What ID do I need for the LNAT?

Two documents. Your Pearson VUE confirmation email, on a phone or on paper, and one piece of photographic identification.

Arrive without the second and LNAT says you “will not be allowed to take the test”.

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What the desk accepts, and what it turns away
Document	At the desk
Current signed passport	Accepted
Current signed photocard licence	Accepted outside 11 places
ID card issued where you sit, photo and signature	Accepted outside 11 places
Out-of-date passport	Refused
Photocopy or digital ID	Refused
UK Citizencard	Refused

The 11 are American Samoa, Guam, Hong Kong, South Korea, Malaysia, Northern Mariana Islands, Pakistan, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Mainland China, where a current signed passport is “the only acceptable identity document”. An unsigned passport works only if it is biometric and has no signature field, and candidates in India have to read Pearson VUE's separate note on AADAAR cards.

What happens if you bring the wrong ID to the LNAT?

You do not sit that day. LNAT says you will have to “book and pay for a new test slot on another day”.

The name rule catches people. LNAT requires your first and last name to “match exactly as it appears on the identification (ID) that is presented at the time of testing”, and states the cost of a mismatch: “you will not be able to take your test and you will not be reimbursed for any fees paid”. Check the spelling on the day you book, not the week you sit.

LNAT identification

If your only ID is not on the list

If you hold none of the documents above and you sit in the UK, Australia or New Zealand, LNAT says you “may be able to use an alternative form of proof of identity”: “an official letter from your school or college, signed by the head teacher or deputy”, with a passport-sized photo glued on and the school stamp overlapping “both the photograph and the signature”. LNAT publishes a sample letter to copy. Outside those three countries there is no alternative.

A UK Home Office ID card has to be arranged in advance. LNAT asks candidates to contact its administrator “at least two weeks before your test”, and a centre cannot admit you if that was never done. The desk allows a whiteboard and nothing else, which the rules for the room set out.

If something goes wrong in the room

Get an incident number from the test centre staff before you leave, then contact the LNAT Consortium with it. LNAT says the universities “will have no way of verifying the incident” themselves.

The number is what LNAT asks you to quote when you report a fire alarm or any other disruption, so that the information “can be passed on to the universities”, “where allowances can be made in the interpretation of your LNAT score”. If you left without one, or it was never recorded, LNAT says to “still contact the LNAT Consortium”.

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.

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The document gets you through the door

Nothing you hand over at the desk moves your score, and the test that follows is the only part of the day still open to change. 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.

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