LSE Law: half your LNAT doesn't count

LSE reads half your LNAT. It uses the multiple-choice score and states plainly that the essay is not considered for most applicants the exception is candidates who would otherwise have been asked to sit its Undergraduate Admissions Assessment, whose essay a selector may look at. Oxford marks that same essay formally and publishes the average. So the forty minutes you spend on Section B is worth everything at one university on your list and almost nothing at this one. Which universities you apply to should change how you prepare, and almost nobody tells you that. The degree is the LLB, UCAS M100, three years at Houghton Street in Holborn close enough to the Royal Courts of Justice and the Inns of Court that LSE builds events around them. Its distinctive claim is disciplinary rather than geographic: LSE teaches law as a social science, examining its effect on society, politics, economics and business, at an institution built for exactly that. The LLB is accredited by the Bar Standards Board as a qualifying law degree and covers the ground assessed in SQE1. LSE does not interview for any of its degree programmes, so your UCAS form and your Section A score are the whole application. It also holds on-time applications as a gathered field, which means applying in October buys you nothing over applying in January a genuine relief if your predicted grades firm up late. For Indian applicants the hard filter is grades: LSE accepts CBSE and CISCE only, no state boards, and the LLB's A*AA standard maps to a Class XII bar higher than either Oxford's or UCL's.