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The University of Cambridge started using the LNAT (Law National Admissions Test) in 2004. It was hoped that applicants’ results in the test would provide a useful additional piece of information to help admissions tutors to distinguish between the many very good applications which we receive every year for our undergraduate Law programme. The Faculty of Law and the Cambridge Colleges recently completed a study of the extent to which LNAT results are helpful in this regard. The conclusion was reached that, within the context of the Cambridge admissions process, applicants’ results in the multiple-choice part of the LNAT do not provide information which is sufficiently useful and distinctive to justify requiring applicants to sit the test and pay the fee involved in doing so.
The Cambridge Law Test is a new test designed and used by most of the Cambridge Colleges. It is intended to complement the other elements of our admissions process, such as interviews, and consideration of academic performance to date, and the terms of conditional offers. Applicants who sit the test in Cambridge will be required to answer one question in one hour. Specimen questions, together with some information on the qualities we will be looking for in applicants' answers, are available here. The questions will not require any prior knowledge of the law.
Nearly all Cambridge Colleges will be using the new test. A list of participating Colleges can be found on the Cambridge Admissions website. All applicants who are called to interview by participating Colleges will be asked to take the test.
The test is a paper-based test; it will not involve the use of a computer. Applicants who are called for interview will sit the test while in Cambridge for interview. The College dealing with your application will give you further details in due course.
It will be possible to sit the Cambridge Law Test at our overseas interview centres. If you are offered an overseas interview, you will receive more information about this in due course. Applicants who take the test at overseas interview centres will sit a slightly different version of it, in that they will be required to answer two questions in two hours.
Nothing. The College you are applying to (or, if you are making an open application, the College to which your application is referred) will make the necessary arrangements and will let you know what they are.
Nothing. There is no fee associated with taking the Cambridge Law Test.
The Cambridge Law Test is not a substitute for the admissions interview. An applicant's performance in interview will remain an important part of the College's admissions decision, along with the information in the applicant's application papers. Performance in the test is not intended to determine the admissions decision. Rather, it will provide a further piece of information which will be taken into account in selecting candidates for admission.