I sat my LNAT in October, and I’ve been anxious about it ever since.
I really want to go to Durham, but I just don’t think I’ll have got a good enough LNAT score.
I got to the test centre, where I’d booked for a private room, and the woman turned around and told me “I see you’ve booked for a private room, oh no, someone’s using it at the moment”. I’m not going to be dramatic, but there’s a good reason that I’ve been in private rooms for exams since the age of 10 - I get so anxious with people taking the test around me, that I can’t concentrate on the questions at all. I also have autism, and when a curveball like this is thrown at me, I just can’t function for the rest of the day.
So she basically just said “you will probably have to sit it with everyone else”, and I reluctantly agreed because we’d already payed and there was no guarantee that I could sit it on another date before the cutoff date. When I got home, my mum emailed them and complained, and then they had the audacity to say that they couldn’t do anything because I didn’t ask for an ‘incident number’, which the didn’t even offer me and why the hell would I know that’s a thing I could ask for. So all they’ve done is put a note on my results that my university will see, saying how I wasn’t given the correct resources for the test. I don’t think they’ll care tbh.
I had about 6 or 7 passages that I felt really confident with and I could get into it. I can’t remember how the actual questions for those passages were, but I think I found them okay from what I remember.
Then there was one passage (the first one for me on the test) where I had no idea what it was even about, the words were so jumbled because I was so anxious. I had people clicking at computers all over me.
There was another where I couldn’t grasp it completely, but I think I probably made the most of it and made some educated choices for the answers.
And then there were two passages where I felt okay with them, but not like the 7 where I felt really confident.
Then, on the last question, I had literally 2 minutes left, so I had to make some educated guesses. Could’ve picked up a point if I’m lucky I guess.
I think I did quite well on the essay. The only issue is that I followed the advised amount of words by people, and it still looked short for some reason. Did they expect a whole essay? I only did enough to cover under one side of a piece of paper, at most.
I’ve kinda estimated that I could’ve got 24-25 points, maybe you guys think I’ve underestimated or overestimated that based off all that I’ve just told you. But I know most competitive Durham applicants get higher than that.
Can anyone help me out? If anyone’s sat the LNAT and didn’t think they did well on it, only to be proven wrong. Or maybe some Durham law students on here know a thing or two about all this.
I’m just honestly looking for reassurance. I don’t want to spend all of Christmas and New years worried about some test score.
Is there literally no way you can find your results out somehow?