Course summary
This online course is designed for professionals working full-time in the legal sector, including international lawyers, who wish to qualify as a solicitor in England and Wales using the SQE pathway to qualification. It is designed to support the legal knowledge and skills you will have already developed in the legal industry, while preparing you for the SRA’s centralised SQE1 assessments, which test functioning legal knowledge (FLK). If you do not have experience working in the legal sector, or you feel that you need a deeper dive into the English legal system, you may wish to study our online SQE1 Preparation Course. This course will help you acquire the basic legal knowledge and skills required to sit the SRA’s centralised SQE1 assessments, which test functioning legal knowledge (FLK) through two multiple choice assessments, each comprising 180 single best answer questions. Why choose this course?
- It combines the foundations of English Law with our SQE1 Preparation Course, to complement the knowledge and skills you will have already developed in the legal industry, to provide you with the best possible preparation to pass the SQE1 assessments.
- Adaptive and personalised learner journey, using our dynamic learning model: Prepare, Engage, Consolidate (PEC), covering all professional practice subjects and revision of all law subjects in the SRA’s assessment specification.
- Confidence for the assessments, with the opportunity to practice daily for the exact type of questions you’ll face. Our intelligent revision app, ULawSQE, will give you practice tests using multiple-choice questions, which prepare you for the SQE1 exams, so you’ll know exactly what to expect. It will focus on the topics you need to improve, giving you the best preparation for success in the assessments.
- Benefit from our extensive experience in preparing students for the type of questions in the SQE1 assessments.
- Brand new resources, developed specifically for SQE by our expert lecturers. You’ll be provided with all course materials, including an extensive bank of practice exam questions, ULaw SQE – our intelligent revision app provides practice tests and feedback, and 15 online study manuals, written specifically for SQE1.
- Support for your career. You’ll have access to ULaw’s award-winning Employability Service, for information, advice, practical experience and links to the profession to help you to succeed in your career. Available at all of our campuses, the Employability Team will help you achieve your career and work experience goals.
- We have a vast network in the legal industry and deliver training to 91 of the top 100 law firms, with exclusive relationships with 61 of the top UK law firms and many of the most prestigious US firms.
Modules
Students will be required to complete a pre-study online diagnostic test to check their understanding of the key foundational law subjects. This should be completed within 24 hours of the start date. This Academic Legal Knowledge Quiz is made up of 7 subjects which represent the Black Letter Law subjects. We use diagnostic testing to assess each student’s knowledge in these subjects for SQE1. Based on your results, we may recommend extra revision aids or a law conversion course. This course comprises fifteen short modules spanning the Academic Law and Professional Practice components of the SQE syllabus for both Functioning Legal Knowledge 1 (FLK 1) and Functioning Legal Knowledge 2 (FLK 2). Ethics and Professional Conduct is taught across both FLK 1 and FLK 2, but also attracts a small number of dedicated Units of its own. Functioning Legal Knowledge 1 (FLK 1) Professional Practice Business Law and Practice Dispute Resolution Legal Services Academic Law Contract Tort Constitutional and Administrative Law and EU Law Legal System of England and Wales Functioning Legal Knowledge 2 (FLK 2) Professional Practice Criminal Practice Property Practice Wills and the Administration of Estates Solicitors Accounts Academic Law Criminal Law Land Law Trusts You will typically study two units per week and each unit will take approximately 5 hours to complete. Each unit follows our unique dynamic learning model: Prepare, Engage, Consolidate (PEC). Prepare. You will spend approximately 3.25 hours per unit preparing, using the University’s virtual learning environment (VLE) where all resources will be accessible. The Prepare stage includes a rich mixture of learning activities, including study manuals, multi-media, preparatory tasks, and quizzes. Engage. You will spend approximately 1 hour per unit practising the skill or applying the knowledge you have acquired in the Prepare stage. For academic law units, you will use the University's intelligent revision tool, ULaw SQE, to attempt a practice test on the unit content by way of a series of Single Best Answer Questions (mimicking the style of the real assessment). For professional practice units, you will undertake learning activities in the University's VLE. Consolidate. You will complete the Consolidate stage using our VLE. This stage involves a mixture of short consolidation learning activities and weekly revision tests on practice and law subjects using our intelligent revision app.
Assessment method
There are no formal ULaw exams. There are mock SQE1 assessments throughout the course, to track your progress and help you prepare for the requirements of the real assessments. This course does not lead to an academic award. However, students who successfully pass the SQE1 assessments will accumulate 60 credits, which can be applied towards an award under the University’s Recognition of External Assessments Policy. You will sit your SQE assessments at Pearson VUE test centres in the UK and internationally. For details on how to book, pay and receive your results for your SQE assessments, as well as request any reasonable adjustments, please visit the SRA website on https://sqe.sra.org.uk. There are two multiple choice assessments over two days – one for FLK1 and one for FLK2. FLK1 covers: Business Law and Practice; Dispute Resolution; Contract; Tort; Legal System of England and Wales; Constitutional and Administrative Law; and Legal Services FLK2 covers: Property Practice; Wills and the Administration of Estates; Solicitors Accounts; Land Law; Trusts; Criminal Law; and Criminal Practice Each assessment contains 180 single best answer questions. On each day the assessment is likely to take five hours, with a break in the middle.
Entry requirements
None required. However, the SRA requires a degree (or equivalent) to qualify as a solicitor.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
| EU | £5400 | Whole course |
| International | £5400 | Whole course |
| England | £5400 | Whole course |
| Northern Ireland | £5400 | Whole course |
| Scotland | £5400 | Whole course |
| Wales | £5400 | Whole course |
| Channel Islands | £5400 | Whole course |
| Republic of Ireland | £5400 | Whole course |
Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .
Additional fee information
Study manuals: eBooks are included in the course fee, and you’ll receive a 50% discount if you’d like to purchase print versions.
This course does not qualify for postgraduate funding. We have alternative courses with postgraduate funding including our LLM Legal Practice (SQE1&2).
Offers and discounts:
Free SQE1 Exam Preparation Course. Saving you £550.
There is an additional £250 SQE Prep Alumni Discount for ULaw graduates.
You can pay with one upfront payment or with six monthly instalments (part-time courses only).
Pass first time or study for free. We’re so confident in our SQE courses that, if you don’t pass the SQE1, you can repeat our Exam Preparation Courses up to two further times.
Provider information
The University of Law
2 Bunhil Row
London
EC1Y 8HQ