SQE1 Free Practice Questions: 220 Official Samples and 2 Worked

The best free SQE1 practice questions are the SRA’s own, and there are more of them than most candidates use: 220 sample questions on the SQE website, 110 for FLK1 and 110 for FLK2, free to read online or download. Ninety were written before the first sitting; the other 130 have all been used in real SQE1 assessments, and the SRA publishes how many candidates got each of those right. This guide sets out exactly what is there and where, what the SRA says the samples are for (and what they are not), how hard they are against the real assessment, and how to get the most out of them. Then it works through two original FLK1 questions of our own, each with the statute, rule or case behind the answer. Every SQE and SRA page cited here was read on 14 October 2026, as the live page stood that day. ProSyllabus is an independent study site. We are not affiliated with, or endorsed by, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) or Kaplan, which delivers the SQE for the SRA; every rule below is quoted or summarised from their published pages, and the SRA decides every application.

SQE website, SQE1 sample questions page, read 14 October 2026. The FLK1 total is our addition of the two sets.

All of it is on one page of the SQE website, SQE1 sample questions. The questions come in two sets, each split by paper, each in English and Welsh, and each as an online version and as a PDF.

Two more free things sit on the same page. First, a demonstration of the exam interface on Pearson VUE, in English and Welsh, so you can see the screen you will sit at before the day. Second, the page links the SRA’s short video on the anatomy of an SQE1 question. The related page on single best answer questions describes the three parts of every question: “the stem, which sets out the scenario”, “the lead in, which sets out the question to be answered”, and “the five options”. It adds: “Each of the five options is plausible, but only one is correct.”

For the 130 pre-tested questions the SRA publishes two comparisons with the real thing: how often candidates answered correctly, and how long the questions are. The comparison data runs “to and including SQE1 July 2025”.

Read that table for what it says and no more. On FLK1 the pre-tested samples are about as hard as the real papers have been (57.0% against 57.5%). On FLK2 the samples are harder than the average real paper (49.2% against 54.9%), so a poor run on the FLK2 samples is less alarming than it feels. And a question runs to about 200 words: this is a reading test as well as a law test, which matters when the SRA’s own figure is “about 1.8 minutes per question”. None of these percentages is a pass mark. The pass mark is set separately for each paper at each sitting and reported as 300 on a scale of 0 to 500.

This section is our advice, argued from what the SRA publishes; none of it is the SRA’s.

1. Start with the pre-tested set. Q46 to Q110 of each paper have been sat by real candidates and come with their scores. A question that 80% of candidates got right and you got wrong is a gap in basics; one that 30% got right is a hard question, and missing it tells you less.
2. Time them in blocks. The samples are not a mock, but you can still sit them at the real pace. The SRA’s figure is about 1.8 minutes a question, so 65 pre-tested questions is about 117 minutes and 45 originals about 81 minutes (our arithmetic). Our guide to sitting an SQE1 mock against the official format has the full timing.
3. Sort FLK1 samples by session. From January 2027 an FLK1 morning is Business Law and Practice, Dispute Resolution and Legal Services, and the afternoon is Tort, Contract Law and Legal System. The samples are not grouped that way, so group them yourself when you revise by session.
4. Do not memorise them. With 220 questions there are few enough to learn by heart, and that destroys their value as a measure. Keep one block unseen for the last fortnight.
5. Check the date. The SRA amends the samples to match the law examinable at the next sitting. Download the PDFs again close to your sitting instead of trusting a copy saved months ago.
6. Read the specification beside them. The samples illustrate style; the FLK1 subject list and weighting tells you what can be asked and in what proportion.

The SRA’s samples are the SRA’s to publish, so none is reproduced here. What follows instead are two of the free questions of our own SQE1 FLK1 practice set, one from each of its two parts, printed word for word as they appear in the set, options in the same order, with the explanation the set gives. They follow the official form (a scenario, a question and five options with one correct) and each explanation names the statute, rule or case, so you can check the law against the source. Try each one before you open the answer. The ProSyllabus SQE1 FLK1 practice set is independent practice material: original questions written to the SRA's published specification, not SRA sample questions and not live assessment items. It is not written or endorsed by the SRA or Kaplan, it is not a full FLK1 paper, and a count of correct answers on it is not an SQE1 result.

Both are among the 3 questions that are free in the practice set itself (2 in part 1 and 1 in part 2), where you can answer them on screen and see your score by subject. The full set has 90 questions, 45 on each session’s subjects, and a timed run of 81 minutes for each part, which is the real pace of 85 questions in 153 minutes. None of the free 3 happens to be a Legal System question; the paid part of the set has 15.

The SQE1 specification lists the styles a question can take, and the two above show two of them. A question may ask you to “both identify and apply a fundamental legal principle or rule” (the secondary victim question asks which element of the claim the facts satisfy). It may establish the legal result and ask why, or name the rule and ask how it applies (the injunction question names the guidelines and asks which step comes first). Or it may ask whether a client “can legally achieve a desired outcome”.

One rule from the specification is easy to misread from pages like this one. Our explanations name cases and sections so that you can verify them. The assessment does not ask you to recite them: candidates must know a case name or provision only where it is “the term normally used to describe a legal principle or an area of law, or a rule or procedural step (e.g. Rylands v Fletcher, CPR Part 36, Section 25 notice)”, and “in all other circumstances candidates are not required to recall specific case names, or cite statutory or regulatory authorities”. It is also closed book and tests the law as it stood four calendar months before the first assessment in the window, so check any explanation, ours included, against the current law for your sitting.

1. Any released SQE1 past paper. The SRA publishes sample questions, many of them past questions, but no complete paper that we could find on the SQE website.
2. A subject label on each official sample question. The sample page groups questions by paper (FLK1 or FLK2), not by subject or session.
3. Performance data for the 90 original questions. Candidate scores are published for the 130 pre-tested questions only.
4. The date each sample question was last amended. The page says the samples are kept in line with the examinable law; the only date we saw was in the PDF file names.
5. What the Pearson VUE demonstration contains. The SQE website links it; we did not run it, so we do not describe its tools.