Seven providers publish free SQE1 MCQs. Together they offer over 800 questions at no cost. The problem is not finding them; it is using them in a way that tells you something useful about your readiness.
This page lists every free source, gives an honest assessment of each, and sets out a sequencing logic that turns scattered question banks into a structured diagnostic tool.
| Provider | Free questions | Registration | Difficulty vs. real exam |
|---|---|---|---|
| SRA official sample questions | 170 (85 FLK1, 85 FLK2) | None | Easier |
| Law Drills | 130 (60 practice + 70 mini-mock) | Free account | Harder |
| BPP | 150 (100 mock + 50 practice) | Email required | Comparable |
| QLTS School | 100 (2 mock exams) | Free account | Significantly harder |
| AllAboutLaw | 90 | None | Easier to comparable |
| University of Law | 45 (via mobile app) | App download | Comparable |
| Glintiss | Ongoing (weekly newsletter) | Email subscription | Varies |
The SRA publishes 170 sample questions split evenly across FLK1 and FLK2. No registration, no paywall. These are the questions the SRA itself uses to illustrate the format, and they are the closest thing to a canonical reference for question style and phrasing.
The difficulty is lower than the real exam. Candidates who score 70% or above on the SRA samples should treat that as a floor, not a target. The value of these questions is calibration: they establish what a correctly formatted SQE1 MCQ looks like before you encounter the idiosyncrasies of third-party question writers.
Do these first. All 170. Score yourself per FLK and per topic area.
Law Drills provides 130 free questions across a practice bank and a mini-mock format. The platform is adaptive, meaning question selection responds to your performance. The questions run harder than the SRA samples and, for many topics, harder than the real exam. A 50% score on Law Drills free questions is a materially different signal from 50% on the SRA samples.
Law Drills requires a free account. The paid tier unlocks the full question bank and the detailed topic breakdown, which is where the diagnostic value concentrates.
BPP's free resource page offers 150 questions: 100 in a mock exam format and 50 in topic-specific practice sets. You need to provide an email address to access them. The difficulty sits close to the real exam. BPP is one of the main SQE preparation providers, and their free questions reflect the same style as their paid course material.
QLTS School's two free mock exams total 100 questions. These run significantly harder than the real exam, which creates an interpretation problem: a low score does not tell you whether your preparation is weak or whether the questions are unrepresentative. Use QLTS School questions after you have a baseline from the SRA samples, not before.
AllAboutLaw offers 90 free practice questions without registration. Difficulty varies by topic; some questions sit below real-exam standard. Useful for additional volume on specific topics but not reliable as a readiness benchmark.
45 questions available via the University of Law's mobile app. Requires a download but no paid account. Useful if you want mobile-friendly question practice. The question quality is good; the volume is limited.
Glintiss sends a weekly newsletter containing SQE1 questions. The volume accumulates over time. Questions are well-written and topic coverage varies week to week. Worth subscribing to early in your revision period so questions build up by exam time.
Scoring 70% on the SRA official questions and scoring 70% on QLTS School questions are not the same thing. The SRA questions are written to illustrate the format; they reward knowledge of clear-cut legal rules. The QLTS School questions require finer distinctions and tolerate more ambiguity.
This matters because candidates often report a score across all free questions combined, which obscures the source. "I'm scoring around 65%" across 800 questions tells you very little if 600 of those questions were from the SRA sample bank and 200 were from Law Drills.
For a detailed comparison of how mock scores from each provider translate to real exam performance, see our provider-by-provider mock calibration guide.
Start with the SRA official questions. Do all 170 before touching any third-party bank. This gives you a baseline on exam-standard material without the confounding variable of harder or easier questions. Score yourself by topic area, not just by FLK total.
Move to BPP next. The difficulty is comparable to the real exam, and 150 questions across 100 mock and 50 practice gives you enough volume to see topic patterns. Note where your error rate is highest.
Use Law Drills and QLTS School as stress tests once you have a baseline. A score of 50% on QLTS School in your weak topics tells you something specific. The same score early in your revision, before you have a baseline, tells you almost nothing actionable.
AllAboutLaw and the University of Law app work well for topic-specific drilling when you want additional volume on a particular FLK2 subject without committing to a full mock.
Run the Glintiss questions as you receive them throughout your revision period. The variety of format and framing is useful for avoiding over-familiarity with any one provider's style.
Eight hundred free questions sounds like a lot. Candidates often work through them linearly, question by question, ticking them off as completed. The score they record is a total percentage. They move on.
This produces a single number that does not answer the question you actually need answered: which topics in FLK1 and FLK2 are below the pass threshold, and by how much?
The SQE1 pass mark requires you to pass FLK1 and FLK2 separately. A strong performance in Criminal Practice will not compensate for a weak performance in Land Law. Blended percentage scores across all questions obscure exactly the topic-level gaps that revision time should target.
The SQE1 topic breakdown shows how subjects are distributed across FLK1 and FLK2, and why an even split of revision time across all subjects is a mistake.
Before you start any question bank, set up a tracking system that logs your score per topic per source. A spreadsheet works. So does any tool that maps MCQ results to FLK topic areas. The point is that when you finish the 800 questions, you should have a table showing your accuracy by topic, not a single number.
The free sources together provide enough questions for two to three passes through the core FLK topic areas. That is a meaningful amount of practice. For most candidates preparing full-time over three to four months, the free questions work well as a diagnostic layer alongside course material.
The limitation is volume per topic. Free questions spread thinly across 30+ topic areas. If your Land Law accuracy is 45% across 12 free questions, you do not yet have enough data to be confident in that number. Paid question banks from providers like BARBRI, BPP, or Law Drills resolve this by offering hundreds of questions per topic rather than dozens.
Use free questions to identify which topics need more work. Use paid banks to do that work at volume.
If you sat in January 2026 and failed one FLK, you already have real exam data. Your SRA Centre score report shows your performance band by topic area. That is more specific information than any free question bank provides.
For resitters, the SRA official sample questions serve a different purpose: confirming your knowledge of the correct format rather than diagnosing topic gaps. Start with your score report. Identify the FLK topics where you scored below the pass band. Allocate question bank time accordingly, using free questions as supplementary volume on those topics.
SQETrack imports your results from BARBRI and Law Drills and maps them to FLK topics alongside your free MCQ practice. You get a clear picture of which topics need work — not just a score.
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