ‘SQE1 Revision Checklist’ for each of our SQE1 revision guides on our website: www. revise4law.co.uk. These will help you to identify which substantive topics you feel confident about being assessed on, and which ones you need to revise.
- All our Revise SQE revision guides are mapped to the relevant SRA specifications. Before taking the SQE2 assessments, remember to look back at our revision guides for SQE1 if you have any gaps in your legal knowledge.