Oxford Law offer holders averaged 31.0 on the LNAT, but 95 of the 251 offers went to candidates who scored below 31
An average describes the people who got offers, not a line you have to cross. Oxford's own chart shows offers from a score of 16 upwards, and many high scorers without one.
Oxford Law 2024-25: test sitters by LNAT multiple-choice score and outcome (digitised from Oxford's chart)
LNAT score
Candidates
Not shortlisted
Shortlisted, no offer
Offer
Shortlisted
Offer rate
<10
10
9
1
0
10%
0%
10
12
12
0
0
0%
0%
11
15
15
0
0
0%
0%
12
28
28
0
0
0%
0%
13
25
25
0
0
0%
0%
14
37
36
1
0
3%
0%
15
37
36
1
0
3%
0%
16
50
49
0
1
2%
2%
17
68
64
4
0
6%
0%
18
81
74
7
0
9%
0%
19
71
61
9
1
14%
1%
20
103
87
13
3
16%
3%
21
96
83
11
2
14%
2%
22
106
96
9
1
9%
1%
23
126
107
17
2
15%
2%
24
108
83
21
4
23%
4%
25
106
80
15
11
25%
10%
26
125
91
24
10
27%
8%
27
121
86
24
11
29%
9%
28
123
75
28
20
39%
16%
29
115
71
28
16
38%
14%
30
85
31
41
13
64%
15%
31
94
35
30
29
63%
31%
32
89
27
35
27
70%
30%
33
67
10
29
28
85%
42%
34
54
4
22
28
93%
52%
35
35
1
11
23
97%
66%
36
15
0
6
9
100%
60%
37+
15
0
3
12
100%
80%
LNAT; Oxford Law 2024-25 round (2025 entry); 2,017 test sitters in Oxford's chart; candidates per score; counted from the chart in Oxford's Law admissions feedback (digitised, largest rounding residual 0.114 candidates); data version 2026-09-26.1
What the data shows
What Oxford published
Oxford's Law admissions feedback for the 2024-25 round includes a chart of every applicant who sat the LNAT, 2,017 in all, by multiple-choice score and outcome. It also gives averages: 24.5 for all applicants, 29.2 for those shortlisted and 31.0 for offer holders. The report prints no table, so we counted the bars.
An average is not a line
Offers went to candidates scoring from 16 upwards, and 95 of the 251 offers in the chart (38%) went to scores below 31. At the other end, 213 of the 369 candidates who scored 31 or more (58%) got no offer. Even in the top band (37+), 12 of 15 were made an offer.
Where the score mattered most
The score did its clearest work at the shortlisting stage. From a score of 30, more than half of the candidates at every score were shortlisted; at 29, 38% were. After shortlisting, interviews and the rest of the application decided the offer.
The next round used a different formula
Oxford changed how it first ranks Law applicants for the 2025-26 round (80% contextualised GCSEs, 10% multiple choice, 10% essay), so these 2024-25 outcomes should not be carried forward as a rule. That round had 2,115 applicants, 630 shortlisted and 252 offers, but no published score chart yet.
What this does not show
The counts are read from Oxford's chart, not a table. Each bar was measured against the gridlines and rounded to whole candidates; the largest rounding residual was 0.114 candidates.
Totals differ between Oxford documents for the same round (2,080 applications, 642 shortlisted and 252 offers in the report headline). The chart covers the 2,017 who sat the LNAT, 641 shortlisted and 251 offers.
This is Oxford only. Other universities use the LNAT differently, and their score distributions are not the same.
The essay is not in this chart, and the data cannot show the combined effect of multiple-choice score and essay.
What happened to past applicants at a score is not any one applicant's chance.
Cite this
LNATGenius (2026). Oxford Law LNAT scores and offers: why the average is not a cut-off. Published 27 September 2026, version 2026-09-27.1. https://lnatgenius.com/data/lnat-offer-scores
Source: LNATGenius analysis of University of Oxford, Faculty of Law data
Version
2026-09-27.1, published 27 September 2026
You are welcome to quote the findings and reproduce the chart with the credit above and a link to this page. Please cite the original publishers too; their figures remain theirs. Corrections and new releases are added as new versions, and earlier numbers stay listed in the change log below.
Method and sources
Read the multiple-choice outcome chart on page 2 of Oxford's Law admissions feedback, 2024-25.
Measured each bar against the chart's gridlines and rounded to whole candidates. No reported total or mean was used to force the counts.
Summed the three outcomes at each score and checked the totals against the chart's 2,017 sitters.
Compared counts either side of the offer holders' reported average (31.0), using 31 as the dividing score.
Oxford Law 2024-25: LNAT scores by outcome: version 2026-09-26.1, checked 26 September 2026 (historical). First transcribed from the LNATGenius research bundle (research/data-tools/lnat, 26 September 2026).
This story: version 2026-09-27.1, first published 27 September 2026.