Did I mess up my LNAT?

They might just read the first 700 and allow the rest :dontknow:

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LawYah

They might just read the first 700 and allow the rest :dontknow:

My conclusion carried a lot of weight, that would suck :frown:

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52553781

I know that some unis don't really value it - some people say they don't even read the essays. I think that's probably a bit farfetched but I don't think it carries that much weight. If you're lucky you'll have done really well on the multiple choice bit and be a strong candidate in other areas and it won't matter too much. Obviously it won't work in your favour but I doubt it will be too much of a problem. I don't think they're monsters - they won't take one look and chuck you in the 'moron' pile if you'd have a chance. If they're choosing between two candidates and they bring out the essay to help them decide I imagine they'll be more concerned with the quality of the essay than whether you followed the instructions.

I don't see why they'd spend time and resources making people sit it if it's not that valued. :/

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Ethereal

Part of the "quality" of an essay is how concisely you make your points. If I were an admissions tutor I would be concerned by someone taking neary 50% extra.

Yeah I know that's why I'm worried. I looked at the practice paper and it states explicitly that 'in no event must you go over 750 words'. I just hope they read it all and like what I've written, I thought it was a pretty good argument, hopefully they'll just knock some marks off for it being over.

:frown:

oops.

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jkyng1

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don't worry. we'll see . :smile:

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sak-y

How did you even manage 1000 words?!

After thinkin gand planning for 2 secs, i typed at superfast speed, i was halfway through re-reading it all and it all closed :frown:

You must be superhuman :p:

..But yeh, don't worry about the essay, the uni's main concern is the multiple choice. I think they only look at your essay if your multiple choice isn't particularly good.

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sak-y

How did you even manage 1000 words?!

After thinkin gand planning for 2 secs, i typed at superfast speed, i was halfway through re-reading it all and it all closed :frown:

You must be superhuman :p:

..But yeh, don't worry about the essay, the uni's main concern is the multiple choice. I think they only look at your essay if your multiple choice isn't particularly good.

1000 words isn't a lot :|......I don't know though I'm pretty good at essay writing, it just seems to flow. Just not so good at reading instructions apparently. It was a good topic I was writing on, I even had statistics etc to back up what I was saying. I could have written more, I had a little time to spare, but I didn't want to start waffling.

I do hope you're right though. I'm not overly confident about some of the multiple choice, I was kinda relying on my essay as I thought it was good. I'm not really bothered about it anymore, it'll be gutting if I lose out on my first choice because of it, but hopefully it'll teach me a lesson for the future (although probably not lol).

Reply 10

Nevermind.

Reply 11

Ethereal

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Isn't the LNAT still ongoing? If so, you shouldn't really be posting essay titles.

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I'll edit that if that's the case. :wink:

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LawYah

I'll edit that if that's the case. :wink:

Yeah that's why I didn't post mine.

How did you find yours generally?

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When do we get the results by the way?

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essay was easy, I managed to type 600 words in next to no time so I was caught by surprise and ended it quite quickly, I used mostly humour and only argued for one side, had a line "on the other hand" and then continued to argue against the title. Was alright, was the strongest bit of my LNAT I think.

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