The QLTS assessment was designed to increase the number of recognised foreign jurisdictions for the examinations.
These changes have opened up the English legal market to qualified lawyers from places as diverse as Korea, Japan and Russia.
[1] The QLTS assessment has two parts: a Multiple Choice Test (MCT) and an Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE).
One of the major reasons stated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority for the creation of the new QLTS was the need to separate training and testing.
[8][9] In August 2018, the SRA announced that Kaplan had been granted the contract to develop and run the exam for eight years.