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LNAT Study Material

Official practice for the format; serious opinion journalism and short essays for the habit.

LNAT · checked 19 September 2026

The dates, vacancies and rules below are read on the conducting body’s own site and rewritten as each notice appears. The guide beneath carries the full pattern, syllabus, cut-offs and free mock tests.

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19September 2026

Checked 19 September 2026

LNAT: the facts that matter now

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Sit by 15 October 2026 for Oxford and Cambridge; 31 December for KCL, LSE and UCL; 13 January 2027 for Bristol and Durham; 25 January for the rest
2026–27 deadlines
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LNAT Consortium, written by Edexcel and delivered by Pearson VUE at 500+ centres in 165 countries
Administered by
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Undergraduate law at nine UK universities and partner institutions abroad, including Jindal Global Law School
Used for
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Section A: 42 multiple-choice questions on 12 passages in 95 minutes; Section B: one essay from three titles in 40 minutes
Format

Notes

LNAT — Study material for this exam

By section.
Section	What to use	Note
Section A	The official practice tests and preparation guide; daily comment pieces from broadsheets and essays on ethics, science and politics	Read for claim, reasons, assumption.
Section B	The official sample essays and commentary; a collection of contested public questions to argue	About 550 words to a conclusion in 40 minutes.
Both	A concise guide to critical reasoning — assumptions, fallacies, evidence	The vocabulary of argument, not of law.

Everything for LNAT

Six resource pages, each kept in step with the latest official notification.

LNAT SyllabusLNAT syllabus — what the multiple-choice questions ask of an argumentative passage, what the essay titles look like, and what universities read for.LNAT Exam PatternLNAT exam pattern — the two sections and their timing, scoring, the 2026–27 deadlines by university, fees and when results are released.LNAT Previous PapersLNAT practice material — the official practice tests and sample essays on the consortium’s site, and how to use them.LNAT Mock TestsLNAT mock tests — full timed sittings of both sections, scoring Section A against the published averages, and getting the essay read.LNAT PreparationLNAT preparation — reading argument for assumptions, writing economical essays, and the booking and deadline decisions for UK law applications from India.LNAT Study MaterialLNAT study material — the consortium’s free practice and guides, and the reading that builds argument analysis and essay writing.

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