SQE2
SQE2 — six skills, walked through
SQE2 is the practical-skills half of the qualification. Sixteen written tasks plus oral skills (advocacy and interview), assessed across two practice areas in each session. The platform breaks the syllabus into the six SRA skills below, each with worked examples and rubric-aligned guidance.
The six SQE2 skills
Client Interview and Attendance Note
Interview, attendance note, legal analysis
Structured interview, identification of issues and recording the meeting in an attendance note with legal analysis.
Advocacy
Submissions, examination, cross-examination
Bail, plea in mitigation, civil interim applications: structuring submissions and conducting examination-in-chief and cross-examination.
Case and Matter Analysis
Strategy, risk, options, recommendations
Identifying issues, weighing evidence and risk, formulating options and giving reasoned client recommendations.
Legal Research
Sources, retrieval, written research note
Identifying the legal issue, searching primary and secondary sources and producing a written research note.
Legal Writing
Letters, emails, memos to client and counsel
Letters, emails and memoranda to clients, counsel or third parties using appropriate tone and structure.
Legal Drafting
Contracts, witness statements, particulars of claim
Drafting contractual clauses, particulars of claim, witness statements and other transactional documents.
How to revise SQE2 here
SQE2 isn’t a knowledge gap — it’s a craft gap. The highest-leverage move is reading model attendance notes, particulars of claim and research notes side-by-side with your own drafts and reverse-engineering the rubric. Use the platform to:
- Read worked SQE2 examples written to the SRA marking criteria.
- Pair each skill with the SQE1 area it most often appears in (a property practice email, a litigation interview, a commercial contract drafting brief).
- Self-grade your output against rubric checklists derived from published SRA assessment specifications.