Recommended Assessment Centres for SQE2

[UmarBajwa]

I sat the SQE2 in January of this year and comparing my experience to others in my cohort, the assessment centre can make a big difference to your experience.

I sat the assessments in London.
My written exams were in ITTS - Aldgate East
My oral exams were in - Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) [30 Euston Square]

I had a really good experience at both venues. Not to scare anyone but the computers can act up sometimes for the written assessments and the staff at Aldgate East (both the invigilators and IT) knew what they were doing and were quick to resolve any issues.

(N.B: No matter what weird IT bug occurs, don't panic because it can be fixed and they will add extra time to your test, just do not click "Next Question" whatever you do because once you go to the next question, there's absolutely no going back. You will be asked several times to confirm if you want to go to the Next Question so you can't do it by accident, but do not do it even if the invigilator/IT tell you to do it).

I heard from someone taking the exams that the Aldgate East test centre is the highest rated for SQE2 written and the oral venue was excellent as well, again well run and a nice place to be for the day. Thought it would be helpful to have a thread for people to recommend/warn against test centres!

 

[Sarai]

I recommend Stratford, the staff don't do much but because it's an actual Pearson Vue centre it's well equipped. The centre also can't fit many people so it doesn't get really noisy and you don't need to queue for ages to sign up.

 

[OB]

I sat the SQE2 in January of this year and comparing my experience to others in my cohort, the assessment centre can make a big difference to your experience.

I sat the assessments in London.
My written exams were in ITTS - Aldgate East
My oral exams were in - Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) [30 Euston Square]

I had a really good experience at both venues. Not to scare anyone but the computers can act up sometimes for the written assessments and the staff at Aldgate East (both the invigilators and IT) knew what they were doing and were quick to resolve any issues.

(N.B: No matter what weird IT bug occurs, don't panic because it can be fixed and they will add extra time to your test, just do not click "Next Question" whatever you do because once you go to the next question, there's absolutely no going back. You will be asked several times to confirm if you want to go to the Next Question so you can't do it by accident, but do not do it even if the invigilator/IT tell you to do it).

I heard from someone taking the exams that the Aldgate East test centre is the highest rated for SQE2 written and the oral venue was excellent as well, again well run and a nice place to be for the day. Thought it would be helpful to have a thread for people to recommend/warn against test centres!

I would echo what you said as I sat SQE2 in April this year in those exact centres.

For ITTS Aldgate I would say that it is quite big and goes across many floors so I wouldn't recommend if you want to avoid a stressful checking in at the start (previously sat SQE1 in the Excel which was extremely big and overwhelming and Canterbury which was a tiny centre and much calmer). ITTS Aldgate also do not let you have water bottles outside the exam rooms or to have snacks nearby for the breaks in SQE2 whereas other centres did.

Would agree that Euston was very well run, slightly sterile and formal in parts (fitting for a GP exam centre) but on the whole I was satisfied with it.