Updated 31.10.2026• 8 min read• Comparison

Free LNAT practice tests and preparation resources

The LNAT Consortium’s free practice test, tutorial, sample papers and essay questions, with a four-week plan for using them.

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LNAT preparation

The most reliable free LNAT resources are the LNAT Consortium’s own: an online practice test and tutorial, two practice papers with a marking scheme and commentary, a preparation guide, a page of hints and tips, and nine sample essay questions. We recommend starting with these before you use any other question bank, because they come from the organisation that sets the test. The official set is small, however, so it is worth deciding how you will use each part before you begin, or you may use up the most realistic material in your first week.

Jurica, which publishes this guide, also has free practice in its app. Once you have made an account, you can use a 12-question diagnostic that estimates your Section A score, 100 practice questions across four question types, the first of our 12 mock papers, 20 of our 200 essay titles and three short lessons on Section B. If you use them, sit the first official paper beforehand, so that your starting score comes from the Consortium’s own material.

What free resources are there for the LNAT?

Most of the free material is on lnat.ac.uk, and the Consortium says that everything you need to prepare is available there free of charge. The table below lists each resource, how to use it and what to watch for.

Are there LNAT past papers?

No. The Consortium does not publish the papers that candidates have sat. What are often called “LNAT past papers” are the two sample papers on its practice-tests page.

The Consortium explains that each live paper is generated from a large bank of questions, so candidates who sit the test on different dates take different papers. Note also that, until at least July 2026, the Consortium described the two downloadable papers as paper versions of the tests delivered through its online simulation. In other words, you should not expect the online test to contain passages that are not in the papers, although the Consortium no longer says this and has added new features to the online version for 2026. Since these papers are the closest free guide to the real test, we recommend keeping one back for a timed sitting near the end of your preparation.

How should I use the official papers?

We recommend using one paper at the start of your preparation and the other near the end, so that you can see what has improved. In general, the following order works well.

1. Sit paper 1 within the real 95-minute limit for Section A before you study any methods. Record your score, the questions you left unanswered and the time you spent on each passage, because this is the baseline you will compare against later.
2. Review every option. For each question, write one sentence explaining why the correct answer follows from the passage and why each tempting wrong answer does not.
3. Group your errors by cause, for example a missed qualifying word, an inference the passage does not support, a confusion between the author’s view and a view the author reports, or reading too quickly. This shows you which kind of question to practise.
4. Sit paper 2 after a period of targeted practice, as a fresh timed check. When you review it, look mainly at whether you are making fewer errors of the same type, since this tells you more than the change in your score. Note that the two papers share one passage (on Thomas Aquinas), so you will have seen four of paper 2’s questions before.

How can I practise Section A for free between mocks?

You can practise the same skills with ordinary opinion writing, as long as you remember that it will not match the LNAT exactly. The Consortium itself recommends reading a quality newspaper every day, including the comment pieces.

For example, you could read one opinion or analysis article each day and identify its conclusion, its supporting reasons, its assumptions and the counterargument it answers, and noting the force of qualifying words such as “usually”, “may” and “only”. Then summarise the author’s position in two sentences, without adding your own view, because Section A questions often depend on exactly what the author does and does not claim.

Until the summer of 2026, the Consortium’s practice-tests page also suggested questions from the LSAT, the US law school admission test, because the skills involved are similar; the page no longer displays that suggestion. The Law School Admission Council offers some official LSAT practice tests free through its LawHub site. They are useful for practising argument analysis, but they are written for a different test, so we do not recommend using your LSAT results to predict your LNAT score.

How can I practise Section B for free?

Use the nine official sample essay questions, the three sample answers and the essay topics in the two practice papers. In the real test you have 40 minutes to answer one of three questions, and the Consortium recommends a maximum of 750 words, ideally about 500 to 600.

It helps to practise in three stages, because planning answers to several questions teaches you to form a position quickly, which is harder to learn by writing every essay in full:

1. Plan an answer in ten minutes. Define any disputed term, choose a clear position, list two main reasons and identify the strongest objection that you will need to answer.
2. Write an introduction and one body paragraph in twenty minutes, to practise stating your position early and supporting it.
3. Write a complete essay in 40 minutes without research or a spellchecker. Afterwards, check whether each paragraph develops your position, whether you have answered the objection fairly, and whether your conclusion follows from what you have written.

What would a four-week plan look like?

The table below shows one way to use the free material over four weeks. If you are applying for 2027 entry, you still have time for a plan of this length: you must sit the LNAT by 31 December 2026 for King’s College London, LSE and UCL, by 13 January 2027 for Bristol and Durham, and by 25 January 2027 for Glasgow and SOAS. (The date for Oxford and Cambridge, 15 October 2026, has passed.)

Sitting dates are from the Consortium’s dates and deadlines page for 2027 entry, read on 24 October 2026. SOAS requires the LNAT only from applicants with non-standard qualifications.

How can I judge a free question bank?

If you use free LNAT questions from a tutoring company or another website, note that the Consortium does not endorse any of them. There are four things to check before you rely on a question bank:

1. Check that it follows the current format: 42 questions on 12 passages in 95 minutes, with four answer options per question.
2. Look for explanations. An answer key on its own cannot tell you whether your reasoning was sound or whether you guessed the right answer.
3. Check the passages. LNAT passages set out arguments, so good questions ask about inference, purpose, tone and the structure of the reasoning, and cannot be answered by finding a fact in the text.
4. Be wary of score conversions. A small unofficial set cannot reliably predict an offer or a percentile, because it is short and its difficulty has usually not been calibrated against the real test.

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