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Each question gives a factual scenario, a precise stem, and five options where more than one looks right — the single-best-answer format SQE1 uses, at roughly 100 seconds a question.
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Essential SQE1 Questions
Essential SQE1 Questions is a single-best-answer question bank for the Solicitors Qualifying Examination: 500 original questions spanning all 12 FLK1 and FLK2 subjects, each with a fully worked solution explaining why the best answer wins on the facts and why each of the other options fails. Written to the SQE1 assessment specification, with the law of England and Wales stated as at 1 June 2026.
- 500 high-fidelity questions mirroring the difficulty of the SRA assessment.
- Fully worked solutions across both FLK1 and FLK2.
- Law of England and Wales stated as at 1 June 2026.
2 × 180
Single-best-answer questions across two papers
~100 sec
Average time per question in the real exam
12
FLK1 and FLK2 subjects, all covered
1 June 2026
The date the law is stated as at
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A Complete Practice Loop
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Worked solutions do more than state the answer. Each one explains the winning option, then takes the four distractors apart in turn — because wrong answers teach the most.
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Inside Every Worked Solution
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Every one of the 500 questions has a full worked solution. Each solution states the legal principle, applies it to the scenario, and then works through the remaining options one by one — the option that misstates the law, the one that applies the right rule to the wrong facts, and the one that reaches the right outcome for the wrong reason. Read after a timed attempt, the solutions turn marking into revision.
Each solution covers
- The rule, and why it decides the question
- Application to the specific facts
- Why each distractor fails
- The trap the question was built around
FLK1 · Business Law and Practice · Foundational
Question
Adaeze Kaur and Elena Williams have been running an interior design business together for three years. They share the profits equally, make decisions jointly, and contribute their own savings to fund the business. They never signed any written agreement, never registered anything at Companies House, and never filed any document with any registrar. A supplier, Chidi Mwangi, is owed money for furniture delivered to the business and wants to understand the legal nature of the arrangement between Adaeze and Elena before pursuing payment.
- A.They operate a private limited company, because they have been trading for more than one year.
- B.They operate a limited liability partnership, because two people running a business together form an LLP by default.
- C.They operate a general partnership, which arose automatically from carrying on a business in common with a view of profit.
- D.They operate no recognised business form, because no written agreement was ever signed between them.
- E.They operate a partnership, but only because they each contributed capital to the business.
Worked Solution
Correct answerC
A general partnership comes into existence automatically whenever two or more people carry on a business in common with a view of profit. No written agreement, registration, or filing is required. Adaeze and Elena share profits, make joint decisions, and run the design business together for gain, which satisfies the definition. The arrangement is therefore a general partnership by operation of law, and each partner can be personally liable for the firm's debts, including the sum owed to Chidi.
Why the other options fail
- A.A private limited company is created only by completing the formal incorporation process and registration. Length of trading is irrelevant; simply trading for over a year does not turn an unregistered venture into a company.
- B.An LLP does not arise by default. It is a corporate body that comes into existence only when the correct incorporation documents are delivered to and registered by the registrar. As nothing was ever filed, no LLP exists here.
- D.This wrongly assumes a written agreement is essential. A general partnership can arise purely from conduct, so the absence of any signed document does not mean there is no recognised business form.
- E.This reaches the right form but for the wrong reason. A partnership is defined by carrying on a business in common with a view of profit, not by whether the parties contributed capital. Capital contribution is not the legal trigger.
Two of the 500 questions in the book, reproduced exactly as published.
Syllabus Coverage
Question Coverage Across the SQE1 Syllabus
- Business Law and Practice40 questions
- Dispute Resolution49 questions
- Contract Law57 questions
- Legal System of England and Wales42 questions
- Tort35 questions
- Legal Services26 questions
- Property Practice42 questions
- Wills and the Administration of Estates49 questions
- Solicitors Accounts32 questions
- Land Law37 questions
- Trusts39 questions
- Criminal Law and Practice52 questions
Ethics and Professional ConductExamined pervasively across both papers
TotalThe complete question bank500 questions
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Written to the specification
Every question is drafted to the published SQE1 assessment specification in the single-best-answer format the exam uses: a factual scenario, a precise stem, and five options where more than one looks plausible.
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Independently reviewed
Each question passed through multiple independent reviews before inclusion, with every answer checked separately and cross-question consistency verified across the bank.
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Calibrated by difficulty
Questions span foundational, moderate, and hard levels in every subject, so practice stretches from first-pass revision to the traps that decide marks on exam day.
Built for the 2026 Assessment
Preparation that mirrors the exam.
SQE1 rewards applied judgement over recall: two papers of 180 single-best-answer questions, sat under strict time pressure. This book is built for that test. It states the law of England and Wales as at 1 June 2026 and is written to the published SQE1 assessment specification.
The opening chapters explain the single-best-answer format and a fixed working order for answering under time pressure; the closing pages cover exam-day technique, from pacing to the discipline of never leaving a blank.
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