Flexible SQE1 Prep Course: Qualify as a Solicitor

The Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE) is a single, national licensing examination that all aspiring solicitors will take before qualifying into England and Wales. SQE Prep by BARBRI courses for the SQE1 are offered twice a year leading into the scheduled examinations. SQE1 is a computer-based exam that tests your functioning legal knowledge through multiple-choice questions—a specific skill that requires practice and expertise to master in the field of law.

Personal Study Plan

Your tailored, flexible online BARBRI Personal Study Plan (PSP) guides every assignment and activity throughout your entire BARBRI SQE1 Prep course through an integrated Active Adaptive Legal Learning process, ensuring you gain a deep understanding of the law.

Video lectures, workbooks, and practice questions build knowledge over time to create a highly effective SQE1 Prep experience. For both online home study and blended classroom courses, your PSP delivers the right combination of substance and skills on a flexible schedule. All materials are recorded and available online through your PSP to support your law studies.

Recorded Video Lectures

The teaching materials and workshops are wholly examination-driven. They are carefully crafted to convey what you need to know in each area of law. Materials are recorded and available to each candidate online throughout the programme.

Multiple-Choice Exam Expertise

BARBRI has more than 50 years’ experience in training candidates to master multiple-choice exam question techniques and skills in law. During your SQE1 Prep course, you will practice thousands of multiple-choice questions to master the techniques and outcomes tested on the SQE1 law exam. Learning and practice question sets build in difficulty over time and utilise spaced repetition to boost learning and retention of essential law concepts.

1:1 Learning Coaches

All SQE Prep students will be assigned an individual, personal Learning Coach. This is a qualified solicitor who will be mentoring you throughout your exam preparation in law. He or she will schedule personal, bi-weekly check-ins or meetings to see how you are progressing with your studies as well as conduct livestream workshops, provide tips, and help you with any problem areas, including customising your law course if necessary.

Bespoke Resource Books

Before starting the SQE1 prep course, each candidate is supplied with a full set of printed materials for their law studies. These bespoke workbooks are written exclusively by our expert tutors for the subjects examined in the SQE1 law assessment.

ISAAC – The Intuitive Study Assistant and Coach

ISAAC is the engine that runs your BARBRI prep course and gives it flexibility and a personal touch to your individual learning pace, while maintaining your focus on the key areas of law study. As you go through your law course, ISAAC picks up on your progress, recalibrates, and assigns you the most important and helpful material to guarantee your SQE success.

What you'll be tested on:

• Business Law and Practice (including taxation)
• Dispute Resolution Law
• Contract Law
• Tort Law
• The Legal System of England and Wales
• Constitutional & Administrative Law & EU Law
• Legal Services Law
• Property Law Practice (including taxation)
• Wills and the Administration of Estates Law (including taxation)
• Solicitors’ Accounts Law
• Land Law
• Trust Law
• Criminal Law and Practice

Ethics & Professional conduct examined pervasively in law

• Law graduates
• Non-law graduates
• Qualified lawyers (qualified to practice law in other jurisdictions)
• Paralegals or those already working in the legal industry
• Career changers looking to enter the law profession

Candidates are required to meet one of the entry requirements outlined below.

Please note, there is no requirement to hold a degree in law (LLB) or a Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) to sit the SQE.

• A UK degree awarded at level 6 (or above), usually an undergraduate degree but can also be diplomas or other law qualifications
• An equivalent UK law qualification
• An overseas law qualification
• Work experience equivalent to a UK law degree/equivalent qualification (each equivalent application will be considered on a case-by-case basis)

Brief outline - Path to becoming a solicitor.

• Take SQE1 Prep Course (Law)
• Pass SQE1 Exam (Law)
• Take SQE2 Prep Course (Law)
• Pass SQE2 Exam (Law)
• Complete 2 years of Qualifying Work Experience at any point during/after SQE
• QWE to be completed at up to four workplaces and signed off by a qualified solicitor.
• Satisfy the SRA character and suitability requirements
• Be admitted to the roll of solicitors