Short answer: July 2026 SQE1 results are released on Tuesday 8 September 2026, after 11am UK time. The SRA confirmed the date in its results reminder on 4 September: you get an email once results are available, with a link to your score report, and the national pass rate is 42% overall and 47% for first-time candidates, published by the SRA on 29 September 2026. If you did not pass, the next real deadline is the January 2027 seat reservation form, sent on 22 September and due by 24 September. Our January 2027 resit plan is built around those dates.
Below: the timetable based on how the SRA has actually behaved, how to read the score report when it lands, and what to do in either outcome.
When Results Actually Arrive
The SRA follows a consistent rhythm. Here is what happened at the last two sittings:
| Stage | July 2025 sitting | January 2026 sitting | July 2026 sitting |
|---|---|---|---|
| Results reminder published | 4 September 2025 | 4 March 2026 | 4 September 2026 |
| Results released to candidates | 10 September 2025 | 10 March 2026 | 8 September 2026, after 11am |
| Statistical report published | 1 October 2025 | 31 March 2026 | By mid-October 2026 (SRA) |
Source: SRA and SQE website news items.
Two things follow from this.
First, the reminder was the signal. The SRA posted its results reminder on 4 September, confirming 8 September after 11am. The email tells you when your result is live; there is nothing to gain from logging in before it arrives.
Second, the pass rate comes later than your result. You get your own outcome first. The national statistics — overall pass rate, first-attempt rate, subject-level data — arrive in the statistical report, which the SRA says it will publish by the middle of October (the last two reports followed results by exactly three weeks). So for a few weeks you will know your result without knowing how the cohort did, which makes for a lot of unhelpful speculation on forums. We will publish a full breakdown once the July 2026 report is out, in the same format as the January 2026 results analysis.
A note on dates you may have seen elsewhere. Several sites state that January 2027 booking "opens 8 September and closes 20 November". Neither date appears on the SRA's assessment dates page. What the SRA has published is a seat reservation form sent to candidates on 22 September 2026 with a 24 September deadline, a booking closing date of 23 November 2026 and a results date of 9 March 2027. Take dates from sqe.sra.org.uk and nowhere else.
How Your Result Reaches You
Results are released by Kaplan, who administer the assessment for the SRA. You will be told your outcome for FLK1 and FLK2 and given a score report. Results go live after 11am UK time on results day, so there is no benefit to refreshing at 6am.
Your report gives you more than pass or fail. It places your performance in quintiles, both overall and by subject, which tells you where you sat relative to the rest of the cohort. That is the genuinely useful part, especially if you are resitting. We explain how to read it in SQE1 scaled scores and quintiles explained.
If You Passed
Congratulations — that is the harder of the two assessments behind you for most candidates.
Decide on October 2026 SQE2 quickly, but deliberately. If you completed the October 2026 seat reservation form in July, the SRA sends payment requests between 8 and 16 September and you have 48 hours from the email to pay, or the seat is cancelled. SQE2 is a different animal: oral and written skills assessments rather than multiple choice. It rewards a different kind of preparation and there is no prize for sitting it early. Our bridge plan covers the sequencing decision, and the SQE2 guide covers the format.
Check the fee position before you pay. The SQE2 fee is £3,086 for assessments from September 2026 onwards, so October 2026 is at the new rate. The fee increase guide sets out how the rule works.
Get your QWE moving if it is not already. Two years of qualifying work experience is a requirement alongside the assessments, and it does not have to come after them. The QWE guide covers what counts and how to get it signed off. If you do not have a training contract lined up, what to do with no offer is the more useful read.
If You Did Not Pass
First, the number that actually matters, and it is not the one people quote at each other.
66% of everyone who has ever attempted SQE1 has now passed — 19,281 candidates. That is the SRA's own cumulative figure, published in its four-years-on review of the SQE, which also records more than 30,000 candidates assessed across 50 countries. Single-sitting pass rates have ranged between 46% and 60% for first-time candidates across the eight sittings from November 2021 to July 2025. The cumulative number is much higher than any individual sitting because a large share of people who fail once go on to pass.
For the two most recent sittings with published data:
| Sitting | Candidates | Overall pass rate | First-attempt pass rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| July 2025 | 5,851 | 41% | 46% |
| January 2026 | 7,863 | 53% | 58% |
Source: SRA published results, sra.org.uk.
July 2025 was the lowest sitting on record. January 2026 recovered substantially. If you sat in July 2026 and are anxious about a hard paper, note that the SRA sets the pass mark independently for each paper to account for differences in difficulty — a harder paper does not mean a higher bar.
You have three attempts at each assessment within a six-year window. Failing once is not a route-ending event, and it is far more common than the people posting about their results would have you believe.
What To Do, in Order
1. Read the score report properly before deciding anything. Two weak subjects and eleven solid ones is a completely different problem from being in the bottom quintile across the board. The first needs targeted work; the second needs a rebuild. Do not book anything until you know which you are.
2. Check whether you have grounds for a review. If something went wrong on the day — a centre problem, illness, a disability adjustment that was not delivered — there are formal routes. They are time-limited, so read appeals, marking reviews and mitigating circumstances promptly rather than after the window closes.
3. Reserve your January 2027 seat in time. The SRA books January 2027 through a seat reservation form, sent to candidates on 22 September 2026 and due by 24 September. Seats are allocated in the order forms arrive, and the SRA has not published a closing date for direct booking, so treat 24 September as the deadline. You can only book a resit once you hold the result for the previous attempt, which you now do. The January 2027 sitting runs FLK1 from 11 January and FLK2 from 18 January, and costs £1,003 per paper or £2,006 for both, because the fee rise applies to every assessment from September 2026 onwards. See the dates and deadlines guide.
4. Do not simply repeat what you did last time. The most common resit mistake is re-reading the same notes more slowly. If you failed on technique rather than knowledge — running out of time, second-guessing, misreading the call of the question — more content will not fix it. Start with MCQ technique and the most common study mistakes. The full recovery plan is in the resit guide.
5. Rebuild the schedule around the gaps. From results day to the first FLK1 day is 125 days, just under 18 weeks. That is comfortably enough for a targeted second attempt. The January 2027 resit plan lays the whole period out week by week on the real dates, the hours calculator tells you the weekly commitment, and you can generate a personalised plan across all 144 topics free.
If Your Result Has Not Arrived
Results are released after 11am UK time on 8 September, by email with a link to your SQE candidate account. If nothing has arrived by early afternoon, check your spam folder, then log in to your candidate account directly rather than waiting for the email. If your account shows nothing by the end of the day, use the contact details on sqe.sra.org.uk.
Do not start revising on results day. If you did not pass, the only useful things to do this week are to read the score report properly and decide whether you have grounds for a review. One full timed mock in the first week is worth more than any amount of re-reading, because it tells you whether your problem was knowledge or timing, and that diagnosis is the single most valuable thing you can bring to a resit plan.
And if the day itself is the problem, exam anxiety and mental health is a more useful read than another forum thread.
The Short Version
- Results are released 8 September 2026, after 11am UK time, by email with a link to your score report
- The national pass rate arrives in the statistical report, which the SRA will publish by mid-October
- Read your quintile breakdown before making any decision
- 66% of all SQE1 candidates have eventually passed — a single fail is a delay, not an ending
- January 2027 is booked by seat reservation form: sent 22 September, due 24 September 2026; booking closes 23 November 2026
- Whatever the outcome, the July 2026 results analysis covers the published numbers
