Bristol Law: the last LNAT deadline standing

Bristol is the LNAT school for the applicant who started late. LNAT's own dates page gives Bristol and Durham a special deadline: register by 20 January 2027 and sit by 25 January 2027 twelve days after the 13 January UCAS deadline, three months after Oxford's cut-off, and nearly a month after UCL, LSE and King's. If you discovered the LNAT in December, Bristol is one of only two serious applications still fully open to you. Bristol itself recommends testing early, because a test after its deadline is disregarded and the application made unsuccessful. The degree is the LLB, UCAS M100, three years, taught in part in the Wills Memorial Building with its traditional law library and a Moot Court. Two things are distinctive. First, the third-year Clinical Legal Studies option embeds real casework in the curriculum, and Bristol's award-winning law clinics can generate Qualifying Work Experience the practical component the SQE requires before you graduate. Second, the offer itself is unusual: A*AA or A*A*B, the only alternative-grades offer among the six universities on this site, which rewards a profile with two A*s and a weaker third subject. Bristol reads the whole file. It scores your best three A-levels and best eight GCSEs alongside the LNAT, and its own staff read and assess the LNAT essay, looking for a persuasive, sustained argument. There is no minimum LNAT score; your result is compared against the year's applicants. Bristol does not routinely interview decisions are made on the papers, with interviews reserved for exceptional circumstances. And one line on Bristol's India page deserves its own section below: Bristol states its LLB is recognised by the Bar Council of India.