Excellent SQE1 & SQE2 Prep Courses
I started the SQE1 prep course with Law Training Centre (LTCkent) in 2021. I was impressed with the course and after comfortably passing the SQE1 exam, I then decided to take the SQE2 prep course with Law Training Centre as well. Both courses were very competitively priced.
SQE1: The course was well-structured and rich in content. Every assessment area for SQE1 has its own module, with multiple topics for each module. The topics cover the functioning legal knowledge as set in the SQE1 assessment specification. Every topic typically has e-learning slides, a recorded video lecture, a multiple-choice quiz and recommendations for further reading. As part of the SQE1 course, I was also given access to Practical Law and the Oxford Law Trove collection. These resources were incredibly useful: if a particular topic was complicated to me, I could dive into the full detail through an available Law Trove book or a Practical Law note.
All these resources are also fully online, which made searches for specific terms easy and allowed me to learn on-the-go through my phone. The Law Training Centre course platform also has an app through which I could easily access the course on my phone. I personally find this to be much more flexible and efficient than learning from hard-cover books. However, I was still able to easily save and print specific course materials where I found it useful to do so.
Every week, there were about 5 live workshops, each covering an area of law from the SQE1 assessment specification. Typically, the workshops would cover mock exam questions and answers in detail, I and other students would have live interaction with the tutor through a chat box or through voice chat. The workshops are usually recorded so you can rewatch them. The tutors running the workshops were knowledgeable about their subject areas and always happy to answer my questions.
I was assigned a personal academic coach, as part of the SQE courses I got unlimited student support. This was useful to check-in on my progress and how I should structure my study schedule. If there was something from the course content that was unclear or missing, this was always quickly addressed by my coach. There is also a forum through which I could ask questions and engage in discussion with students and tutors.
In addition to the mock exam questions from the workshops, there were also multiple timed mock exams. The questions from these mock exams were quite difficult, which ended up being good as it was realistic preparation for the real exam.
SQE2: The structure of the course is similar to SQE1 with the areas of law divided into modules, each consisting of multiple topics. Each topic has e-learning slides and a video lectures. Many modules also have example documents for legal writing and legal drafting and a quiz.
There are usually 2 live workshops every week. During these workshops, we were given a full assignment to consider and then discuss. These assignments would match one of the written or oral assessment types from the actual SQE2 exam. I would then complete the mock assignment from the workshop and submit it to the relevant tutor for feedback. This feedback was always useful and provided in a timely manner. All workshops are also recorded and I therefore had the opportunity to submit the mock assignments for workshops that I was not able to attend live.
I was able to take multiple practice assessments for the interviewing and advocacy assessments. Feedback would then be given afterwards by the tutor, following the SQE2 assessment criteria and marking scheme.
There were also official, ‘final’ mock exams available, with every assessment type covered for all the areas of law. I was particularly happy that I was also offered further mock interview and advocacy assessments in the final days before my exams.
I found that all the mock assessments were of the same difficulty as the actual SQE2 exam. Again this was good as it provided me with realistic preparation and a good sense of what to expect. This helped me to comfortably pass the SQE2 exam.
Furthermore, there were additional live skills workshops where a legal practitioner would cover a topic relevant to working as a solicitor. These skills would not always necessarily be tested in the SQE2 exams, but were still useful to me to prepare for legal work in practice.
Overall, I would very much recommend taking the SQE1 and SQE2 courses with Law Training Centre (Kent) Ltd.
1. September 2023
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