What the LNAT costs and who pays nothing
The LNAT costs £75 at a UK or EU test centre and £120 at a centre outside the EU.
LNAT prints those as “75 GBP – at UK/EU test centres” and “120 GBP – at test centres outside the EU”, under a line that still reads “The costs for candidates for the 2025-25 LNAT are:”. Which of the two you pay is set by where you sit it: “Test fees are determined by the test centre location, not on place of residence or nationality.”
Start practisingHow long does an LNAT bursary or voucher take?
A bursary takes a week to ten days. LNAT gives the floor on its fee page, “at least a week to process”, and the ceiling on its bursary page, “up to ten days from receipt of your form”. A voucher runs longer: “up to ten working days”, and then “you will have to add a further two weeks on top”. Plan on ten days for a bursary and about a month for a voucher.
Only the voucher page counts in working days. The bursary page never says “working day”, so its ten days are ten calendar days, while ten working days span two weekends. The reason the margin matters is LNAT's own: “Close to the application deadlines set by universities, the LNAT test centres can become very busy and it can be hard to find a slot. You should therefore book your test sitting as far before the deadline as possible.” The deadlines you are counting back from are on the key-dates page.
Who can get the LNAT fee waived?
LNAT will “waive the test fee altogether for those in receipt of certain state benefits”, for “UK and EU applicants only” at “UK and EU test centres only”. It names the 16-19 Bursary, “the top rate of Educational Maintenance Allowance in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland or Adult Learning Grant”, living with someone on “Income Support, income-based Jobseekers’ Allowance, or Employment and Support Allowance or Universal Credit”, child tax credits where “the household income as stated on the award is less than £30k”, and candidates “who receive Pupil Premium payments or free school meals”. “Applicants from outside the EU are not eligible for LNAT bursaries under any circumstances.”
Send the right evidence, and send it early: “bank statements showing incoming benefit payments will not be accepted as evidence”. A bursary is also not a booking. “Receipt of a bursary is not equivalent to registering for the LNAT or booking a test.” LNAT splits the two: “You can complete stage one of the registration process (create a profile) before you get your bursary. But you will complete stage two (book a test) only after you receive the bursary.” Successful applicants are told one way only, by “an e-voucher by email (this will be the only form of notification)”. The rest of the sequence is on the registration page.
Some candidates cannot pay by card at all
LNAT names fifteen countries whose candidates “must pay using an LNAT voucher” and “will not be able to pay their test fee by credit or debit card”, and it says this holds “irrespective of where they want to sit the test, or if their credit card is provided by a bank in a different country”: “Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Benin, Cameroon, Gambia, Ghana, Iran, Kenya, Lebanon, Myanmar, Nigeria, Pakistan, Senegal, Tanzania and Uganda.” Cards needing a PIN are refused too, and “Switch/Maestro debit cards are currently not accepted as a form of payment”.
A voucher costs the same: “Paying by voucher does not change the cost of the LNAT. It is only a different way of paying.” It arrives as an email, “The email itself constitutes the voucher. You will not receive a paper copy”, and “can be used just once”.
Moving the date afterwards has its own cut-off. LNAT lets you “reschedule their test without charge up to 12 noon (UK time) on the second working day before the currently scheduled date”; after that you “rebook and pay for their test again”, and “Payments are not refunded in the event that candidates decide not to sit the LNAT at all”. Those terms “also apply if using a voucher or bursary to pay for a test”, and LNAT applies them to candidates who “are refused entry to the test centre” over identification, so the identification rules are worth reading before you travel.
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The fee buys one sitting, whoever pays it
A waived fee and a card payment buy exactly the same sitting, so the only part of the cost you can still change is how ready you are when the clock starts. 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.