I’m interested to hear this view as I thought it was the opposite. The GDL/LPC route was putting me off a career change from Company Secretary to Solicitor because of the amount of time I would have to waste reading academic law that I already knew would be of no practical use to me in a corporate environment (my aim is to be able to further my career to dual hat as a General Counsel). The SQE doesn’t seem to go into anything like the depth; I don’t even need to remember case names. In fact, I’m reaching a point where I worry the content is too thin to fulfil my career ambitions without further study in relevant areas.

Because I am straight out of Uni with no work ex presently 🙂

So I am qualifying in the UK like anyone else… while also being qualified in my home jurisdiction, quite standard with international lawyers in London! Perhaps you are unfamiliar?

If you’re qualified, why are you doing a London TC lol

The SQE is almost exactly like the QLTS, which is what foreign-qualified lawyers (who were often straight out of university, just like UK LPC students) took before the SQE was brought in. It is just a basic overview of the important areas of English law? Extensive, challenging and fairly detailed… but that is just how English law actually is?

No law exam is hard. Not if you are good enough. Some BCL papers need thought but really no-one can seriously call a mere vocational qualification “incredibly hard”.

Those that can’t do the SQE. There the pass rate difference explained.

This is the stupidest comment ever, LPC candidates were regularly scoring 80 and 90% on their exams because they were so spoon fed by universities. Everyone I speak to calls the LPC a ‘tick box exercise’.

The SQE in comparison is actually very difficult (see 51% pass rate for SQE1) and this is made far more so because universities aren’t given sufficient guidance from the SRA on what to teach.

Yep. It’s BS lol.

Not only do we have to work towards these incredibly hard exams – where they don’t even teach you 50% of what the course is about..
They’re making us do internal assessments just so we get the LLM. I doubt they’re super hard, but it’s just annoying and more work.

It’s because in order to pass the SQE 2, it takes direct knowledge from the SQE1. Meaning if you just took the exams, you wouldn’t have this knowledge. The breadth of work you need to pass both these exams is HUGE.

It’s because in order to pass the SQE 2, it takes direct knowledge from the SQE1. Meaning if you just took the exams, you wouldn’t have this knowledge. The breadth of work you need to pass both these exams is HUGE.

Do you actually understand the SQE? Based on your comment, I’m guessing not.

If you think the SQE is “dumbing down” I suggest you sit the SQE1 and SQE2 exams and then you can pronounce what a genius you are.

Pinset masons is making them

Which firm has asked a prospective trainee and LPG graduate to do the SQE?