LNAT Preparation 2026: How to Prepare, From LNAT’s Advice

What LNAT preparation does the consortium suggest?

The LNAT Consortium’s advice comes down to two things: get used to the test’s style and format, and exercise the relevant parts of your brain by reading. For the first, it says to go through its online tutorial before the sample test, then practise with its papers; the practice tests page shows how to sit them as a timed mock.

LNAT practice tests and papers →LNAT essay questions →

Reading the news the way the LNAT Consortium suggests

As you read, it suggests asking yourself:

What issues are being raised?
What assumptions are being made?
What information is being relied on, and to reach which conclusion?
How would you frame a counterargument?

The essay topics aren’t specifically about current affairs, it says, but knowing how the world works in general terms helps you write about many subjects.

Newspapers on LNAT’s reading list

The LNAT Consortium suggests these, in print or online, and says to read the comment pieces as well as the news:

The Economist
The Financial Times
The Guardian
The Independent
The Irish Times
The New York Times
The Scotsman
The Sydney Morning Herald
The Daily Telegraph
The Times
The Washington Post

LNAT revision: what helps and what doesn’t

The LNAT can’t be revised for in the usual way, the consortium says, though getting used to its style and format helps. The University of Glasgow puts it the same way: no facts to learn and no lessons to revise.

The LNAT Consortium doesn’t recommend paid coaching, endorses no outside materials and warns that coaching companies’ practice screens may not match the real ones. If you’re weighing up a tutor anyway, the study options page compares them.

LNAT tutoring and courses →

LNAT tips from past candidates

The LNAT Consortium’s hints page quotes students who sat the test. Their advice, in short:

Practise, so you know what to expect and what the questions are getting at.
Read the instructions at the start carefully.
Keep track of time in Section A and don’t over-analyse.
Read every word of each question.
Practise essays on unfamiliar subjects, so you focus on planning and structure.
Read difficult articles, to get used to hard words in context.

LNAT multiple choice questions →

Critical thinking books on LNAT’s list

A. Fisher, Critical Thinking: An Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 2001)
R. van den Brink-Budgen, Critical Thinking for Students (How To Books, 2000)
N. Warburton, Thinking From A to Z (Routledge, 2000)
P. Gardner, New Directions: Reading, Writing, and Critical Thinking (Cambridge University Press, 2006), mainly for readers with English as a second language

The LNAT Consortium says some of these include exercises that help build LNAT skills.

Sources: LNAT Consortium · University of Glasgow and 5 more. Checked October 2026.