The Law Society Gazette recently published that while 77% of candidates who sat the first ever SQE2 exam have passed, the latest exam results once again show worrying attainment gaps for a new route to qualification that is supposed to improve accessibility – specifically in relation to education and ethnicity.
The article highlighted:
- The regulator said that typically, the higher a candidate’s degree classification the better they scored: 92% of candidates with a first class degree and 82% of candidates with a 2:1 passed compared to 57% with a 2:2.
- White candidates generally performed better than black and asian candidates: pass rates were 72% for asian candidates and 53% for black candidates, compared with 85% for white candidates.
Read the full article here.
