We are proud of our course offering, specifically designed for our SQE candidates by qualified solicitors and barristers with years of experience in lecturing.
Here we explain how our course is structured, with some sample materials so you can see what makes our SQE2 course so successful.
How is the Course Delivered?
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 tasks, and provides multiple practice opportunities to hone your skills. A stand-out feature is our personalised feedback from our tutors within days of submitting the assessments.
You have the option of taking the full-time Accelerated 10-week course or the part-time Flexible 20-week course. Delivered entirely online, our Flexible course has been designed to enable you to study alongside working.
Course Structure
The course is broken down into a staged process, designed to build onto its various components to help you get through the material in a systematic way. You will also be allocated a tutor who will support you along the way, and you will receive face-to-face assessments and feedback on some of the skills activities with a member of the BARBRI tutor team. They will also lead regular workshops covering study and exam tips and advice.
Each topic is structured in the following way:
1. Diagnostic Assessment of FLK & SQE1 Prep Access
After you’ve enrolled, we’ll offer you a diagnostic assessment to look for any gaps in your functional legal knowledge needed for the SQE2 exam. That way, you will know exactly where to focus your revision time.
We give you access to the SQE1 Prep course materials relevant to the SQE2 exam for the duration of your SQE2 Prep course. This includes nearly 100 short law videos explaining how to look at the FLK through the problem-solving client lens for SQE2. Whether you’ve studied for the SQE1 with us and would like a refresher, or perhaps did the LPC and need to brush up on all the legal knowledge you’ll need for this exam, our SQE1 Prep materials will help you to confidently and effectively prepare.
You can get early access a month before the SQE2 Prep course starts, so if you want to spend a bit of extra time with the SQE1 prep materials, ensure you book early!
2. Skills Explanation Videos
You will start off with the Skills Explanations. Our experienced faculty – experienced solicitors and barristers qualified in England and Wales, with years of lecturing experience – will explain how to master the skills required to succeed in SQE2.
Watch two tutors give explanations of each of the six skills in interview-style lectures, carefully crafted for you to understand how to fully interpret the exam criteria, what you should be doing in each situation, how you will be assessed, what the examiners will be looking for, and to give you tips on how to succeed.
You can access these videos online anytime throughout the course, and lectures last about 20 to 30 minutes so that they fit easily into your schedule. They're available in your PSP on your browser in desktop and mobile, and on the BARBRI app.
3. Hardback & Digital Workbooks
You will be sent a full set of printed materials for your studies, and the digital version will be available in the Personal Study Plan (PSP) too, where you will be able to highlight text, make notes and bookmark pages.
The short workbook is written exclusively by our expert tutors specifically for the subjects examined in the SQE2, with a focus on skills development. It acts as a supplement to the online video lectures, and the many online practice activities, to help you focus on exactly what you need to learn, including help with problem-solving in example assessment scenarios, hints and tips.
Key features:
- Bespoke exam-focused workbook
- Clear, concise and visual breakdown of each subject
- Space for personal notetaking
- Available online and in hard copy, included within course fees
4. Guided Interactive Activities
These are guided interactive learning activities that will take the knowledge you have gained watching the Skills Explanations and reading the Workbook and apply it to an exam-style scenario for every skill. Each activity breaks down the different steps you’ll need to master the specific SQE2 skill, with automatic feedback.
Here is an excerpt from the Drafting activity. We also call them "scaffolding" activities, as it helps you to climb up the skills ladder step by step.
5. Self-Practice Activities
With our 24 self-practice activities (4 per skill), 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 have the opportunity to mark your peers’ written work (and have them mark yours too) – an important step so you can familiarise yourself with the assessment criteria. During your weekly strategy sessions, you can also ask the tutors to review your self-practice activities questions on the self-practice questions or send a question to a subject matter expert.
6. Practice Feedback Activities
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.
Through our 8 practice feedback activities (PFA), you’ll have the opportunity to complete exam-level assessments and receive personalised feedback and grading from a BARBRI assessor, as if it was an exam, on every SQE2 skill.
You’ll do one PFA per written skill, plus 2 for each oral skill. You need to complete the written assessments by a certain date and time so the tutors have time to carefully mark your activity and send feedback within 3 days – including weekend days. For the oral PFAs, you can book a set time using a convenient Calendly link, including evening slots.
You’ll receive written feedback and a grading for each and every section, not just an overall marking, plus a video from the tutor on how to improve for next time. Many consider our personalised feedback to be the most valuable part of our SQE2 Prep course!
7. Mock Exams
Before you sit SQE2, you’ll do 12 mock assessments: 6 of these are complete mocks with personal feedback from a BARBRI assessor in each skill and subject assessed in SQE2. You’ll make a fixed appointment for each oral mock exam, with a choice of days, including weekends to accommodate you if you’re on our part-time SQE2 Prep course and work during the day. You’ll have access to another 6 mock exams without individual feedback but with exemplars.
All in all, you’ll have access to 44 exam-style questions with complete, personal feedback and exemplars.
8. Workshops, tutortime and peer support
You will also be able to participate in workshops and strategy sessions during the 10 or 20 weeks of your course. There are 3 workshop calls of 60-90 minutes each with your tutors and fellow students where we’ll cover how to study on the course, how to use the material to ensure you give your best possible performance in the exam, and how to prepare for the mocks. These workshops are recorded for those unable to attend the sessions.
In the weekly drop-in strategy sessions, you and other students can ask the two tutors on the call questions about anything from how to tackle questions and improve your skills to queries about your own progress and self-assessment activities. These sessions are not recorded.
In addition, you can instant message your tutor via our platform, and you can also submit a legal question to our subject matter experts via the platform and you’ll receive an answer within 3 working days.
You and your fellow students will be able to form a Whatsapp study group for peer support. And before the exam, you’ll also have a one-to-one call with a tutor to help you know where to focus your revision.
All these personal contact points in our SQE2 Prep have been designed to give you the best possible student experience.
Enrol in SQE2 Prep today
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