Great news for all SQE students - you can now book for the first SQE1 sittings. Here is how…
Law Students’ 2-Minute Guide to the SQE
New information on the SQE is trickling out all the time. The SRA have recently posted a series of webinars on this with more information on dates, costs and venues. We thought we would save you the effort of sifting through it all – so we’ve summarised it in a quick 2-minute read below.
Law Students’ 2-Minute Guide to the SQE
New information on the SQE is trickling out all the time. The SRA have recently posted a series of webinars on this with more information on dates, costs and venues. We thought we would save you the effort of sifting through it all – so we’ve summarised it in a quick 2-minute read below.
How to use our guides to improve your study skills
Ok, so you’ve bought the guide – investment made, problem solved, 100% success in your course is now completely guaranteed and you can sit back. Right? Well, not quite – our guides should have your back, but it helps if you can put our guides to best effect. After all, the one sitting the exam will ultimately be you!
Plagiarism? Exam malpractice? Not really “a thing” is it?
If you want to be a professional lawyer then note that you will have to satisfy the Solicitors’ Regulation Authority or the Bar Council that you are a fit and proper person to be a lawyer. Examination malpractice or plagiarism will have to be notified to the relevant professional regulator and could stop your career in its tracks before it has even begun. Not really an outcome anyone would be looking for!
Tips for balancing work and studies
Revision tips and tricks
What does “proximity” mean?
Surviving another year of online exams!
There is no doubt about it that online learning is a lot more difficult than being able to go to your seminars and lectures in person. Whilst it is important that you put the work in, you need to protect yourself from becoming overwhelmed and cramming at the last minute, which can lead to burnout. There are no two ways about it - law courses are difficult and the lack of in-person support doesn’t make them any easier.
So how can we make things easier for ourselves?
The secret to answering SQE questions
The SQE’s multiple choice questions (MCQs) can be tricky to answer. Answering MCQs requires you to learn a particular exam technique, in which you slow down and look out for the details. We’ve talked about that in our blog here, but there’s one point we really need to make again!
How to write the perfect law essay
Revision tips for the PGDL
Revising for the PGDL this year is particularly difficult. It’s a new course this academic year. It also has new exam questions designed for the SQE (namely multiple choice questions, and we’ve written a blog about technique for answering MCQs.
Top tips for answering law MCQs
Love them or hate them, the fact is that MCQs – multiple choice questions – are going to be a key part of your legal exams. The new Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE) will test a broad range of legal knowledge through MCQs, which means that course providers are adapting their preparatory courses. BPP’s PGDL course includes a mix of MCQs alongside more traditional long-form questions.
New to law? Here’s the score!
2020 is a year like no other. As a current third year student, I will never have to experience a socially distanced freshers’ week and first year. I’m sure that you are blindingly aware that it won’t be the experience you quite imagined, but try to make the most of what you can.
Here are some quick fire tips to get you started on the best footing:
How to survive the LLB
How to survive the GDL
How to survive the LPC
Dissertation planning for LLB students
Will the SQE achieve its aim of diversifying the profession?
One of the SRA’s stated aims in shaking up legal education was to improve diversity in the solicitors’ profession. The logic was that, by removing the need to take and pass the LPC before a getting a training contract and qualifying as a solicitor, students would not have to take the “LPC gamble” of spending around £15,000 on the LPC without knowing they had a job at the end of it (excluding those lucky few who were granted a training contract while on the LLB or GDL of course).
The future for the legal profession?
This isn’t likely to be any part of your syllabus, but for those applying for law firms questions about the future direction of the legal profession are quite common. You’ll often find yourself gazing into a crystal ball as you try to work out what challenges and opportunities might be before law firms. Plainly Brexit and Covid-19 are very large elephants in the room and offer endless scope for pontification, but perhaps you’d like to write about, or answer questions on, something else?