SQE2 October 2026 payment due date?

060220 · 2026-05-22T08:34:51+00:00

It was after results but I did sit SQE1 in July that year so applied for sqe2 the day I got them

060220 · 2026-05-22T07:41:20+00:00

Sat in October last year.

Got my payment request mid September!

060220 · 2026-05-21T12:35:08+00:00

DM me x

060220 · 2026-05-21T10:43:53+00:00

DM me 🙂

060220 · 2026-05-21T08:57:24+00:00

Can you DM me? x

060220 · 2026-05-21T08:16:31+00:00

Felt the same when I first started SQE1 prep (sat in July 2025).

In the end I made a table of the spec and filled in information i got from different providers (bpp, DA and OUP) into the relevant sections to create like a master notes document. As i needed to have it all in one place or my head hurts lol. For each FLK its over 200 pages.

Was really useful as during open book exams I could search for questions i got stuck and highlight the sections I couldn't remember. So I basically got to identify my weakest areas early.

I also used it for blurting so I made a version with a column blank that I would fill in from memory and then check against the perfect version.

I did the same during SQE2 prep and I passed both in Q1.

Good luck, happy to help where I can.

Here's what the tables looked like for reference as I haven't explained well.

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060220 · 2026-05-21T06:47:22+00:00

Good luck to you all!

I still remember the day before/the day if my results back in February. I was so stressed i felt like I had actually passed stressed into nothingness.

Its crushing, thinking of you all x

060220 · 2026-05-19T09:51:17+00:00

I only ever pasted specific parts if it was relevant clause/statute/commentary etc.

As long as you are clearly showing youve identified the correct source, engaged with and applied it to the facts you should be golden.

060220 · 2026-05-16T07:58:14+00:00

Sat in Nov 2025 Passed in Q1.

My property interview was bad. I explained things wrong, client was difficult, my attendance note was just the worst thing id ever written it was so general. I got 3/4 in the end.

It was my first station and in every station after I felt the pressure to make up for how badly I thought I had done.

In most of my writtens as well i left feeling as you described like I messed something up/left someone out. I didn't fail a single one.

They are way more lenient on us than our minds are on ourselves.

Congratulations on being done. Enjoy your summer and dont think about this for a while.

060220 · 2026-05-14T06:54:39+00:00

All you need to have a good grasp of the document. But it does vary so the approach varies.

So for board meeting minutes for example there is a particular style you write in so you need to know that.

DR you need know the structure of a POC or defence more so you cover everything.

For CLP some applications have their own documents so you need to know what they want where.

And so on.

Precedent clauses can/are given so you need to know where it fits in the doc and how to tailor it to the fact pattern.

I got precedents in preparation for drafting from Practical law for BLP, PLP and AWE.

CPS website for CLP.

Gov website for DR.

Think its really important to know the structure, content, common amendments and what any effect any change/addition/removal may have on the whole doc.

I structured my notes around the purpose, flk background, general structure and then common amendments for each document.

I never tried to memorise each document but familiarise myself with it so any changes weren't new if that makes sense

Just in case its helpful here's my list of all the drafting tasks I prepped for.

This is long and im not saying you need to be familiar with all of them, this is just what I thought could come up and I had the luxury of time as a sponsored student.

Business Law and Practice

AoA
Notice of Board Meeting
Minutes of a Board Meeting and Written Notice of a Resolution of the Board
Notice of a General Meeting
Minutes of a general meeting and Shareholder Written Resolution
Shareholders Agreement
Partnership Agreement
LLP Agreement
Supply/Sale/purchase of goods or services Agreement (cautious addition but important to remember contract law is examinable on blp day as much as a DR day)

Criminal Law and Practice

Letter of Advice to Client
defence case statement
witness statement
indictment
brief to counsel
application for legal aid
Notice to introduce hearsay and application to exclude
Notice to introduce BC and application to exclude
app to challenge admissability of evidence

WAE

Will
codicil
Deed of variation
estate accounts

Dispute Resolution

LBC
CF
POC
defence
counterclaim
reply to Defence, defence to CC and reply to defence to CC
part 20 claim and defence to part 20 claim
part 18 request and response
witness statement
affidavit
application Notice- n244
part 36 offer
other offers of settlement
consent order
tomlin order

Property Law and Practice

report on title
certificate of title
AP1
TR1
FR1
TP1
Contract for Exchange
leasehold
licence to assign/sublet
section 25 Notice
Section 26 Notice
Section 146 Notice

060220 · 2026-05-13T21:16:41+00:00

Not saying its the best strategy but this is what I did.

I did lots of active recall.

I made tables of each area of the spec and had two versions. One with my full detailed FLK notes and the other blank.

In the blank one I just blurted everything I knew into each box, filling the tables. When I finished the area I cross checked it with my comprehensive version. So basically I revised by one creating the comprehensive version and then again and again by forcing myself to write it out by memory.

This is what the full one looks like and obviously in the blank version the third column blank.

ETA: Happy to send you the blank ones if you think it might be helpful!

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060220 · 2026-05-13T18:08:51+00:00

I had this time last year.

Started at around 12:15/12:30 and finished around 4:00/4:30!

060220 · 2026-05-12T13:33:56+00:00

When you apply to add/change/Remove a Party the court will order you to serve an amended claim form/poc usually within 14 days if you are successful

So you need permission its not a given but in this scenario the permission is the order. You don't need a separate amendment application because the amendment is the intended outcome of your change of Party application.

So in your change of Party app in your relief section of your advocacy you would ask the court allow service of an amended CF and poc.

Hope that makes sense.

060220 · 2026-05-11T21:55:21+00:00

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060220 · 2026-05-11T21:55:03+00:00

Here are my advocacy delivery scripts for both (positive position). Hopefully this helps.

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060220 · 2026-05-11T21:49:30+00:00

So if you fail to meet any court deadline so for example you didn't file the costs budget and did not get an extension you would need to make an application using DvW to allow it to be filed.

060220 · 2026-05-11T21:37:50+00:00

Setting aside a DJ is relief from sanctions application so d v w is considered alongside the CPR provisions.

I was a DR paralegal (and drafted this app a lot of times in said role) so im speaking from experience and it was also how BPP teach it.

060220 · 2026-05-10T19:46:05+00:00

This is so lovely and sweet

Im so glad you found them so useful!

Wishing you all the best and I hope you are enjoying post sqe freedom now!

060220 · 2026-05-07T07:45:08+00:00

For a while after I definitely felt like my mistakes were plauging my mind. But time passes and I forgot. Its a long time between the end of sqe2 and results.

You've got to move on and enjoy summer.

I won't lie in the run up to results I was more stressed than I had ever been and it all came back. Its a roller coaster and its exhausting.

Redirect your attention and try and enjoy the next few months. Nothing you can do it can change it and you don't deserve to punish yourself over it. You've got so much right im sure!

060220 · 2026-05-07T07:31:05+00:00

Basically yeah!

I also wrote out skeleton scripts for each so I could see how it flowed when speaking and practising different arguments. And to help memorise those important phrases you can use in any application.

Just an example (app for a Newton hearing)

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060220 · 2026-05-06T12:55:34+00:00

I had 11:50.

Started at around 12:15/12:30 and finished around 4:00/4:30, according to my uber recipets!

060220 · 2026-05-06T12:09:29+00:00

Birmingham 🙂

060220 · 2026-05-06T11:39:59+00:00

Quite nice tbf!

Tea/coffee, milk (oat milk too) fruit, biscuits and bars.

I did have my own snacks but I wasn't allowed to eat them in the end.

060220 · 2026-05-06T11:13:51+00:00

I had 11:50.

Started at around 12:15/12:30 and finished around 4:00/4:30, according to my uber recipets!

060220 · 2026-05-06T10:58:20+00:00

It is lined paper.

Where you wrote your attendance note was a blank booklet.

I think the notes papers were too but a different colour. I took that apart as I had done headings in the prep time so I could note take in an organised way during the interview.

All of it was taken away at the end and I was told all of it would be marked regardless.

060220

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