The Bar Review

Being authorised to carry on a reserved legal activity does not hand you an SQE2 exemption. Here's what the SRA actually assesses, who tends to succeed, and what still applies to everyone.

What solicitors actually earn from newly qualified to 8+ PQE, why the same job pays double across the road, and how your qualification route shapes the first offer.

Solo revision plateaus fast. Here's a tested three-person study pod format for FLK1 and FLK2 — the session blueprint, a worked example, and the ways groups fail.

The conveyancing timeline and SDLT rules that FLK2 examiners return to again and again — plus the traps that quietly cost candidates marks on exam day.

FLK2 punishes different habits from FLK1. Here are the traps that catch first-time sitters — accounts, dual-subject property questions, intestacy arithmetic and criminal procedure.

Contract is one of the highest-yield FLK1 subjects — and one of the easiest to over-read. Here's how to revise offer, consideration, misrepresentation and remedies for the exam.

Tort feels like the friendly subject on FLK1 — until the MCQs start testing occupiers' liability and pure economic loss. Here's how to revise it so it actually scores.

The SRA's free sample questions are the closest thing to the real FLK1 and FLK2 paper — but most candidates burn through them far too early. Here's how to use them well.

Screenshots in group chats aren't a calendar. Here's where the real SQE assessment dates, booking windows and results dates live — and how to plan revision backwards from them.