The SQE1 flashcards app with spaced repetition built in
SQE1 Prep ships 5,500+ flashcards covering definitions, tests, time limits and authorities across all 144 FLK1 and FLK2 topics, scheduled by spaced repetition: the app resurfaces each card at the moment you are about to forget it, so the fourth or fifth sighting locks the rule into long-term memory. You write nothing; the deck is already built and matched to the SRA specification.
Why spaced repetition fits SQE1 so well
SQE1 is dense with small recallable facts: the 14 clear days on a notice of enforcement, the three certainties, the categories of overriding interest, limitation periods, court track thresholds. Re-reading notes feels productive and fades within days. Spacing the recall out, with each successful answer pushing the next sighting further away, is the one revision technique the memory research keeps vindicating, and it suits five-minute phone sessions better than any other method.
The scheduling runs on the SM-2 family of algorithms, the same approach Anki uses. Rate a card easy and it retreats for days; stumble and it returns tomorrow.
Pre-written beats building your own deck
Anki is excellent software and free, and the honest case against it for SQE1 is time. Writing 5,000 accurate law cards takes weeks you could spend answering questions, and a deck you wrote from your own notes inherits every gap in them. The cards here were written against the same verified content as the study notes and question bank, so the wording of a definition on a flashcard matches the wording an explanation will use later.
Fitting cards around the rest of revision
Flashcards hold the floor of your knowledge while questions raise the ceiling. A workable daily shape: cards with morning coffee to clear the due pile, questions in a longer evening block, and a mock at the weekend. Because the deck lives on the device, the due pile is available in a lift, a queue or a tube carriage, which is where those ten-card sessions actually happen.
Quick answers
- Do I have to write my own flashcards in the app?
- No. All 5,500+ cards come pre-written and organised by subject and topic. You just work through the due pile the scheduler serves each day.
- What happens to the schedule if I miss a few days?
- The due cards wait and the pile grows, but nothing resets. The scheduler simply has more to serve when you return, so a missed weekend costs you a longer Monday session rather than your progress.
