The LNAT tests how well you read and reason: following an argument you have never seen, and telling what a passage supports from what only sounds right. Every question here is set on real published writing and solved blind before it reaches you.
The LNAT rewards close reading: following how an argument is built, spotting what it assumes, and judging what the passage does and does not support. A question you can answer by matching a phrase trains you to scan, and the real test punishes scanning.
The right length, the right register, four options and a marked answer. A question can have all of that and still teach nothing.
The question tests the reading the real paper rewards, and the passage settles the answer.
Each stage has one job. A question can be sent back or dropped at seven of them.
The LNAT is a reading test, so every passage has to be a real argument worth reading closely.
We use published writing by native English writers, checked word for word against the original. Around 11% of the texts we source are turned down because they don't fit the exam closely enough.
Questions should test how the argument works, so we map it first: the main claim, the reasons and the concessions.
Each wrong option is built around a specific slip a student could make: true but not what was asked, stronger than the writer goes, the claim reversed, or something you would only know from outside the passage.
Small slips in wording can give an answer away, so every question meets rules measured against the official papers.
Options stay within the official length range, so the answer can't be spotted by its length. Quotations match the passage exactly, and no question repeats another in the bank.
A question is only fair if a careful reader reaches its answer from the passage alone.
Each question is solved independently before anyone sees the key. Any disagreement over the answer is treated as a fault in the question, never as difficulty.
The marked answer has to be the one the passage proves, and the close rival has to genuinely tempt.
The key is checked against the passage, and the designed close answer must be the hardest wrong option to rule out. A question that fails is repaired and solved again, or dropped.
A difficulty label should describe what answering actually takes.
If matching one sentence to an option is enough, the question is Easy, whatever it was aimed at. Hard means connecting evidence from more than one part of the passage, over at least two steps.
A worked solution should show the reasoning behind every option.
Each one explains the answer from the passage, gives every wrong option its own reason for failing, and marks the evidence. Every quotation is checked against the passage word for word.
Nothing goes live without a final read and a clear decision.
Each question is accepted, edited or dropped, and edited questions go back through the checks. New material is tested on our staging platform before students see it.
Every send-back is recorded with its reason. Here are four that come up in LNAT questions.
It asked what the writer "mainly" argues, and two options could each claim to be the main point.
The option built to catch a careful reader was easy to rule out. A distractor nobody weighs is filler, so the question was repaired.
The stem's phrase led to one sentence, and one option restated it. The question was re-aimed at a link between two parts of the passage.
The answer was the one option that sounded like sensible general advice, so it could be picked without reading a word.
A question that comes back is fixed and checked again. If its answer is still in dispute, it is dropped and the passage waits for a new question.
Each question is labelled from what answering it took: how far apart the evidence sits, how many steps join it, and whether a shortcut was open.
The same measures are run on the official 2010 papers, so our bank is compared with the real LNAT.
Each stage records what it checked, the verdict, and why a question was sent back.
So for any live question, we can say which checks it passed and who decided it was ready.
Eight stages catch most things. Your reports catch the rest.
Every LNAT question has a report button, in practice, in the Ghost Mocks and in Sprints. One tap, with an optional note.
One tap, mid-question. Your session carries on.
With the question, your note and the category you chose.
The question is re-read against its passage, then fixed, retired, or kept with the reason recorded.
Repeat reports on one question are the strongest signal we get.
Our question types, house rules and difficulty measures are all checked against the official 2010 LNAT papers. Sit one yourself and judge whether our questions feel the same.
Both 2010 papers, the mark scheme and the commentary are free to download, with no sign-up.
Browse the past papersReal published writing that argues something: essays, debates, reports, books and academic writing by native English writers. Each one is out of copyright or openly licensed, may be shortened but is never reworded, and links to its original.
Our question types come from the official papers, and our house rules and difficulty measures are checked against them. You can judge for yourself: the 2010 papers are free on our past papers page.
From what answering it takes. If matching one sentence is enough, it is Easy. Hard needs evidence from more than one part of the passage and at least two steps of reasoning.
Today's LNAT gives four options per question, so ours do too. We keep the 2010 papers exactly as printed, with five.
Use the report button on the question. A person re-reads it against its passage and fixes it, retires it, or records why it stands.
Our practice sets and Ghost Mocks are all our own questions. The two official 2010 papers are on the platform too, clearly labelled as official.
Questions that break a rule, repeat another, or still have a disputed answer after repair are dropped. Passages are filtered too: around 11% of the texts we source are turned down because they don't fit the exam closely enough.
Sprints are short timed drills built from our critical thinking bank, with five options each. They sit outside the passage sets and Ghost Mocks this page describes.
Two free passage sets a day, each with the full worked solution and the evidence marked in the passage.