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LNAT multiple choice questions: Section A

Section A gives you 95 minutes for 42 questions on 12 argumentative passages, with 3 or 4 questions on each. It’s the part of the National Admissions Test for Law (LNAT) that makes up your score: a computer marks your answers to the LNAT multiple choice questions out of 42. Every answer can be found in the passage itself, so you need careful reading, not knowledge of law.

  • 12Passages to read
  • 3 or 4Questions on each passage
  • No marks lostFor a wrong answer
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Updated October 2026 · Written from official sources, listed at the bottom of this page

What Section A tests

The LNAT Consortium calls it a test of the verbal reasoning skills at the heart of legal education: comprehension, interpretation, analysis, synthesis, induction and deduction. Its preparation guide says the questions check whether you can:

  • Make logical deductions from what you’re given.
  • Tell fact from opinion or inference.
  • See the limits of a statement and the implications left unsaid.
  • Spot when a claim isn’t fully backed by the evidence offered.
  • Pay attention to detail instead of jumping to conclusions.

How are LNAT multiple choice questions marked?

One point for each right answer, and none taken off for a wrong one. The LNAT Consortium’s advice is not to leave blanks: if you’re stuck, rule out the answers you know are wrong and guess from the rest.

Each question has one correct answer, and the consortium says there are no trick questions. Some wrong options are built to look almost right, to test how finely you can tell close statements apart. In its 2010 practice papers, each question has five options, a) to e).

LNAT scores explained →

Moving through Section A

You can review your answers at any point in the 95 minutes, skip a question and mark it for review. Once you start the essay in Section B, you can’t go back. You can note key words on your whiteboard.

The LNAT Consortium says the test doesn’t put great emphasis on speed and gives you a reasonable amount of time. Some past candidates quoted on its hints page disagree: one ran out of time and had to guess the last few questions, and another misread the instructions about the time allowed.

LNAT’s tips for reading the passages

  • Skim the passage first if it helps, then read it slowly and think about the exact meaning of every sentence.
  • Don’t read anything into the passage, and don’t leave anything out. Take it at face value.
  • Never answer from what you know elsewhere. If the passage says something false, treat it as true for the test.
  • Watch words like usually, could and likely, which change what a sentence claims.
  • Check exactly what the question asks, including negatives such as what cannot be inferred.
LNAT practice tests and papers →LNAT preparation →
Sources: LNAT Consortium and 5 more. Checked October 2026.

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