BPP award leader Allison Banks joins successful SQE candidates to discuss the challenges
The Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE) continues to present a formidable challenge to aspiring solicitors, with over half of candidates who sat SQE1 in July 2024 failing to pass both papers. These statistics place even greater pressure on students to beat the odds, and increase uncertainty around the most effective preparation techniques.
With that in mind, during a recent Legal Cheek virtual event (full video above) BPP took a deep dive into why, overall, so many candidates are underperforming, and how to avoid these pitfalls.
The discussion was led by BPP’s award leader, senior lecturer and fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Allison Banks, who was be joined by a panel of successful SQE candidates from BPP, including Brian Okwaisie, Charlotte Isted, Chloe Hayes and Jacqueline Andra Bot. Together, they examined the format and content of the assessments, common pitfalls in the preparation process and the most effective study techniques. The speakers also shared their experiences of sitting the exams, and offered advice to those considering this route to qualification as a solicitor.
Additionally, the event closed with a virtual networking session with the BPP University Law School team, who answered attendees’ follow-up questions and provided further careers advice.
Legal Cheek is running ‘The SQE series’ with BPP University Law School. The video of each session will be made available one month after each virtual event together with further FAQs arising from each session which SQE experts from BPP are answering.
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