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Cheapest SQE1 Prep Courses 2026/27, Every Price Compared

Every SQE1 provider's cheapest option, with prices checked on 7 November 2026 and ranked by what it would cost to prepare for the January 2027 sitting: one-off passes from £59, subscriptions from £75 for three months, courses from £650, and the free material worth using first.

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Short answer: The cheapest paid SQE1 prep for the January 2027 sitting costs about £60. Lawdojo’s January pass is £59 if you buy it by 30 November, and SQE1 Prep’s three one-month passes come to £59.97 (or £69.99 for lifetime access). The cheapest full course package is QLTS School’s Basic at £1,990. You can also prepare with nothing but free material, starting with the SRA’s 220 sample questions, and pay only the £2,006 exam fee.

We checked every price below on each provider’s own website on 7 November 2026. Some providers charge once, some charge monthly and some sell a course, so we have also worked out what each option would cost to prepare for one sitting. The arithmetic is shown, so you can redo it for your own dates. For the SRA’s fees in full, including SQE2, see how much the SQE costs in 2026/27. This page is about the prep.

The cheapest SQE1 prep options, ranked

Each provider appears once, at its cheapest option that covers both FLK1 and FLK2. The last column assumes you start on 7 November 2026 and sit in January 2027. FLK2 ends on 22 January, so a monthly plan needs three payments (7 November, 7 December and 7 January). Where a provider sells a three-month plan, we used that instead.

Provider Cheapest SQE1 option Published price Type Cost for January 2027
Lawdojo January 2027 pass (questions, mocks, AI tutor) £59 until 30 November, then £99 One-off, access to 22 January 2027 £59
SQE1 Prep 1-month access £19.99 per 30 days; lifetime £69.99 One-off passes, no renewal £59.97 (3 × £19.99)
Devil’s Advocate Committed plan £75 per 3 months (£28 a month rolling) Subscription £75
SQEase Core, billed quarterly £81 a quarter (£30 a month rolling) Subscription £81
Ant Law SQE1 Full Question Bank £39 a month; £350 a year Subscription £117 (3 × £39)
BAREX Self-Study, 3 months £125 for 3 months (£50 a month) Subscription £125
Revise SQE (Revise4Law) SQE1 Bundle, all 16 titles £232.90 (was £274.00) Books or ebooks, one-off £232.90
FQPS SQE1 Revision plan £79 a month, inc VAT Subscription £237 (3 × £79)
Law Training Centre SQE1 Just Mocks £395, inc VAT Mocks only, one-off £395
University of Law SQE1 Exam Preparation Course (2 days or 4 evenings) £650, upfront only Short live revision course £650
QLTS School SQE1 Basic £1,990 Course, self-paced £1,990
College of Legal Practice SQE1 preparation course £2,200 Course, 13, 20 or 40 weeks £2,200
BARBRI Accelerated, starts 9 November 2026 Starting at £2,999 Course, 10 weeks full time £2,999
Middlesex University SQE1 preparatory course £3,995, plus Revise SQE books (Middlesex says roughly £236) Course, 6 months from January 2027 Not for January 2027
BPP SQE1 Preparation (Self-study) £4,300 in the 2026-27 fee table (the page also says “from £4,200”) Self-study course, 18 months’ access £4,300

Law Training Centre’s lawtrainingcentre.co.uk address would not load for us on 7 November because of a certificate error, so its prices come from its site at ltckent.co.uk. Every price here is for prep only. The SRA’s £2,006 exam fee is extra.

Two-panel bar chart of the cost to prepare for the January 2027 SQE1 sitting. Question banks, passes and books: Lawdojo £59, SQE1 Prep £59.97, Devil's Advocate £75, SQEase £81, Ant Law £117, BAREX £125, Revise SQE £232.90, FQPS £237. Mocks, revision and full courses: Law Training Centre £395, University of Law £650, QLTS School £1,990, College of Legal Practice £2,200, BARBRI £2,999, BPP £4,300.
What the cheapest option from each provider costs for the January 2027 sitting, starting on 7 November 2026. The two panels use different scales. Middlesex is left out because its course is for a later sitting. Lawdojo’s £59 applies until 30 November.

One-off passes and books

You pay once for each of these, and nothing renews.

Lawdojo, £59 for January 2027

The January pass gives you the full bank of 2,466 questions, five timed mock papers and the AI tutor until 22 January 2027. It costs £59 until 30 November (UK time) and £99 from 1 December. A July 2027 pass is £149, with access until 23 July 2027, and a 30-day pass is £39. Lawdojo says on its pricing page that its mocks predate the January 2027 changes: they use the old 180-question papers and mix every subject across both sessions. It also calls itself “a trainer, not a full taught course”.

SQE1 Prep, £19.99 a month or £69.99 for life

Both options are single payments. The one-month pass ends after 30 days and does not renew, and lifetime access never expires. You get 4,400+ practice questions, 5,500+ flashcards, study notes and unlimited timed mocks in the 2027 format of two 85-question sessions. SQE1 Prep works out the January sum itself: three passes at £59.97, or £69.99 for lifetime access, which would also cover a resit. If you start earlier, lifetime is cheaper than four or more monthly passes. There are no video lectures or live sessions, and there is a 14-day money-back guarantee.

Revise SQE books, £232.90

Revise4Law sells the Revise SQE revision guides. The full SQE1 bundle of 16 titles, including the FLK1 and FLK2 practice assessment books, costs £232.90 in print or as ebooks, down from £274.00. FLK1 or FLK2 alone costs £123.30, and the audiobook bundle £154.70. Online mock exams cost £40 per FLK or £70 for both (inc VAT), and you can sit each one twice within six months. The site says it is updating its mock books for the January 2027 format. Books give you the law in one place, but you will need questions and timed practice from somewhere else as well.

Law Training Centre Just Mocks, £395

A mocks-only product with MCQs, 400 mock questions and eight timed mocks (four per FLK) of 90 questions each. For January 2027 you can enrol until 4 January 2027, and access ends on 31 January. It suits a candidate who already knows the law and wants more timed practice.

Monthly subscriptions

Subscriptions cost little each month, but the total depends on how long you study. Every one below lets you cancel, and most will renew until you do.

  • Devil’s Advocate: £28 a month, £75 for three months or £143 for six. It includes 1,200+ SQE1-style MCQs with mocks and mini-mocks, plus notes, flashcards, mind maps and videos.
  • SQEase: Core is £30 a month, £81 a quarter or £150 for six months. It has 5,484 SQE1-style questions, an AI assistant called Lex and a simulation in the January 2027 shape (2 × 85 questions). SQEase says it is not VAT-registered, so no VAT is added on the web, and it gives a full refund within 14 days.
  • Ant Law: the full SQE1 bank is £39 a month or £350 a year, with 14,000+ questions, mock exams and 100 AI Q&A attempts a month. One FLK alone is £25 a month or £179 a year. Its pricing page says “All sales are final once subscribed”.
  • BAREX: Self-Study is £50 a month, £125 for three months or £230 for six. More on this near the end.
  • FQPS: SQE1 Revision is £79 a month (inc VAT) with 2,500+ MCQs, revision cards, two FLK1 and two FLK2 mocks and a designated mentor. The Practice plan is £129 and the Master plan £279. FQPS caps your spend with a “Spend Limit” guarantee of £1,000 per exam, after which its study resources stay unlocked (tutor sessions and live mocks excluded). Its own example route for six months costs £774.

Over six months the order changes a little. SQE1 Prep’s lifetime access (£69.99) becomes the cheapest, followed by Devil’s Advocate (£143), Lawdojo’s July 2027 pass (£149), SQEase Core (£150), BAREX (£230), Ant Law (6 × £39 = £234) and FQPS (6 × £79 = £474).

Taught courses and short revision courses

A course costs more because you pay for teaching, a timetable and access to tutors. The cheapest options from the larger providers are below.

  • University of Law, £650: the SQE1 Exam Preparation Course is a live-streamed revision course over two days or four evenings, with timed practice tests and tutor feedback. ULaw describes it as revision of law you have “previously studied”, suited to law graduates and conversion students. The next start is December 2026. ULaw’s full SQE1 Preparation Course Online costs £5,250 for 2026/27 and includes this revision course.
  • QLTS School, £1,990: the Basic package includes textbooks, summary notes, 2,500+ MCQs, 12 mock sessions of 85 questions and an initial tutor consultation. Access covers your next two consecutive sittings, and there is no fixed start date. Video lectures are in the £2,490 Advantage package, or a £390 add-on. A single-FLK course for resitters costs £1,490.
  • College of Legal Practice, £2,200: 13, 20 or 40 weeks, with 2,300+ MCQs, ten timed progress tests and ten personal supervisions. If you do not pass first time, it gives free access for the next two sittings.
  • Law Training Centre, £2,700 or £2,900: Exam-Track is £2,700 and Flexi-Learn £2,900 (inc VAT). Enrolment on Exam-Track for January 2027 closed on 31 October 2026, so the full course now means July 2027 or later. It mentions an Access to Law scholarship worth £1,000, a price-match offer and a November saving of 10% on selected courses.
  • BARBRI, from £2,999: the 10-week Accelerated course starting 9 November 2026 is the January 2027 option. A £149 late registration fee applies after a course start date, and the 40-week Flexible course starts at £3,299.
  • Middlesex University, £3,995: six months from January 2027, with live teaching twice a week, on campus in Hendon or online. Middlesex says you will also need the Revise SQE books, at roughly £236.
  • BPP, £4,300: the self-study course gives 18 months’ access to BPP’s materials and its BPP Adapt platform. You buy it by phone. The page shows “from £4,200” in its summary and £4,300 for 2026-27 in its fee table. BPP’s taught course is £5,900 online or £7,100 in London.

Most of these offer instalments. QLTS School’s access covers two sittings, and College of Legal Practice, ULaw’s full course, Law Training Centre and BARBRI all offer some form of extra access if you do not pass, as does FQPS among the subscriptions. Each sets its own conditions, so read the terms if a second sitting is part of your plan. For a closer look at the four best-known providers, see BPP vs ULaw vs BARBRI vs QLTS School.

Free SQE1 prep

The best free resource comes from the SRA. It publishes 220 SQE1 sample questions: 90 original questions and 130 that have been used in real assessments, 110 for each FLK, in English and Welsh, online and as PDFs. The pre-tested set shows what percentage of candidates answered each question correctly. The SRA also offers a demo of the Pearson VUE exam screen. It says the samples are not a full mock exam.

Most providers also let you try something free before you pay:

  • BPP: 50 MCQs and an SQE1 mock exam.
  • QLTS School: two 50-question mock tests, one per FLK.
  • FQPS: two full mocks when you sign up.
  • SQE1 Prep: a 20-question readiness quiz, the first topic of every subject and five questions a day.
  • SQEase: five questions and 15 Lex messages a day.
  • Lawdojo: a 25-question diagnostic with ten AI tutor messages.
  • Ant Law: ten SQE1 practice questions.
  • BARBRI and Law Training Centre: free course demos.
  • BAREX: one topic pack per subject, one FLK session mock of 85 questions in 2 hours 33 minutes, and a monthly allowance of AI tutor time.

Put together, that is several hundred free questions and a handful of mocks. It is enough to see whether you are close to the standard. It is rarely enough practice to prepare for both papers, which is why most candidates spend something. Our guide to free SQE1 resources lists them all with links.

What you give up when you go cheap

The cheaper options are mostly question banks and revision platforms. They can work well, but they leave some things to you.

  • Few of the options under £250 include lectures. If you are meeting trusts, land law or solicitors accounts for the first time, decide where you will learn the law, whether from books such as Revise SQE or from a provider’s notes.
  • Nobody sets your weekly targets. Candidates who need a deadline set by someone else often get more from a course than from a question bank.
  • Cheaper tools explain each answer, but there is usually no person to tell you why you keep choosing the wrong option. FQPS adds a mentor, and QLTS School’s Premium package adds two hours of tutor support.
  • From January 2027, each FLK is two sessions of 85 questions in 2 hours 33 minutes. Check that the mocks you buy match it, because some products still describe 90-question sessions or 180-question papers.
  • Refund terms vary. SQE1 Prep and SQEase offer 14-day refunds, while Ant Law says sales are final. A monthly plan you forget to cancel keeps charging.

The biggest cost is a resit. Resitting one FLK costs £1,003, which is more than every option in the ranking under £1,000, and you would need to keep preparing for the next sitting too. Whatever you buy, budget for enough timed practice to give yourself a real chance of passing first time.

Your total budget for one sitting

The exam fee is the same whichever route you take: £2,006 for FLK1 and FLK2 together. Our SQE cost guide covers the SRA’s fees in detail. Added to the prep prices above:

Route Prep Exam fee Total
Free material only £0 £2,006 £2,006
Cheapest one-off pass (Lawdojo, bought by 30 November) £59 £2,006 £2,065
Three months of a mid-priced platform (BAREX Self-Study) £125 £2,006 £2,131
Cheapest full course (QLTS School Basic) £1,990 £2,006 £3,996
BARBRI Accelerated £2,999 £2,006 £5,005
BPP Self-study £4,300 £2,006 £6,306

If you are sitting in January 2027, the SRA lists 23 November 2026 as the date booking closes. Our guide to applying for SQE1 goes through the steps. If you are still choosing between a course and self-study, how to choose the right SQE1 prep option compares them, and our provider comparison sets the features side by side.

Where BAREX fits

BAREX is in the lower middle of the table. The free plan has no time limit and includes one topic pack per subject, one FLK session mock and a monthly allowance of AI tutor time. Self-Study, at £50 a month or £125 for three months, adds every topic pack and 12 full mocks for each FLK in the January 2027 format, with SQE-style MCQs you can filter by exam, subject and topic, cheat sheets and a live AI law tutor in every topic. You can cancel it at any time.

BAREX has no lectures and no fixed timetable. If you want someone else to set the pace, a course will suit you better, and some candidates use BAREX alongside one. The Guided Plan (£1,500) adds 20 hours of live one-to-one coaching across two sittings. You can sit the free mock and judge the questions for yourself, or start free on BAREX.

BAREX is not affiliated with any provider listed or with the SRA. If a figure here is out of date, email hello@barex.uk and we will correct it.

Quick answers

What is the cheapest SQE1 course?

For the January 2027 sitting, the cheapest paid options are Lawdojo’s January pass at £59 (until 30 November, then £99) and SQE1 Prep at £59.97 for three monthly passes, or £69.99 for lifetime access. Both are question banks with mocks. The cheapest full course we found is QLTS School’s Basic package at £1,990.

Can I prepare for SQE1 for free?

Yes. The SRA publishes 220 sample questions and an exam screen demo, and BPP, QLTS School, FQPS, BAREX and others offer free questions or mocks. Free material alone rarely gives you enough timed practice across both papers, but it shows you where you stand before you spend anything.

Is a cheap SQE1 question bank enough to pass?

It can be, if you already know most of the law or have another way to learn it, and you sit enough timed mocks in the January 2027 format. It suits candidates who can plan their own study. If you need teaching or a fixed timetable, a course is the safer spend.

How much does SQE1 cost in total with prep?

The exam fee is £2,006. With free material only, that is the total. With one of the cheap options in the ranking it comes to between £2,065 (Lawdojo) and £2,243 (three months of FQPS), and with the cheapest full course (QLTS School Basic) £3,996.

What is the cheapest SQE1 course from BPP or the University of Law?

The University of Law’s two-day SQE1 Exam Preparation Course costs £650; its full online course is £5,250 for 2026/27. BPP’s cheapest is the SQE1 self-study course, listed at £4,300 for 2026-27 (the page also says “from £4,200”).

How much does it cost to resit one SQE1 paper?

£1,003 for one FLK, payable to the SRA, plus whatever further preparation you buy. Some providers include extra access for a second sitting, so check this before you choose.

Sources

Prices and details checked on 7 November 2026 on each provider’s own website and the SRA’s. Prices change, so check the provider’s page before you buy.