Qualified Lawyers Transfer Scheme (QLTS) is a series of two examinations for the license to practice as a solicitor in England and Wales designed for foreign-licensed lawyers. The QLTS supplanted the Qualified Lawyers Transfer Test (QLTT) on 1 September 2010. 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. Format The QLTS assessment has two parts: a Multiple Choice Test (MCT) and an Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE). The MCT consists of 180 multiple-choice questions, and the OSCE consists of the following exercises covering five practice areas (business, property, probate, civil litigation and criminal litigation) over six days: client interview, completion of attendance note/case analysis, advocacy/oral presentation, legal drafting, legal research and legal writing. The QLTS assessment tests the skills that the Solicitors Regulation Authority expects a solicitor to possess on the first day of legal practice, hence the name "Day-One Outcomes". If you are an LPC graduate, you are eligible to claim exemption from the MCT. Comparison with the Multistate Bar Examination (MBE) The questions on the MCT are similar in format to those on the Multistate Bar Examination (MBE) in the United States, but the content is much broader than that of the MBE. In particular, the MCT tests a candidate's knowledge of solicitors' accounts, criminal procedure (not related to constitutional law), tax, bankruptcy, conveyancing, and corporate transactional procedure, topics not found on the MBE. Training and Testing 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. In contrast to the old QLTT system, the QLTS maintains only one testing authority, Kaplan QLTS (which is a part of Kaplan, Inc.). The testing authority is not allowed to provide training or tuition for the examinations. There are providers who offer training for the QLTS assessment, but SRA cannot endorse or recommend any provider. Future of the QLTS In May 2017, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) announced the establishment of a new “super exam” called the Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE), which would gradually replace the QLTS, the LPC and the Graduate Diploma in Law. In August 2018, the SRA announced that Kaplan had been granted the contract to develop and run the exam for eight