Your firm probably has low standards and judging by your grammar, this must be the case.
]]>At my CCP firm, 4 failed both, 3 failed one of them. not sure what youre on about!!
]]>Exactly the same problem plagues the Barrister Training Course. Thousands do it who neither have a pupillage nor will ever get one.
Why? The providers sell the dream to anyone who has the money to pay.
It’s unethical.
]]>How did UCL sneak in there lmao
]]>Perhaps you should consider a career in accountancy instead.
]]>You are the poster child justifying the new exam format. Standards need to go up.
]]>We had this problem with the LPC for non-TC holders as well who self funded to be fair. The LPC wasn’t a cake walk, but with proper study it was quite formulaic. The number of people failing it (pretty spectacularly at times) always made me wonder if they were funnelled into studying it when they had no business in doing so.
Then again perhaps they were told it was super easy (and open book) so they didn’t study hard enough?
]]>Having worked in the profession for over a decade now, the idea that you’re expected to to memorise everything like this is bonkers to me and not what we do in practice. Don’t get me wrong, I remember a lot of specific detail having worked in my field for so long. But you’d be mad to expect a solicitor to be able to just drop advice without reference to anything on the sheer volume of material needed under the SQE. So glad I qualified before this came in.
]]>The problem questions sort out the wheat from the chaff.
]]>I did juris at ox and failed flk2 lol, the memory element killed me because my essays were always ‘concepts over concretes’ and I skipped all but the compulsory scenario questions on mods and FHS.
Just highlights the need to lock for next time and really target my revision.
]]>An 88% rate indicates the problem is not the exam, but the lack of sensible gatekeeping requirements for those who want to take the examination.
]]>Obviously anecdotal, but out of my friendship group from Ox, 13 of us took it, 11 passed. 4 friends from UCL (tho all non-law) all passed
]]>And the rapacious law schools should be ashamed.
]]>Each to their own. I also finished in Quintile 1 for both, but walked out the exam thinking I had almost certainly failed FLK2.
The sheer memory aspect of the SQE1, combined with a simple right/wrong approach which does not lend itself nicely to the legal profession which is all about nuance and argument, meant I found it trickier than Uni personally.
]]>Just adding my countervailing perspective – I passed both FLK1 and FLK2 in first quintile, after studying for a total of about three weeks, and found that they were nothing compared to my Cambridge Law BA (Senior Status) exams.
]]>What’s all the fuss about?
]]>What did you study at Anglia Ruskin?
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