Does the LNAT have negative marking?
No.
LNAT publishes one point for each right answer and none deducted for wrong ones, so a blank and a wrong guess score you exactly the same.
Start practisingShould you guess on the LNAT?
If you cannot work an answer out, LNAT says it is better to eliminate the ones you know are wrong and guess from what is left. It also tells you not to leave blanks, because nothing is taken off for a wrong answer.
In its own words: “There is a point for each right answer. But none are deducted for wrong answers. So don’t leave blanks.”
The test format page publishes no option count. Every Section A question in LNAT’s own preparation guide has five, A to E, which is the row to start from.
Why the wrong options look right
Eliminating is the hard part, by design. LNAT calls it a hallmark of a good question that it includes “one or more answer options that are wrong but almost right”, and its instruction is blunt: “Work hard to find them and eliminate them.” It also settles the rumour: “There are no trick questions on the LNAT.”
The same page says where the answer sits: “The solution is always there in the passage.” So an option you cannot tie back to a sentence is the one to cross out first.
The blanks you cannot go back to
You can mark a question for review and return to it at any point in the 95 minutes. After that, LNAT states, you “will not be able to return to the multiple choice section once you begin Section B”.
LNAT says the test “does not put great emphasis on speed”, and on the same page a past candidate says they “ran out of time on the multiple choice section and had to guess the last few”. Both are true at once: the design allows patient working, and pacing is about reaching all 42, not about reading quickly.
So the sweep for blanks belongs in the last minutes of Section A, not at the end of the test.
Margin is independent LNAT practice. LNAT states that the Consortium “does not endorse or recommend any preparatory materials provided by any other individual or organisation”, and this page is not endorsed by it.
A blank is the only score you choose
Filling every one of the 42 before Section B opens is a habit built on timed sets, not on knowing that the rule allows it. 10 of the 83 questions on the practice page are free. Founder access is £25 for the other 73, each with the passage sentence your answer turned on.