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Three chapters, built from primary admissions data.
Students who enrolled on the Law LLB at King’s averaged 27.51 out of 42 on the LNAT for 2025 entry. Using King’s replies to Freedom of Information requests, this chapter shows you how scores have changed since 2014, what offer holders scored, what King’s has said about the essay, and where your own score would place you.
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Try Jurica for freeEvery applicant to King’s seven law degrees must sit the LNAT by 31 December, and King’s cannot consider an application without it.[1] King’s own pages do not say how the score is used. What we know comes from King’s replies to Freedom of Information (FOI) requests, which say that the essay was not used in the cycles up to 2022 and that there was no cut-off score for 2017 entry.[2][3]
King’s has answered more LNAT requests than most universities. Its replies give the scores of every Law LLB offer holder for 2018, 2019 and 2020 entry, offer holders’ averages for most years since 2014, and the averages of the students who enrolled for 2023 to 2025 entry.[7][6][8][4] Note that these are different groups. Not every offer holder enrols, so an average for students who enrolled is not the same as an average for offer holders, and we keep the two apart throughout this chapter.
As in the rest of this guide, we give every figure by year of entry. King’s names its admissions cycles in the same way (the 2025 cycle is for entry in 2025).[9]
They have risen by a few marks. Offer holders on the Law LLB averaged between about 25 and 28 out of 42 from 2014 to 2022 entry, and the students who enrolled for 2023 to 2025 entry averaged between 27.51 and 29.34.[8][10][7][6][5][4]
| Year of entry | All applicants | Offer holders | Students who enrolled |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 21.56 | 25.99 | n/a |
| 2015 | 22.76 | 27.02 | n/a |
| 2016 | 23.35[8] | 27.68[8] | n/a |
| 2017 | n/a | 26[10] | 25.17[3] |
| 2018 | n/a | 24.63[7] | n/a |
| 2019 | n/a | 26.20[6] | n/a |
| 2020 | n/a | 26.21[6] | n/a |
| 2021 | n/a | 27[5] | n/a |
| 2022 | n/a | 27[5][11] | n/a |
| 2023 | n/a | n/a | 28.90[4] |
| 2024 | n/a | n/a | 29.34[4] |
| 2025 | n/a | n/a | 27.51[4] |
The averages for 2018 to 2020 are ours, worked out from King’s lists of every offer holder’s score; the others are King’s own.[7][6] There are four things to notice here:
In general, we would treat 27 to 29 as the range in which King’s recent students have scored. None of these averages is a minimum, as the next sections show.
King’s has released the score of every Law LLB offer holder for three years. Half of the offer holders scored 25 or more for 2018 entry and 26 or more for 2019 and 2020 entry, and the lowest scores with an offer were 12, 17 and 14.[7][6]
| Year of entry | Scores listed | Average | Middle score | Lowest | Highest | Below 22 | 30 or more |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018[7] | 815 | 24.63 | 25 | 12 | 36 | 20.1% | 10.1% |
| 2019[6] | 840 | 26.20 | 26 | 17 | 34 | 1.1% | 8.3% |
| 2020[6] | 1,039 | 26.21 | 26 | 14 | 37 | 11.3% | 22.5% |
These are our counts from King’s files. The 2018 file is headed “LAW LLB M100 2018/9 entry”; the 2019 and 2020 file does not say who is listed, but its counts sit just under the number of offers with an LNAT score that King’s gave for those years (859 and 1,088), so we read it as a list of offer holders.[7][6][10] The chart shows each score as a share of that year’s list, because the lists are of different sizes. There are three things to notice here:
Note that these lists show only who received an offer. None of King’s replies lists applicants’ scores together with their decisions, so we cannot work out the chance of an offer at a given score, as we can for LSE.
King’s has not published one. In December 2017 it told an FOI requester that it had no cut-off score and accepted applications with any LNAT score, and that the lowest score of an offer holder for 2017 entry was 17.[3] Its current pages, however, say that Law applicants must meet the “required threshold” in the LNAT, without giving a number.[12][13]
The two statements are not reconciled anywhere, and the first is about 2017 entry only. What the FOI replies do show is that King’s has made offers to applicants with low scores in most years:
A score of 6 is far below any other score in these replies, and King’s gives no explanation for it. We would not read much into single low scores: they are the extreme cases among several hundred offer holders, and King’s says that it reads the score together with the rest of the application.[3][14] If your practice scores are below 20, we recommend more timed practice before you sit the test.
Among the students who enrolled, yes, and the gap has grown. UK-domiciled students averaged 0.27 marks more than non-UK students for 2023 entry, 1.96 more for 2024 entry and 2.33 more for 2025 entry.[4]
| Year of entry | Students | Average | Lowest | Highest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | UK-domiciled | 29.08 | 6 | 37 |
| 2023 | Non-UK | 28.81 | 23 | 36 |
| 2024 | UK-domiciled | 30.74 | 25 | 41 |
| 2024 | Non-UK | 28.78 | 25 | 37 |
| 2025 | UK-domiciled | 29.31 | 21 | 37 |
| 2025 | Non-UK | 26.98 | 21 | 38 |
All of these figures come from one reply of December 2025, and they cover students who enrolled on the Law LLB, not offer holders.[4] There are three things to notice here:
King’s has said little else about non-UK applicants’ scores. It told one requester in December 2025 that it keeps international applicants’ qualifications as uploaded PDF documents, not as structured data, and refused that request on cost.[15] The one later reply, for non-UK offer holders on Politics, Philosophy & Law, is covered in the next section.
Not reliably. For 2022 entry the offer holders on the four joint degrees averaged between 22 and 25, against 27 on the Law LLB and 26 on Politics, Philosophy & Law.[11] In King’s score lists for 2019 and 2020 entry, however, the gap appears for some degrees and not for others.[6]
| Degree | 2019 entry | 2020 entry | 2022 entry |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law LLB (M100) | 26.20 (840) | 26.21 (1,039) | 27 |
| Politics, Philosophy & Law (LM21) | 26.45 (93) | 25.44 (120) | 26 |
| English Law & French Law (M121) | 25.64 (42) | 26.09 (34) | 23 |
| English Law & German Law (M122) | 25.85 (20) | 22.75 (44) | 24 |
| English Law & Spanish Law (M123) | 23.07 (14) | 25.13 (23) | 22 |
| English Law & Hong Kong Law (M190) | 26.43 (7) | 28.00 (8) | 25 |
The 2019 and 2020 averages are ours, from King’s list of scores (the number of scores is in brackets); the 2022 averages are King’s own, rounded to whole numbers.[6][11] There are three things to notice here:
There is also a newer figure for Politics, Philosophy & Law. In January 2026 King’s listed the score of each non-UK offer holder on that degree: the 79 listed for 2024 entry averaged 28.49 and the 65 for 2025 entry averaged 29.00, with no score below 24 in either year (our averages from King’s file).[16] None of them had a contextual offer.[16] These figures cover non-UK offer holders only, but they suggest to us that the degree’s recent offer holders have scored well above its average of 26 for 2022 entry.[11]
Should you apply for a joint degree because of your LNAT score? We recommend against it. The averages change from year to year, the French, German and Spanish degrees ask for a grade A in the language, and the Hong Kong degree makes no offers before its interviews and makes no contextual offers.[17][18][19][20] Apply for a joint degree if you want to study law in that country, and prepare for the LNAT as you would for the Law LLB.
In the cycles up to 2022, no. King’s has told FOI requesters several times that the essay is not taken into account, most recently in September 2023, when it wrote that essay scores “have not been recorded or used in assessing applications” in the last three admissions cycles (2020 to 2022 entry).[2] King’s pages for 2027 entry say nothing about the essay either way.[1]
The statements we have found are these:
Note that the December 2022 reply is worded differently from the others: it does not say that the essay goes unread. On the evidence as a whole, our reading is that King’s did not use the essay up to 2022 entry, and we have found nothing to show that this has changed. King’s is not the only university to set the essay aside: LSE says on its own course page that it uses only the multiple-choice score for most applicants.[22] Other LNAT universities use the essay in different ways, as the table shows.
| University | How the essay is used |
|---|---|
| Oxford | Marked within Oxford by comparative judgement[23] |
| Cambridge | Marked centrally by Cambridge[24] |
| UCL | Marked by an Admissions Tutor once an application has passed the earlier stages; UCL says it “carries considerable weight”[25] |
| Durham | Both sections always considered by the selectors[26] |
| LSE | Not considered for most applicants[22] |
| King’s College London | Not recorded or used in the 2020 to 2022 cycles, according to an FOI reply of 2023[2] |
Should you still practise the essay? Yes, for two reasons. The same essay goes to every university on your list that uses the LNAT, and several of them mark it. In addition, King’s statements cover the cycles up to 2022 only, and its current pages are silent. We therefore recommend putting most of your King’s-specific preparation into Section A, while still writing a few timed essays so that you can produce a sound answer in 40 minutes.
Move the slider to your practice score (or your actual score, if you have already sat the test). The calculator shows what share of the 1,039 Law LLB offer holders listed for 2020 entry scored below you, the most recent year for which King’s has released every offer holder’s score.[6]
Note that the result compares your score with offer holders’ scores only. It is not a chance of an offer, since King’s has not released applicants’ scores with their decisions, and the students who enrolled for 2023 to 2025 entry averaged between about one and three marks more than the 2020 offer holders.[4]
For 2027 entry you must sit the LNAT between 1 September and 31 December 2026, and submit your UCAS application by 6pm (UK time) on 13 January 2027.[27][28] You can apply through UCAS before or after you sit the test, as long as you apply by that deadline.[1]
| Date | What happens |
|---|---|
| 1 September 2026 | The first day on which you can sit the LNAT for 2027 entry.[27] |
| 15 October 2026 | The last day to sit the LNAT if you are also applying to Oxford or Cambridge.[27] |
| 31 December 2026 | The last day to sit the LNAT for King’s.[27][1] |
| 13 January 2027 (6pm UK time) | The UCAS deadline; King’s treats later applications as late.[28] |
| February 2027 | Usual month for the English Law & Hong Kong Law interviews.[20] |
There are four points to note here:
On the evidence of its FOI replies, King’s reads only your Section A score, and six of its seven law degrees do not interview, so your application rests on your Section A score, your grades and your personal statement.[2][20] How you divide your time should depend on which other universities you are applying to.
The essay was not used up to 2022 entry, and nothing published since says otherwise.[2] Recent students on the Law LLB averaged between 27.51 and 29.34.[4]
What we recommend. Give most of your preparation to Section A and aim for timed scores of 28 or more. Still write a few practice essays, because King’s current pages do not say how the test is used.
Each of these universities uses the essay, and UCL says it carries considerable weight.[23][24][25][26] The same LNAT sitting goes to all your choices.
What we recommend. Prepare both sections properly, and sit the test by 15 October 2026 if Oxford or Cambridge is on your list.[27] A Section A score in the high 20s would put you in the range of King’s recent students.
The joint degrees’ offer holders averaged 22 to 25 for 2022 entry, but in 2019 and 2020 French Law and Hong Kong Law matched or passed the Law LLB.[11][6]
What we recommend. Choose a joint degree for the country and the language, and prepare for the LNAT as you would for the Law LLB. If you also want the Law LLB, enter it separately on UCAS (the Hong Kong degree is the exception).[1][20]
Non-UK applicants have received offers at a much higher rate than UK applicants (36.4% against 10.3% for 2024 entry), but the non-UK students who enrolled for 2025 entry averaged 26.98.[9][4]
What we recommend. Aim for the same scores as UK applicants, book a test date early in the autumn, and apply by 13 January 2027, since King’s treats later applications from international applicants as late.[28]
The figures in this chapter have five limits.
Every claim above ends in a [n] superscript that links here.
September 2027 entry. Required and preferred subjects: none. A-levels A*AA; contextual AAB. IB 38 points overall or 19 from three Higher Levels (the 38 includes TOK and the Extended Essay); contextual 35 or 17. Access to HE Diploma: 45 Level 3 credits, 39 at Distinction and 6 at Merit (contextual 33 and 12). General Studies, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills and Global Perspectives are not accepted, and the EPQ is not considered. All applicants must sit the LNAT by 31 December; King’s cannot consider an application otherwise, for Home and Overseas applicants alike, with dispensations for some Overseas applicants who have no test centre within reach. Results are not carried over between years, and applicants should select King’s when they register. King’s does not accept resit students for any undergraduate Law programme. Deferral is not guaranteed and is for mitigating circumstances. English language band B. The personal statement is "one of the many factors in the overall assessment of your application". Applicants to M121, M122, M123 or LM21 who also want M100 must make a separate UCAS entry; the LLB’s pathways are reached by applying to M100 and transferring in the second year. Graduates normally need at least a 2:1.
For M100: "Essay scores have not been recorded or used in assessing applications in the last three admissions cycles." Average LNAT scores of successful applicants: 25 (2020), 26 (2021) and 26 (2022).
About 2017 entry: "We don’t have a cut off LNAT score for applications"; King’s applies "a holistic approach to assessing applications", taking in academic performance, the personal statement, the LNAT and other details in the application. The lowest LNAT score of an offer holder for M100 for 2017 entry was 17, and applicants enrolling on M100 in 2017 averaged 25.17.
Reply of 8 December 2025, for students who enrolled on the Law LLB (M100). Mean, lowest and highest LNAT score: 2023 UK-domiciled 29.08 (6 to 37), non-UK 28.81 (23 to 36), overall 28.90 (6 to 37); 2024 UK 30.74 (25 to 41), non-UK 28.78 (25 to 37), overall 29.34 (25 to 41); 2025 UK 29.31 (21 to 37), non-UK 26.98 (21 to 38), overall 27.51 (21 to 38). Offer rates for 2023 to 2025 were withheld because King’s intends to publish them within twelve months.
M100 offer holders: average 27 (lowest 13, highest 36) for the 2021 cycle and 27 (lowest 17, highest 37) for the 2022 cycle. Averages are rounded to the nearest whole number; the 2023 cycle was not yet complete.
A spreadsheet of 2,284 LNAT scores, each with a course code and a UCAS cycle; its WhatDoTheyKnow address could not be confirmed. The file does not say who is listed, but its counts sit just under King’s counts of offers with an LNAT score for those cycles (FOI 234.21), so it lists offer holders. Our tally: M100 840 scores for 2019 (mean 26.20, 17 to 34) and 1,039 for 2020 (mean 26.21, 14 to 37); LM21 93 (26.45) and 120 (25.44); M121 42 (25.64) and 34 (26.09); M122 20 (25.85) and 44 (22.75); M123 14 (23.07) and 23 (25.13); M190 7 (26.43) and 8 (28.00).
Reply of 9 August 2019: "The LNAT essay is not taken into account during the admissions process", and so no weighting is given to it. The spreadsheet lists 815 LNAT scores for "LAW LLB M100 2018/9 entry": mean 24.63, median 25, lowest 12, highest 36 (our tally of the file).
Reply of 9 January 2018 with a spreadsheet by year of entry. Applicants and offer holders: 1,848 and 471 (2012/13); 2,091 and 734 (2013/14); 2,671 and 735 (2014/15); 2,714 and 716 (2015/16); 2,894 and 772 (2016/17). Average multiple-choice LNAT score of applicants and of offer holders: no data for 2012/13 and 2013/14; 21.56 and 25.99; 22.76 and 27.02; 23.35 and 27.68. Average A*s already achieved at (I)GCSE, applicants and offer holders: 3.57 and 6.13; 3.57 and 5.43; 3.33 and 5.12; 3.32 and 6.73; 3.35 and 6.93. Average predicted A* grades: 3.00 and 3.62; 2.97 and 3.33; 2.81 and 3.31; 2.74 and 3.29; 2.79 and 3.28.
A 26-page PDF created on 10 December 2025, covering the UCAS cycles 2020 to 2024; a cycle is named for its year of standard entry (the 2024 cycle ran from 2023 to 2024, for entry in 2024). Columns: applications, offers, acceptances (unconditional firm offer holders) and enrolments, for all domiciles, UK, non-UK and China. Six undergraduate programmes: Law (M100), Politics, Philosophy and Law, and English Law with French, German, Spanish and Hong Kong Law; Law with Criminology is not included. M100: 2,487 applications, 1,161 offers and 298 enrolments (2020); 3,197, 833 and 251 (2021); 3,405, 680 and 222 (2022); 4,054, 675 and 208 (2023); 3,925, 868 and 258 (2024). The UK tables for Law, PPL, French and German start at 2021. The PDF holds counts only: no LNAT scores, grades or contextual data.
Reply of 29 March 2021. M100 for 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020: applications 3,008, 2,945, 2,869 and 2,542; offers 904, 915, 972 and 1,208; overseas applications 1,340, 1,371, 1,226 and 1,198, and overseas offers 429, 436, 556 and 696, where overseas means overseas fee status. LNAT average of the offers with a score (794, 801, 859 and 1,088 of them): 26, 25, 26 and 26. Applications with the IB: 493, 466, 435 and 386, averaging 38, 38, 38 and 39 points; offers with the IB: 205, 224, 254 and 275 (23%, 24%, 26% and 23% of offers), averaging 41, 40, 40 and 40. Values are rounded to whole numbers, and the IB figures are of the total IB score held in King’s records.
Average multiple-choice scores of offer holders in the 2022 cycle (2022 entry) by programme: Law 27, Politics, Philosophy and Law 26, English Law and Hong Kong Law 25, English Law and German Law 24, English Law and French Law 23, English Law and Spanish Law 22. Essay scores "are not recorded in a central database but rather retained at faculty level at their discretion"; that part of the request was refused on cost.
"Law requires applicants to meet the required threshold in the Law National Aptitude Test (LNAT)." No threshold figure is given.
Worded for September 2026 entry when read on 10 October 2026. Contextual offers may be up to two A-level grades (or equivalent) lower than the advertised requirements. To be considered, an applicant must have completed K+, have received free school meals, or be care-experienced, a care leaver or estranged. A second list brings additional consideration (a qualifying King’s widening participation programme, King’s College London Maths School, a qualifying IntoUniversity course, forced displacement, or being a young adult carer). Only for UK-based applicants; the process is mostly automatic from the UCAS form, and King’s then asks for evidence through King’s Apply. For courses with an admissions test, applicants must meet the threshold to progress. English Law & Hong Kong Law is excluded. An offer is not guaranteed.
Undergraduate admissions are centralised: the Admissions Office assesses applications and processes decisions. King’s "considers all aspects of the application as part of a holistic approach to selection", which may include achieved and predicted grades, English language evidence, the personal statement, references, interview and admissions test performance, written work and the academic and geo-demographic context of the applicant’s qualifications; it gives no weights. Some programmes decide on a rolling basis and others as a "gathered field". Where a programme interviews, the online prospectus says so.
A request about the grades and LNAT scores of successful international applicants to M100, M124 and LM21 for 2024 and 2025 entry, refused on cost. King’s does not hold predicted or achieved qualifications in a structured format: international applicants’ qualifications arrive in many formats and are kept as uploaded PDF documents, and there are over 7,000 records across the 2023 and 2024 UCAS cycles.
The narrowed request in the same thread, about non-UK-domiciled applicants who received offers. Offers: Politics, Philosophy and Law (LM21) 80 for the 2024 cycle and 66 for the 2025 cycle; English Law and Australian Law LLB/JD (M124) 16 for the 2025 cycle. No overseas applicant to these courses met a widening participation criterion, so all are non-contextual. Small numbers are suppressed or rounded. Annex A lists each offer holder’s multiple-choice score; our summary of it: LM21 2024, 79 scores, mean 28.49, median 28, 24 to 37; LM21 2025, 65 scores, mean 29.00, median 29, 24 to 37; M124 2025, 16 scores, mean 25.38, 15 to 38.
UCAS code M121, four years: Years 1 and 2 at King’s and Years 3 and 4 at Paris-Panthéon-Assas University. A*AA including grade A in French, or DELF at B2 alongside three A-levels for applicants who have not studied French to that level. International students are eligible for a UK Student visa for the two years at King’s only, and not for the Graduate visa.
UCAS code M122, four years with Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: Year 3 in Berlin on the LLM pathway, or Years 3 and 4 on the First State Exam pathway. A*AA including grade A in German, or TestDaF level 4 in all four components alongside three A-levels.
UCAS code M123, four years, starting September 2027: Years 1 and 2 at King’s and Years 3 and 4 at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. Requires grade A in A-level Spanish and DELE at B2. The visa rule for the two years abroad is the same as for the French degree.
UCAS code M190, four years: Years 1 and 2 at King’s and Years 3 and 4 at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), where all classes and examinations are in English; students also receive a Juris Doctor from CUHK. No required or preferred subjects. A joint panel from King’s and CUHK interviews applicants online, usually in February, and no offers are made before the interviews. No contextual offers. Unsuccessful applicants are considered for the Law LLB (M100) automatically. International students are eligible for a UK Student visa for the two years at King’s only, and not for the Graduate visa.
To a request about Law M100: "The LNAT Essay is not taken into account during the admission process", so no essay marking criteria are held. Most of the request was refused on cost.
For 2027 entry LSE uses only the multiple-choice score in assessing applicants, and the essay is not considered for most applicants.
Describes how Oxford marks the LNAT essay by comparative judgement.
Cambridge uses both sections of the LNAT and marks the essay centrally.
Once an applicant meets the academic requirements and has a competitive LNAT score, an Admissions Tutor marks the essay, which "carries considerable weight".
"Both parts of the LNAT examination, the multiple choice score and the essay, are always considered by admissions selectors when assessing an application."
For King’s, LSE and UCL applicants for 2027 entry: sit the LNAT on or before 31 December 2026. For Oxford and Cambridge applicants: sit the test by 15 October 2026. Testing starts on 1 September 2026.
The standard deadline for applications for 2027 entry is 13 January 2027, 18:00 UK time; any application King’s receives after that date is considered late, including from international applicants.
King’s cannot grant special consideration for problems affecting an LNAT sitting unless there is no test centre in the applicant’s country, and recommends booking the test early so that it can be taken on another day if the applicant is unwell.
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