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SQE results: scores, release dates and resits

Both parts of the Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE), set by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), report a scaled score out of 500, and 300 is a pass at every sitting. SQE results arrive by email, with a link to your candidate account, on a results day set for each sitting: January 2026’s SQE1 results came out on 31 March 2026, and April 2026’s SQE2 results on 27 August 2026. If you don’t pass, you have three attempts at each part within six years.

  • 300Scaled score out of 500 that passes
  • 3Attempts at each part
  • 6 yearsWindow for all your attempts, from your first assessment
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Updated October 2026 · Written from official sources, listed at the bottom of this page

When do SQE results come out?

SittingPartResults out
January 2026SQE131 March 2026
January 2026SQE221 May 2026
April 2026SQE227 August 2026
July 2026SQE129 September 2026

For July 2026 SQE1, the date is when the SRA published its statement on the results.

The SQE website lists the release dates for future sittings. On results day you get an email with a link to your results in your candidate account. The pass mark is published after each Assessment Board and included with your results, and Kaplan publishes a statistical report on each sitting.

What your SQE results show

SQE1 shows an overall mark out of 500, not a percentage, with a breakdown of how you did in each practice area. SQE2 shows the scaled score out of 500 and your overall percentage, with a breakdown for each of the 16 stations. SQE2 moved to scaled scores in January 2025; SQE1 has used them since January 2024.

Why the raw pass mark changes

There’s no fixed raw pass mark and no quota. After each sitting the Assessment Board sets the pass mark for each paper under the SQE Marking and Standard Setting Policy, so a slightly harder paper gets a slightly lower mark. Scaling then puts every result on the same scale out of 500, with 300 as the pass.

For SQE1, setting the standard starts with Angoff panels of junior solicitors, who judge how many newly qualified solicitors would answer each question correctly. Each SQE1 paper also repeats some questions from earlier sittings, so the SRA can compare how candidates in different sittings did on the same material.

SQE resits: three attempts in six years

Under the SQE Assessment Regulations you have six years from the first day of your first SQE assessment to pass the rest, and up to three attempts at SQE2 in that time. The SRA says the same three attempts in six years applies to SQE1, and July 2026 resitters took one or both of the SQE1 papers again.

If you’re a qualified lawyer, you can’t get an exemption from a part of the SQE you’ve already sat and failed.

How hard is the SQE? Pass rates →SQE exam dates →
Sources: SRA and 10 more. Checked October 2026.

Rules and fees can change, so check the official site before your test.

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