SQE1 study map
SQE Cracker breaks large assessment areas into focused subject books. This map shows how they fit together and offers a sensible route through them.
The subject list is alphabetical for browsing. Several entries are focused parts of a broader SQE1 assessment area: the FLK1 tax books belong with Business Law and Practice, for example, while Property Taxation belongs with Property Practice.
The SRA sets the assessment areas and exam sessions. The numbered route below is our study suggestion, not an official order or a change to your current plan. If you have already started, carry on from your next useful topic.
Follow the numbered route for a starting point, or enter at the book you need today.
Exam session 2
Start with sources of law and public law, then connect those foundations to rights and review.
In SQE Cracker: The Legal System, Constitutional and Administrative Law, Human Rights, Judicial Review, Public Order Law
Exam session 2
Build the rules for agreements, terms, breach and remedies before applying them in practice.
In SQE Cracker: Contract Law
Exam session 2
Develop your approach to duties, liability, defences and remedies.
In SQE Cracker: Tort
Exam session 1
Study business structures and transactions first. The smaller tax books sit inside this practice area for SQE1.
Tax in business context
In SQE Cracker: Business Law and Practice, Income Tax, Corporation Tax, Capital Gains Tax, Value Added Tax, Inheritance Tax and Business Property Relief, Tax Anti-Avoidance
Exam session 1
Apply substantive law through claims, evidence, settlement, trial and enforcement.
In SQE Cracker: Dispute Resolution
Exam session 1
Bring together the regulation and delivery of legal services.
In SQE Cracker: Legal Services, Financial Services, Money Laundering
Follow the numbered route for a starting point, or enter at the book you need today.
Exam session 1
Get comfortable with estates, interests and co-ownership before the transaction steps.
In SQE Cracker: Land Law
Exam session 1
Learn how trusts arise and how trustees' duties and remedies work.
In SQE Cracker: Equity and Trusts
Exam session 2
Learn offences, participation and defences before criminal procedure.
In SQE Cracker: Criminal Law
Exam session 1
Follow a will from validity through estate administration, with tax in the wills context.
Tax in wills context
In SQE Cracker: Wills and Administration of Estates, Inheritance Tax and Wills, Capital Gains Tax and Wills
Exam session 2
Use your land law foundations in conveyancing and property tax questions.
Tax in property context
In SQE Cracker: Property Practice, Property Taxation
Exam session 2
Put criminal liability to work from the police station through trial, sentence and appeal.
In SQE Cracker: Criminal Litigation
Keep these in view throughout.
Ethics and conduct can be tested across both FLKs. The separate FLK2 entry in SQE Cracker opens the shared conduct material, while practice questions remain FLK-specific. Revisit it alongside the other subjects rather than leaving it to the end.
Keep this as one focused book, then practise applying it in both Wills and Property contexts. The SRA places accounts questions in those contexts in the January 2027 exam sessions.
From January 2027, this is the SRA’s session structure, not a learning sequence. Questions are mixed within each session.
Session 1
Business Law and Practice, Dispute Resolution, Legal Services
Session 2
Tort, Contract Law, Legal System
Session 1
Wills and Administration, Trusts Law, Land Law, Accounts in Wills
Session 2
Property Practice, Criminal Liability, Criminal Law and Practice, Accounts in Property
Professional Conduct remains pervasive across all four sessions.
Open the first area of an FLK, pick one book, and work through a topic in Learn mode.
Carry on with your current subject. Use the map to see which nearby books complete that assessment area.
Use targeted MCQs and timed session mocks, then let the report point you back to weak topics.