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How much SQE2 costs

The SRA's SQE2 fee is £3,086 for candidates booking to sit from October 2026 (£2,974 in 2025/26). With the SQE1 fee of £2,006, the two stages cost £5,092 in exam fees before any preparation.

Updated 1 October 2026 · Checked against the sources listed below

Your own figures

Everything except the SRA fee is yours to enter. This page quotes no course or book prices. Leave a box blank if it does not apply.

Preparation
The 5 assessment days
Time off

Unpaid leave or lost earnings. The assessment days are counted as days off too.

If you resit

Your figure, from your SRA account when you book. We could not confirm a per-FLK fee on the SRA's own pages.

First attempt: £3,086

See the totals

Published by the SRA

£3,086SQE2 (16 stations)

The fee from October 2026. For candidates booking to sit from October 2026. The fee was £2,974 for 2025/26. SRA: SQE update April 2026 (fees from October 2026), checked 1 October 2026.

First attempt

£3,086

SRA fees £3,086

With a resit of one FLK

Enter the fee to resit one FLK to see this total.

With a resit of both FLKs

£6,172

SRA fees £6,172

How the totals are made up
ItemWhose figureAmount
SQE1 fee (FLK1 and FLK2)SRA fee£3,086
First attempt£3,086
Add for a resit of one FLK
The fee to resit one FLK, once you enter it.
With a resit of one FLK–
Add for a resit of both FLKs
SQE1 fee again, at the current feeSRA fee£3,086
With a resit of both FLKs£6,172

A resit of both FLKs is costed at the current SQE1 fee; the fee is reviewed each year, so a later booking may cost more. Three attempts are allowed within six years. FLK1 and FLK2 are taken in the same window, except when resitting the one that was failed. SRA: SQE Assessment Regulations.

SQE2 at a glance

SQE2 fee for bookings from October 2026
£3,086
SQE1 fee for sittings from October 2026
£2,006
attempts at SQE2 within six years
3
to apply for an SQE exemption
£265
Sources for these figures

The fees for both stages

ItemFee for bookings from October 2026Fee in 2025/26
SQE1 (FLK1 and FLK2)£2,006£1,934
SQE2 (16 stations)£3,086£2,974
Both stages£5,092£4,908
Exemption application (qualified lawyers)£265

The SRA announced the fees in April 2026. They apply to any candidate who books to sit from October 2026. A candidate who sits SQE1 in one year and SQE2 in the next pays each stage at the rate for the year of booking.

What a resit adds

SQE2 has no pass for a single station, so a resit is the whole exam at the full fee. Three attempts are allowed within six years of your first SQE assessment. Results come about 15 weeks after the last assessment day, so a resit is usually two sittings later. The calculator above adds a resit with its fee and a second round of travel and time off.

Travel and time off

The written exam is three half-days at a Pearson VUE test centre, in the UK or abroad. The oral exam is two half-days at a venue in Birmingham, Cardiff, London or Manchester, and there are no other oral venues. A candidate from outside the UK, or far from those cities, should budget for travel and accommodation for the oral days. Time off counts what a day away from work costs you, for study days and the five half-days of assessment.

What preparation costs

Preparation is the part of the total you control, and the range is wide. These are the prices advertised by UK providers in October 2026.

Type of preparationAdvertised price
Self-marked mock packs, no feedbackabout £15 to £99
Mocks marked by a tutorabout £96 to £399
SQE2 short coursefrom about £1,150
SQE2 full courseabout £2,000 to £6,400
SQE1 and SQE2 course togetherabout £4,900 to over £12,000

Our own plans are £49 a month or £129 for 3 months for SQE2. SQE2 Full cycle is £219 for 7 months. The SQE1 + SQE2 bundle is £299 for 18 months, £99 less than SQE1 Full cycle and SQE2 Full cycle bought separately. A learner who already has SQE1 Full cycle can add SQE2 for £120. Every SQE2 answer is marked against the SRA's criteria. The marking is automated, and the plans do not include tutor teaching.

Spending the preparation budget

The skill SQE2 tests is writing and speaking under time. Whatever you buy, check that it gives you timed tasks in each skill and feedback against the SRA's criteria. Reading material alone does not prepare for that. The SQE 1 and 2 prep course page compares the ways to prepare for both stages, and the SQE1 cost page covers the SQE1 side in detail.

Questions candidates ask

The SRA's SQE2 fee is £3,086 for candidates booking to sit from October 2026, which includes the October 2026 and January 2027 sittings. The fee for 2025/26 was £2,974.

The exam fees for SQE1 and SQE2 together are £5,092 for bookings from October 2026: £2,006 for SQE1 and £3,086 for SQE2. Preparation, travel and any resit come on top.

A resit is the whole of SQE2, all 16 stations, so it costs the full SQE2 fee for the year you book it. That is £3,086 for bookings from October 2026. The SRA reviews its fees each year.

No. The fee pays for the assessments only. The SRA does not require a course, and any course, book or practice platform is bought separately.

The oral exam is two half-days at a venue in Birmingham, Cardiff, London or Manchester. Unless you live near one, add travel and perhaps a night's accommodation. The written exam is at a Pearson VUE test centre.

The SRA charges £265 to apply for an exemption. Exemptions are open only to qualified lawyers, and the [SQE2 exemption](/sqe2-exemption) page explains who can apply.

Sources

SQE Practice is independent of the Solicitors Regulation Authority. Rules, dates and fees can change: the SRA is the authority, and this page is checked against it.

Both stages for one payment

The SQE1 + SQE2 bundle is £299 for 18 months of access to both: SQE1 questions, mocks and a study plan, and SQE2 timed tasks with every answer marked against the SRA's criteria. The marking is automated.

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