LNAT

I can't personally offer you any support but you sound very similar to my daughter , she sat her LNAT last week, she has special considerations for her college exams and she did when she did her GCSEs also , main one being laptop and quieter room.
She panicked when booking her LNAT and forgot to request a quieter room but when she got to the centre they provided earplugs for everyone to drown out noise which helped her I think . She's also hoping to be accepted at Cambridge or Durham , I can't even pretend to understand what the LNAT involves but I think it's more on how you interpret the questions than what are the right and wrong answers , I could be wrong my daughter's the brains not me , I'm on this site mainly for parental support, but I'd say don't punish yourself too much , things are already stressful without adding more worry for yourself and hopefully you did better than you think, I wish you well, I'd say still apply x

Heyy!!
I just wanted to say that I really really relate to this feeling. I’m also applying to Oxbridge law and just sat the LNAT today. Honestly it was horrible. I’m in the exact same position as you, I didn’t even have time to complete the last 8 MCQs. My timing was just off and the fact that I didn’t even get to attempt them rlly stressed me out. Ultimately, i did the same as you, and in the last 2 minutes I randomly selected answers.
All this is to say that you definitely aren’t alone. I’ve kind of got over the fact that unfortunately I am very unlikely to get an offer considering how badly the LNAT went.

I’ve just been to sit my LNAT. I booked for a private room as I’m entitled to it with my exam arrangements, and I’ve always found it’s almost impossible for me to sit exams with the rest of the class etc. I got into the test centre today and the woman at the front desk told me - “you’ve booked for a private room but we have someone in there at the moment, so you’re going to have to sit it in the main part. Is that okay?” Sorry???? I didn’t really know what to say, and I’m useless in speaking up in situations like that, so I just reluctantly agreed. The exam was horrible - I literally couldn’t even tell you what half of it was about, between trying to concentrate with people constantly finishing other exams and getting up to leave, the sound of about ten different mouses clicking constantly, and the passages themselves were so unclear as to what the writer was even trying to say, it was like they had a stroke twenty times while writing it. Of course, there were a few passages that I felt quite confident with but as I got to the last eight questions in the whole of the exam, I had about two minutes left so I kind of winged it near the end. I was doing really well on online practice tests at home WHEN I COULD CONCENTRATE, but I think I’ve completely screwed the real thing up. I have never left an exam and seriously been able to say that “if you were to ask me what ANY of the questions were, I wouldn’t be able to tell you”, it was like around two hours of my life has been wiped from my memory. I want to apply to Cambridge and Durham, but I seriously think there’s no point with how bad I think I’ve done with the LNAT. I’ve never been closer to the brink of an emotional breakdown in the middle of an exam. Is it normal to feel like you’ve done THIS bad after the LNAT, or am I totally screwed?

Hey girl I had a similar experience but possibly worse. I did it yday. Ran out of time and had to do 3 whole passages + 2 questions in 5 minutes. I had to GUESS over 10 questions as a result of this. I had 40 seconds left and still one whole passage which I just started clicking everywhere I had no other choice. Also worst part is I was hearing non stop noise that made me lose focus MULTIPLE TIMES. So annoying. The second the time ran out I just broke into tears it was so bad when I stepped out to get water they were all looking at me like I was insane so dw too much. Ur not screwed but I believe u were treated unfairly esp if u booked a private room. I think it’s best if u email the lnat ppl and ask for a resit but they’ll need to consider what the issues were that u we’re having and they’ll contact the uni if u do end up resisting just to explain why u resat.

Can I ask what book or website is most representative to the actual exam? I heard the LawMind website is pretty accurate but in my opinion that’s too easy compared to the LNAT website sample paper and other things like The Big Book of LNAT Questions is much harder. Any help would be much appreciated

Honestly after speaking to everyone, it’s 100% that everyone comes out of the exam thinking they’ve done awful - it’s how it’s designed to make you feel, and it’s CRUEL. I can’t differentiate this feeling between my usual anxiety acting up, or if it’s a gut feeling and I have just done awful. I can say I was confident with 7-8 out of 12 of the passages, which makes up for around 28 questions, but even then of course I’m not going to get all those 28 points - so that could only mean about what I’d estimate as 17-20 points, so I’d still need to get those others somewhere else to give me my target of 30 points. With the questions I didn’t have time to go over at the end, I just chose the multiple choice that seemed not too extreme (using words like ‘always’ or ‘never’) as I was told those are usually never the right answer, and I also genuinely just chose the answer that was the longest.
Hopefully with the 8 multiple choice questions you randomly chose, some of them are correct! I mean some of them have to be. I honestly wouldn’t worry too about missing eight at the end, that’s out of 45 questions and if you ran out of time, that probably indicates that you spent a solid amount of time considering the other 37 questions.
It’s so cruel that we have to wait until February. I don’t think I’ll be able to function honestly.

Heyy, not the Op, but honestly it’s so comforting to know that I’m not alone in how awfully I felt the exam went (including running out of time and having to randomly guess answers). Such a shame that we all had to experience this, and I completely understand you breaking into tears, because I was on the verge of that too.
On another note, How did you find the essay question? And have you also applied to Oxbridge?

Honestly it is so frustrating having to experience that after so many weeks of prep. The essay question wasn’t too bad but idk it wasn’t strong either? It was very average I could’ve done better oh and I’m not applying to oxbridge anymore

Awhh, I’m sorry to hear that your LNAT didn’t go as well as possibly hoped for. But as everyone else has expressed, we clearly aren’t alone in this.
And yes hopefully some of the randomised guessing happened to be correct!
Another random q- I’m assuming you applied to Oxbridge? If so, are you going to start interview prep even before you get called for an interview? (Hopefully🤞🏼) Or are you just going to wait and see if you get invited to one to begin your prep??

Hey girl I had a similar experience but possibly worse. I did it yday. Ran out of time and had to do 3 whole passages + 2 questions in 5 minutes. I had to GUESS over 10 questions as a result of this. I had 40 seconds left and still one whole passage which I just started clicking everywhere I had no other choice. Also worst part is I was hearing non stop noise that made me lose focus MULTIPLE TIMES. So annoying. The second the time ran out I just broke into tears it was so bad when I stepped out to get water they were all looking at me like I was insane so dw too much. Ur not screwed but I believe u were treated unfairly esp if u booked a private room. I think it’s best if u email the lnat ppl and ask for a resit but they’ll need to consider what the issues were that u we’re having and they’ll contact the uni if u do end up resisting just to explain why u resat.

Can I ask what book or website is most representative to the actual exam? I heard the LawMind website is pretty accurate but in my opinion that’s too easy compared to the LNAT website sample paper and other things like The Big Book of LNAT Questions is much harder. Any help would be much appreciated