The SRA has released the SQE1 results and reported that just over half of the candidates who took the first ever SQE exam have passed. It also published a breakdown of pass rates across different demographic groups including that pass rates amongst candidates who declared a disability compared with those who didn’t were similar, with
- 55% of candidates who declared a disability passing overall
- 53% of those who said they did not have a disability passing overall
- 57% of those who preferred not to say passing overall.
In relation to reasonable adjustments it also reported that 76 candidates sat the assessments with reasonable adjustments. A range of reasonable adjustments were made available from additional time to complete the assessments to assistive technology.
Read the full SRA statement here.