About SQE2
Welcome to Revise SQE: Legal Skills for SQE2
This series of eight revision guides will help you pass SQE2, the second part of the Solicitors Qualifying Examination, focusing largely on legal skills.
SQE2 will assess you on your ability to apply the Functioning Legal Knowledge you acquired for SQE1 in a range of legal contexts, using the key written and oral legal skills.
To pass the SQE2 assessment it will be essential for you to
• Understand how you are being assessed and what you are being assessed on
• Practise example scenarios
• Compare your own answers against sample answers
Revise SQE: Legal Skills for SQE2 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.
Assessment dates for SQE2
SQE2 assessments will take place each year in January, April, July and October.
The next SQE2 assessment dates are:
| Assessment | Oral 1st Sitting |
Oral 2nd Sitting |
Oral 3rd Sitting |
Oral 4th Sitting |
Written |
| Jan 2025 | 30 – 31 Jan | 4 – 5 Feb | 6 – 7 Feb | 11 – 13 Feb | |
| Apr 2025 | 28 – 29 Apr | 30 Apr – 1 May | 13-14 May | 15-16 May | 6 – 8 May |
| July 2025 | 28 – 29 July | 30 – 31 July | 5 – 7 August | ||
| October 2025 | 30 – 31 October | 11 – 12 November | 13 – 14 November | 4 – 6 November |
Cost of taking SQE2
The cost of taking the SQE2 assessment is £2,766
This is the fee for taking the SRA’s assessment. If you wish to enrol on a training course or any other form of preparation, you will have additional costs which will vary depending on your choices.
For more information visit the SRA’s website: https://sqe.sra.org.uk/about-sqe/