LNAT (National Admissions Test for Law)

The LNAT (National Admissions Test for Law) is used by universities to help them select applicants for their undergraduate law courses. It does not test knowledge of law or of any other subject: it assesses aptitude for the skills needed to study law. The content is managed by the members of the LNAT Consortium; the test is administered by Pearson VUE and taken on screen at a test centre. It lasts 2 hours 15 minutes in two sections. Section A has 42 multiple-choice questions on 12 argumentative passages, with 3 or 4 questions on each, in 95 minutes; answers can be reviewed at any time within the 95 minutes, but not after Section B begins. The mark out of 42 from Section A is the LNAT score. In Section B the candidate writes one essay from a choice of three in 40 minutes; the essay is not marked by the test centre and does not count towards the LNAT score, but it is made available to the universities with the score, and each university uses them in the way that best suits its own admissions system. LNAT says that if a candidate sits the test twice without authorisation, the later sitting is invalid. LNAT's own pages are the authority on dates, fees and the universities that use the test.