Dec 16, 2025
SQE1 FLK2: exam guide and how to prepare
A complete guide to SQE1 FLK2, and the practice built specifically for it.
How you'll prepare for SQE1 FLK2 with Qualifico
You practise from the start rather than after the reading. Every answer is scored against the subtopic it came from, so your dashboard shows where the marks are actually going long before a mock does.
We take a data-driven approach to SQE1 FLK2 and keep expanding the material behind it for this exam.
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About SQE1 FLK2
If you are sitting SQE1 FLK2, this page covers what the exam actually tests, where candidates lose marks and how to prepare for it around a working week. It also sets out exactly what Qualifico gives you for this paper.
Exam at a glance
Qualification: SQE
Stage or level: SQE1
Duration: Two sessions of 2 hours 33 minutes
Assessment style: 180 closed-book, five-option single-best-answer questions, split into two sessions of 90.
What does SQE1 FLK2 test?
SQE1 Functioning Legal Knowledge 2 (FLK2) is one of the two Functioning Legal Knowledge assessments in SQE1. It tests functioning legal knowledge across property, wills and trusts, criminal law and practice, solicitors accounts and conduct. Single best answer format.
The main examinable areas are:
Property Law and Practice
Wills and the Administration of Estates
Solicitors Accounts
Land Law
Trusts Law
Criminal Liability
Criminal Law and Practice
ethics and professional conduct across the assessment
Use the SRA specification that applies to your assessment window, because detailed examinable law and practice can change.
What makes SQE1 FLK2 challenging?
FLK2 is sensitive to chronology, formalities, title, procedure and money movement. Property, estates, accounts and criminal-practice questions often turn on one controlling fact or the stage a matter has reached.
Most preparation for SQE1 FLK2 is reading-led. You work through the material, feel like you have covered it, and still cannot say which topics would cost you marks tomorrow. Passive review hides weak areas instead of exposing them, and by the time a mock finds them there is rarely time left to fix them.
Qualifico is built the other way round. Practice comes first, progress is tracked subtopic by subtopic and every attempt is scored against its subtopic, so the next study block goes where it will change your score. If time is the constraint, how to study for SQE1 around work sets out how to fit that around a working week.
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How to prepare for SQE1 FLK2
How to prepare or use this guidance
Approach FLK2 as an application exam, not a definition test. You need to know the rules, but the question will usually ask what follows from specific facts. That is especially important in areas such as title, priorities, trusts, wills, client money treatment and criminal procedure. Solicitors accounts deserve their own routine, covered in how to practise solicitors accounts little and often.
Practise reading for controlling facts. In a property question, ask who owns what, what is registered, what has been signed and what stage the transaction has reached. In a wills or trust question, ask whether the formality, capacity or beneficial entitlement point is decisive. In a criminal procedure question, check the stage of the process before choosing the next step.
This is exactly what the Qualifico statistics tab does, so you do not have to keep the log yourself. Every answer is scored against the subtopic it came from, giving you a topic breakdown you can open down to subtopic level, a predicted score set against your target mark, and a comparison against the profile of a candidate who passed. A progress chart shows whether a weak area is actually recovering, and a weekly report lands whether or not you remember to review. See what that looks like for SQE1 FLK2.
How Qualifico supports SQE1 Functioning Legal Knowledge 2 (FLK2)
Qualifico covers SQE1 FLK2 with 598 practice questions, 198 flashcards and 60 guided lessons, one for every subtopic.
See plans and start studying SQE1 FLK2. Use Qualifico alongside the official materials rather than in place of them.
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