With 14 weeks to go before the January 2027 SQE1 assessment, now is a good time to put a structured SQE1 Revision Plan in place.
From January 2027, SQE1 also has a new session structure. Each FLK is divided into two sessions, with particular subjects allocated to each session. Questions within each session are randomised, while Ethics and Professional Conduct can be tested throughout.
Your revision plan should therefore consider not only which subjects to study, but also which subjects are related and which will ultimately be tested together.
The following 14-week SQE1 Revision Plan combines subject dependencies, the new SRA session structure, spaced retrieval and timed mock practice.
The New SQE1 Session Structure
FLK1 Session 1: Business Law and Practice + Dispute Resolution + Legal Services
FLK1 Session 2: Tort + Contract + Legal System
FLK2 Session 1: Wills + Solicitors Accounts + Trusts + Land Law
FLK2 Session 2: Property Practice + Solicitors Accounts + Criminal Liability + Criminal Practice
My Suggested 14-Week Revision Plan
| Weeks | Main Focus | Why Here? |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Contract + Tort | Start with two foundational substantive subjects. They also belong together in FLK1 Session 2. |
| 2 | Business Law and Practice | Give Business a focused week while Contract remains fresh. |
| 3 | Dispute Resolution + Legal Services | Completes the main FLK1 Session 1 combination. |
| 4 | Legal System + FLK1 Consolidation | Completes FLK1 Session 2. Use the remaining time for mixed FLK1 questions. |
| 5–6 | Trusts | Give this more abstract subject two weeks rather than rushing through it. |
| 7 | Wills and Administration of Estates | Follows naturally from Trusts and is tested with Trusts in FLK2 Session 1. |
| 8–10 | Land Law → Property Law and Practice | Build the Land Law foundation first, then move into the property transaction. |
| 11–12 | Criminal Liability → Criminal Law and Practice | Learn substantive criminal law before criminal procedure. |
| 13–14 | Session-Based Mocks + Weak Areas | Practise the four SRA session combinations under timed conditions and revisit weaker topics. |
| Throughout | Solicitors Accounts + Ethics + Retrieval | Practise Accounts little and often, integrate Ethics throughout, and regularly retrieve earlier topics. |
Why This Order?
The first principle is study the foundation before the subject that builds on it. Contract supports aspects of Business Law and Practice; Trusts connects naturally with Wills and estate administration; Land Law provides the foundation for Property Practice; and Criminal Liability should be understood before Criminal Practice.
The plan also gives more time to subjects that can be difficult to absorb quickly. Trusts receives two weeks, while Land Law and Property Practice receive three weeks together. Criminal Liability and Criminal Practice receive two weeks so that substantive offences and defences can be learned before moving into police powers, procedure, evidence, trial and sentencing.
This does not mean that a subject disappears when its allocated week ends. Earlier subjects should continue to return through MCQs and short retrieval sessions.
Why Solicitors Accounts Should Run Throughout
I would not allocate one isolated week to Solicitors Accounts. It is a subject where repeated practice is particularly valuable, so consider spending around 20 minutes regularly from the beginning of your revision on Accounts questions and calculations.
As you reach Wills and Property Practice, your Accounts practice can increasingly reflect the relevant context. This also mirrors the new structure: Solicitors Accounts is tested in the context of Wills in FLK2 Session 1 and Property in FLK2 Session 2.
Ethics should be treated similarly. Rather than seeing it only as a separate topic, practise identifying professional conduct issues whenever they arise across the syllabus.
Move from Subject Practice to Session Practice
At the beginning of the 14 weeks, topic-based MCQs make sense. If you have just revised negligence, focused Tort questions allow you to test whether you can apply what you have learned.
As the examination approaches, however, your MCQ practice should increasingly reflect the four actual SRA session combinations:
FLK1 Session 1: Business Law and Practice + Dispute Resolution + Legal Services
FLK1 Session 2: Tort + Contract + Legal System
FLK2 Session 1: Wills + Solicitors Accounts + Trusts + Land Law
FLK2 Session 2: Property Practice + Solicitors Accounts + Criminal Liability + Criminal Practice
This is important because the questions within each session are randomised. In the examination, you need to move from one legal area to another, identify what is actually being tested and retrieve the relevant law without being given a subject heading.
Weeks 13–14: Let Your Mistakes Decide What You Revise
The final two weeks should be driven increasingly by your mock results rather than by a predetermined reading schedule.
After each mock, do not focus only on your percentage. Classify your mistakes. Did you not know the law? Did you know the rule but apply it incorrectly? Did you overlook a decisive fact? Were you caught between two plausible answers? Or did time pressure affect your reasoning?
Your answers should determine what you revise next. A candidate who scores poorly because of weak Trusts knowledge needs a different final-week strategy from someone who knows the law but repeatedly misreads the facts.
The Principle Behind the 14-Week Plan
A 14-week revision plan should not consist of 14 isolated blocks. It should gradually move from learning → application → retrieval → mixed practice → timed session practice.
Once you finish a subject’s main study period, keep it alive through MCQs and spaced retrieval. Otherwise, the Contract law you knew well in Week 1 may be difficult to retrieve by Week 14.
The aim is therefore not simply to say that you have “covered” every SQE1 subject.
What matters on exam day is whether you can retrieve the relevant law, identify the decisive facts and apply the rule accurately under time pressure.