SQE2 Prep 20-week course

BARBRI SQE2 Prep provides practitioner expertise in practical transactions and legal skills. BARBRI tells you the criteria and standards to which you are being assessed, shows you how to undertake the task and provides multiple practice opportunities to hone your skills.

Our two course options are offered twice a year leading into the scheduled exams in April and October.

Skills lectures

BARBRI SQE2 Prep's faculty consists of experienced solicitors and barristers who are qualified in England and Wales, they will guide you to master the skills required to succeed in SQE2. The Skills Explanations, available as interview-style lectures, are wholly examination-driven, and are carefully crafted to fully interpret the exam criteria and give you tips on how to succeed.

Workbooks

BARBRI will provide you with a short workbook to supplement the skills explanations.

Scaffolding activities

These are guided interactive learning activities which will take the knowledge you have gained watching the Skills Explanations and reading the workbook and apply it to an exam style scenario. Each activity breaks down the different steps you’ll need to master each skill assessed in SQE2.

Self-practice

With our self-practice activities, you get the opportunity to have a go at doing a whole exam question yourself. You’ll receive instant access to self-assessment materials so you can confidently review your own work. You’ll find out how you’re doing, where you can improve, and you’ll even have the chance to mark your peers’ work and have them mark yours, too.

Practice feedback

This is the most valuable asset on the SQE2 course. You have the opportunity to get individual personalised feedback from a BARBRI assessor in every skill assessed in SQE2 through Practice Feedback Activities.

As well as workshops, there'll be strategy sessions and Office Hours sessions, where you drop in to meet your mentors. They'll guide you on anything from how to tackle questions and improve your skills to queries about your own progress.

Mock exams

Before you sit SQE2, you’ll complete mock assessments and receive personal feedback from a BARBRI assessor in each skill and subject assessed in SQE2.

Skills you'll be tested on:

• Client interviewing (and attendance note)
• Advocacy
• Case and matter analysis
• Legal research and written advice
• Legal writing
• Legal drafting

Subjects you'll be tested in:

• Criminal Litigation (including advising clients at the police station)
• Dispute Resolution
• Property Practice
• Wills and Intestacy, Probate Administration and Practice
• Business organisations, rules and procedures (including money laundering and financial services)

Candidates who are looking for the most flexible option to study for the SQE2, who have sat and passed SQE1/QLTS MCT or LPC graduates who are exempt from SQE1.

Candidates who have passed SQE1 or hold an exemption from SQE1.

A brief outline of the path to becoming a solicitor.

• Take SQE1 Prep Course
• Pass SQE1 Exam
• Take SQE2 Prep Course
• Pass SQE2 Exam
• 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