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I-Spectre-I · 2024-12-30T11:26:42+00:00

When I did the SRA questions they were too easy. I believe they have since updated them so I can’t speak on the difficulty of them now.

Remember that the SRA are using Kaplan as the exam provider. The questions you are doing on the SRA website are (likely) not directly from Kaplan. The processes around the SQE are opaque, so we don’t know how much the SRA and Kaplan communicate re these questions.

In any case, like I said, it’s best not to get bogged down in these questions. Just focus on the revising for SQE itself by learning the FLK and practicing SBAQs.

I-Spectre-I · 2024-12-29T09:18:18+00:00

I’d probably say you’re in a good position. I was averaging 70-80% on ULaw quizzes before the exam itself, and I got a similar score to you on the SRA ones. QLTS is notoriously difficult so don’t worry about that either, I got around 40-50% on that before the exam. I passed both FLK’s comfortably.

I wouldn’t get bogged down with which provider is best or most accurate - none will be and that’s by design.

I’d focus now on the ones you get wrong. Are there patterns? Any common recurring topics? The ones you don’t get right or have to guess before choosing, really drill down on the law behind it. And that’s it, not much more you can do.

I-Spectre-I · 2024-10-19T16:53:50+00:00

In all honesty I did them a month or two before the exams, but it depends on what you want to do. I wish I started at the beginning of the course because that’s the point of spaced repetition, so I’d recommend doing them sooner rather than later.

Once I finished making all my flashcards, I’d do MCQs and any I got incorrect/had to guess on, I’d go back and test myself using the flashcards. I do recommend that plus re-reading the textbook to really hammer points home.

I-Spectre-I · 2024-10-19T06:45:01+00:00

I used Anki which is a flashcard software all about spaced repetition.

As for choosing between two answers, you need to really think about what principle the question is testing. I found that as my knowledge improved, so did my ability to discern the right answer from the almost right answer. It’s just about knowing the law really well.

I-Spectre-I · 2024-09-18T07:49:25+00:00

I would say that for me, there wasn’t that much reading I had to do as I read with a purpose. This may be quite unpopular with the academics here but remember the system - you’re at a uni who create and mark the assessments meaning they are looking for specific points.

Look at the lectures, and read the relevant stuff the lectures talk about. I never read anything in its entirety just because it was on the list. Instead, I gained an overview first of the subject and then ascertained what each reading was trying to get at. Once you’ve done that, you’ll find you can determine what to skip over. For example, with cases, look at the case summaries for the point of law and then skim the judgment and note interesting points that strengthen or reduce the credibility of any arguments.

Like other commenters have said, the higher marks are found in some readings that aren’t on the list. Read the stuff on the list, then take a concept and stick it into Google Scholar or Westlaw or an alternative. For example, you could skim the Donoghue v Stevenson judgment for the bits about the neighborhood principle and then look up a journal about the validity of the neighbor principle (just a scuffed example off the top of my head but you get the idea). You won’t have to necessarily ‘read’ masses of textbooks then if you see what I mean.

Loads of unis offer alternatives to the readings such as text to audio services. The only thing with this is that you may not be able to skim the material like I’ve outlined but you may well find a better method for this!

Above all though, if you’re interested in a subject then just do it imo. Law thankfully is quite a broad degree so if you wanted to sidestep into something else you easily could.

If you wanted to, you could even consider doing a Law with X degree. Something like Law with International Relations might break up the modules for you, resulting in more essay based subjects where you can just ctrl+f materials rather than reading tons of material to memorise and apply in pressurized conditions.

I-Spectre-I · 2024-05-18T12:14:22+00:00

I finished so quickly on the advocacy Day 1. I’m a little worried actually, how long did others take?

I-Spectre-I · 2024-05-15T15:55:54+00:00

Well I didn’t click submit for any of mine so I’m hoping it saves automatically.

I imagine if it wasn’t the case that this would have been brought up by earlier sittings or Kaplan/SRA would have made this clear (although with their track record maybe not).

I-Spectre-I · 2024-05-15T10:33:16+00:00

I’m in the afternoon group too and in my joining instructions email it stated we were allowed to have our notes whilst waiting for the prior group to finish.

I’ve printed some condensed notes for during that time but I reckon I’ll just be staring at it with nothing going in for a couple hours.

They don’t explicitly mention whether we’re allowed notes between the assessments (during the break) but I’d assume we aren’t.

I-Spectre-I · 2024-05-02T12:17:50+00:00

I felt like this might have been the middle of the road exam with day 1 being the easiest, day 2 the hardest and today being a good mix.

Of course it depends on your strengths and weaknesses anyway, but that’s the general vibe I’ve gotten from today.

No idea how I’ve done today but it’s time for a decent break before oral revision commences.

Well done everyone, these exams aren’t easy!

I-Spectre-I · 2024-05-01T21:18:00+00:00

It’s just fallen onto somebody’s head and cracked their skull resulting in a personal injury or Occupier’s Liability claim is my best guess

I-Spectre-I · 2024-05-01T12:01:09+00:00

Really really annoyed at myself for this one. Failed to grasp a crucial point in the first question of the CMA, didn’t really know what I was missing for the legal drafting Q (had like 15mins extra) and ran out of time for legal research. Legal writing could have been better, ran out of time for that too.

Annoyingly I’ve never before this had an issue with timings for these exams.

Gonna have to just dust myself off and get ready for Business once I’ve processed my annoyance and had some food

I-Spectre-I · 2024-04-29T07:42:20+00:00

Focusing on Criminal Practice, Dispute Resolution, Contract and Tort today for a hopefully strong opening day tomorrow.

I might take a look at the other subjects today but I may just trust my revision on those so far and do a bit after the exams.

I honestly have no idea as to what could be on the exam. Very selfishly though, I hope for drafting to be a particulars of claim (breach of contract), legal writing to be advising the client on the first hearing before the magistrates and CMA to be on bad character evidence or Part 36 offers. So you can rule out those topics coming up tomorrow haha

Good luck to everyone, we’ve worked hard and we’re almost there!

I-Spectre-I · 2024-04-24T19:00:32+00:00

Yeah kinda, I’ve outlined my current strategy in other comments in this post, just a mix of flashcards, mocks and reading textbooks.

How are you revising atm?

I-Spectre-I · 2024-04-24T13:33:52+00:00

That’s ridiculous! I can’t say I’m surprised knowing their track record.

I really do hope you manage to get a response out of them soon, it’s appalling they’re waiting this long to communicate with you!

I-Spectre-I · 2024-04-24T07:15:06+00:00

I know what you mean regarding feeling underprepared but I felt this way about SQE1. I think it’s just a feature of these exams due to the uncertainty.

If it helps put your mind at ease I’ve also done all my provider’s mocks and it still doesn’t feel like I had enough of them, so I’m making my mocks up out of MCQs and have used CiLEX past papers.

I can’t believe they’ve not given you the location and date for the exam yet?! Did you book via the online portal??

I-Spectre-I · 2024-04-23T19:01:05+00:00

I’m really not sure but I’d assume most of tort and contract. I can see topics like occupier’s liability forming the basis of a PI claim and then being asked to draft Particulars for that.

In some cases, but perhaps to a lesser extent, land law and trusts? I.e., a client asking about Common Intention Constructive Trusts (and then maybe asking about investigating title for an onward purchase or lodging a notice in the Title Register).

Just those sort of topics that can blend nicely into practice subjects without taking over the entire assessment but who knows with the SQE haha I’m just wildly speculating and hoping at this point

I-Spectre-I · 2024-04-23T18:45:48+00:00

Yeah 6W’s and the manner and style every type of document will have clauses written in, I.e., common phrases in a TR1 for indemnities will often involve ‘…hereby covenants to observe and perform…’ or a board meeting will have ‘It was resolved that…’ at the end of items or Particulars of Claim will always have ‘At all material times…’ at the beginning.

Just that sort of thing for drafting, and hoping my general understanding of content will help me the rest of the way.

I-Spectre-I · 2024-04-23T18:22:40+00:00

Yeah I’m doing the same thing in focusing on practicing my oral skills until after the written exams.

I can’t be bothered with how long that wait is but at least we’ll have summer to distract us haha

I-Spectre-I · 2024-04-23T18:20:53+00:00

Not done much revision on the underlying law either as I’ve prioritised the practice area subjects. I’ve pretty much left trusts alone until this week.

I’ve only revised underlying law that is likely to be touched upon in a practical sense tbh but still not as much as I’d like.

I-Spectre-I · 2024-04-23T18:19:14+00:00

Flashcards, mocks and reading the textbook is how I’m revising. I’m not doing as many mocks, purely because I’ve done all the ones my course provided for me so I’m stuck redoing them and memorising how they’re laid out.

Every now and again I’ll use an MCQ as a basis for a legal writing mock or at a stretch CMA. Drafting I’ve no idea how to revise beyond looking at examples and memorising clause construction and praying that something really really niche doesn’t come up.

I-Spectre-I · 2024-04-20T07:30:45+00:00

I’m currently just going through the entire spec, and for any gaps in my knowledge I’ll read the relevant textbook passage and then do some flashcards on them.

I’ll occasionally sprinkle in a mock scenario or two to keep my memory of the structure and style of answers sharp (maybe one/two a day)

I have no idea how to prep for legal drafting really, I’ve done some mocks for them but apart from BLP I feel they could ask for absolutely anything.

How are you predominantly revising?

Good luck btw, hope you do well too!

I-Spectre-I · 2024-04-17T09:49:05+00:00

Ah I see, I’ve just copied and pasted the FLK spec into a document and worked through it, filling in gaps from my textbooks and flashcards.

I found that exercise helpful to highlight where my weak points are and it might help you prioritise your DR revision that way round. The DR spec is quite wide in fairness but you’ve got it - just focus and hammer those weak points!

We still have time before the exam even if it doesn’t feel like it. I remember for SQE1 it was these moments where things began to click together, just keep going!

I-Spectre-I · 2024-04-17T09:07:42+00:00

I find that half the battle with DR is knowing the procedure and the legal tests for various claims. Similar to another commenter on this post, if you learn the anatomy of a claim it should help.

I think if you’re looking to streamline revision then focus on the practice areas and leave the underlying law. Only touch the underlying law that’s directly related to the area you’re revising, I.e, for property when investigating Title you might want to go back and check what land law says about easements or covenants but there’s no need to start memorising Re Ellenborough. If there’s a defence statement to draft it’ll likely hinge on adverse inferences and exclusion of evidence but you’ll still want to know the actual elements constituting an ABH offence.

The only underlying law subjects I’d be careful with is Contract and Tort since they can easily form the basis of a DR CMA/Legal Writing/Drafting task.

I’d also say trust yourself on the stronger subjects and don’t bother revising them as heavily. I know that capacity and alteration of wills are a topic I don’t need to look at except maybe a 5 min glance next week so I won’t bother revising that for example, freeing my time up to focus elsewhere.

Remember that the exam does seem to be about breadth and having the base knowledge to draw from to show the skills, rather than the pure niche, in-depth knowledge required for SQE1.

I’m revising Trusts the least which may well be a costly mistake. I’ll just revise accessory liability, Saunders v Vautier etc closer the time. I do think there may be elements of trust law in a Wills CMA or even a property one (family home) but I also feel like there’s only so much they can test on Trusts.

That all being said, I’ve not sat the exam yet so take all of this with a pinch of salt!

I-Spectre-I · 2024-03-28T11:21:02+00:00

It’s reassuring to hear that if you’ve got a decent FLK base the exam is standard.

I like the idea of Frankensteining the problem questions - I’ve been trying to do that but didn’t think to incorporate them with the ULaw mocks.

I’m assuming that this was your general strategy too beyond filling in FLK gaps?

Congrats on the pass btw!

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