- Yes, free SQE1 practice questions exist, and the most useful set is the SRA's own published sample questions, because they show the real style.
- The sample is a sample. It is not a full-length timed mock, and it will not tell you whether you can hold accuracy for 90 questions in a row.
- A mock only earns the name if it is full length, on the clock, split into two sessions, mixed across subjects and free of repeated points.
- Most genuinely free offers are short taster tests attached to a paid product, which is fine as a sample of the product and not a substitute for a mock.
- Our own SQE1 app is a paid question bank with full mocks built in. It is ours, so treat this as disclosure rather than a recommendation. Checked 9 September 2026.
The short answer on free SQE1 mocks
Yes, there are free SQE1 mock tests, but almost none of them are mocks in the strict sense. The Solicitors Regulation Authority publishes sample SQE1 questions free of charge, and those are the single most useful free resource available because they are written by the people who set the exam and they show the real question style. What they are not is a full timed mock.
That distinction is the whole point of this page. A sample tells you what a question looks like. A mock tells you whether you can survive 180 of them in a day. They test different things, and the second one is what decides results.
We are not connected to the SRA or to Kaplan, and nothing here is endorsed by either. Checked 9 September 2026.
The SRA sample questions, and why they beat everything else free
The SRA publishes sample SQE1 questions on its own website, free, with no sign-up. They exist so that candidates can see the format before they book, and they are the only free questions written by the body that sets the assessment.
Use them for one thing above all: calibration of style. Read how the stem is built, how much fact is included, how the five options are drafted so that two of them are defensible and only one is best. Every commercial question bank in existence, ours included, is an imitation of that style. The original is free.
- They are free and public, so there is no reason to pay for a taster set before you have worked through them.
- They cover both FLK1 and FLK2 subjects, so you get a feel for the range as well as the format.
- They are a small sample, so once you have done them, the calibration job is finished and they cannot be your practice volume.
- They are not a predictor. A good score on a handful of questions tells you very little about a 180-question paper.
What a mock has to do to be worth sitting
Anything can be labelled a mock. Very little deserves the label. If you are deciding whether to spend a Saturday on a free SQE1 mock exam, judge it against what the real paper actually demands.
SQE1 is two papers, FLK1 and FLK2, each of 180 single best answer questions, and each sat as two sessions of 90 questions with 153 minutes per session. That works out at roughly 102 seconds a question. A mock that does not reproduce that shape is a quiz. Checked 9 September 2026.
- Full length. 180 questions for the paper, not 20. Accuracy at question 150 is a different skill from accuracy at question 15, and only length exposes it.
- On the clock. 153 minutes for 90 questions, timed and uninterrupted. Untimed practice trains a pace you will never be allowed to use.
- Two sessions. The real day is split. The break, and the restart after it, is part of what you are practising.
- Mixed subjects. Questions must jump between subjects without warning, because the real paper does. Sitting a block of 30 Land Law questions is revision, not a mock.
- No repeated points. Ten questions dressed differently around the same rule inflate your score. A mock that recycles its underlying propositions flatters you.
- A full explanation for every option. Without it, a wrong answer teaches you nothing, and a lucky right answer teaches you something false.
Why free full-length mocks are so rare
Writing one full SQE1 mock means drafting 180 original scenario questions, each with five defensible-looking options, each checked against the current law, each with an explanation of why the best answer beats the second best. That is a large amount of expert legal writing for something given away.
So the free offers cluster at the short end. A ten or twenty question taster is cheap to produce and works as advertising. A full 180-question paper is not, and where one is offered free it is usually a limited-time promotion, a trial, or bundled with something else you are expected to buy later. None of that is dishonest. It just means you should check what you are actually being given before you plan your revision around it.
When you see a free mock advertised, check the question count, whether it is timed, whether subjects are mixed, and whether explanations are included. Those four answers tell you what it is worth.
Where paid options fit, including ours
There is a real case for paying, and it is narrower than the marketing suggests. You are not paying for questions. Questions are abundant. You are paying for volume, for the questions being right, for the explanations, and for a timed environment that reproduces the real paper.
Full disclosure: we build an SQE1 app. It is our product, so read the following as a description rather than a recommendation, and compare it against anything else you are considering. It is a paid single best answer question bank across all thirteen FLK1 and FLK2 subjects, with full mocks sat in two 90-question sessions at exam pace, and an explanation for every option rather than just the right one. It is priced at £14.99 a month or £69.99 for lifetime access, with a 3 day free trial. The app is still in build and not yet on the App Store. Checked 9 September 2026.
What we will not tell you is that you need it. If you have access to a large, current, well explained question bank through a course you have already paid for, use that instead. The thing that matters is the practice volume, not whose logo is on it.
How to actually use a mock once you have one
A mock is a diagnostic instrument, and most people waste it by treating it as a score. The number at the end is the least interesting output.
Sit it properly: full length, timed, phone away, at the time of day your real session runs. Then spend longer on the review than you did on the paper. For every question you got wrong, write down whether you did not know the law, misread the facts, or knew the law and picked the second best option. Those three failures have three completely different fixes, and only the first one is solved by more reading.
Do not sit mocks back to back. You need the gap in between to fix what the last one found, or the next score tells you nothing new.
Where to go next
If you want questions to work through now rather than a full mock, start with our free SQE1 practice questions, which is the hub guide this page sits under and includes ten questions with full explanations.
For the shape of the paper you are mocking, what is on FLK2 sets out the seven subjects on the second paper. If you are weighing up whether to buy anything at all, can you pass SQE1 without a prep course is the honest version of that question. And the SQE1 pass rate guide explains what a mock score can and cannot predict.
