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LNAT scores: what your mark out of 42 means

Your score is the number of Section A questions you get right, out of 42. The National Admissions Test for Law (LNAT) has no pass or fail mark, and the essay isn’t scored at all. Each university decides how to use LNAT scores, and the LNAT Consortium doesn’t say what counts as a good one. Its newest published statistics are in a Pearson VUE report from July 2016, covering 2015 to 2016.

  • 42Highest possible LNAT score
  • 7,849Candidates, Pearson VUE 2015 to 2016 report
  • No pass markYou can’t pass or fail the LNAT
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Updated October 2026 · Written from official sources, listed at the bottom of this page

How LNAT scores are worked out

A computer marks Section A. Each right answer is worth one point and nothing comes off for a wrong one, so the LNAT Consortium tells you not to leave blanks. The total out of 42 is what it calls your LNAT score. The essay goes to universities alongside it but has no mark.

People who sit on different days get different papers, built from large question banks. The LNAT Consortium says all questions are calibrated so scores can be compared across every version. Pearson VUE’s 2016 technical report for LNAT describes how: the papers are equated and each raw score is turned into a scaled score, so nobody loses out by getting a harder paper.

LNAT multiple choice questions →

What is a good LNAT score?

There’s no official answer. The LNAT Consortium says there’s no fixed weight to the LNAT and each university uses it in the way that suits its own admissions. It doesn’t publish universities’ cut-offs, and its terms say no particular score guarantees an offer or an interview.

Some universities say a little about it. The University of Cambridge says it doesn’t expect you to get every question right. The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) assesses most applicants on the multiple-choice score only.

LNAT universities and how they use it →Oxford and Cambridge LNAT →

Average LNAT scores, 2015 to 2016 (Pearson VUE report)

PaperAverageHighestCandidates
Form A122.45371,598
Form B123.12361,579
Form C123.97371,538
Form D123.57381,625
Form E121.70381,509

These are scaled scores from Pearson VUE’s LNAT technical report of July 2016, which covers 7,849 candidates who sat between 1 September 2015 and 30 June 2016. Before scaling, the average raw score on the five papers ranged from 22.04 to 24.43. Section A then had 80 minutes, not today’s 95, and this report and one labelled “Statistical analysis 2015” are the only statistics on LNAT’s documentation page, so treat them as background, not a target.

Scores needed for particular universities

The LNAT Consortium publishes no score by university, so any figure for a particular university comes from that university. Universities are told about any exam access arrangements you had and can take them into account when they look at your score.

LNAT results and when they arrive →
Sources: LNAT Consortium · University of Glasgow · University of Cambridge and 8 more. Checked October 2026.

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