Kings Inns Entrance Exams 2024

Lockstep

Anyone else doing the Entrance Exams in August?

Currently studying away and it's tough going (but still going, thankfully).

MMod

Hi , thinking I will apply to sit the entrance exam next year. How did they go for you? Any advice? Thanks : )

Lockstep

Hey, did very well in the exams so I'm very happy to start at the Inns in a couple of weeks.

Best advice I can give is to study the entire syllabus. There were some obscure areas that appeared in the exam that threw a lot of people.

amusicalfrog

I’ll put this out for anybody who’s freaking out trawling boards for threads in mid-July 2025 - the exams are marked extremely generously. Weirdly, I found the actual questions themselves were quite difficult, and in some ways went a good deal beyond the level of complexity you’d see at undergrad level, which definitely threw me. But some of my answers were, to be frank, slop, and I still came out with very high grades (and, remember, all you need is 50%). I am a quick learner and in retrospect I gave myself 3 weeks and that was enough to cover each course. I was, to be fair, stretched thin by the end and had to cover about half of evidence the night before (ie I got 2 hours’ sleep) which was extremely unpleasant, so I wouldn’t necessarily recommend 3 weeks, but if you do what I did and start studying at a point that a lot of previous threads on here have deemed “too late”, it’s not necessarily a death sentence.

The most important thing is identifying issues and having something to say about them, even if it’s just acknowledging it or, as I did a few times, trying to awkwardly shoehorn in the caselaw you do know, even if it’s not directly relevant. And work off a good set of notes - for constitutional, emphasis is placed on recent cases so the more recent the notes the better.