For those who have done the LNAT..

The sample essay questions on the website are terrible too: "Does it matter if some animal and plant species die out?"
My guess is someone who has specialised in subjects where they teach/test you on the answer has been given a leg up on that one!

Ok, so I just did it:

Omg. I think I might possibly be the first applicant to score zero. Most of the passages I was just like "wtf? How are you even a writer?!". It was like they'd written an article like a 'normal' person and then pasted it all through theasaurus.com. I just guessed most of them. And wtf was with the maths question?!

Secondly, the essay. Oh..dear.. I only managed to write TWO (yes as in the number) paragraphs.. Totalling 400 works. My introduction was a load of crap. I only had like 2 arguments and of course didn't manage to write a conclusion with only that much on the screen. I couldn't write much because the whole time I was too panicked and focused on my writing style, punctuation and grammar. A large proportion of the time was taken up with me thinking "Oh ****. I've already used the word 'immediately' in the sentence before" and then sitting there trying to think of a better work.. This then proceeded with a number of other different words.
To make it look better I even quickly typed 'Furthermore,' when I noticed I had 5 seconds left - just to make it look like I had more to say!

I'm going out for some retail therapy now before I develop some post-trauma depression.

Don't worry about it, what's done is done ... don't let it haunt you, concentrate on getting back down to other work. Good luck.

Sorry to hear it didn't go too well At least you can maybe take a tiny bit of comfort in knowing that there seem to be a few of us in the same boat....

I'm not too good at the whole e-sympathy thing, so the only thing I can really say is to be wary if you get further depressed by shopping centres having their Christmas trees up in October.

(I've just been to the MetroCentre. God bless Primark.)

My essay didn't go brilliantly either, so I wouldn't worry about it too much. You've already got two offers, I may end up with none!!

I had a maths question in mine too, strange.

The practice test seemed to be easier. Maybe that's because I had seen it at least 50 times before I took the real thing, by which point I had probably lost all sense of how difficult it originally was.

As expected, the multiple choice section consisted of the most ponderous and dire articles with all five options practically saying the same thing. (Yes, I'm aware that's the point. ) I think the real challenge with this section is being able to read the article in its entirety without averting your eyes to the remaining minutes and dozing into a day dream. Having to reread the same paragraph not only takes up time, but is brain numbingly boring.

Time wasn't much of an issue in Section A. I only wish we were allowed to carry the remaining time to Section B. I won't even talk about the essay. *sigh* It's amazing how such crap spurts out from sheer desperation when the timer drops to seconds. That thing was so off putting. Alas, I'd rather not expatiate. I'm still scarred.

Weird wasn't it. I was tempted to go for the answer that didn't require you to work the sum out but I just thought it was wrong..So went for the number I thought was correct.
I think they just put it in to shock us/try and throw us off track.

I just don't like having those huge Christmas trees up before it's even Halloween. Especially not those monstrosities that malls seem to have whereby every decoration is cold, stark silver. Baubles should be cosy red and happy yellow (Edit: hmm.. reading that back, I am now asking around as to who slipped oestrogen into my drink).

Anyway, so... LNATs going badly...

Yes not daydreaming was a real issue. I kept concentrating on the clock ticking and often found my eyes diverting to the nearest screen playing a driving simulation. I was envious of the people just doing their theory test!

Glad someone else had problems with the essay... I think half the problem was the fact that it had to be typed. I'm a quick typer but I'm used to writing essays on paper in exam situations/all situations actually! So might have been easier to have stuck with what I know best.

I can't remember anything about mine or what I went for!
It might not have been the same question, mind.

Oh, I remember mine well - unfortunately. My maths question was about wages.