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The LNAT is used by a group of UK law schools: Oxford, Cambridge, UCL, KCL, LSE, Bristol, Durham, Glasgow and SOAS. It has two parts, a multiple-choice section on unseen passages and an essay, and neither tests legal knowledge, which is the point: it is a test of reading and argument.
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Read the law guideThe multiple-choice questions turn on what a passage actually claims, which is the difference between what an author asserts, implies and merely reports. Wrong answers are usually true statements that the passage does not support, which is exactly the trap a fast reader falls into.
It is trainable, and the training is largely learning to distrust plausible options.
Section B is not scored centrally; universities read it themselves. What they are looking for is an argument that takes a position, anticipates the strongest objection to it and answers that objection, in forty minutes and on a topic you did not choose.
A knowledgeable essay that never commits scores badly. So does a committed one that ignores the obvious counter-argument.
There is no mark scheme to work against and no answer key for the essay, so a student practising alone has almost no way to know whether they are improving. Someone who has sat the LNAT and been through a law application can say what an admissions tutor would take from a script.
Oxford, Cambridge, UCL, KCL, LSE, Bristol, Durham, Glasgow and SOAS, and a few universities outside the UK. The list changes, so check each course page for the year you are applying.
No, and trying to display legal knowledge tends to hurt rather than help. It is a test of reading and reasoning.
Around four to six weeks is typical, with most of the time spent on timed passages and a handful of full essays written under real conditions.
Yes, by the universities themselves rather than by the test provider. It is not scored centrally, which is why feedback is so hard to get without a tutor.
Many can; university interview preparation is a separate subject on a profile, and Oxford is listed specifically.
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