September Cohort: What are you looking for in an SQE prep platform and mobile app?
I had the pleasure of working with a few candidates from the January cohort on an SQE1 prep platform and developing it with their feedback at the core of my priorities. Most users clocked 50h plus on the platform and told me what was wrong with it and how it would actually service them.
A lot of it's most impactful features came from them rather than from me, so with a new cohort starting, I wanted to take the same approach going forward.
Since January I've mostly been working on three things: question quality, tracking where someone's actually weak rather than just what they've scored, and coaching around how people approach answering rather than just marking it right or wrong.
The most common request by a distance was a mobile app that works offline, so you can get questions done on the tube without signal. That will be launching in early September.
Since being close to users and asking for regular feedback last cohort was so central to development, I'd like to repeat that for this cohort.
So, if you're starting prep this September, or you've already sat:
- What's the one thing you wish the platforms you've used did differently?
- Where do you not trust AI-generated questions, and what would you need to see before you did?
- What's actually worth tracking, if anything, or is it all noise?
Happy to be told the honest answer is "nothing, I want a textbook and a quiet room". That's useful too.
Either way I've seen the struggles of SQE studies from the lack of clarity around it and a general disconnect between people developing platforms and the candidates actually using them, which is what I want to try and solve. Any suggestions are massively appreciated.