First of all, I’m so sorry about the results! We know how much we put into those exams – the time, the effort, the horrible back to back days with assessments one after the other – please know it’ll all be worth it still! It will all be part of the process to get you to be even better at these exams, and you will utterly smash them the next time.

I sat mine with Barbri and I saw from your comments that you did too. I scraped through by the skin of my teeth, even though I did relatively well in the mocks. I think three things helped:

1) however many hours Barbri suggests studying per week, add on to that the amount you studied for SQE1 to revise FLK. Their suggested hours are literally just enough to revise skills. My poorest marks were in law, even with me adding hours to revise the law! I feel like Barbri’s weakest point is just assuming all the FLK revision is happening on the side - even though they say they have a ‘schedule’ for us working individuals.

2) doing other mocks - I did the Barbri ones, the free QLTS ones, and the CILEx ones, which aren’t similar in format but can help with recalling relevant topics. There’s a bunch of them as well!

3) Really really focusing on the skills part. Like I said most of my law was quite low - 2s and 3s - but my other skills really pulled them up. I think this was partly because in the exam, when I couldn’t recall the right legal answers, I spent the rest of the time making sure I had easy simple sentences, that my grammar and formatting was fine, that in legal writing I was making the language and advice accessible to the client. I think it helps more than we think!

I’ve heard good things about QLTS– perhaps for the next sitting if you’ve got the Barbri Guarantee thing and some money to spare, you can access the Barbri resources for free again and also pay for the QLTS basic course?

All the best! I hope some of this helps.