When do I need to take the LNAT?

Hello!

I applied this year and in my experience, I had until January 20th to take the LNAT (unless you're applying for Oxford in which case it needs to be done before the 20th October). The date might be slightly different but it'll be around the same time.

You don't find out your score until sometime in February/March. Your unis will find out your score and will see your essay a couple of days after you have taken the test and it will influence your offer, so the higher the score the better.

There's a lot of freedom about when you do your LNAT! However, the sooner you do your LNAT, the sooner you'll start getting offers, but it's totally up to you.

Hope this was helpful

Yes thank you so much! If you were me, when would you recommend taking it? i.e after as levels, summer holiday or September time? Thanks

Hi everyone. I am a bit confused. I have just done my gcses about a month ago, getting my results for them in 3 weeks time. Id like to study law at uni but i don't really understand the time scales. Would I have to do my lnat in year 12 or year 13? And what months of the year too... sorry to be a pain. Ive read the discussion but im just a bit lost. Could i aslo ask when you have to submit the ucas application as well?

This thread is 7 years old but you sit the LNAT in Year 13. Different universities have different deadlines for sitting but the earliest deadline is the Oxbridge one, which will be in mid October. You submit your UCAS application in mid October for the Oxbridge deadline, if you are applying for Oxbridge, or late January for every other university and most courses (except medicine, dentistry and veterinary medicine which also use the October deadline). The latest LNAT deadline is in late January. You have to check the website to see which specific universities require it and when their individual deadlines are, but ultimately, you have another year before you have to start the LNAT process.

Thank you so very much for this, you’ve been super helpful. And one last thing if you don’t mind, from my understating you don’t actually know what your lnat result is before you send it to the uni right? They find out before you correct?

Yes that’s correct. I believe the results are released for the MCQ section in February. Depending on where you apply, your essay will be marked internally and you may get a score given back to you by the university.