BPP University

Bar Transfer Test

BPP University

Course overview

Your route to practising in UK courts. Prepare for the high standards of the English and Welsh Bar, with BTT training designed by highly skilled and specialist qualified barristers. Through engaging workshops and self-study resources, you’ll cover the core skills you need to demonstrate in the Bar Transfer Test, from professional ethics, civil litigation and advocacy to opinion writing, drafting, conference skills and legal research.

The complete training and assessment programme runs three times a year and allows you to sit your required modules at a timetable of your convenience. The BTT runs in Spring (March - May with applications opening in February), Summer (July - September with applications opening in June) and Winter (November - January with applications opening in October). Exact dates are posted prior to each sit on this page in the downloads.

If you wish to express interest in any upcoming sit opportunity, email [email protected] and ask to be placed on the mailing list.

Key highlights

  • Training designed by specialist qualified barristers
  • Prepares you to practise in courts of England and Wales
  • Covers professional ethics, civil litigation and advocacy
  • Builds opinion writing, drafting, conference skills and legal research
  • Taught through engaging workshops and self-study resources
  • Sit required modules on a timetable of your convenience

Scholarships

  • Advocate of the Year Scholarship

    £5,000; £3,000; £2,000

  • Bridging Scholarship

    Up to £5,000

  • Bridging the Bar Scholarship

    Value: £5,000

    Up to £5,000

  • BTC Advocacy Scholarship

    Award Value: £3,000

    Up to £3,000

  • BTC Excellence Award

    Value: £1,000

    Up to £1,000

  • BTC Future Lawyer Scholarship

    £3,000 Half fee full fee

  • Career Changer Scholarship

    £3,000 Half fee full fee

  • Converting to Law Scholarship

    £3,000 Half fee full fee

  • International Postgraduate Bursary

    Value: £1,000

    Up to £1,000

  • SQE Future Lawyer Scholarship

    £3,000 Half fee full fee

Careers this course leads to

  • Barrister
  • Pupil barrister
  • Advocate
  • Legal adviser
  • In-house counsel

Admission

Applications are made through AHZ at no cost. Share your transcripts, English test scores and personal statement, and your AHZ Counsellor will review your profile, submit your application to BPP University, and guide you through interview, offer, CAS and visa — right up to enrolment.

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