National Admissions Test for Law

National Admissions Test for Law

The LNAT or National Admissions Test for Law, is an admissions aptitude test that was adopted in 2004 by eight UK university law programs[1] as an admissions requirement for home applicants. The test was established at the leading urgency of Oxford University as an answer to the problem facing universities trying to select from an increasingly competitive pool with similarly high A-levels. With effect from its second year the LNAT[2] is required for UK and overseas applicants alike. There are now nine participating law schools and hundreds of test centres worldwide.

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Format

The test taker is allotted 2 1/4 hours to complete an LNAT essay[3] and 42 multiple choice questions aimed at measuring reading comprehension and logical reasoning skills. The reading portion contains ten sets of between two and five questions based around a respective short reading passage. The questions typically ask for terms and arguments from the reading to be defined by inference. The essay lasts for 40 minutes and involves the candidate answering one of three available essay questions. The questions are open-ended topics typically about student related issues or other well familiar subject matter.

The reading section is scored out of 42 and the essays are individually marked by proctors at the respective universities.

The Universities currently using the LNAT are:

Results

The LNAT was first administered on November 3, 2004. The average score for the reading portion was 13.16 out of 24. A University of Bristol report on the scores expressed dissatisfaction with the ability of law candidates to develop "reasoned arguments"[4] Men and women score approximately equal to each other unlike the distribution of A grades in A-level law which women obtain at a higher percentage. However, though made by the media, this point is irrelevant because A-level law is not a requirement to do law at university. The LNAT consortium[5] also reported statistically insignificant differences in scores between state and independent students. Research conducted by the University of Bristol concluded: "the impact of the Lnat both in general and on specific supposedly sensitive widening participation groups has been negligible".[6]

Average scores

The mean average score for 2006/2007 entrants was 16.8 out of 30 for the multiple choice element of the test. The mean average score for 2008/2009 entrants was 16.7 out of 30 for the multiple choice element of the test. The mean average score for 2010/2011 entrants was 17.7 out of 42 for the multiple choice element of the test.

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