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How to Structure Your SQE2 Oral Exams: Advocacy and Interview Techniques
One of the biggest challenges candidates face in SQE2 oral exams is maintaining a clear, confident structure during assessments. Whether you’re tackling client interviews or advocacy tasks, having a solid framework can make all the difference in helping you stay organised, demonstrate professionalism, and pick up crucial marks. In this blog, I’ll break down easy-to-follow…
Read MoreHow Do I Prepare for the SQE2?
Preparing for SQE2 is a crucial step toward qualifying as a solicitor in England and Wales. Unlike SQE1, which tests legal knowledge through multiple-choice questions, SQE2 focuses on practical legal skills, as well as legal knowledge, requiring candidates to demonstrate their ability to apply the law in a variety of scenarios. If you’ve been wondering,…
Read MoreSQE2 Strategy: How to Structure Answers for Success
Preparing for SQE2 requires more than just legal knowledge—a super important SQE2 strategy is to have a structured approach to answering each assessment clearly and concisely. Many candidates lose marks because they don’t follow the correct SQE2 approach, missing key legal explanations or failing to present their answers logically. In this blog post, I’ll walk…
Read MoreWhat Percentage of People Pass the SQE 2 Exam?
The Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE) is a key milestone for aspiring solicitors in England and Wales. It’s split into two stages—SQE1 and SQE2. After SQE1 is done and dusted, many candidates think that the hardest part is done and the “skills-based” SQE2 can’t be too bad, right? Generally, it is true that the pass rate…
Read MoreIs SQE2 Harder Than the LPC?
As aspiring solicitors transition to the Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE) framework, a key question arises: is SQE2 harder than the LPC? With the introduction of the SQE reshaping the qualification journey, many candidates—particularly LPC graduates looking to qualify via SQE2—are keen to understand how these assessments compare in terms of difficulty, structure, and preparation. In…
Read MoreSQE2 Resit Strategies: Turning Failure into Success
The Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE) exams are necessary to qualify as solicitors in England and Wales. While many candidates successfully navigate the SQE2, some may find themselves needing to resit. If you’re among those who didn’t achieve the desired results, don’t be disheartened – it can happen to anyone and is no reflection on you…
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