SQE1 Preparation for Legal Professionals Online
London, United Kingdom
Preparatory Program
DURATION
40 weeks
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
TUITION FEES
GBP 5,600
STUDY FORMAT
Distance Learning
* next intakes: March 2026, September 2026
Key Facts
- Duration options: 40 weeks part-time (10 hours per week)
- Study mode options: Part-time
- Next Start Date: September 2025
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.
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).
Offers and discounts
- £250 SQE Prep Alumni Discount for ULaw graduates.
- Free SQE1 Exam Preparation Course. Saving you £600.
- You can pay with one upfront payment or with three monthly instalments (six monthly instalments on the part-time courses).
- 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. Terms and conditions apply.
Pre-course Study
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.
Modules
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


