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SQE2 format

The SQE2 format is 16 stations: 4 oral and 12 written, taking about 14 hours in total. The oral part is two half days and the written part is three half days. Your booking information gives exact times. See the SQE2 overview and the pass mark page.

Stations16: 4 oral, 12 written
OralTwo half days
WrittenThree half days
Total timeAbout 14 hours
SkillsSix, across five practice contexts

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The oral assessments

There are four oral tasks over two half days, held at a smaller number of centres in England and Wales.

  • Day 1: advocacy in Dispute Resolution, and a client interview with attendance note in Property Practice.
  • Day 2: advocacy in Criminal Litigation, and a client interview with attendance note in Wills and Intestacy, Probate Administration and Practice.

Typical timings: the interview is 25 minutes after about 10 minutes reading the client's details, then 25 minutes for the attendance note or legal analysis. Advocacy is 45 minutes of preparation and 15 minutes of performance.

The written assessments

There are 12 written tasks over three half days, taken at Pearson VUE centres, in the UK and internationally. Each day has one case and matter analysis, one legal drafting, one legal research and one legal writing task.

  • Day 1: Dispute Resolution and Criminal Litigation.
  • Day 2: Property Practice and Wills and Probate.
  • Day 3: Business organisations, rules and procedures.

Typical timings: case and matter analysis 60 minutes, legal research 60 minutes, legal writing 30 minutes, legal drafting 45 minutes.

Order of stations and what is on screen

The order of tasks within a half day and the screen layout are set by the assessment provider and are in your candidate information. Read your candidate information before the day so nothing about the layout is new. This site does not give details that have not been published.

What does not change: each written task gives you a brief and documents, and you type your answer. In oral tasks an assessor plays the client in the interview, and you make your advocacy submissions to a judge.

A candidate day plan

Use this as a pattern. Adjust to your own timetable.

  • The night before: check your ID, travel and the centre rules. Stop revising by early evening.
  • Before each task: read the instruction twice. Note the reader, the format and the length.
  • During a written task: read for a quarter of the time, write for most of it, leave the last minutes to check instructions.
  • During an interview: use the reading time to list likely issues. In the meeting, listen, ask open questions, then summarise before the end.
  • During advocacy preparation: write the order sought first, then the test, then the facts for each limb.
  • Between tasks: do not review the last one. Move on.

Marking in brief

The SRA grades each criterion from A (superior) to F (extremely poor). Marks across stations are added up and there is one overall pass mark. There is no pass mark for each station or for oral and written parts separately. Skills and application of law count equally, and ethics questions are unflagged throughout. From 1 September 2026 there is a separate Law criterion for ethics and professional conduct. A candidate has three attempts within six years.

Checklist

  • I know which tasks fall on which day.
  • I have read my booking information.
  • I have practised each task type against the clock.
  • I have a plan for the last five minutes of each task.

For exam dates, check the SRA's assessment dates page. Our SQE2 mock uses these timings.

Questions

sqe2 format and timings?

16 stations: 4 oral and 12 written, about 14 hours. Typical timings are interview 25 minutes, attendance note 25, advocacy 45 plus 15, case and matter analysis 60, research 60, writing 30 and drafting 45.

sqe2 oral assessment order?

Day 1 has advocacy in Dispute Resolution and an interview with attendance note in Property Practice. Day 2 has advocacy in Criminal Litigation and an interview with note in Wills and Probate. Check your booking information for the order within each day.

How many days is SQE2?

Two half days of oral assessments and three half days of written assessments.

What is the SQE2 pass mark?

There is one overall pass mark across all 16 stations, set at the level of a just competent day one solicitor. There is no separate pass mark for each station or for the oral and written parts.

Related

Sources: SRA presentation: The SQE2 assessment; Law Society: SQE1 and SQE2 assessments; SRA: ethics and professional conduct changes for SQE2 after 1 September 2026; SRA: SQE2 marking and overall pass marks explained. Checked 10 November 2026.